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Gender is a central category of order in our society.

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It affects us all and many areas of universities.  

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I’m Sarah Dangendorf. 

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I work at the HsH department of Research and Development.

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My job is to promote gender aspects in research and support women in science.   

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One of the typical prejudices in gender research

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is the false belief that we need to deconstruct gender as a category.

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It is only part of gender research,

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as men and women can just as well be considered as an entity in statistical terms. 

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My name is Oliver Bott,

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Vice President of Research, IT, and Information, 

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and professor of Medical Informatics at HsH. 

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We work in the field of applied research, producing systems that are used by people. 

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In this regard, several questions arise: 

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is there a gender-related difference in the usage of these systems? 

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Should these differences be reflected in the requirements that our systems have to meet? 

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And how can we take gender differences into account

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when we design systems or the methodology of our scientific work?

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Scientific research isn’t really objective but strongly influenced by who does the research. 

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My name is Max Metzger, 

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I’m a physicist and work at HsH’s Gender MINT department.   

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We examine how knowledge is created, and by whom. 

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Many theories were developed by men.  

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If research is conducted by only one group of people,   

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it lacks the other group’s perspective, 

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and their ideas of what the final product should be.  

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It’s about generating differentiated knowledge. 

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The issue is the failure to address important questions that concern one half of humankind.

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My name is Karin Lenhart-Roth, 

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I’m a professor of political science, and dean of the HsH Social Work department.

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Gender research is a project of emancipation, also from a historical perspective.

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It is closely linked to intersectionality: 

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observing gender in context with other categories like ethnicity,

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class, or body – e.g. in relation to disabilities – to establish further differentiation. 

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Just as there are extremely privileged women,

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there are men heavily affected by inequality and discrimination.