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CHAPTER 1: Fighting against gender discrimination in the European union and the principles of an equal opportunity policy for men and women
💡 Guiding Questions: What does the term gender mean? What are gender stereotypes and why should they be avoided? How does stereotypical thinking influence unequal treatment of women and gender discrimination? What different forms can discrimination take?
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📖 Part 1: Unequal treatment and grounds for gender discrimination
📖 Part 2: 3 stages of change
📖 Part 3: Unfreezing change – data on the situation of women in Europe
🤔 TASK FOR YOU
💡 Inspiration for you
📚 Resources
CHAPTER 2: Advocacy as a tool for bringing about systemic change in gender equality policies
💡 Guiding Questions: ● What is advocacy? ● What is important for effective advocacy? ● What steps do you need to take to organise an advocacy campaign for the change you want to bring about?
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📖 Part 1: Understanding advocacy
📖 Part 2: Engaging stakeholders and decision-makers
📖 Part 3: Getting allies for your cause
📖 Part 4: Main Advocacy Tools
📖 Part 5: Evaluation
🤔 TASK FOR YOU
💡 Inspiration for you
📚 Resources
CHAPTER 3: Freezing social change and the role of leadership in this process
💡 Guiding Questions: ● How do people react to change? ● How to deal with the resistance you are likely to encounter when advocating for gender equality?
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📖 Part 1: Challenges of changing beliefs about women and men and implementing gender
📖 Part 2: The role of women leaders in implementing change for gender equality
🤔 TASK FOR YOU
💡 Inspiration for you
📚 Resources
QUIZ
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QUIZ
Women in local activism. Building local influence and social advocacy.

Instructions:

Make an assessment of the gender equality situation in your community/organisation/institution.

Steps:

  • Check whether there are policies in your community/workplace that support anti-discrimination on the basis of gender, e.g., local laws, provisions in policy documents, or provisions in workplace policies and procedures.
  • If yes, and if you are a decision-maker in your community/organisation/enterprise/department, then do a survey (mini-survey-survey) among residents and residents/employees on what they think about existing policies? To what extent do they think they contribute to the implementation of gender equality in the community/organisation/business? What could be improved?
  • If there is no document, do a mini-survey of residents and residents/employees on what they think about gender equality in your community/organisation/company, e.g., how they perceive pay, opportunities for promotion, the family situation, the availability of measures to support women’s return to work after childbirth, domestic violence prevention provisions, etc.
  • If you are a decision-maker in your community/organisation/company/department, hold a team meeting and discuss the results of the survey. Discuss what could be improved in existing documents and procedures and, if not in place, what could be introduced.
  • If you are not the decision-maker, talk to your councillor or other authority figure or your workplace manager about whether a meeting could be held about the current situation in the community/company in terms of equal rights for women and men.
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