Equal Opportunities Officer Equal opportunity
In the context of Baden-Württemberg's Equal Opportunities Act (ChancenG), equal opportunities means that women and men in public service have the same career opportunities.
Discrimination based on gender is to be eliminated. The law promotes, in particular, professional equality for women and aims to improve their career development and the compatibility of family, care, and work.
Involvement in personnel tasks
In accordance with the provisions of the Equal Opportunities Act, the Equal Opportunities Officer is involved at an early stage and in a binding manner in all personnel-related measures. The aim is to ensure equal opportunities for all employees in the science support sector, to prevent discrimination, and to promote fair and transparent personnel development.
This involvement includes in particular:
- Appraisals
- Classifications
- Warnings
- Disciplinary proceedings
- Terminations
- Termination agreements
- Dismissals
- Rejection of changes to working hours
- Rejection of teleworking
- Rejection of further training measures
- Waiver of advertising
- Waiver of the addition “in principle divisible” in advertisements
The Equal Opportunities Officer sees herself as an independent contact person for employees and managers and is committed to a non-discriminatory and appreciative work culture.
The Equal Opportunities Plan is her central instrument for creating transparency about the status of equal opportunities, measuring progress, and thus deriving effective measures to promote equal opportunities. The equal opportunities plan is part of the equality plan in the university's structure and development plan.
The areas in which women are not so strongly represented, the underrepresented areas, play a decisive role here and require special monitoring.
Further legal basis
The most important legal basis for equal opportunities in Germany is the Basic Law (GG), in particular Article 3, which stipulates the general principle of equal treatment and specific prohibitions of discrimination. This is supplemented by the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) for the workplace and specific laws such as the Maternity Protection Act (MuSchG) and the Federal Parental Allowance and Parental Leave Act (BEEG), which ensure equality in areas such as pregnancy, maternity protection, and parental leave, as well as the Care Leave Act (PflegeZG) in situations involving the care of relatives.