… in the renewable energy sector. Gender definitely plays a role. All the barriers that women face in the mainstream … such as childcare responsibilities, and progression in male-dominated industries. And EIGE’s research highlights … such as childcare responsibilities, and progression in male-dominated industries." In fact, more than half of women …
… care. Because of lockdown, fathers took on a more active role at home and engaged more in childcare. At least this is … slowly narrowing not due to men’s substantially different role in housework, but rather women’s lower engagement in … see that female carers pay much higher economic price than male carers. Women are twice as likely to spend at least …
… its lowest in decades. Women in ICT ICT is among the most male-dominated sectors also in Finland. The low … ongoing in-house recruiting of new talents ensures that role models for women can be found, and good practices … disseminated and developed. The company aims to be a role model in equality across the industry. It wants to show …
… for Innovation and Analytics plays a core technological role in enabling this work. The company’s ethos is firmly … (CSO) (2017) show that 79.3% of graduates in ICT were male. While women’s qualifications are excelling nationwide, … feeling less influential and less empowered than their male colleagues, and were constantly aware of the lower …
… events to help teachers and parents to become better tech role models for girls. The overall aim of DigiPippi is to … in public companies. The Ministry has also shown that male-dominated working environments (typically private … companies are inhibited by an entrenched and tenacious male-dominated culture, especially in small and medium-sized …
… views held by parents also playing an important role (Jugović et al, 2016). In addition, girls’ achievements … faced by women in ICT: a perception of the sector as male territory (24%), the preference among male employers for male ‘experts’ (21%); the misconception …
… more than men, face the difficulty of reconciling the role of the carer with employment. This conflict represents a … role are working significantly more hours than their male counterparts when informal care is taken into … or poorly paid, the take-up is low. Employers may favour male recruits as they are less likely to incur replacement …
… in the jobs market but also helps men to develop their role as parents. The main rationale for the campaign was to … the project aimed to encourage men to play a more active role in parenting and to take parental leave in order to do … aware that work-family reconciliation is important for male employees. The end-of-campaign survey demonstrated some …