Equity needs in transportation education and engineering / Lidia Zakowska, Zofia Bryniarska, Sabina Pulawska-Obiedowska // W: ICTTE : International Conference on Traffic and Transport Engineering, September ... więcej

Equity needs in transportation education and engineering / Lidia Zakowska, Zofia Bryniarska, Sabina Pulawska-Obiedowska // W: ICTTE : International Conference on Traffic and Transport Engineering, September 27-28th, 2018 Belgrade, Serbia [Dokument elektroniczny] / ed. in chief. Olja Čokorilo. – Belgrade : City Net Scientific Research Center, 2018. – S. 943-953 : tab., wykr. – Tryb dostępu: http://ijtte.com/uploads/news_files/ICTTE%20Belgrade%202018_Proceedings.pdf. – Bibliogr. s. 952-953, Abstr. – ISBN 978-86-916153-4-5

The significance of the gender dimension in research and innovation increases. Initiatives to promote gender equality in the STEM field have been developed in Europe for nearly two decades but were insufficient ... więcej

The significance of the gender dimension in research and innovation increases. Initiatives to promote gender equality in the STEM field have been developed in Europe for nearly two decades but were insufficient to increase the number of women in engineering, particularly in positions of responsibility. The Impact of the European Parliament Resolution of 9.9.2015 on Women’s Careers in Science and University had been discussed in Brussels two years later during EP debate From Resolution to Realisation and it was concluded that there is still an imbalance and need for integration gender equity issues in education and engineering. Gender equality in the context of engineering and the academia means: 1. Reduction of vertical and horizontal segregation (underrepresentation of women in male-dominated sectors). 2. Balancing the asymmetric gender culture in organizations (removing structural barriers for women). 3. Integration of a gender dimension in teaching and research (gender awareness-raising among the academic engineering staff). Transportation is one of the branches of engineering which is highly sensitive to social aspects. International groups of interdisciplinary researchers are trying to investigate the problem of social exclusion and to cooperate on knowledge-based inclusion mobility, accessibility and transportation plans. The European strategy toward improvements in mobility conditions of transport users covered not only general equality in transportation issues, but also gender aspects in the area of transport research. A short review of selected European actions and initiatives related to equity need in transportation was made, covering COST actions and EC programs to which authors contributed, starting from FW5 project in 2003. The strategy for EU Horizon 2020 resulted in increasing the number of research projects dedicated, directly or not, to equality in transportation engineering. However, despite enlarged knowledge on the social needs and European transport policies of inclusion, there are still many obstacles and barriers to implementing this knowledge in transportation education and practice. This paper presents selected results of current equity status in transport engineering education and equal career development for women in Poland, with a special focus on the Cracow University of Technology (PK) data. The main goal is to identify problems and barriers to constructing the tailor-made Gender Equity Plan (GEP) for PK.