CrowdEquality

Breaking naturalization barriers

Gender equality needs to take time seriously

Achieving work-life balance for academic and not academic staff - especially women - engaged in giving care to ageing parents and relatives

Women are not involved to organization's decision making process

Women struggles in creating clear career vision

Lack of Gender Neutral Communication

Lack of female applicants for management and professorship position

The stereotyped image of girl in IT

Lack of men involved in Gender Equality actions

Gender insensitive communications; Gender-sensitive language adaptation is at the start phase (Гендерно нечутливі коммунікації. Адаптація мови з урахуванням гендерних аспектів знаходиться на початковому етапі)

Lack of gender culture and tolerance (Нестача гендерної культури і толерантності )

Lack of resources – no budget for gender issues, no personnel, no committee responsible for gender equality (Брак (недостача) ресурсів – не має бюджету на гендерні питання, не має відповідного персоналу, комітету, які б відповідали за гендерну рівніст)

“Work-life balance” problem (Проблема суміщення роботи та особистого життя)

How to achieve a true gender equality discource and actions

Female student may feel lack of togetherness, as they are minority in the ISS

Mentoring network for women in ICT organizations

Obstacles that appear for women entering ICT world

Emotional labour falls to nice staff, often women

Lack of communicating existing achievements and measures

Lack of gender reporting and monitoring

Lack of women in leader- and professorship positions (vertical gender segregation)

Lack of awareness on all staff levels

Lack of allocated resources towards gender mainstreaming

Gender imbalance among non-academic staff members

Exclusion of international students

Perception that women cannot be as capable in certain tasks (e.g., programming) as men

Gender stereotypes about role, appearance, and behaviour of women and men

A low share of girls at computer sciences and boys at economy sciences in KhNUE (Низька частка дівчат на спеціальності комп'ютерні науки, а хлопців на економічних спеціальностях в ХНЕУ)

Lack of motivation to implement gender initiatives (Брак мотивації для реалізації гендерних ініциатив)

Absence of long term monitoring for gender equality

Difficulties in gathering and comparing data disaggregated by gender

Gender imbalance in the ICT field (Гендерній дисбаланс в сфере ИКТ)

Difficulties in balancing work and family life

Difficulties in ensuring sustainability of the activities beyond the runtime of the EQUAL-IST project

Awareness about gender equality needs to be raised at all levels within the university

Too Few Resources Dedicated to Committees on Gender Equality

Both academic and non academic staff struggle to achieve work-life balance, especially with young children

Low Presence of Women as Leaders of Research Groups and Project Principal Investigators

Women encounter difficulties to reach apical and top level positions in academic career

Why female students do not enroll in ICT university courses?

There are gender stereotypes among employees in the organization (Существуют гендерные стереотипы среди сотрудников и сотрудниц в университете)

Women – at the operational management level, men – at the top management level (Преимущественно женщины - на операционном уровне управления, мужчины - на уровне топ-менеджмента)

It is difficult to combine learning / career and childcare for students and staff who became parents (Проблемы совмещения учебы/карьеры и ухода за ребенком )

Missing strategic approach to gender equality

Raising Awareness over the subject of Gender Equality and Work-Life Balance

Lack of (seeing value in) gender-sensitive language

Negative attitude (of both men and women) towards positive discrimination actions promoting women (e.g., quotas)

Lack of awareness about the topic of gender equality and interest in it

The lack of knowledge of women in IT

Initiate long-term actions toward gender equality at KTU

How to endorse peer support between employees?

The female voice is lacking in communication about IS

Low share of young women among Information Systems Bachelor students

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The goal of the EQUAL-IST project is to introduce structural changes to enhance gender equality and diversity in Information Sciences and Technology (IST) research institutions. The project aims at supporting seven IST research institutions from Northern, Southern, Central, and Eastern European countries in designing and implementing tailored Gender Equality Plans.

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