This was the Month of Diversity

There is strength in diversity. During May, we put some surprising facts about diversity together!

Bunte Margarite; Credit: Pixabay
Bunte Margarite; Credit: Pixabay

Did you know...

....that the JKU has a diversity strategy? The JKU’s diversity strategy focuses on strengthening diversity at the university to ensure everyone has the best possible university experience. Based on five pillars: Developing gender and diversity skills; creating accessibility and inclusion; enabling compatibility; supporting the advancement of women; and creating spaces to reflect and take action, the JKU aims to ensure that everyone – be it students or employees - feels welcome at the JKU!

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It's been scientifically proven that gender is a spectrum, meaning a course of gradations and variations, and in this regard, impossible to provide an exact number of just how many gender types there are in humans. Surprised? Click here, opens an external URL in a new window to learn more.

And that's just the diversity represented by passports; the underlying diversity in family and migration history is much greater. Click here to learn more.

Each and every individual and each and every person has a degree of diversity within themselves. This means an inner dimension of personality focuses on characteristics that include age, gender, social and ethnic origin, as well as mental and physical abilities. In addition, each individual has an external dimension that not only includes living conditions, such as where you live, marital status, income, a worldview, and education, but also social appearance, habits, and behavior. In addition, people are also diverse in an organizational dimension as they have different professions, belong to various professional or volunteer groups, enjoy hobbies, and much more. Click here, opens an external URL in a new window to learn more.

Among the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals as outlined in the 2030 Agenda, two focus on gender equality and fewer inequalities (along with goals to fight poverty, address climate change, focus on on species extinction, and disappearing biodiversity).
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The right of protection against discrimination in Austria not only applies in regard to gender, but also in regard to ethnicity, religion and beliefs, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender presentation, and disabilities?


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