… Overcoming bias in personnel selection procedures As part of the internal leadership training programme of the University of Graz, the gender equality office is … in the understanding of equality and diversity work. This training is targeted at members of academic …
… Malta has one of the lowest levels of women’s political representation in the EU. Of the … he urged it to assume an active role and to spur the workof the government and the party. On 8 March 2014, Nisa …
… their absence from political decision-making. Their share of local councils is stuck at around 25%. The aim of the Helene Weber Kolleg, created in 2011, is to break this … professional career planning, self-management, work-life balance and assertiveness. By sharing the …
… In Portugal, the share of elected political posts held by women is respectable at … rather low nationally (26%) and abysmal locally (only 7.5% of mayors). To counter this, in 2008 the Commission for … power-related and decision-making positions. Through group work and structured class discussions students are asked to …
… In response to a historically low level of women’s political representation in Ireland, the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI), the umbrella body for women’s … into politics because it demands a lot of constituency work, which is difficult for women who bear most childcare …
… political representation for Portuguese women, the Network of Young People for Gender Equality in Portugal (REDE) … Social Fund. It had four components: The mentoring of 30 young women from the Lisbon and Porto areas by women … Issues addressed by the projects included for instance work-life balance, fighting gender stereotypes or …
… The share of women in the Czech parliament has languished at around one in five, while their share of the Czech seats in the European Parliament is under one in … the mentees had defined the specific goals they wanted to work towards in the mentoring process, the mentors gave them …
… Domination techniques are defined as strategies of social manipulation and domination by which a dominant … in a double bind and shaming them. In Sweden, the idea of domination techniques – as well as the strategies to … how they act. For example, when a person does a thorough work there are complaints for being too slow. When the work …
… All beneficiaries run one-person enterprises, most of them of the service sector, such as cosmetics, restaurants, … in 2004 and now fulfils all the tasks of an apex organization, including accrediting microfinance institutions …
… obliged to carry out gender budgeting since the revision of the constitution in 2009, but this provision does not … was developed, and has been delivered 19 times to a total of 350 participants in ministries, agencies, institutes, … inputs and concrete examples from their field ofwork to enable them to formulate the specific gender equality …
… that although gender mainstreaming was an obligatory part of all ESF projects, its take-up was being impeded by unclear … analyses and objectives. The project established a team of support workers in eight Swedish regions, with a central … equality equal distribution of unpaid care and household work men’s violence against women must come to an end In …
… 2011 by the UK’s Government Equalities Office (GEO), part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DfCMS). It … targets companies employing over 150 people, and 230 of them have so far have signed up, representing some 6.7% of … Countries that have limited options for supporting work-family reconciliation would benefit from the flexible …
… school day. Employees can take up to 30 days (instead of 10 days) unpaid leave each year. In some circumstances employees can work from home. The company has a person who coordinates reconciliation activities as part of a team that implements the ‘family friendly enterprise’ …
… In brief In Maltese, nista’ means ‘I can’. It was the name of a €1.3 million media awareness-raising campaign run in … low level in Malta. It was initiated by the Gender Unit of the national Employment and Training Corporation and was … in the family, and finally encouraged employers to improve work-life balance by highlighting best practice and the …
… amongst employers that facilitate the reconciliation ofwork and care roles. The initiative is led by the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality (NCPE) which launched the mark in 2010. The …
… was initiated in 2008 by the Italian Province of Trento through its Agency for Family, Birth and Youth … an audit, each organisation develops a three-year Family Work-Life Balance Plan listing actions that the organisation … benefitting 35,000 workers. It has led to a network of stakeholders (unions, employers, family and social …
… under its action plan to improve the reconciliation ofwork and family life (2011-2015). The competition raises awareness of family-friendly corporate culture, and gives welcome …