GENDER-NET Analysis report: Award schemes, gender equality and structural change

The report summarises research undertaken to understand the impact of national and regional award schemes aimed at creating greater gender equality, and their ability to stimulate gender equality and enact structural change with regard to gender equality in research institutions. The focus of this report is award schemes that recognise individual higher education/research institutions and/or departments, and which can be expected to have some impact in their aim to affect the institutional environment for academic researchers with respect to the representation and retention of women. This report considers whether each of the gender equality award schemes delivers structural change, and identifies elements of successful gender equality award schemes that could form part of a transnational award.