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IARU Initiatives > Institutional Collaborations > Gender Working Group

Gender Working Group

Facilitates exchange on gender equity policies and practices to foster more inclusive academic environments.

Background and Purpose

The Gender Group was established in 2006 to share expertise and best practices in gender equity matters across IARU institutions. The group currently focuses on how to develop new programs or maintain momentum on existing programs to support gender equity.

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Karen Anderson

Associate Provost for Academic Resources & Faculty Development / Yale

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Member composition

Current delegates include:

Karen Anderson – Group lead. Associate Provost for Academic Resources & Faculty Development (Yale)
Lakia Scott – Assistant Provost for Faculty Development (Yale)
Raphaella Hettlage – Team Leader, ETH Diversity Office (ETH Zurich)
Sandy Lim – Associate Provost (Special Projects), Director, NUS Care Unit; Associate Professor of Management & Organization (NUS)
Jiingye Ye – Professor, School of Law (Peking)
Ran Zhang – Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education (Peking)
Ndunge Kivuitu -Head of Equality Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I)Human Resources Division (Cambridge)
Sianne Alves – Director, Office of Inclusivity & Change, Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (UCT)
Maria Dockweiler – Diversity and Inclusion Consultant (UCPH)
Katrine Greve-Poulson – Project Leader, Data and Diversity (UCPH)
Marilyn Verghis – Deputy Head of Equality and Diversity and Policy Advisor for Race, Religion and Belief (Oxford)
Mariko Ogawa – Deputy Director, Office for Gender Equity, Center for Coproduction of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity (uTokyo)
Kaori Hayashi – Executive Vice President (Global, diversity & inclusion affairs) (uTokyo)

Ongoing Projects

Shared resource depository

We are developing a depository to share institutional policies, best practices, and relevant research on how to maintain and improve gender equity in institutions of higher education.

More information to follow.

International approaches to gender and LGBTQ+ equity in higher education

An institutional representative is developing a plan for a research paper on the topic of the title. IARU member institutions will be a major focus. The author will interview all members of the Gender Group to learn about their work and find information about the institution’s policies and practices.

Partners involved:

University of Tokyo

National University of Singapore

University of Copenhagen

Cambridge University

University of Cape Town

Yale University

ETH Zurich

More information to follow.

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