Leibniz University Hannover promotes the diversity of its employees and its student body and undertakes ongoing efforts to ensure gender equality. Respect and an accepting attitude towards the diversity of lived realities are the basis of LUH’s equal opportunities and diversity policy. To comprehensively counteract structural discrimination, LUH advocates for an intersectional perspective.

Intersectionality refers to the interrelation and interaction of different forms of discrimination. They include gender discrimination; racist discrimination; discrimination due to social origin; age-related discrimination; discrimination due to sexual orientation, world view or religion; and discrimination due to disability or chronic illness. The overlapping and simultaneous occurrence of the different forms of discrimination each person faces results in individual experiences of discrimination.