Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities at the Faculty of Forest Sciences

The work with gender equality and equal opportunities will take place through gender mainstreaming and will follow the requirements stipulated in the Discrimination Act for active preventive work.

All students and employees must have the same rights, regardless of their:

• sex
• transgender identity or expression
• ethnicity
• religion or other belief
• disability
• sexual orientation
• age

Have you experienced discrimination, harassment or victimisation?

Here you can read more about what you need to do and access the links to SLU guidelines for suspected harassment of students and staff

SLU’s work with gender equality and equal opportunities

Active measures follow the Discrimination Act and involve systematic preventive work with equal opportunities. SLU will work with active measures at all levels. Departments can integrate the active measures into their systematic work environment management.

Gender mainstreaming is Sweden’s strategy towards attaining the gender equality policy goals. Together with other higher education institutions, SLU has been tasked by the Government to work for increased gender equality, by integrating gender equality into all processes and decisions,

Read more about SLU’s work with gender equality and equal opportunities:

Active measures at SLU

Gender mainstreaming at SLU

Organisation and working methods for SLU’s work with gender equality and equal opportunities

S Faculty Committee for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities

The Committee for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities is the faculty’s information and planning forum for systematic work with gender equality and equal opportunities. Below is a list of the S Faculty equal opportunities committee members (link to decision).

Questions to the committee can be sent to:

• Chair Elias Andersson, Deputy Dean for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities (elias.andersson@slu.se)
• Secretary: Tina Sjöström, Administrative Officer for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities (tina.sjostrom@slu.se)

Each department has a contact person for matters related to gender equality and equal opportunities. They can forward any questions to the committee. Ask your head of department for the name of the contact person at your department.

Are you a student that would like to raise an issue with the gender equality and equal opportunities committee? If the answer is yes, contact your student union or the PhD Student Council.

Documents

• Code of conduct
• Information about the guidelines for harassment of students during external visits (link forthcoming)