Die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter ist eine permanente rechtliche Verpflichtung der Universität. Im Fokus der Gleichstellungsarbeit der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (JGU) stehen der Abbau struktureller Hürden sowie die Gewährleistung eines geschlechtergerechten Universitätsumfeldes.

Hier finden Sie die gesetzlichen und konzeptuellen Grundlagen der Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen der JGU:

Mittels einer Vielzahl von Aktivitäten, Maßnahmen, Instrumenten und Strukturen verfolgt die JGU mit ihrer Gleichstellungsarbeit das Ziel, Chancengleichheit in allen Bereichen herzustellen und mit intersektionaler Perspektive zu verändern.

Folgend finden Sie eine Übersicht über die Maßnahmen zur Frauenförderung, Gleichstellung, Vereinbarkeit und Herstellung von Chancengleichheit, die an der Universität Mainz derzeit angeboten werden.

The program is aimed at all female academics from the early doctoral phase onwards.

It offers workshops designed to foster the development of key competencies relevant to academic careers, tailored to different career stages and open to all disciplines.

In addition, accompanying advising and coaching formats are provided to support the long-term retention of women in academia. A particular emphasis is placed on ensuring an intersectional perspective throughout the program.

In order to support women in academia, individual coaching is offered to doctoral candidates nearing completion, postdocs, habilitation candidates, and female junior professors. These sessions aim to improve career planning and execution. Specifically, the coaching focuses on helping women navigate their academic paths, from doctoral studies through to junior faculty position Scope

The offer consists of a cost subsidy for individual coaching sessions with an experienced external coach of your choice amounting to a maximum of 1000 euros per funded person. Target group

Female doctoral candidates who are about to complete their doctorate or female researchers who are in the postdoc or habilitation phase, female junior professors, to further promote their academic career or female artists who plan a career in academia. Application

Applications must be submitted informally to the Equality and Diversity Office by November 15, 2025 at the latest and should include the following documents

  • Letter of motivation with details of your academic career to date and further objectives. It should describe how the coaching offer can support the achievement of your goals (approx. 1-2 pages)
  • Curriculum vitae in tabular form
  • Copy of the degree certificate or doctoral certificate
  • If applicable, list of publications, stays abroad, prizes/grants, proof of teaching experience

We would like to draw your attention to the fact that multilingual coaching can also be funded, i.e. you can commission coaching in any language that suits you as part of the cost subsidy. The application procedure is as described above. Simply refer to this in your cover letter if you wish to use the cost subsidy for multilingual individual coaching sessions.

Upcoming events can be found on the German version of the website, as all events planned so far for the winter term 2025/26 will be held in German.

This program has the overarching goal of supporting female doctoral and postdoctoral researchers working at JGU in their professional career. The university is thus pursuing a long-term strategy of significantly increasing the proportion of women in leadership positions.

The short- to medium-term goal of the mentoring program is to promote networking between female humanities and social science students (in the faculties of: Catholic and Protestant Theology; Social Sciences, Media and Sport; Law and Economics; Philosophy and Philology; Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies; History and Cultural Studies; and in the Mainz School of Music and the Mainz Academy of Fine Arts) and to support female doctoral, post-doctoral, and habilitation candidates in expanding their professional skills and gaining access to informal structures and networks. The project also serves to provide female academics with important contacts that open up prospects for their future careers. They can familiarize themselves with the unwritten rules of the academic world.

The medium- to long-term aims are to provide targeted support to female academics to help them successfully secure a professorship or a leading position in university management or a non-university research institution and thus increase their chances of finding permanent employment. The project therefore aims to address womens’ individual starting points in order to support them on their career path.

The call for proposals for 2025 has already ended.

Poster for the call for proposals for 2025 as a PDF.

The next round will start in spring 2026, further information will follow shortly.

The interdisciplinary lunch lectures “Food for Thought” provide an insight into current (research) questions in order to make gender (studies) perspectives visible, also in their entanglement with other power and domination relations. A 20-minute keynote will be followed by an informal discussion.

Anyone interested in topics related to gender and intersectionality is cordially invited to exchange ideas across statuses and disciplines and to network in a relaxed atmosphere over coffee and tea.

In the winter semester 2025/26, the Lunch Lectures will be held in cooperation with the Queer*Referat of the AstA and will deal with the ‘authoritarian turn’.

Some events will be held in German, others in English. Further information can be found below.

The Lunch Lectures usually take place on Tuesdays at 12:15 p.m. in the Philosophicum (Fakultätssaal, Room 01-185).

Emotional challenges, phases of upheaval and structural conditions create tension between academia/programs of study and caring responsibilities. Questions about compatibility and ways of dealing with this are explored in the events in the series “No (one) care(s)? An information and exchange series on care work and university”.

The events are organized in close cooperation with the JGU’s Family Services Center and offer both expert guidance and space for an informal and confidential exchange for students, doctoral candidates and employees who find themselves in the daily balancing act between university and caring responsibilities.

Under the following link you will find the annual program of the event series as PDF.

The term “coaching” has become more and more widespread in the last years.

We take coaching to mean an individual advising process during which we focus on the topics of career path development and career planning.

Coaching is goal-, solution-, and resource-oriented and serves to increase and promote self-awareness and the ability to take care of oneself. The person being coached is at the center: They choose their own topics, and, once the individual goal is determined, the coach helps them achieve their goal – through process-oriented and individualized solutions, not prescriptive, but rather supportive, so the person being coached can work on their concerns and strengthen their competencies and abilities.

Individual coaching can – among other things – give you the chance to

  • become aware of career goals and options
  • identify career opportunities and figure out how to go about achieving them
  • structure and position yourself (for example, when taking over new tasks or a leadership position)

Individual coaching is voluntary and based on trust and confidentiality

Referentin:
Den Coaching-Prozess begleitet Daniela Fahrnbach, qualifizierte Coach (am Zentrum für Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung der JGU Mainz).

Coachings sind in Präsenz, aber auch digital möglich.

Form/scope:
4 sessions of 90 minutes each (2-3 weeks between sessions)

Target group:

  • Administrative staff (technical)
  • Administration and library staff
  • Employees from the research-supporting sector

Individual registration – capacity is limited.

Die Initiative „Meet female scientists“ ausgehend vom Fachbereich 09 der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz hat sich zur Aufgabe gesetzt, Mädchen und junge Frauen für MINT-Themen zu begeistern. Wir möchten ein zeitgemäßes Bild von Wissenschaftlerinnen im MINT-Bereich (Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften & Technik) vermitteln und dieses Berufsbild für Mädchen und junge Frauen zugänglich machen. Das Angebot richtet sich an Schülerinnen ab der Mittelstufe, welchen durch verschiedene Veranstaltungsformate ein direkter Kontakt zu Wissenschaftlerinnen der JGU ermöglicht wird.

Role Models aus der MINT-Forschung geben Schülerinnen spannende Einblicke in ihre persönliche Story:

  • Wie sind sie zu den Naturwissenschaften gekommen, was war schwierig oder hilfreich auf dem Weg dorthin?
  • Mit was beschäftigen sie sich in ihrer Forschung und was begeistert sie an ihrer Arbeit?
  • Vor allem zeigen sie aber eines: Die Person hinter der Wissenschaftlerin, die irgendwann auch einmal vor der Frage stand: Bin ich gemacht für MINT?

In Kurzprofilen stellen sich hier Wissenschaftlerinnen unterschiedlicher Fachdisziplinen vor. Darüber hinaus sind verschiedene Veranstaltungen geplant, in deren Rahmen sich Schülerinnen persönlich ein Bild von den wissenschaftlichen Arbeitsbereichen und Themenfeldern machen, eigene Fragen an Studentinnen und Wissenschaftlerinnen stellen und selbst Forschung hautnah in der Praxis erleben und ausprobieren dürfen.

Die Universität Mainz beteiligt sich am bundesweiten Girls’ Day und bietet für Schülerinnen der 5. bis 12. Klasse ein vielseitiges Programm an naturwissenschaftlichen und technischen Projekten

Das Ada-Lovelace-Projekt ist Teil des rheinland-pfälzischen Kompetenzzentrums für Frauen in MINT (Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften, Technik). Es führt Schülerinnen-Workshops sowie Angebote zur Studienorientierung durch, mit dem Ziel, Mädchen und junge Frauen für MINT und eine Laufbahn im MINT-Bereich zu begeistern.

Die Gleichstellungspläne der Fachbereiche sind strategische Dokumente, die darauf abzielen, die Chancengleichheit innerhalb der akademischen Gemeinschaft zu fördern. Sie beinhalten Maßnahmen zur Unterstützung von Frauen und unterrepräsentierten Gruppen in Forschung und Lehre.

FB01 (Kath. Theologie) Forschungsorientierte Gleichstellungsstandards (PDF)
FB01 (Ev. Theologie) Zielvereinbarung Gleichstellungsplan (PDF)
FB02 Zielvereinbarung forschungsorientierte Gleichstellungstandards (PDF)
FB03 Gleichstellungsplan (PDF)
FB04 Gleichstellungsplan (PDF)
FB05 Gleichstellungsplan (angefragt)
FB06 Gleichstellungsplan (angefragt)
FB07 Gleichstellungszielvereinbarung (PDF)
FB08 Gleichstellungszielvereinbarung (angefragt)
FB09 Gleichstellungsplan (PDF)
FB10 Gleichstellungsplan (angefragt)
Hochschule für Musik Gleichstellungsplan (PDF)
Kunsthochschule Mainz Gleichstellungsplan (angefragt)