Gender Equality Plans for INclusivity: engines of Change

Gender Equality Plans (GEP) have fostered equality of opportunity for women in European Research and Innovation Organisations (RIO).

Nonetheless, most GEP to date bypass people who identify themselves as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Non-Binary, Intersex, andQueer (LGBTIQ); often also failing to address the specificities of people combining several minority-group threads (e.g., foreign women, disabled women, migrant women; a phenomenon defined as “intersectionality” by Crenshaw, 1998).

These groups are potentially vulnerable (e.g., disabled women, LGBTIQ).

Most RIO do not collect statistics on gender identity of their employees, researchers and students; while intersectional gender groups are still heavily under-represented in RIO. New inclusive GEP tools need to be finely designed to encompass all gender groups.

In particular, prevailing stereotypes and cultural norms may stigmatize LGBTIQ people and intersectional gender groups and therefore, new forms of awareness training need to be designed.

GEPINC builds on existing GEP tools and draws on partners' earlier experience with Horizon GEP projects and beyond, through the lens of a fully transdisciplinary approach - embracing economics, psychology, anthropology, geography, demography, health, innovation research, law and gender studies.

GEPINC activities will be deployed in all branches of knowledge: Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Business, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

GEPINC proposes to develop and finely tailor new cutting-edge interventions and activities, which are engines of change, aiming at durably promoting gender diversity and inclusion in R & I, increasing RIO attractivity and productivity, and stimulating diverse research.

GEPINC more advanced partners will work hand-in-hand with the lesser advanced ones, to ensure the effective implementation of GEPINC tools and activities, and to durably install, monitor and maintain a sustainable framework for gender inclusiveness.