Equal - Digital Repository

The transnational partners in Bridging the Gender Gaps have come together from Spain, Finland, the United Kingdom and Austria, bringing a wealth of experience in the field of equal opportunities and a commitment and vision towards addressing issues of gender stereotyping in the labour market.

To facilitate the exchange of information and experience and the sharing of models of good practice and successful innovations, the programme was organised into four working groups:

• Pay Gap/ Equal Pay
• Care and Career Gap
• Involvement of the surroundings: influencing factors
• Business and Employability Gaps

Some of the activities have included:

• Researching and identifying the causes and factors that sustain gender bias and stereotypes
• Increasing equal work and career opportunities for women
• Promoting means for better integration of women into the labour market
• Developing a more family-friendly corporate culture
• Initiating changes of attitude within the beneficiary groups and changes in policy and practice within public and private sector businesses and agencies
• Launching an awareness programme
• Promoting good practice
• Producing advisory reports documented with successes, failures and the resultant understandings
• Producing documentation and tools about tested methods and models.

Chwarae Teg Cardiff, Equal Opportunities Commission, Fawcett Society, SME Equality Project

Employed in large firms, Employed in SMEs, Jobseekers with low basic skills, Lone parents and people with care responsibilities, People from disadvantaged areas (top 10% most deprived wards)