Women's representatives
Areas of activity
The university women's representative coordinates and networks all university members across all faculties who are tasked with bringing about gender equality. Together they form the Women's Advisory Council, which convenes at least once every semester.
Women's Advisory Council
The Women's Advisory Council consists of the university women's representative, the faculty women's representatives, the gender equality commissioner, the student representative for diversity and equality as well as their respective deputies.
University members of all status groups can sit in on the meetings, which take place once or twice a semester to discuss and inform about current and upcoming equality-related events, incidents, applications, etc. This pan-faculty dialogue probides the faculty women's representatives with an opportunity to discuss faculty-specific issues with a view to finding solutions for the whole university. Furthermore, as the university women's representative is appointed by the Senate, the Women's Advisory Council offers a formal staffing recommendation to the university president; the outcome of this consultation is then relayed to the Senate prior to the vote.
Membership in the federal and state gender equality conferences (bukof and LaKof, respectively)
The university women's representative is a member of the higher education gender equality conference (Landeskonferenz der Frauen und Gleichstellungsbeauftragten an Bayerischen Hochschulen - LaKoF), which represents the interests of women at universities and shapes the gender-equality policy debate in the higher education sector in Bavaria. The federal conference for women's representatives and gender equality officers (Bundeskonferenz der Frauen- und Gleichstellungsbeauftragten an Hochschulen – bukof) is another network that deals with equality policy issues in the higher education sector.
The university and faculty women's representatives are the primary contacts for female academics and students in all matters related to career planning, studying, scholarship awards, conflicts and problems at work and gender-equality issues in the faculties and at the University.
Areas of advice:
- Pregnancy and studies or employment
- Work-life and study-life balance
- Bullying and discrimination
- Sexual harassment and stalking
- Faculty-specific gender-equality measures
- Extension of contracts during maternity and parental leave
The women's representatives advise postdoctoral female academics on funding provided by the Free State of Bavaria under the Bavarian Gender Equality Fund (BGF). They are supported in this by the Women's Office.
The university women's representative is a voting member of the Extended University Executive and the Senate as well as all of its advisory committees. She is also an advising member of the University Council and has the right to be heard by the University Executive.
Overview of governing bodies where the women's representative has voting rights:
- Extended University Executive [Art. 22(3) BayHIG]
- Senate [Art. 22(3) BayHIG]
- in all Senate advisory committees [Art. 22(3) BayHIG]
- Representatives' Assembly of the Student Services Association [Art. 117 BayHIG]
- Administrative Council of the Student Services Association [Art. 118 BayHIG]
- Women's Advisory Council (Chair)
- IT Advisory Committee
- Knowledge Transfer Advisory Committee
- Commission for the allocation of scholarships to promote equal opportunities for women in research and teaching (Chair)
- Representative Assembly of the Student Services Association for Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate
- Landeskonferenz der Frauen und Gleichstellungsbeauftragten (state conference for women's representatives and gender equality officers; LaKoF)
- Bundeskonferenz der Frauenbeauftragten und Gleichstellungsbeauftragten an Hochschulen e.V. (federal conference for women's representatives and gender equality officers; bukof)
Faculty women's representatives
The faculty women's representatives ensure and promote the actual equality of women and men in their respective faculties. They are voting members in appointment procedures and in the Faculty Councils, as well as members of the Women's Advisory Council, and the first point of contact for the members of their respective faculties.
To get in touch with the women's representatives for the Faculty of Law, please send an e-mail to fakultaetsfrauenbeauftragte-jur@uni-passau.de.
Women's Representative for the Faculty of Law
Deputy Women's Representative for the Faculty of Law
To get in touch with the women's representatives for the Faculty of Business, Economics and Information Systems, please send an e-mail to fakultaetsfrauenbeauftragte-wiwi@uni-passau.de.
To get in touch with the women's representatives for the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies, please send an e-mail to fakultaetsfrauenbeauftragte-geku@uni-passau.de.
The Representative for Gender Equality in Science and Art for the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies offer a offer consultation hours by appointment. Please contact them by email.
Women's Representatives for the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences
To get in touch with the women's representatives for the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, please send an e-mail to fakultaetsfrauenbeauftragte-fim@uni-passau.de.
Women's Representative for the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics
Stellvertreterin FIM
Deputy Women's Representative for the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics
News
The next meeting of the Women's Advisory Board in the summer semester 2024 will take place on Tuesday, 04.06.2024 at 14:15 in room WIWI R301 and online via Zoom. Please make a note of the date. Further information on the agenda and registration will follow.
Gender discrimination, poor work-life balance, few career role models: these are all problems that women in particular face in academia and which result in the proportion of women decreasing as their academic career progresses. While the proportion of women among students at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Information Systems in 2020 was 43% among students and 47% among doctoral students, it was only 23% among professors. In order to promote equality in science, all faculties have appointed women's representatives. In the episode "#119 How to Gleichstellung" doctoral student Sophie Ringler talks to the representatives of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Information Systems, Katharina-Maria Wagner, Laura Kochendörfer, Johanna Zimmermann and Christina Petrik, about what equality actually means. They also talk about the particular problems and obstacles faced by women in their academic careers (right from the start of their studies) and what the four of them do in their voluntary work at the faculty to promote equality.