SDG 5 aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. This not only involves ensuring the right to equal opportunities for leadership positions and the recognition and valuing of unpaid care and domestic work, but also the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls.

Overview, targets and indicators of SDG 5

Forschungszentrum Jülich is helping to realize SDG 5 by implementing measures and conditions to achieve gender equity at FZJ.

Gender equality is a challenge for society that affects all areas of life. Especially in the field of science, equal opportunities are essential. The involvement of women in research and the presentation of scientific facts is more than an end in itself. It is also important that research results are equally accessible and usable for all genders.

The promotion of women in science, in science-supporting processes and in leadership positions are therefore important strategic goals of Forschungszentrum Jülich. These are to be achieved in a structured manner through the Gender Equality Plan and targeted measures, organised into five fields of action.

The five fields of action:

• reconciliation of work and family care
• gender balance in leadership positions
• recruitment and career development
• gender dimension in research and innovation
• sexualized violence, discrimination, and sexual harassment

Gender equity is possible if the topic is given attention across the board and if it is actively practised by all stakeholders and employees at all levels. The Gender Equality Plan facilitates a structured and efficient implementation that exploits synergies and will have a sustainable effect.

Gender Equality Plan (GEP) 2022-2025

The Gender Equality Plan of FZJ.

Download the Gender Equality Plan (PDF compact or PDF detailed document)

Further information

Advice & Support

Sexual Harassment and sexualized Violence

No area of society and no working environment is free from discrimination, sexual harassment and sexualized violence (DSBG). Information, measures, and points of contact at FZJ.

Staff Unit

Equal Opportunities Bureau (BfC)

BfC develops measures and supports structures that create an inclusive science organization at Forschungszentrum Jülich, ensuring that all individuals are respected and can optimally develop and utilize their talents. As the point of contact for equal opportunities, the reconciliation of work and family care, as well as diversity and inclusion, BfC is central to Jülich’s corporate success and contributes to social change.