The women's representative takes care to avoid disadvantages for female scientists, female teachers and students; she supports the university in fulfilling its task of actually enforcing equality between women and men. She and her deputy are elected by the Senate for two years at a time (cf. BayHIG, article 22).

As a member of the Senate and its committees, the Women's Representative has full voting rights. She is a member of the extended University Board and an advisory member of the University Council. As a voting member of appointment committees, she works to increase the number of women appointed to professorships.

At the University of Music Würzburg, she also supports

• the equal opportunity concept of the University of Music Würzburgfor the artistic and scientific fields, and
• Recommendations for gender-sensitive language use

support the cooperation and work of the women's representative.

You can also find out more about the history and extensive areas of responsibility of the Women's Representative in the report on equal opportunities in teaching at the HfM Würzburg.