Information and activities of the BuKoF Commission "Equal Opportunities for Women in Technology and Administration"

The BuKoF commission "Equal Opportunities for Female Employees in Technology and Administration - MTV" deals with the topic of equal opportunities for non-academic staff. With around 65,000 employees, this is the largest group at German universities.

In contrast to classification in the academic sector, which is based purely on degrees, the collective agreement requirements for MTV employees are the job characteristics. It is not an educational qualification, but the assignment of tasks and the job evaluation that determine the classification. The work to be performed is assessed, not the person or their educational qualification. Who and how this work is evaluated has been an issue for 40 years now and there have been many attempts to "valorise women's jobs". Studies, including at EU level, have identified discriminatory elements in the BAT (now) TV-L and are calling for their removal. It is about equal pay for work of equal value.

Click here for the Commission's website.

Projects

EU project "Implementation of the principle of equal pay through non-discriminatory job evaluation at universities"

Here you can find further information on the project and the principles of job evaluation.

Materials and publications

• www.eg-check.de
• Dr Karin Tondorf: Does pay discrimination still exist? (PDF)
  
• Dr Barbara Stiegler: Pay inequality - a never-ending story (PDF)
• Statement by the Commission on the new pay scale, October 2007
• Statement by the BuKoF on a new pay scale, October 2006
• Dr Karin Tondorf, Gender mainstreaming in collective bargaining policy (presentation at the 13th annual conference of the BuKoF