Benchmarking report on gender equality in science, technology and innovation dialogues

This deliverable focuses on the integration of gender in international science, technology, and innovation (STI) collaboration and draws lessons from international gender equality and feminist policy principles. It acknowledges that while international STI collaboration is becoming increasingly important, yet these fields are still male-dominated and resistant to women's meaningful participation. The study utilises the gendered organisations theory to examine the organisational processes involved in integrating gender equality and feminist (foreign) policy principles in institutions working with international STI related issues. Feminist policy principles enable examining gender dimension beyond binary definition and considers e.g., class, age, race, ethnicity and culture as factors constituting barriers for meaningful participation. The deliverable aims to understand the drivers and barriers for gender mainstreaming in international STI collaboration. The analysis is structured around the microfoundations of organisations, which encompass processes, tools, structures, and resources that are operationalized for gender mainstreaming. The study examines four different institutions from Finland, Spain, South Africa, and Mexico, representing both the Global North and the Global South