Good/promising practices

• Author: Sansonetti, Silvia; Davern, Eamonn
• Pages: 42-44

Study Report on PES approaches to the promotion of gender equality

42

2020

4. GOOD/PROMISING PRACTICES

4.1 Introduction

The 12 good/promising practices provided by PES are detailed in this section. They are

classified and presented by objective. For each practice, the following elements are

considered:

- type of measures

- target groups

- logic of intervention

- impacts

- effectiveness

- challenges/barriers.

A more detailed description for every measure is available in Annex II of this report. Where

there is not yet sufficient information on impac t cases should be considered as promising

rather than good practices.

4.2 The good /promising practices by objective

4.2.1 Contrasting gender stereotyping

Three good/promising practices focus on gender stereotyping. They are Women in Craft

and Technics in AT, Women4IT in LV, and Promotion of Gender Equality in the Labour

Market in PT.

The Austrian good/promisin g practice has bee n financed for five years, and it is intended

to extend it. The leading institution for this project is the national PES itself

(Arbeitsmarktservice, AMS) operating in cooperation with training centres. The total

budget for this measure is EUR 55 million, which is aimed at combatting gender stereotypes

to support women’s access to non-typical (and the most rewarding) positions. The rationale

for this measure is to expand employment opportunities by challenging gender

stereotypes.

The Latvian State Employment Agency has just started cooperating with the Latvian

Information and Communication Technology Association (LIKTA) to promote the

involvement of young women in the ICT sector and digital jobs. The organisations have

signed a cooperation agreement aimed at informing and involving young women about the

initiative. The project benefits from a EUR 2,714,304.00 grant from IS, LI, and NO through

the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the Norway Grants Fund for Youth

Employment. The aim of the project is to increase the number of EU vulnerable girls and

young women in the digital sector.

PT mentioned Promotion of Gender Equality in the Labour Market. This is a national

measure financed by the European Social Fund (ESF), and l ead by the national PES. This

measure is now associated with Estratégia Nacional para a Igualdade e a Não Discriminação

(ENIND) 2018-2030 and is aimed at: promoting gender equality in the labour market;

combatting gender-based discrimination in the labour market; encourag ing the hiring of

unemployed people from the under-represented gender in a profession; and encouraging

young unemployed people to choose a profession or job, according to their vocation and

without constraints motivated by gender stereotypes. The plan is focused mainly on the

under-represented gender in a particular occupation, as identified from the databases of

job centres. In 2019, 1,478 labour inclusion actions were conducted under this measure.