Equal Opportunities

Equal opportunities policy is a core task and a major challenge for every university. In order to master future tasks and to secure the prospective performance, it is important – quoting the German Council of Science and Humanities – to “comprehensively realise the entire society’s full potential and to allow all groups of persons represented in a society a fair participation in the science system.” TU Dresden is committed to the objective of a gender equal university and has firmly anchored this aim in the mission statement and university institution. TU Dresden takes the view that gender equality is closely connected to the concept of a family-friendly university, moving away from a traditional division of responsibilities between women and men by establishing a work-life-balance for both, which makes it possible to reconcile working life with family plans.

In recent years, TU Dresden has stepped up measures to meet the goal of a gender equal and family-friendly university. In 2018, the "Equality Concept 2018" of TU Dresden was updated through a wide-ranging participation process. Here you can download a pre-release version endorsed by the Rectorate. Research results from the project “Gendered University – Gender Hierarchies at TU Dresden” formed a key basis for the contents of the work. In addition, results of an external evaluation of the equality work of TU Dresden from March 2018 were taken into account. Moreover, a university-wide symposium titled “Thinking ahead – equality at TU Dresden” took place in June 2018.

The Gender Equality Commission with the central Equal Opportunities Officer and the Officer for the Protection of Women's Rights, together with decentralised actors and the unit 9.3 Diversity Management, is responsible for the equality of women and men at the university.