The pandemic is reversing gender equality progress in the workplace

Women’s progress in the workplace, is set to reverse because of the COVID19 pandemic, professional services firm PwC found in its analysis of developed countries.  According to PwC’s analysis of women’s economic empowerment, in 33 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), for its annual Women in Work index. The index…

Portugees National Statistics Institute launched the website of the National Statistical System on Gender Equality.

The National Statistics Institute launched the website of the National Statistical System Project on Gender Equality, of which it is a promoter. This website presents information about the activities that make up the project: – the Gender Database, a platform for mapping relevant data from the point of view of gender equality;– the Fertility Survey,…

European Institute for Gender Equality provided Gender Equality Index report which is in line with objectives of TWOST project .

“EIGE 2020 research evaluating progress towards gender equality 25 years after the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action suggests that the world of work in the EU remains characterized by a number of important gender inequalities (EIGE, 2020a). The employment rate of women is still significantly lower than that of men. The labor market…

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women has issued a Gender Equality Capacity Assessment Tool

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women has issued a Gender Equality Capacity Assessment Tool

“The Capacity Assessment Tool responds to UN Women’s mandate and the requirements of the UN System-Wide Action Plan (UN-SWAP). It is a way to assess the understanding, knowledge and skills that a given organization and their staff have on gender equality and women’s empowerment, and on the organization’s gender architecture and gender policy. Capacity assessment…

TWOST – Quality label and Open Resources

The TWOST self-assessment online tool described in Intellectual Output n. 1 will bring the users to a general score, and minimum thresholds will be defined beyond which to award bronze, silver, gold level quality label. Considering that these are only self-assessment paths, the “quality label” is here defined mainly for two purposes: to better evaluate,…

TWOST – Database and Interactive Guidelines

This Intellectual Output foresees the creation of a Database and a guidance towards existing best practices and guidelines. The customized online results, in terms of examples, recommendations and good practices, will be identified on the basis of a database, created following the resources identified by a previus indeep research carried on by all partners. The…

TWOST – Online evaluation tool

The main expected outcome of TWOST is an online tool to develop personalised guidance towards gender awareness, with particular focus on prevention in creating new stereotyped media contents and behaviours by youth workers and their organisations. The TWOST Online evaluation tool will aim to help youth workers to: Develop competence and awareness on gender stereotyping…

Expected results

The self assessment tools are aimed at combating gender discrimination, and are designed to be inclusive and standardized and therefore applicable to the plurality of contexts in which youth workers or volunteers can operate and develop their professional and individual skills. They focus their intervention on a qualitative as well as a quantitative approach, bridging…