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TARGET – TAKING A REFLEXIVE APPROACH TO GENDER EQUALITY FOR INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION

TARGET aims to initiate institutional change in seven gender equality innovating institutions (GEIIs) in the Mediterranean basin – including research performing organisations (RPOs), research funding organisations (RFOs) and a network of universities. TARGET takes a reflexive approach which goes beyond the formal adoption of a gender equality plan by emphasising an iterative reflection of progress made as well as establishing a community of practice to effect institutional transformation. Actual change is the result of increased institutional willingness and capacity to identify, reflect on and address gender bias in a sustained way. Starting point and anchor of the process is a tailored Gender Equality Plan or Strategy (GEP/GES) in each GEII. TARGET builds the institutional capacity for a reflexive gender equality policy by: developing effective tools for each stage of the GEP/GES (audit, planning, implementation, monitoring, self-assessment) to be customised to the specific institution; supporting the development of competences to conduct a gender audit, to design, implement, monitor and self-assess a tailored GEP/GES; establishing a community of practice of relevant stakeholders within each GEII; initiating an organisational learning process within each GEII which combines self-assessment with GEP/GES evaluation. The TARGET countries have been characterised as relatively inactive in developing gender equality policies in R&I. To ensure that action taken has a multiplier effect, each GEII undertakes targeted dissemination activities to initiate a national/regional discourse on gender equality in R&I. Furthermore, TARGET develops new knowledge for institutions, practitioners and policymakers based on a comparative analysis of GEP implementation and sustainability to provide a basis for effective sharing of practice in both proactive and relatively inactive countries – taking into account differences in cultural, socio-economic and political settings.

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CHAPTER 1. Wroblewski, Angela; Palmén, Rachel (2022) A Reflexive Approach to Structural Change in: Wroblewski, Angela; Palmén, Rachel (Eds.), Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations. A reflexive approach to gender equality, Bingley: Emerald. pp. 161-179 pp. 15-32. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80262-119-820221002

CHAPTER 3. Palmén, Rachel & Caprile, Maria (2022), Relevance of a CoP for a Reflexive Gender Equality Policy: A Structural Change Approach, in: Wroblewski, Angela; Palmén, Rachel (eds.), Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations. A reflexive approach to gender equality, Bingley: Emerald. pp. 53-69. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80262-119-820221004

CHAPTER 9. Caprile, Maria; Bettachy, Mina; Duhaček, Daša, Mirazić, Milica, Palmén, Rachel; Kussy, Angelina (2022), Structural Change towards Gender Equality: Learning from Bottom-up and Top-down Experiences of GEP Implementation in Universities, in: Wroblewski, Angela; Palmén, Rachel (Eds.), Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations. A reflexive approach to gender equality, Bingley: Emerald. pp. 161-179. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80262-119-820221010

GUIDELINES TO DESIGN CUSTOMISED GENDER EQUALITY PLANS:

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GUIDE FOR UNIVERSITIES:

Going beyond the formal adoption of a Gender Equality Plan. Guide for universities (D53b)