56% of students and 52.5% of researchers are female.
Effective date: 01.01.2023
Sex and Gender
This dimension refers on the one hand to each person’s biological sex, which is defined at birth and as a rule recognizable from physical features, and on the other hand attributes to specific traits, roles and rules of behavior within the sociocultural context (gender) that go hand in hand with a person’s biological sex.
In the context of HHU this means above all equal opportunities for men and women. This goal is actively pursued by the Central Equal Opportunities Officer and her deputies in the faculties as well as within the student body and central administration, the Students’ Union and the Equal Opportunities Commission.
At HHU...
At HHU...
There are 237 professors and 97 female professors.
Effective date: 01.01.2023
At HHU...
the award of „My Heine-Woman“ exists for more than seventeen years now (2008).
Offers and further information
- Boys' Day
- Coaching program for professors
- Gender consulting for research proposals
- Girls' Day
- Childcare allowance for female board members
- SelmaMeyerMentoring for young female scientists
- Silencium - to support the final work with child
- Subsidy foreign language certificate for female employees
- Gender-sensitive language
- Dealing with sexualized discrimination & violence
- Gender Diversity Toolbox of the Fraunhofer IAO
- Video: Gender Roles and Stereotypes
service and support
- Central Equal Opportunity Officer
- Equal opportunity Officers of the faculties
- Equal Opportunity Officer Technology & Administration
- Equal Opportunity Officer for Students
- Equal Opportunity Officer of the University Hospital