About the Women’s Representatives

Areas of activity:

Information about the work of the local women’s representatives can be found in the following flyer.

Maintaining gender equality

The administrative duties of the women’s representative include being directly involved in all recruitment procedures that take place within the Department (appointment boards, selection interviews and other committees).

Advisory service

The women’s representative is the personal point of contact for all female employees and female students in the Department with regard to equality and gender issues, discrimination and sexual harassment, or in cases of conflict within the framework of their work at the university. She mediates between conflicting parties, provides information about resolution options and has a thorough awareness of hierarchical structures within the university. She also advises on matters relating to academic career, the extension of contracts in the event of maternity and parental leave, funding sources and childcare.

Who can stand for election?

Any woman who is a member of the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, whether as a student, employee or professor, can stand for election as the women’s representative. A women’s electoral body elects one candidate as Local Women’s Representative and a second as Deputy Women’s Representative, in both cases for a term of two years. The women’s electoral body is composed of female representatives of all status groups (students, academic staff, professors and other female employees) and is in turn constituted via an election process in which all women in the Department of History and Cultural Studies can take part.