Gender Equality Plan
8
Inclusive and non-sexist communication
Objective
To implement across the organization the use of an inclusive and non-sexist communication that contributes to the visibility of women and to gender equality.
Promoting the use of inclusive and non-sexist communication
Measure 8.1
The use of sexist language in the work environment not only contributes to the perpetuation of gender roles, traditional gender stereotypes and turning invisible the presence of women but also favours the discrimination and inequalities among women and men.
Research communication contains at least three different communication levels and functions: institutional, scientific, and interpersonal; all three levels can be (or not) gender sensitive.
Gender sensitive language and images, as well as gender sensitive content, is an important precondition to achieving a more accurate, more respectful, and more consistent communication aligned with equality values.
Therefore, the ICM needs to have built-in capacity in the use of inclusive communication in all areas.
Main actions:
- To approve an internal regulation on the use of inclusive and non-sexist communication for all ICM’s staff.
- To incorporate the gender inclusive communication approach into the Communication Plan.
- To develop a guide on the inclusive and non-sexist use of language, both written and visual, adapted to research.
- To disseminate the guide among ICM staff and make it accessible through the intranet.
- To organise targeted training sessions on the inclusive and non-sexist use of language (verbal, written and visual) to different stakeholders of the institution.
- To review and adapt institutional documents, communication materials and website from a gender perspective.
- To examine gender bias in internal communication.
