WHEN's Blog
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Positive action in our workplace to foster gender equality
Mar 06, 2020
By Susanne Tauber, Associate Professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at University of Groningen
The past decades have seen a surge of initiatives designed to foster gender equality in the workplace. Worryingly, organizations’ commitment to gender diversity has not yet translated into meaningful progress. How is that possible? I took the invitation to contribute this editorial to WHEN as an opportunity to dive into that question. Being a fellow of a gender equality initiative myself, I see two main factors undermining the effectiveness of positive action to foster gender equality in HE: inadvertent backlashes and power struggles.
Inadvertent backlashes against gender equality
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