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Ordinance of the Minister of Science, Research and Art concerning measures for the advancement of women in the area of competency of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art (Plan for the Advancement of Women in the area of competency of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art).

Main Region

First Region

Austria
Equality of opportunity and treatment
1995-03-31
National
Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Second Region

Seeks to raise the number of women employees in the areas of science, research and art to 40 percent, especially as professors in scientific or artistic institutions of higher learning. Declares that women are to be preferred over equally-qualified candidiates for positions in which women are underrepresented, and bans the request for gender-specific information in the hiring process. Also declares, inter alia, that women-studies topics are to be academically recognized, and that efforts should be made to ensure child-care facilities for women employees. An appendix provides an analysis of gender distribution in the fields of science, research and art.

Serial region

    Serial title
    Bundesgesetzblatt
    Date
    1995-03-31
    Number
    No. 74
    Page range
    pp. 3631-3674