Debates on Women's Representation in Austria. Or: The Development of the Pitfalls of a Conservative Gender Regime

Abstract

Programme under the scientific coordination of Professors Ruth Rubio-Marín and Eléonore Lépinard. Gender quotas are part of a global trend to improve women's representation in decision-making bodies. In the past decade they have often been extended in terms of the numbers to be reached (40 or 50% instead of 30%), and in terms of the social field they should apply to (from politics to the economy to the administration). The aim of the project is to assess and analyse this global trend in the European context, comparing the adoption (or resistance to) gender quotas in 13 European countries in the fields of electoral politics, corporate boards and public bodies. The case-studies in this series consider the legal struggles and political mobilization around Gender Quotas in Austria,

Promoting Digital Skills for Austrian Employees through a MOOC: Results and Lessons Learned from Design and Implementation

“…The first thing that stands out here is the large proportion of women on the course (71%). This could be related to a high share of women in the field of office administration [26] and might be partly related to the known higher proportion of females working as adult educators [27]. A significant share of the participants reported working full-time or part-time in the private sector, so it can be assumed that the MOOC reached its main target group of private sector employees.…”