D2.2f Methodological annex: expert survey

The survey focused on structural change towards inclusive gender equality in R&I organisations in the country. Structural change is defined here as a long-term, sustainable process, aimed at building an institutional environment (values, norms, structures and procedures) in which inclusive gender equality is widely discussed and explicitly embraced through organisational and individuals' practices that have a demonstrable impact on reducing gender and other axes of inequality and discrimination within the organisation.

The survey addressed five topics of interest related to structural change:

• Initiating change: How organisations can be encouraged to adopt a gender equality policy (GEPs and equivalent/alternative measures) based on local knowledge, experience and change movements as well as evidence-based tools (e.g., gender equality audit).
• Sustaining and deepening change: How organisations can address resistances and sustain and deepen change by building institutional gender competence, dedicating resources and structures, promoting evidence-based measures, and broadening the scope of intervention (e.g., integrating sex/gender analysis in curricula or research content; implementing a sexual harassment protocol).
• Adopting an intersectional approach: How organisations can move from GEPs and/or EDI interventions to inclusive intersectional GEPs fostering change towards equality.
• Implementing gendered innovations: How innovation clusters and private R&I companies can be encouraged to implement gendered innovations - that is to innovate by integrating methods of sex and gender analysis into their R&I products or services, ideally taking into account also other axes of inequality and discrimination.
• Monitoring inclusive gender equality: How organisations can support an evidence-based inclusive gender equality by implementing effective monitoring conceptual approaches, tools, and indicators - in particular in the four topics identified above (initiating change; sustaining and deepening change; adopting an intersectional approach; implementing gendered innovations).