Aspects
Grants – Gender aspects
- Data situation: Data material on the applicant and the planned project and differentiated according to gender is necessary if the award of grants is to take due account of gender. Data should not just differentiate numerically between men and women but should also record dimensions of inequality such as representation at various hierarchical levels. It is important to identify which data are missing and whether gender-specific data are needed.
- Applications: Grants can only be awarded if applications are made correctly. The strategy of Gender Mainstreaming includes taking account of the perspective of gender equality even at the stage of setting conditions for applications. The European Commission already puts this into practice in several areas of policy and is part of the efforts of the Federal Ministry for Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the area of youth policy.
- Invitation for applications: Applications for the award of grants often have to be invited. Care must be taken in such invitations to use Gender Mainstreaming to address women and men explicitly and implicitly in an equal way, even as early as in the selection of subject areas or policy areas, the wording of invitations and the conditions for award. Criteria for invitations should be geared the contexts of the lives of both men and women and avoid gender-specific assumptions and stereotypes.
- Participation: It is a requirement for publicly-funded conferences that men and women have an equal chance to take part, even though they have different time budgets and access possibilities due to the socially assigned contexts of their lives. Conferences can be structured in such a way that they facilitate equal opportunities for participation (in terms of time) and that attention is paid to creating a balanced participation of men and women at all levels. The Federal Law Concerning the Composition of Bodies (BGremG) also moves in a similar direction.
Further reading:
Projekt Gender Mainstreaming in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe des Deutschen Jugendinstituts [German link]
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