Gender-sensitive teaching is a multiple indicator of good teaching. On the one hand, by reflecting on and considering one of the omnipresent differentiating factors, it helps to ensure that all students - regardless of gender - can contribute and develop their skills. On the other hand, it takes a critical look at one's own discipline and its history as well as the associated gender-specific inequalities. Gender-equitable teaching can reduce intentional and unintentional discrimination based on of gender and thus contribute to greater educational equality. Appropriately designed teaching can also make it much easier for students to adapt to the university context and thus improve their academic success (Kreft & Leichsenring, 2012).

Competence-orientated teaching, which not only aims to impart specialist knowledge but also to initiate individual learning processes, focuses on the diversity of learners and teachers and creates a motivating climate that is conducive to learning for everyone involved. Gender-equitable teaching helps to scrutinise and break up the process of reproducing and adopting gender stereotypes. In this way, teaching can counteract entrenched stereotypes and clichés.

From October 2019 to May 2022, the "Gender in Teaching" working group of the LakoG (State Conference of Equal Opportunities Officers at Baden-Württemberg's Universities of Applied Sciences) addressed the topic in regular working meetings and compiled a handout with the help of experts from various fields. The handbook is aimed at you as a lecturer and is intended as an open offer, as an orientation aid that you can use and further develop when planning and designing your courses to make your teaching more gender-equitable and thus better fulfil your social responsibility as a teacher. In this sense, the handout is also to be understood as an offer for discussion.

The Diversity Team of the Equal Opportunities Officer is currently also working on the field of action, considering other diverse challenges and enrichments beyond the characteristic of gender, and will soon publish information on this on its homepage.