… In brief To redress women’s poor representation and career prospects in the … film and TV industry, the membership association WFTV (Women in Film & Television UK) runs a mid-career mentoring scheme for an annual cohort of 20 women. It is targeted at women with at least five years of …
… In brief CELEM, the Spanish coordinator of the European Women’s Lobby, wanted to find a way to ensure that the … were that were likely to be sympathetic to the cause of women’s equality. It established a database of these names, … the disparity is even greater, with only 20% of female managers. The share of women on media company boards is even …
… Although Romanian civil society is sensitive to women’s issues, this is not reflected in the way media … appoint staff nor in their editorial policies. Few women rise to top jobs in the media, and media organisations pay little attention to gender. In fact women play a subordinate role in public life generally, and …
… journalists working in Belgium, surveyed the position of women in the French-language media in Belgium. This study … that only 28% of people interviewed in the media were women, and that only 26% of newspaper articles and 29% of … the causes of the under-representation of women; to push managers in the industry to achieve gender equality in …
… agreement undertaking to strive to increase the number of women experts appearing in their programmes and articles. The … had been prepared by the Commission on the Image of Women in the Media, which was set up by the secretary of … over time. These include initiatives to recruit more women, in-house monitoring, working groups, …
… – meaning that half of the experts interviewed should be women. It has been able to do this at no great financial … of the production staff. First of all, there are fewer women in highly visible occupations such as politics, so … staff have to go out actively to find them. Secondly, women are habitually less confident about airing their …
… brief Going for Growth provides structured peer support to women entrepreneurs who are serious about growing their … round tables and a national forum at midpoint. Over 350 women entrepreneurs have taken part, at a cost of some €2,000 … in 2008. It is directed at ambitious women who are owner-managers of businesses that have been trading for at least …
… In brief The Dobbantó – Women entrepreneurs’ competence development programme is an intensive course for women intending to start a business or already running one. … – training, advice, peer support and networking – to help women start their own businesses. It lasts for 90 hours …
… Pionnières is a network of business incubators which helps women entrepreneurs to establish themselves in innovative … a gender perspective on business was in its infancy, and women were not expected to be active in business outside the social economy. It aims to enable women from different geographic and social backgrounds to set …
… 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 … they were the main protagonists. a second lesson is that managers of gender projects need to be tenacious in …
… In brief The Cyprus Women's Cooperative Bank Ltd. (WCB), one of the first co-operative banks created by women in the world, started its activities in January 2001 in Larnaca. At that time, some 350 business-minded women in Cyprus founded the WCB, a non-profit lending …
… (€15m) fund which makes equity investments to help strong women’s businesses grow. It works on a co-investment basis in … expertise on finance measures to support SMEs. In the UK women are about half as likely as men to be entrepreneurs. … fund’s objective is to increase the number of successful women-led businesses in the UK, ensuring that those with real …
… In brief The Women Entrepreneurs’ Loan Programme is an innovative loan programme initiated in response to low levels of women’s employment and entrepreneurship in Croatia. It was … and institutes which are majority-owned and led by women. It makes favourable loans to women entrepreneurs to …
… examine the impact of all contracted activities on women’s and men’s needs, interests and concerns, and design … and include fostering equal economic independence for women and men, closing the gender pay gap, advancing the … is a gender mainstreaming tool to achieve equality between women and men by focusing on how public resources are …