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@ PantherMedia / Westend61 Premium The first focal point concerns current data relating to the topic of gender. With

regard to the current statistics, this mainly refers to numbers on the propor-
tions of women and men in the individual schools and across all university
groups.

This binary limitation is incompatible with social reality as well as with the up-
dated form of the Personal Status Act in 2019. However, this approach reflects
current statistical evaluations at the TU Dresden. Some organizational units
are already incorporating gender categories beyond the binary in their data
collection. However, the amount of available data remains extremely limited.
Therefore, the current Factbook is not yet able to depict these categories
in an appropriate way — and this is also not possible for data protection
reasons. 1

But the fact remains, as current data from Directorate 8 suggests, that
nonbinary and gender-diverse people study and work at the TU Dresden.
The Gender Monitor of the international initiative U-Multirank also states that
1.4% of all students at the 2,202 universities in 96 countries surveyed globally
2
are nonbinary or gender diverse. In the future, it will be an important goal 1 Focus: Gender
for the TU Dresden to be able to depict our statistics in an appropriate way in
order to highlight this group.

Despite this significant limitation, the material compiled here provides an im-
portant insight into the developments and successes of gender equality work
at the TU Dresden over the past five to ten years.

1 This situation is complicated by the fact that the gender recorded statistically is required
to correspond to one's legal gender, which does not necessarily correspond to the actual
1 Focus: Gender gender of a surveyed person. In principle, nonbinary or gender diverse persons can ch-
ange their TU Dresden gender entry and/or first name in the TU Dresden system with the
help of the dgti supplementary ID, regardless of their passport information. It is not known
how often this option is utilized. More information about the use of the dgti supplementary
ID can be found online:
https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/universitaetskultur/diversitaet-inklusion/gleichstellung/
dgti-ergaenzungsausweis (accessed: 27.01.2023).
2 See U-Multirank (2022). Gender Monitor, p. 36. https://www.umultirank.org/export/
sites/default/galleries/generic-images/Gender-Monitor-2022/
u-multirank-gender-monitor-2022.pdf (accessed: 27.01.2023).

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