Network Meeting October 15, 2014 Equal opportunities representatives and administrators Student Union representatives, Council for Equal Opportunities

•  Presentation round •  Information •  Ideas on how you can think about your assignment in your respective workplaces and how you, together with department heads/managers can implement the work regarding equal opportunities.

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Referrals SOU 2014:41 Seminars COS October 24 and December 5 New members, Council for Equal Opportunities English translation of Plan for Equal Opportunities Processing description; discrimination and harassment List of contacts; representatives and administrators Faculty meetings Equality Indicators Employee Survey

•  Next meeting; Tuesday, December 16 , 11-13 , Triple Helix

Needs regarding courses/training (from network meeting spring-14)

•  Continuation courses in norm criticism and DO programs •  Need for training in survey methods, questionnaires and follow-up methods, such as the Greenhouse (Växthuset, DO) •  Need for training in how the practical work of equal conditions should be conducted. •  Training in formulating goals and action plans, and what we can do about the problems and shortcomings that surveys show . •  Themes for network meetings eg recruitment/examination of job postings or the legal grounds for discrimination •  Need for training on privacy legislation

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Budgeted courses during 2015 •  To recruit without discriminating ( hiring committées & HR support ) - base and deepening •  Discrimination Act – deepening (internal) mber •  Norm Critical Education - base and deepening Nove de in •  Greenhouse/Växthuset - material and tutors a m o be •  Training in survey methodsns are t

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•  Equality Indicators •  Evaluations regarding career subsidies, qualification subsidies and female guest professors •  Evaluation/summary regarding equality projects 2006-2014

Plan for Equal Opportunities Vision Equal opportunities apply at Umeå University All employees and students are to be given equal opportunities to work and study at Umeå University, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, religion or other belief, functional impairment, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, or age.

The Equal Opportunities Task General task assignments for representatives •  Inform colleagues about the work regarding equal opportunities, both at the overall university level and the local, departmental level •  Propose and initiate work and measures to your head of department, regarding the work for equal opportunities •  Participate in training and stay proficient in legislation regarding discrimination •  Act as a resource for your head of department och take part in local liaision group (LSG) (Rule Dnr; 300-375-13)

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Equal treatment in working life (Book by Moa Hjertson and Kajsa Svaleryd, 2011)

“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones. ” Machiavelli 1467-1527

Organizational change •  A work for Equal Opportunities will also work against, in one or more respects, the current, inequitable order •  We can talk about inequality regimes, ie, systematic differences between the participants in terms of power and influence over the objectives, means and results ( Acker, in Mulinari & Selberg , 2011)

•  Equality and diversity work is a process of change, which raises resistance. •  The resistance can be frustrating , but is also a sign that you are on to something - that you have identified a structure or order that someone else is prepared to defend, since it is his or her truth .

The Four Rooms of Change (Claes Janssen)

Satisfaction

Denial

Inspiration

Confusion and conflict

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The Flight of Stairs to Change

Change Understand Explain Defend Deny

Experiences Opinions

Knowledge Insight

Results

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The ”fikaroom” Educational films (in Swedish) from the project Normstorm and their web-based gender equality education www.normstorm.nu Clip, ”Fikaroom”; http://vimeo.com/57514907 Clip, ”Conferenceroom”; http://vimeo.com/57514906

To discuss The fikaroom •  Do you recognize this? Do we have gendered tasks in our workgroup? •  How can jargon on how women and men ”usually” behave result in limited individual discretion in a workplace? •  What do you think the responsibilities of the equality work on a workplace level should look like? What is the role of the head of department and which responsibility has the employees ?

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To discuss The conference room •  Suppression techniques are practices used to exert power over someone. To understand and make visible suppression techniques means that their effect may be counteracted. Can you give examples of suppression techniques and potential counter-strategies? •  Why is there so often resistance to gender equality work? Can you give any examples on how such resistance can be manifested? •  How can we as employees ”do” gender equality in every day life? •  More information; www.umearegionen.se - Jämställdhet

To keep in mind •  Prepare the participants before the meeting – invitation, questions, material to read beforehand? •  ”Statement of context” – head of department/manager should explain why the meeting takes place and welcome the participants •  Sit in a circle – no tables •  Never condemn unequal/undemocratic feelings and thoughts •  Respond with facts (and be prepared with the facts) •  Make use of ”Boxes of gender equality” (Hjertson & Svaleryd, p. 96)

•  Which box do you want to focus in your discussions? •  Sort the responses , thoughts and reactions that come up

The boxes of gender equality

Personal life

Gender mainstreaming

Environment Context

Workplace

Society

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Discuss – where do we start?

•  Have you been given any tasks by your head of department? •  Have you been given time to fulfill your task? •  What have you done – how have you done it? •  What would you like to do – what is needed in your workplace? You find examples of excercices in chapter 3, Hjertson & Svaleryd, (2011)

Word of the day; Equal opportunities

To read •  Likabehandling i arbetslivet. En handbok för chefer: så följer du den nya diskrimineringslagstiftningen. Hjertson, Moa och Svaleryd, Kajsa (2011) •  Arbete – intersektionella perspektiv. Mulinari, Diana och Selberg, Rebecca (2011) •  On being included. Ahmed, Sara (2012) •  Att bryta innanförskapet; Kritiska perspektiv på jämställdhet och mångfald. Sandell, K (red). (2014) •  SOU 2014:30. Jämställt arbete? Organisatoriska ramar och villkor i arbetslivet. Forskningsrapport från Delegationen för jämställdhet i arbetslivet

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To read www.umearegionen.se www.normstorm.nu www.do.se http://www.regionvarmland.se/schyst www.jamstall.nu Introduction to discussions regarding discrimination (in Swedish) http://www.fn.se/svenne I normens öga; http://www.friends.se/friends/friends-bocker Excercices(in Swedish); Ett steg fram, Heteroprivilegiet http://www.rfslungdom.se/sites/default/files/media/ bryt_upplaga3.pdf

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