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Gender equality

Definition: Promoting gender equality in the work place, reducing gender gaps and supporting job desegregation

Theme H partnerships are concerned with reducing gender inequalities. The work has included the development of pay audit tools, producing training and support materials for careers advisers, providing women with access to science, engineering, ICT, transport and other sectors, and challenging both gender and ethnic stereotyping. Products include research on the employment of women in ICT, an e-learning website challenging stereotyping, live drama and drama DVD, research materials and role models on DVD.

Further Information:

• ECOTEC Thematic update paper: Theme H
• Theme H mainstreaming strategy

The Training and Employment of Women ICT TechniciansReport of the study undertaken between 2002 and 2005.

Time BankTo investigate and implement time bank software so that effort can be logged and translated into a pilot 'learning voucher' system.

Top 100 Role ModelsThis DVD shows 100 Role Model case Studies.

Training and Employment of ICT TechniciansA report of the JIVE MCSE Project.

Training for Older Women (50+)Intensive, tailored support and training for older women (50+) either seeking or in employment, to increase aspiration, improve skills and increase job retention.

Transnational CatalogueAcross the EU, women continue to face disadvantage and discrimination on a range of fronts.

University Modules produced by UHIThese are undergraduate and postgraduate modules developed by the UHI Millennium Institute on 'Sex' and 'Equality' in the workplace: politics, practice and lived experience; Confidence Building for Women in Business and Accounting; Ecofeminism and Deep Ecology for the 21st Century.

Women in non-traditional emplyment sectors: for employersDVD aimed at employers in sectors where women are not traditionally employed.

Women in non-traditional emplyment sectors: role modelsWomen in Spain talking about their lives employed in non-traditional sectors.

Women into ScienceInterviews with women working in the science sector.

Women into Science and EngineeringWomen into Science and Engineering CD-ROM: A Learning material exploring opportunieties and presentation of women working and studying in the sector.

Women winning in filmA video diary of the experience of women undertaking a training course in video production.

Workforce DemographicsPowerpoint presentation of Workforce Demographics for 2010.

Working together – suite of 4 training programmesSuite of 4 evaluated training programmes for: apprentices, employers, employees and mentors.

Workshadowing at AMECCase study of the experience of work shadowing in the construction industry.

Young Women in a Modern Apprenticeship Scheme in Engineering Construction Research Report for JIVE PThis report presents findings of research into the experiences of young women in a modern apprenticeship scheme in engineering construction.