Institutional Context. At MPG women, historically, have been and still are underrepresented. Especially the management is very male dominated. The MPG has made a voluntary commitment in 2012 to increase the number of female scientists. It also recognized the problem of the lack of women in leading positions and has established goals and measures to address this. The MPG has a well-established structure for gender equality. It has a central gender equality officer (GEO) as well as gender equality officers at all institutes. At the central there is a Permanent Presidential Committee “Opportunities”11 which is chaired by the vice president of the human science section. Gender equality has not been a main strategic target of MPG in former days, but at the moment there is a lot of activity and momentum for gender equality. During the runtime of GENERA the MPG president reinforced the obligation of all institutes to implement GEPs, which existed since 2008. The overall aim of gender equality policies at MPG is to transform the culture of this research organization. However, triggering (cultural) change in the different institutes and creating gender awareness is still a challenge.
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