The forestry and agricultural sectors are two of the Nordic region’s most gender-segregated sectors. At the same time, they constitute a significant part of the economies.
The ongoing digital transformation in these sectors risks strengthening the existing power structure since both professionals active in digital technologies and university educations are also male dominated.
We have to change that! We have to change it so that all people have the right and opportunity to do what they want, but also because the sectors need more labour and it is stupid to leave half the populations out of question.
Therefore we hereby announce our free webinars aimed at empowering university teachers and researchers to promote gender equality within the bioeconomy sector. Join us for a 30-minute session where you will discover:
- The Bioequality project: mission and goals
- Introduction to the Method manual: be an agent of change in gender inequality during your lectures
- Interactive Q&A session and discussion: share your thoughts and find out everything you need to start a positive change
Choose one of these dates:
• November 21: 12.30-13.00 CET
• November 22: 12.30-13.00 CET
• December 2: 15.00-15.30 CET
Register here
BACKGROUND
THE METHOD MANUAL The ambition with the manual was to create an accessible guide for teachers and students to incorporate a layer of gender issues into digitalisation topics within academic degrees in forestry and agricultural management.
This was pursued as an effort to tackle the extensive inequality within the sectors. The rising digitalisation of the sector, with increasing demand for typically male-dominated competences related to information technology and data analysis accentuates the problem with gender inequality, in itself being remarkably inequal.
The webinars are commissioned as a follow-up project to maximise the value generated in the previous project, with the primary goal being to maximise the reach of the method manual.
The target audience includes researchers on faculties for forestry and agriculture or applied information technology within academic institutions.
The method manual was produced as part of the Bioequality project led by SNS and NKJ during 2020 and 2021.