Workingwoman – Gender Equality in the Labour Market
CESI – Center for Education, Counselling and Research ·Croatia
About this project
<p>This project addresses the unequal and discriminatory position of women on the labor market. Most unemployed people and employees with a fixed term contract are women. Women work in underpaid sectors and are victims of sexual harassment in the workplace. There is a systematic gender-based segregation of occupations on the labor market linked to the gender pay gap. Problems of reconciling private and professional life and career advancement mostly affects women putting them in a discriminatory position. Consequently, the gender pension gap contributes to the risk of poverty for older women. General objective: Strengthening the position of civil society organizations advocating an improved position of women and gender equality on the labor market. Specific objectives: Increasing the organization’s capacity in monitoring and advocating for gender equality on the labor market; Reducing discriminatory practices and improving women's working conditions; Increased information and engagement of citizens on the position of women on the labor market. Project activities: Education and empowerment of civil society; Analysis, advocacy and legal advice; Public campaign. Target groups and beneficiaries in all project activities are: government institutions, CSOs, social partners, professional community, media, volunteers, women and the public. The project aims to achieve an understanding of gender equality in the labor market as well as the involvement and active engagement of all the above in addressing the discriminatory position of women on the labor market. CESI works on all activities and manages the project. The Gender Equality Ombudsperson gives expertise and influence in the activities Analysis, Advocacy and Legal Counseling as well as the Public Campaign. Señor Marketing Agency designs a social impact campaign on the position of women on the labor market. IWRA transfers knowledge in the field of gender equality on the labor market with an emphasis on advocacy strategies.</p>
Bilateral cooperation results
As part of the study visit, CESI team visited the partner organization IWRA, which organized an exchange of experience and knowledge with experts for gender equality in areas of interest to CESI's work. Among other things, we exchanged knowledge with IWRA on the process of creating a shadow report for GREVIO, considering that both CESI and IWRA worked on the same. Brynhildur Heiðar-og Ómarsdóttir, BHM (trade union), we visited with the aim of learning about the activities of trade unions in Iceland. From this year, Brynhildur took over the management of the BHM trade union, which is a smaller trade union but a member of the trade union association. Almost all citizens of Iceland are members of trade unions. We presented the newly founded SKUPA trade union, which Brynhildur was extremely interested in, because there is nothing like it in Iceland. Sigga Dögg, a sex ed educator, has been conducting education for high school students all over Iceland for many years, and she informed us about the lack of sex ed in schools as an institutionalized form of education. It was surprising for us, because the situation in Croatia and Iceland is almost mirrored. All the participants told us that the issue of feminism has become recognized as important, but that they do not agree with the evaluations of the world indexes of achieving gender equality and Iceland as a "paradise of gender equality". Topics such as xenophobia, racism and inclusiveness are considered new challenges, and there is a lot of discussion on the feminist scene about how to work on these issues.
Project partners
- Icelandic Women's Rights Association Donor project partner· Iceland
- Señor Project partner· Croatia