Gender Equality Report of the University of Vienna

The Gender Equality Report provides comprehensive monitoring of gender relations at the University of Vienna.

It begins with gender relations among students and doctoral students, followed by habilitations, tenure track and appointment procedures, the milestones of an academic career. The glass ceiling index provides information on promotion opportunities by gender at the faculty/centre level. Management positions among academic and administrative staff are analyzed, and the extent of the leaky pipeline is illustrated by the graphs known as “Karrierescheren,” which show career paths overall and by faculties/centres.

Both academic and administrative university staff are examined from different perspectives, including working hours, age structure, and contract structure. Academic staff categories are also presented by faculty/centre. The report is rounded off by the topic of parenthood and the intellectual capital report figures relevant from a gender perspective, including the gender pay gap among professors.
The gender equality report is an important basis for actively promoting gender equality at the University of Vienna. The increasing proportion of women in professorships and tenure track positions shows that progress has certainly been made in recent years.

For data protection reasons, the following data is structured exclusively in binary form so that no conclusions can be drawn about individuals due to the small number of cases. In the 2025 reporting year, both university staff and students included individuals whose gender entry fell outside the binary categories of female and male. In accordance with the guidelines of Statistics Austria, these were assigned to the binary categories by imputation. This procedure serves to protect the personal rights of the individuals concerned, even though the imputation rule does not reflect the reality of gender diversity.