Project Head:
Ines Weller (University of Bremen)
Project Team:
Doris Hayn
Imgard Schultz
Karin Fischer (University of Bremen)
Project Partners:
Department of Production Technology, University of Bremen
Center for Feminist Studies, University of Bremen
Client:
Commissioner for Public Works and Environment, Federal State of Bremen
Duration:
05/02-07/03
Field of research
Research Area:
Everyday Life Ecology, Energy, Consumption
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Respect to Gender Specific Effects and Derivation of Recommendations for a
Sustainable Further Development
What effects do policy measures have on gender relations? Do they help
reach the goal of equalization between the sexes?
Such questions have, since the initiation of the European Union’s gender
mainstreaming strategy, become a focus of attention. The state, with its
support programs and institutional structures, has been called upon to
respond. The instrument, “Gender Impact Assessment,” has been used in this
connection to review the effects of policy measures on women, men and
gender relations.
The Bremen project examines the direct and indirect implication of gender
relations, and the effects of the support program for applied
environmental research. In particular, the project studies the differences
in access to the application for funding process, the distribution of
funding resources and the differences in scope of action within funded
projects, all in terms of gender.
One goal of the project is to achieve greater participation on the part of
women, both in terms of the number of women researchers and in terms of
the subject matter of the project (consideration of gender specific
interests, needs and life situations). Moreover, investigating the role of
gender within environmental research will throw more light on the social
dimensions of ecological problems and on the interaction of natural
scientific and technical aspects with social aspects.
The research project will review the given approaches to gender impact
assessment and will be geared to the specific requirements of
environmental research in Bremen. The following work steps are planned:
- secondary analysis of the project documentation for the Hanseatic
City of Bremen’s support program for applied environmental research
(1996-2001) in order determine the explicit and implicit role of gender
- interviews with specialists to deepen and broaden initial results
- deriving recommendations for the further development of applied
research in Bremen which are in line with gender mainstreaming
requirements
- discussion of recommendations in a workshop attended by specialists
from administration, policy and research, with a summary of the results
at the end
ISOE’s job is to bring to bear on the research project its experience with
the development and implementation of the instrument, “Gender Impact
Assessment.” This experience was gathered in the course of working on two
projects: “Gender Impact Assessment within the Subprogram, ‘Environment
and Sustainable Development,’ of the EU’s 5th Research Framework Program”
and “Gender Impact Assessment in the Area of Radiation Protection and
Environment” (under contract from the Federal Ministry for the
Environment). |