Decentralised Women's Representative

As a member institution of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the University of Bremen has undertaken to comply with the DFG's equality standards. Detailed information on activities at the University of Bremen can be found at
http://www.chancengleichheit.uni-bremen.de/seiten/themen/dfggleichstellungsstandards/dfggleichstellungsstandards.html

FB 3 has committed to DFG target figures.

The decentralised women's representatives are represented as advisory members in the specialist area council.

Meeting dates and minutes of the faculty council can be found here:

http://verwaltung.fb3.uni-bremen.de/cms/detail.php?id=3215

Link to the family portal of the University of Bremen

Link to an extensive information portal of the Studentenwerk Gießen for students with children: http://www.kind-und-studium.de/Schwangerschaft/Mutterschutz_und_Leistungen_der_Krankenkasse.html

In particular with good tips on maternity leave for female students who work or are marginally employed - e.g. as student assistants: http://www.kind-und-studium.de/Schwangerschaf/Mutterschutz_und_Leistungen_der_Krankenkasse.html

Maternity leave and provision of funds for maternity pay

We would like to point out that the University of Bremen (like all employers in Germany) receives a full refund of the so-called employer's share of the maternity allowance in accordance with §13 of the Maternity Protection Act (Mutterschutzgesetz). This is done via the so-called compensation procedure U2, which compensates all continued remuneration payments and maternity protection benefits of the employer.

Links to legal information:
1. a document of the IKK health insurance fund, where on pages 19 and 21ff some explanations for the compensation procedure U2 can be found: https://www.ikk-gesundplus.de/arbeitgeber/beitraege/ausgleichsverfahren/mutterschutz_u2/

2 Wikipedia explains the Expenditure Compensation Act including the judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court, etc: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aufwendungsausgleichsgesetz

3. a small inquiry from the Bremen citizenship from the year 2012 - there to question 4 is explicitly mentioned that also the public administration gets the money:
http://www.bremische-buergerschaft.de/fileadmin/volltext.php?buergerschaftart=1&dn=D18L0632.DAT&lp=18&format=pdf
(Note: Only employees receive maternity pay. With regard to the absolute number of pregnant women, it should be noted in the table (for question 1 of this small inquiry) that no female civil servants are listed for Bremen. Nevertheless, the figures given there appear to be quite low for Bremen's public administration as a whole.)

Aktuelle Ausschreibungen für Stellenangebote der Universität Bremen werden veröffentlicht unter:

http://www.uni-bremen.de/universitaet/die-uni-als-arbeitgeber/stellen0.html

Further information on ongoing appeal procedures can be found here.

Nationwide and international job offers:

Frauen-Inform is a moderated e-mail network of women from computer science and mathematics. The network mainly reaches women in German-speaking countries. In particular, job advertisements in the scientific field are published.

https://mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/mailman/listinfo/frauen-inform

Tenders on Frauen-Inform
For the distribution of an advertisement on the mailing list Frauen-inform, e-mails can be sent directly to <frauen-inform@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>. The sender's e-mail does not have to be entered in the mailing list.

Some professional societies and companies offer financial support especially for female computer science students. We receive irregular information and pass it on to potential interested parties in FB 3. We are happy to support you with your applications.