Wissensmanagement als Bottom-Up

The implementation of GM involves on the one hand putting certain requirements into practice in the actions of a subject area-based administrative organization in a technically competent way and a way that is oriented to gender equality and on the other hand the putting into practice of specialist area gender aspects in proposals for policy decisions. In order to achieve this, members of staff require uncomplicated access to gender-differentiated data and information and to up-to-date research in gender studies.

Members of staff who do not yet possess any gender knowledge should make this fact clear to their superiors and request relevant support. This may take the form of training courses, but applies also to a knowledge management system. Here, members of staff must be clear on the areas in which they require and request access to further specialist information. This information may then be provided by means of databases, networks or other elements of a knowledge management system.

The gender aspects in a subject area are the basis for decision-making by the political masters. Members of staff such as department heads must develop gender aspects in their specialist work. These must be competently taken into account and put into practice in proposals for action for the political masters.

Gender knowledge includes knowledge regarding

• the meaning of the term gender and
• the specific gender aspects in a subject area or policy field.

Putting GM into practice in special area work and therefore taking gender aspects into account results in the recognition and avoidance of possible gender-stereotypical role perceptions.

• „Gender Mainstreaming als Organisationsentwicklung“. Vortrag von Petra Ahrens und Jochen Geppert auf der Fachtagung des GenderKompetenzZentrums: „Implementierung von Gender Mainstreaming in der öffentlichen Verwaltung - Chancen und Herausforderungen der  Organisationsentwicklung“, Berlin, 27. Juni 2005.
• Fachtagung des CIWM/wissenstransform an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: „Wissensmanagement in gleichstellungsorientierten Netzwerken“, Tagung für Wissenschaft und Praxis, 3.-5. März 2005. http://www.wissenstransform.de/