Freie Universität Berlin has a proud history of promoting gender equity:

• It has held a Total-E-Quality rating since 2002.
• Since 2005, Freie Universität Berlin has been one of the top universities in the nation-wide ranking conducted by the Center of Excellence Women and Science (CEWS) based on various aspects of gender equity and their implementation.
• Since 2007, Freie Universität has been a certified “family friendly” university.
• In 2018, Freie Universität co-founded the association “Familie in der Hochschule e. V.” (Family at the University).
• In 2018, Freie Universität was given the “Outstanding Equal Opportunity!” distinction – one of only ten German universities awarded the honor – as part of the German federal and state governments’ female professors program. This achievement is a result of the university’s strong professional development and recruiting processes that support female academics on their way to becoming professors.

Freie Universität Berlin’s new Gender Equity Strategy and Action Plan was approved by the Academic Senate in February 2021. It includes preexisting regulations and self-imposed policies, establishes goals and benchmarks to be achieved by 2026, and identifies some preliminary measures as examples of actions that apply to specific areas of the university.

Freie Universität has introduced gender policy monitoring as part of its aim to define goals, develop measures, and monitor the implementation of policies promoting equal opportunities, as well as to professionalize administrative support.

The Chief Gender Equality Officer of Freie Universität Berlin and her team support the Executive Board and central committees of Freie Universität Berlin in implementing legislative requirements related to gender equity.