II PLAN DE IGUALDAD ENTRE MUJERES Y HOMBRES DEL CENTRO DE SUPERCOMPUTACIÓN DE GALICIA (Actualización 2018-2021) (Equal Opportunity Plan)

The path initiated by CESGA with the elaboration of this equal opportunity plan is coherent with the current official policies on RDI. Firstly, there has been a clear interest on visibilizing the ongoing gender gap in this field on the part of European, Spanish and regional institutions. The undertaken diagnosis have brought up the unequal situation of women in this area. Thus, phenomena such as horizontal and vertical segregation or the leaking pipeline -the loss of female representatives in Science- have been detected within multiple contexts. Secondly, the identification of this gender inequality has led to the inclusion of equality as a crosscutting objective of scientific and technological policies. With this goal, the need for correcting the underrepresentation of women has been addresssed both in action plans and government regulations in order to achieve a fully egalitarian RDI system.
On the other hand, the policy framework on equality in the workplace has also undergone some major changes. Not only have specific aspects (e.g. discrimination or sexual harassment) been regulated, but also new tools serving this purpose have been promoted among different organizations. The production of an equality plan by CESGA will allow us to comply with the 2/2007 Law on Equality for Women in the Workplace in Galicia. Its article 11 establishes that every government-owned foundation in Galicia must create a plan to tackle gender inequality. So with this equality plan they want to improve women presence in responsability positions.

Why it's a good practice: The reasons why this initiative should be considered a good practice is that the loss of female representatives in Science and the effort women have to do to be participating in scientist areas it is very alarming, and this area has to change a lot if they want to be more equal. So, it is a good practice to do an equality plan, trying to create tools to address inequality.

So we could say that it is an step to improve the accesibility for women in this type of works improving, at the same time, their economical situation and the social power, related to the responsabilities in those type of companies.

Read the full analysis: https://www.cesga.es/en/transparency/equal-opportunity-plan/