Activity of Centre for Equality Advancement (CEA)
Aims and objectives
- Promotes equal rights for women and men and their implementation;
- Seeks to implement means to encourage the equal representation of women's and men's interests in decision-making processes;
- Promotes the values of an open democratic society by encouraging gender dialogue;
- Attempts, through research and public campaigns, to change negative stereotypes of women and men, age groups, national and ethnic minorities, the disabled and other social groups in society.
Creator/owner/responsible institution
Name: Centre for Equality Advancement (CEA)
Stakeholder: Civil society organisation
Area of intervention: Men and gender equality
Organisation Country: Lithuania
Organisation Zip Code: 1140
Organisation Phone: 369 (5) 2335380
Contact person:
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Name: Virginija Aleksejune
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Name: Margarita Jankauskaitė
Contents/activities/services
Activities
The Centre has been involved in a number of projects:
- "Equal and Safe at Work" (2005-2007).
- "Towards Practical Implementation of Equal Opportunities: Innovative Educational Strategies for Social Partners" (2006-2007)
- "Equality for Local Development: Gender Mainstreaming in Municipalities" (2006-2007)
- "Gender Mainstreaming: from Concept to Action" (2007-2008).
Conferences
- Zero Tolerance to Violence Against Women campaign, press launch on 24/11/09 with contributions from influential men in politics, sports, arts
- A series of workshops and seminars for employers, representatives of trade unions, representatives of labour market institutions and social and employment policy makers.
Materials
- 2009 Calendar for changing gender role stereotypes 'Super heroes at home'
- Mackevičiūtė I., Delinesheva M., Kmetova T., Laja R., Sarv M., Aleksejūnė V., Jankauskaitė M. (eds.) (2008) Lyčių lygybės vadovas savivaldos institucijoms [Gender Equality Manual for Local Authorities]
- Jankauskaitė M. (2008) Lygybės Retorika: Žiniasklaida ir (ne)stereotipinė lyčių reprezentacija [Gender Rhetoric: Mass Media and (Non)Stereotypical Representations of Gender]/ Sud.
- Jankauskaitė M., Paškauskaitė A. (eds.) (2007) Darbo santykių ir darbo aplinkos gerinimas: Vadovas darbdaviams [Improvement of Work Relations and Work Environment: Manual for Employers]
- Pilinkaitė-Sotirovič V., Augustas Čečelis A. (eds.) (2007) Valdžios aritmetika/ [Arithmetic of Power], Vilnius: CEA. Internet access: http://gap.lt/images/pdf/publikacijos/valdzios_aritmetika.pdf
- Vengalė L. et al. (2007) Lygios galimybės visiems (Equal Opportunities for Everyone), Vilnius: CEA. Internet access: http://www.manoteises.lt/downloads/LGV_knyga.pdf