Based on the performed audit of equal opportunities, we issued The Gender Equality Plan of Mendel University in Brno for the period from 2022 to 2024.
Equal treatment is provided for in the Code of Conduct, the Employment Code, and the Selection Procedure Rules.
We have carried out an analysis of gender pay equality and fairness in LOGIB. Based on it, we will plan specific actions to promote equal pay.
We provide the following conditions to support employee-parents:
- the possibility to work part-time
- flexible working hours
- 6 to 8 weeks of annual leave
- counselling for reconciliation of work and family life
- University kindergarten
- a summer day camp for the children of employees
- a back-to-work grant (Grant Agency of Gregor Johan Mendel)
We have issued recommendations for gender-sensitive communication both within the university and to the public.
In January 2023, a webinar on Gender Dimensions in Science and Research was held at the University.
Safe MENDELU - preventing and addressing unwanted behaviour including gender-based harassment.
Raising awareness of gender equality and unconscious bias:
On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11 March 2022), we took part in the Women Belong in Science Slam.
In November 2022, a videoepizode entitled (In)Equal Opportunities premiered. The project was created in cooperation between Masaryk University, Mendel University in Brno and Thermo Fisher Scientific.
In October 2023, we held a discussion forum on How to communicate with Generation Z,where we discussed with experts from various fields how to manage intergenerational differences in communication at the university.
On 13 September 2023, Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a method for genome editing, was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by Mendel University.
At the end of 2023, the university journal Mendel Green was published on the topic of gender.
As part of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2024, we organised an exhibition on Gender Stereotypes in Brno city centre.