Role models at the LUH

Making women in research and science visible can be so easy!
This is demonstrated by these examples of best practice from the various faculties at LUH.

Role models reinforce equal opportunities for women in all areas. However, more female role models are still needed, especially in the STEM fields, to encourage young women based on their own experience. After all, role models in their immediate environment, such as teachers, family members, but also from the business world, have a major influence on their later choice of studies and jobs (see MINT-Bildung: Was junge Frauen darüber denken, 2022).

But not only female role models are important for young people. Male academics and lecturers who research and teach on gender and diversity issues, for example, or who act as role models in reconciling family life and work, reinforce gender equality. 

Parental leave for fathers, for example, is often not yet compatible with a certain idea of the position of men, ideas of masculinity or male identity.  Men who take parental leave for longer than two months are still something special. Male managers in particular need to set an example here, not just as supporters, but ideally as active fathers. In this way, supporters of compatibility become role models of feasibility (see BMFSFJ: Familienbewusste Personalpolitik für Väter, 2016).