1. Women & Men in the Austrian Federal Public Administration Cornelia Lercher Budapest, March 2011 cornelia.lercher@bka.gv.at Sabine Piska-Schmidt Budapest, March 2011 sabine.piska-schmidt@bka.gv.at

2. | 1st March 20112 | Overview  Gender Controlling in the Austrian Federal Public Administration  Equal Treatment Report of the Austrian Federal Public Administration  National Action Plan for the Equal Treatment of Women and Men on the Labour Market  Cross Mentoring Programme – an Update  Special Professional Trainings for Female Employees

3. | 1st March 20113 | Gender Controlling in General

4. | 1st March 20114 | Women in Management Positions (highest salary classifications)

5. | 1st March 20115 | Measures  Transparency/Publication –Proportion of women in management positions in each Federal Ministry –Objectives concerning the proportion of women in management positions until 2013  Accompanying Controlling: –Achievement of objectives is reported to the Federal Ministers annually  Equal Treatment Report –Relaunch –Attention to what is essential: Women in management positions Gender pay gap

6. | 1st March 20116 | Income Disparities between Women and Men (in 2009)  Legally fixed remuneration schemes: –Equal Work – Equal Pay  Gender pay gap in the Federal Public Administration: 15,9%  Gap due to differences in the income relevant characteristics: –Lower representation of women in managerial positions –Different ages –Different remuneration schemes of civil servants and contract staff –Amount of overtime performed

7. | 1st March 20117 | National Action Plan (NAP)  Presentation in June 2010  Strategy of the Austrian Federal Government to enhance the equal treatment of women and men on the labour market until 2013  Definition of 55 measurements  Definition of a set of measurements in special for the Federal Public Administration  Measurement 45: Motivation and training of women in order to confer managerial tasks to them

8. | 1st March 20118 | Cross Mentoring Programme (CMP) – an Update  Measurement 45 of NAP foresees CMP as an instrument to develop potential female managers  Female or male mentor of one Federal Ministry supports female mentee of another Federal Ministry  Regular meetings of the mentoring teams in order to achieve the stipulated goal  Supporting programme – what‘s new?: –Possibility to organise peer groups (mentees) –Supervision session for mentees –Networking meetings: one organised as World Café –Networking of active and alumni participants of CMP

9. | 1st March 20119 | Special Professional Trainings for Female Employees (2011)  Course of studies (several months): More women as managers  Seminar: Coaching for female managers  Seminar: Do-it-yourself PR  Seminar: How to give an interview  Workshop: Woman to woman

10. Thank you for your attention! Cornelia Lercher DG III/Dept. 9 cornelia.lercher@bka.gv.at Sabine Piska-Schmidt DG III/Dept. 4 sabine.piska-schmidt@bka.gv.at Hohenstaufengasse 3 1010 Vienna Austria www.bundeskanzleramt.at