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The Gender Equality Audit and Monitoring (GEAM) tool developed by the ACT project provides an integrated environment for carrying out survey-based gender equality audits in organizations (e.g. university or research performing organization) or organizational units (faculty, departments).

The GEAM tool is based upon the Athena Survey of Science, Engineering and Technology (ASSET) and on existing measurement scales in the scientific literature. It has been extended with new questions/topics and adapted to better fit the varying national contexts in Europe.

The GEAM is a modular questionnaire framework. This involves on the one hand the GEAM Core questionnaire, which comprises a relatively comprehensive collection of questions that cover most aspects of gender equality in academic organizations. The LimeSurvey version of the GEAM Core is provided as "lss" file. It provides a good starting point for implementing an initial audit and assessment of the current state-of-play in terms of gender equality in a given organization or organizational unit. On the other hand, however, the GEAM goes beyond that. Part of the present document references measurement scales that are relevant for gender equality issues but have not been included into the GEAM Core.

The GEAM tool aims to enable interested researchers as well as gender equality practitioners with little experience in the social sciences and survey methodology to construct high-quality questionnaires. Although the GEAM offers a set of standardized questions, it is the responsibility of the survey administrators to decide on the adequate questions, adapt it to both specific research interests and national/organizational contexts.

Deliverable 2.1 of the ACT project.

Using gender and geographical data on our authors, reviewers and Editorial Board Members between 2014 and 2018, we have produced a report to capture the current state of diversity and inclusion in peer review at IOP Publishing.

The European Handbook on Equality Data was published in 2007 as part of the action taken to support EU Member States to implement EU anti-discrimination legislation and to achieve progress towards equality. The objectives of this 2016 revision of the European handbook on equality data remain the same as in the version published in 2007: i. to analyse why and what kind of data should be gathered in relation to equality and discrimination (this data is called ‘equality data’ in this Handbook), and ii. to show how that data can be collected, and to issue recommendations in that regard.

Call for submissions: Special Issue of Gender & Society: “Gender Transformations of Higher Education Institutions”
Guest Editor: Julia McQuillan (University of Nebraska)
Guest Deputy Editors: Sheryl Skaggs (University of Texas, Dallas) and Kevin Stainback (Purdue University)

With the focus on “Gender Transformations of Higher Education Institutions”, we encourage submissions that include, but are not limited to leadership, intersectionality, power differentials, policies, organizations, social psychology, identities, sexuality, race/ethnicity, social movements, and comparative and international studies. All submissions should include some aspect of the strengths and weaknesses of recent attempts to transform institutions of  higher education, what works, what does not work, and why.

All papers must make both a theoretical and empirical contribution to the study of gender.

Completed manuscripts, due February 1, 2019, should be submitted online to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gendsoc and should specify in the cover letter that the paper is to be considered for the special issue.