Gender Diversity
Gender diversity - one topic, many approaches
Within gender diversity, we are strongly concerned with equal opportunities for women and men. Our aim is to achieve equal rights at all levels and career stages. We are aware of the increased innovation potential of diverse work teams - for these reasons, we are actively committed to ensuring that men and women have equal rights and development opportunities at our company.
Our managers are sensitized to the issue of equal opportunities. A great deal of responsibility lies in implementing equal opportunities in the management culture - this also includes developing non-discriminatory practices. We have already implemented various measures relating to gender diversity and gender equality at the USB and further steps are being planned.
"I want to motivate young doctors to combine family and career"
Sonja Seelmann, Senior Physician Internal Medicine
How we live diversity at the USB
Proportion of women
Our aim is to achieve an appropriate gender ratio at all levels. There is still a lot to do, especially when it comes to the proportion of women in management - we have set ourselves clear targets for this:
For example, the proportion of female senior physicians should be 25% by 2029. Individual clinics (e.g. Urology) have already drawn up concept papers with specific targets and measures on the topic of gender equality.
Equal pay
Although the principle of "equal pay for work of equal value" is enshrined in the Federal Constitution and the Gender Equality Act, according to the Federal Statistical Office and the Federal Office for Gender Equality, there is still a pay gap between men and women in Switzerland.
At the University Hospital, we ensure equal pay with a transparent and gender-neutral pay system so that there is no structural pay inequality (gender pay gap) in any occupational group.
This was confirmed by the equal pay analysis based on the system of the Federal Office for Gender Equality, which we carried out in 2017.
Promoting young doctors
There is a great need for action to promote women in the medical profession - although there are significantly more female medical students than male students, the number of practicing female doctors is much smaller than that of male doctors, especially in management positions.
We want to counteract this by offering services such as mentoring, coaching and family-friendly working time models and childcare.
Gender-equitable language
At the University Hospital Basel, we communicate in gender-equitable language that explicitly addresses women as well as men and in which no one has to feel "included".
We take care to formulate job advertisements in a gender-appropriate way and to be particularly sensitive when addressing applicants in general.
Coaching and mentoring
We offer our employees various forms of coaching and mentoring: We advise you on career planning, are active in talent selection and are generally available to answer career questions.
Modern working time models
The compatibility of work and private life is important to us. Our full-time positions are always advertised at 80-100% - at the same time, we are committed to making working hours and locations more flexible, offer many part-time positions with a smaller workload and examine job-sharing options on request.
Other benefits for parents include our great childcare services, which we have tailored to the needs of our core business.
You can find more reasons why the USB is an attractive employer under Benefits.
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