CHECk, reducing the gender gap in employement
CHECk, reducing the gender gap in employement
The Europeen Project CHECk – Challenge Equality in Employment and Care de la convocatòria Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme 2024 (CERV), aims to reduce the gender gap in employment in the three countries involved, promoting practices of reconciling work and personal life between the main actors in the public and private sectors. The objectives of the project are to make SMEs aware of the importance and benefits of improving the conditions for reconciling the work and personal life of working people in their environments, carrying out an in-depth gender transformative process. For this reason, we have established two training actions:
- Online training, accessible for free through the Moodle platform, aimed at working people with the aim of valuing care tasks and promoting a change in awareness about the historical distribution of these responsibilities, traditionally assigned to women.
- Face-to-face or online training, with management staff and Human Resources managers of SMEs to improve knowledge or expand their work-life balance policies in the company.
CHECK also promotes the European exchange of best practices in the implementation of EU Directive 2019/1158, also involving the public sector. The visits to the countries and their Talks contribute to the exchange of good practices on work-life balance and the reduction of the gender gap in care tasks.
Finally, it seeks to challenge gender stereotypes related to the traditional division of care work through an awareness campaign carried out online and face-to-face in the target countries.
The consortium is made up of: FONDAZIONE L´ALBERO DELLA VITA, DIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP (DDG), PERCORSI DI SECONDO WELFARE, FONDAZIONE SODALITAS and Surt Foundation.
CHECk international meeting in Milan
The headquarters of the Fondazione L’Albero della Vita (Milan, Italy) hosted, on January 22, the inaugural meeting of the European project CHECk – Challenge Equality in Employment and Care of which Surt is a partner. This meeting marked the beginning of an international collaboration with the aim of reducing the gender gap in the workplace and improving the conditions for reconciling work and personal life.
Representatives from Italy, Spain and Lithuania shared strategies to promote gender equality through training, the exchange of best practices and awareness campaigns that challenge traditional gender roles.
