Good practice Imported

Gender training for executives

Austria · Linz · Local · See the Austria profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 55% 63/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

The aim of the practice is to train Executives of companies to gender equality culture, values, issues. namely to leadership positions The company the practice refers to is the Competence Center Holz GmbH , a medium-sized company in a male-dominated field of activity. An extern

Details

Promoter: Competence Center Wood GmbH
Power domain: Economic Power
Methods / tools: Gender Training, Awareness-raising
Region (NUTS): AT31
Keywords: gender training, sensitisation, raising awareness, gender competence

Context

This practice describes a gender-equality training programme for executives at Competence Center Wood GmbH, a medium-sized company in a male-dominated field in Austria. An external trainer was commissioned to deliver the training, which was introduced gradually, starting with senior management and extending down through other staff levels, with the managing director initiating and visibly backing the project throughout.

Conclusions

The source itself notes that data on follow-up within the company, or within other companies in the territory, is missing, limiting the ability to assess the training's actual effectiveness.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

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Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

ProPEGE — Equal Leadership catalogue — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14

Quality score: 63/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 55% in this catalogue (794 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by ProPEGE consortium (Equal Leadership)

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Transferability / replicability2/3

How readily the practice can be replicated or transferred to other contexts (graded 0–3).

Impact on gender equality1/1

Whether the practice demonstrably improved gender-equality outcomes.

Effectiveness1/1

Whether it achieved its intended objectives.

Efficiency1/1

Whether results were achieved at a reasonable cost and effort.

Evaluated outcomes1/1

Whether the outcomes were formally evaluated or measured.

Achievement / evidence0/1

The strength of documented evidence that the practice worked.

Curator validation1/1

The ProPEGE curators' validation of quality, scope and final approval.

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Evidoria. Gender training for executives. Persistent ID: 3b64557e-01d2-4a7a-821a-a2df90855ef2.

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