Considering that 2010, Martina Stackelbeck has considerably shaped the level playing fields operate at TU Dortmund University. Her method was characterized by cooperation, clear legal standards, and the awareness that equality is a shared job of all university members. Under her management, the university’s visit treatments were further established in regards to gender justice: she initiated the first comprehensive appointment guidelines and the appointment website, along with accompanying steps such as gender trainings and checklists for supporting appointment treatments by the departmental Equal Opportunities Officers.
The mentoring program “MinTU– Ladies into TU Dortmund University,” which is regarded across the country as an excellent job in the field of research study orientation, also was developed on her initiative. With “female.2. enterprises” she launched a job that supports female graduates in their shift into non-university profession fields. In addition, she drove the expansion of equal opportunities work to include topics such as gender variety and diversity in basic. Together with numerous cooperation partners from the city, she carried out projects such as “She for Democracy” and “Provide Violence No Possibility on the Campus.”
“I wish to thank all cooperation partners within TU Dortmund University for the excellent partnership,” Stackelbeck said at her ceremonial goodbye from office. “I almost always felt understood and well supported with my equality concerns. Together we have actually added to making TU Dortmund University more gender fair.” The graduate economist was used at the university for a total of 38 years, at first as a research assistant at the Social Research Center Dortmund, where her focus was on labor research study, organizational culture and gender concerns, and lastly for 15 years as the central Equal Opportunities Officer.
On behalf of the Rectorate, Professor Petra Wiederkehr, Vice President Diversity, honored Stackelbeck’s long-standing dedication: “Martina Stackelbeck has made an important contribution to making our visit procedures more gender equitable. This is necessary in order to recruit outstanding female scientists and to sustainably increase the proportion of woman teachers.” The handover of workplace to Elisabeth Brenker is an effective example of a well-prepared passing of the baton.
Elisabeth Brenker Newly Chose to Workplace
The 36-year-old Cultural Researches scholar Elisabeth Brenker has actually worked for nine years in the TU Dortmund University Equal Opportunities Workplace, where she, among other things, collaborated the “female.2. business” project. She contributes long-standing expertise in equality concerns as well as comprehensive knowledge of university structures. From 2022 to 2024, she acted as deputy Equal Opportunities Officer and consultant for the fields of technology and administration. At the start of June, she has been elected by TU Dortmund University’s female personnel and students for a preliminary three-year term as the new central Equal Opportunities Officer. “Gender equality is not an add-on however a fundamental requirement for a future-proof university, and the variety of a research group has by now typically been definitive for the approval of financing,” she highlighted. “An intersectional perspective on all procedures that we, as a university, initiate is required and more appropriate than ever. I eagerly anticipate supporting TU Dortmund University in this.”
About the Office of the Central Equal Opportunities Officer
By law, the main Equal Opportunities Officer supports TU Dortmund University in its mandate to promote the real enforcement of equality in between ladies and guys. In doing so, she considers all genders and specifically ensures the dismantling of structural downsides dealt with by females. To satisfy her tasks, the main Equal Opportunities Officer participates in committee meetings– such as those of the University Council, the Rectorate, the Senate, the Department Conference, and many visit committees. She likewise carries out actions and jobs together with the Equal Opportunities Office team and provides information on gender problems.
About the Equal Opportunities Office