GENDER EQUALITY BODIES
Ombudsman for Equal Treatment and Anti-discrimination
Responsibilities:
- Taking actions on behalf of equal treatment and equal opportunities for the university community;
- Eliminating all forms of discrimination and unequal treatment at the University of Wrocław;
- Sharing the knowledge about equal treatment (meetings or training addressed to the university community, supporting the university community in implementing anti-discrimination procedures).
Source: https://bip.uni.wroc.pl/download/attachment/27185/obwieszczenie-z-181220...
Committee for equal-treatment
Responsibilities:
- Taking actions on behalf of equal treatment and equal opportunities for the university community;
- Sharing the knowledge about equal treatment;
- Taking action when formal complaints procedure is submitted (the formal complaints procedure is one of the ways to resolve situations of harassment, discrimination, etc.).
Source: https://uni.wroc.pl/rowny-uwr/komisja-ds-rownego-traktowania/
Departmental proxies for equal treatment
Responsibilities:
- Taking actions on behalf of equal treatment and equal opportunities for the university community;
- Cooperation with Ombudsman for equal treatment and anti-discrimination.
Source: https://uni.wroc.pl/rowny-uwr/pelnomocniczki-i-pelnomocnicy-wydzialowi/
Departmental proxies for students and doctoral students' safety
Responsibilities:
- Providing assistance to people affected by security incidents;
- Monitoring the situation at the faculties in the matter of safety of students, doctoral students, and employees of the University of Wrocław.
Source: https://uni.wroc.pl/pomocny-uwr/bezpieczenstwo-studentow-i-doktorantow/p...
Rector's Proxy for Social Responsibility
Responsibilities:
- Promoting the idea of social responsibility of University;
- Establishing cross-sectoral cooperation with the socio-economic environment;
- Promoting students’ involvement in the social life of the city and the region;
- Taking pro-social and pro-ecological initiatives.
Source: https://uni.wroc.pl/pomocny-uwr/odpowiedzialnosc-spoleczna/pelnomocniczk...
Rector’s Proxy for Student Security
Responsibilities:
- Coordinating preventive, educational and organizational activities to ensure security and public order on Wrocław University premises (mainly in the context of public events).
Source: https://uni.wroc.pl/pomocny-uwr/bezpieczenstwo-studentow-i-doktorantow/p...
GENDER EQUALITY MEASURES
Work-Life Balance
Childcare support:
- Informational website: https://uni.wroc.pl/rodzice/
- Breastfeeding rooms (with playrooms for children) at the Institute of Pedagogy and at the Institute of Sociology.
Career progression
Anti-discrimination and equal opportunity policies:
- Ban on discrimination in employment (Staff Regulations, §5.3.4; Source: Rector’s Ordinance no. 113/2019 – 16 September 2019);
- Transposition of regulations included in national labour law and the Constitution on equal treatment of employment (Annex no. 1, Staff Regulations).
Source: Rector’s Ordinance no. 113/2019 – 16 September 2019
Integration of gender into research and teaching and Gender Studies / Programme
Centre for Gender Studies
Source: http://www.ifa.uni.wroc.pl/american/cfgs.php
Department of Sex and Family Sociology (Zakład Socjologii Płci i Rodziny)
Source: https://www.socjologia.uni.wroc.pl/Zaklady-i-pracownie/Zaklad-Socjologii...
Mobbing, Sexual Harassment
Anti-mobbing policy:
- Principle of tolerance and respect of an academic teacher who is obliged to oppose every form of discrimination and mobbing (Code of Ethical Criteria, Annex to the Resolution of the Senate of Wrocław University – 22.06.2011, §8, Source: https://uni.wroc.pl/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Kodeks-wskaza%C5%84-etycz...
- Ban of mobbing (The Staff Rules, Rector’s Ordinance no. 113/2019 – 16.09.2019, §5.3.6).
Anti-harassment policy:
Transposition of the national labour law on sexual harassment (Annex no. 1, Staff Regulations)
Source: http://www.bip.uni.wroc.pl/download/attachment/20799/nr-113_2019-z-dnia-...
Awareness-raising
- Conferences on gender-related problems;
- An article on the University website about discovering herstory of the University (https://uni.wroc.pl/kobieca-twarz-uniwersytetu/).