Gender (in) equality in academic career promotion of doctoral students

Abstract

Since the beginning of organised gender politics in German science institutions and academia in the 1980s, many measures have been introduced to advance gender changes. In German academia, however, it took a long time to place the issue of gender equality on the political and organisational agenda of the stakeholders in science politics. However, initially it was not democratic factors that opened the minds of political science elites and rectors to this topic, but rather economic reasons. Now, in times when 'excellence' is one of the leading ideas for developing universities to compete in the global knowledge market, gender equality would seem to be important for the future of the (German) university and German research organisations.