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  Gender perspectives in medicine
In this project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), gender-specific topics in research, teaching and care are addressed in order to sensitize gender-sensitive behavior and treatment in medicine. In the Summermeeting "Gender Perspectives in Medicine - an Interim Balance" on 15 and 16 September 2016 in Leipzig, selected topics are presented, such as Gender differences in mental illness. The event is free of charge, but is subject to registration, and is recognized by the Saxon State Chamber of Music with 14 points of category A. More information can be found here:

http://gender.medizin.uni-leipzig.de/veranstaltungen.html

Medical Women on Top - Study of the German Medical Women’s Association (Deutscher Ärztinnenbund e.V. / DÄB)
The DÄB published a question at the university clinics and medical faculties in Germany about the proportion of women in management positions in 16 university medical subjects. According to this, the Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus of the Dresden University of Technology is ranked first in the German university clinic with 18% of women in management positions, and 43% in the upper middle classes. The German nationwide average is 10% for women in management positions Senior doctors 31%.

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Position paper on “Gender Equality in Scientific Careers” published by the commission “Gender Equal Personnel Developments at Higher Education Institutions" of the Federal Conference of the Officers for the Protection of Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities at Higher Education Institutes (Bundeskonferenz der Frauen- und Gleichstellungsbeauftragten an Hochschulen e.V. - BuKoF): Position Paper Career Paths [ger]

Equal Pay Day 2016 called "Professions with Future Potential The major concerns of the EPD are both, the increase of appreciation which is reflected in the salary and the liberalisation of the career choice from stereotypes or barriers in connection with the reconciliation of family and career. Further information on Equal Pay Day can be found here: Equal Pay Day

Results of the Project “Effektive! – For more Family Friendliness at German Higher Education Institutes” What makes a higher education institute really family friendly? Which steps best help most in combining studies or a scientific profession at campus with founding a family or the performance of family-related duties well? The brochure can be downloaded here: CEWS: More Family Friendliness at German Higher Education Institutions [ger]

TransferGenderMed
The project TransferGenderMed, funded by the BMBF, refers to scientific findings on beneficial and inhibiting conditions of the career path of physicians and transfers them into everyday professional life. Data and research results are available from the previous projects KarMed (career paths and career breaks among female physicians during specialist training) and FamSurg (a project for the promotion of women and family friendly structures in surgery). TransferGenderMed offers process monitoring for clinics and/ or single stations, personnel development measures and gender trainings, teaching material and recommendations for action for the handling in specialised training as well as fora for the exchange of experiences in daily medical care practice between female and male physicians. Further information can be found here: TransferGenderMed

Pilot Project on Flexible Childcare The university offers its staff free and flexible childcare in support of the reconciliation of family and career. Should important appointments be scheduled outside of the regular opening hours of the kindergarten or the childminder be ill, staff of the TU Dresden can take advantage of the mobile and flexible childcare service free of charge. This includes a childminding service, a transfer service from the kindergarten and care during conferences and events. This project is financed with funds from the Programme for Female Professors from the federal and the state governments as well as proportionally from several DFG-coordinated programmes. For further information, please contact Frau Franziska Schneider, Coordinator for Family Friendliness, Tel.: 0351 463-39772, Franziska.Schneider@tu-dresden.de.

Interest Group for Mid-Level Academic Staff It is our aim to improve working conditions for mid-level academic staff by means of networking, sensitisation and mobilisation of the mid-level academic staff in dialogue with the institutions involved. Interest Group for Mid-Level Academic Staff

Networking Office "Success Factor Family" of the BMFSFJBrochure “Compatibility of Career and Family in Hospitals – Gained in Practice, for Use in Practice” in a new edition: Success Factor Family

Equal Opportunities in Research DFG and BMBF implement steps and programmes in order to recognise and safeguard equal opportunities in research as a quality characteristic. The TU Dresden actively participates and successfully applied in the Female Professor Programme II of the BMBF.

• The Female Professor Programme of the BMBF: BMBF - The Female Professor Programme [ger]

• Equal opportunities in business development programmes: DFG – Promotion of Equal Opportunities

Aims and Tasks of the Equal Opportunities Officer

Aims of the Equal Opportunities Work   

• Increase of the proportion of women or men at the career levels in medicine where they are underrepresented respectively

• Increase of the proportion of women in executive committees and commissions of the faculty

Major Tasks of the Equal Opportunities Officers  

• Member of the faculty council with voting, speech and petition rights

• Advisory member of the commission of the senate on “Junior Scientific Staff“ with speech, petition and limited voting rights

• Advisory member of the commission of the senate on “Equal Opportunities and Diversity Management“ with speech and petition rights

• Recording of current state of equal opportunities within the faculty

• Counselling of the faculty management in the development and implementation of measures to ensure equal opportunities in research

• Counselling of the faculty management in the preparation of family friendly working and study conditions

• Influencing advertisement texts and participation in appointment procedures with speech and petition rights

• Statements on grant applications, e.g. in the FM habilitation programme for women

• Individual consultations

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