Network for Women and Gender Studies NRW

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Network for Women and Gender Studies NRW

The Network for Women and Gender Studies NRW is an interdisciplinary science network at universities in North Rhine-Westphalia that advocates gender-equitable science and university development. In 2019, the network had a total of 160 professors and 249 scientists at 37 universities in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and 8 university-related research institutions. In addition, there are seven interdisciplinary centers for gender research, five disciplinary positions, six gender studies courses, a further education course “Women's Studies” and a women's course in mechanical engineering. The activities of the network are funded by the state government and the universities of North Rhine-Westphalia.

History and Development

The women's and gender research network was founded in 1986 under the name “Netzwerk Frauenforschung NRW” on the initiative of committed women scientists and the then North Rhine-Westphalian Science Minister Anke Brunn (SPD). The background to this was the high underrepresentation of women scientists at universities and a lack of research on topics that also take into account the living situations and conditions of women.

The forerunner of the network was the "Working Group Women Scientists of North Rhine-Westphalia", in which women scientists in North Rhine-Westphalia came together at the end of the 1970s to exchange their experiences in research and teaching. Integrated into the West German women's movement and research, they made initial demands to support women scientists and the anchoring of women's studies at universities.

The core of the network are professorships with a (partial) denomination in women's and gender studies, which were funded by the Ministry of Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and acquired by a North Rhine-Westphalia university. Between 1986 and 1999, 56 professorships were created. In addition, since 2015 there have been eleven professorships in subjects such as physics, medicine or law, in which gender research has so far hardly been anchored. This focus contributes to the profile of North Rhine-Westphalian universities. Since 1994, the Marie Jahoda visiting professorship at the Ruhr University in Bochum, named after the Austrian social psychologist Marie Jahoda , has also set the tone for international, interdisciplinary and innovative gender research. Twice a year, internationally recognized scientists in women's, gender and gender research from all over the world come to the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

In the meantime, professors who pursue women's, gender and gender research without explicit denomination as a knowledge-expanding area in research and teaching are also networked in the network.

Since 1997, women and gender researchers without a professorship have joined forces in their own “Mittelbau network”. The annual events organized by the Mittelbau network offer a space for professional and university-political exchange.

With the establishment of centers, research and work centers for gender research and the creation of courses in the field of gender studies, these institutions have been using the network for communication, exchange and coordination since 2012.

In the course of the differentiation from women's studies to gender research and gender studies, the “Network Women's Research NRW” was renamed “Network Women's and Gender Research NRW”.

Organization and structure

The coordination and research center (KoFo) manages the business of the network. It has four areas of work: 1.) a personal and university-related networking of professorships and academic workers from women's and gender studies as well as the networking of major courses and institutions of gender studies; 2.) University and science research under equality and gender aspects; 3. Editing and publication of equality and gender-related research results (print and online) as well as their processing and updating in databases; 4.) Organization of conferences and events on changing topics for the purpose of exchange and networking.

In 2017, the KoFo was consolidated as a central institution at the University of Duisburg-Essen . Your work is accompanied by a scientific advisory board. The advisory board is elected every four years by the members of the network. He or she elects a spokesperson and a representative from among its members and accompanies the work of the coordination and research center.

At the same time, the “Gender Report on Gender (In) Justice at Universities in North Rhine-Westphalia” is updated every three years at the KoFo, each with specific tasks. The independent research work of KoFo is located interdisciplinary in science research and aims at knowledge for gender-equitable study and university development. This also includes promoting gender competence in teaching and university didactics and implementing gender equality interventions at universities.

Goals and Activities

The goal of the women's and gender research network is to research gender orders in social, cultural and knowledge-related contexts and to convey them to the (specialist) public, politics and society in terms of future-oriented social development. It highlights the importance of gender research as an innovation potential for North Rhine-Westphalian universities. This transfer is organized through various publication channels - the handbook Interdisciplinary Gender Studies and GENDER are mentioned here . Journal for Gender, Culture and Society , the journal Network Women and Gender Research NRW , the book series “Gender and Society” and the blog interdisciplinary gender research .

literature

  • Ruth Becker, Beate Kortendiek (Hrsg.) (2010): Handbook women and gender research: theory, methods, empiricism (gender and society). 3. Edition. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17170-8 .
  • Uta C. Schmidt (2012): The Women's Research Network NRW. Past and present of a scientific institution. Coordination and research center of the Network for Women and Gender Studies NRW, Essen, ISBN 978-3-936199-12-3 .
  • Uta C. Schmidt, Beate Kortendiek (Ed .; 2016): Networks at the intersection of organization, knowledge and gender , Essen, ISBN 978-3-936199-22-2
  • Uta C. Schmidt: The Women's Research Network NRW. A contribution to the history of education and science . In: Geschichte im Westen (GiW) 29 (2014), pp. 127–148, Klartext Verlag, Essen, ISSN  0930-3286 , as a digitized version at www.brauweiler -kreis.def
  • Beate Kortendiek, Lisa Mense, Sandra Beaufays, Jenny Bünnig, Ulla Hendrix, Jeremia Herrmann, Heike Mauer, Jennifer Niegel (2019): Gender Report 2019. Gender (in) justice at universities in North Rhine-Westphalia. University developments, equality practices, gender pay gap. Studies Network Women's and Gender Research NRW , No. 31, Essen; Beate Kortendiek, Ulla Hendrix, Meike Hilgemann, Jennifer Niegel, Jenny Bünning, Judith Conrads, Heike Mauer (2016): Gender Report 2016. Gender (in) justice at universities in North Rhine-Westphalia. University developments, equality practices, gender gap in university medicine. Studies Network Women's and Gender Research NRW , No. 25, Essen.
  • Beate Kortendiek, Meike Hilgemann, Jennifer Niegel, Ulla Hendrix (2013): Gender Report 2013. Gender (in) justice at universities in North Rhine-Westphalia. College developments, equality practices, academic careers. Studies Network Women's and Gender Research NRW, No. 17 . Eat.
  • Ruth Becker, Anne Casprig, Beate Kortendiek, A. Senganata Münst, Sabine Schäfer (2010): Gender Report 2010. Gender (in) justice at universities in North Rhine-Westphalia. Facts, analyzes, profiles. In: Studies Network Women's and Gender Studies No. 9. Dortmund / Essen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As of December 2019, see: Activity report of the Coordination and Research Center Network for Women and Gender Studies NRW 2019 . Ed .: Coordination and Research Center for Network Women and Gender Research NRW / Beate Kortendiek. Essen 2020, ISBN 978-3-936199-32-1 , pp. 38 ( nrw.de [PDF]).
  2. ↑ See Schmidt, Uta C .: The Women's Research Network NRW. Past and present of a scientific institution . Essen 2012, ISBN 978-3-936199-12-3 .
  3. ↑ Ulla Bock: Pioneering work: The first female professors for women and gender studies at German-speaking universities 1984-2014 . Campus-Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50301-1 , p. 50, 51 ( preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ See Stahr, Ingeborg: The working group women scientists in NRW - three phases of its development . In: Schlüter, Anne (Ed.): What drives a woman. Women in History and Society . tape 24 . Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1990, ISBN 3-89085-424-9 , p. 27-39 .
  5. ^ The Marie Jahoda Visiting Chair in International Gender Studies. In: sowi.rub.de. Retrieved February 11, 2018 .
  6. ↑ See Schmidt, Uta C .: The Women's Research Network . S. 56 .
  7. ↑ See Schmidt, Uta C .: The Women's Research Network . S. 84 .
  8. ↑ https://www.netzwerk-fgf.nrw.de/koordinations-forschungsstelle/
  9. ↑ https://www.netzwerk-fgf.nrw.de/das-netzwerk/beirat-des-netzwerks/
  10. ↑ https://www.netzwerk-fgf.nrw.de/das-netzwerk/sprecherin-des-netzwerks/
  11. ↑ http://www.genderreport-hochschulen.nrw.de/start-genderreport/
  12. ↑ Beate Kortendiek, Birgit Riegraf, Katja Sabisch (eds.): Handbook Interdisciplinary Gender Research . tape 1 + 2 . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-12495-3 .
  13. ↑ http://www.gender-zeitschrift.de/
  14. ↑ https://www.netzwerk-fgf.nrw.de/koordinations-forschungsstelle/publikationen/netzwerk-journale/netzwerk-journale-2014-20170/
  15. ↑ https://www.netzwerk-fgf.nrw.de/koordinations-forschungsstelle/projekte/buchreihe-gg/
  16. ↑ https://www.gender-blog.de/