… In brief As part of its programme of local government reform, … a nationwide programme of gender training. It targets women who are councillors, candidates in regional and local … which cover gender policy, self-empowerment and time management, the gender perspective and gender issues, …
… In brief The city of Vantaa in Finland has provided basic … almost 12,000 employees, nearly four-fifths of whom are women. There are some statistically important gender … and practice-orientated training for employees in key positionsin relation to budgets, service delivery and policy …
… In brief Think, Act, Report is a voluntary initiative which … models, diversity forums and leadership programmes for women. Think, Act , Report aims to drive greater transparency … Launching a female mentoring scheme Introducing senior management gender and BME (black and minority ethnic) …
… In brief The company Halcom D.D. has a long-standing … is on reconciliation measures for families, rather than women or men. Promoting equality through EQUAL Slovenia … with the help of an external consultant in human resource management nominated by the Ekvilib Institute, which is the …
… In brief The Family Audit Certification was initiated in 2008 … year process of change The process of certification is a management tool that promotes cultural and organisational … audit certification benefits employees – both men and women – as well as organisations. The two most notable …
… In brief The Bosch company, an engineering and electronics … men. However Bosch also promotes equal opportunities for women, and provides mentoring programmes, the Business … managed by the company’s Central Department for Diversity Management. Flexible working time models have been in place …
… In brief The Austrian paternal leave company workshops were … abz*austria and funded by the Federal Ministry for Women and Civil Service, the Federal Ministry of Labour, … Tools to manage parental leave abz*austria used concrete management tools such as RoadMap*KarenzManagement® (an …
… In brief The Zeroviolenza ONLUS association was created in 2008 to make the way women are presented in the media a matter of public debate, … address related issues like women’s access to higher positionsin media organisations. The website was created to …
… In brief There is a contradiction evident in today’s … effects of pre-1990 gender equality polices persist, and women occupy many high-level positions, both editorial and … middle-ranking positions had the chance to move into top management. There has also been a long tradition of women …
… In brief In 2011 Austria’s national broadcaster, … Rundfunk (ORF), investigated the position of womenin its organisation and found a widespread gender … concentrated in programme-making rather than in technical positions. In higher management they are extremely thin on the ground, with only …
… In brief To redress women’s poor representation and career … 35. Thus women tend to not get to the very top levels of management because half of them have left the industry by the … progress has been made inwomen obtaining decision-making positions, this is more apparent in middle management …
… In brief KVINFO is the Danish Centre for Information on … In 1997 it launched its online Expert Database to improve women’s visibility in the media and their access to … and is funded by the library) has the institutional and management capacity to produce all the resources the …
… In brief National television broadcaster France Télévisions employs some 11,000 staff, of whom 43% are women. They are over-represented in areas like human … women make up less than a third of members of the extended Management Board. Only one channel (France 4) has a female …
… In brief CELEM, the Spanish coordinator of the European … Spain are women. However, 59% of journalists are men. Inmanagement, the disparity is even greater, with only 20% of …
… In brief Gender imbalances permeate the Romanian media … Although Romanian civil society is sensitive to women’s issues, this is not reflected in the way media … It also aimed to increase the number of womenin top-level positionsin media organisations and in media policy-making …
… In brief In 2011 the Association of Professional Journalists … journalists working in Belgium, surveyed the position of womenin the French-language media in Belgium. This study … (out of a total of 20). Women are to be found in top-level positionsin media organisations only in the newsrooms of …
… In brief The Female Entrepreneurs Mentoring Programme was … was part of the wider European Network of Mentors for Women Entrepreneurs, supported by the Enterprise DG of the … recognise and support the distinctive nature of women’s business start-ups and ensure that newly-established …
… In brief The Rural woman: employment and new technologies … the National Rural Network, the project aimed to stimulate women’s entrepreneurship and increase their use of … an ‘employability agent’ in each area, who could support women entrepreneurs. It also ran 11 online training courses …