Acting for Equality

Date

0/10/01

Contact

Odete Filipe

Country

Development Partnership

Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores Portugueses - Intersindical Nacional

Demand

•Eliminate discrimination between men and women in the workplace. •Create awareness among the various audiences regarding training actions toward applying a fundamental principle in implementing citizenship rights. •Strengthen the critical capacity of students, helping to from new mentalities, introducing gender analysis as an operative concept in pedagogical action and in social relationships, in the classroom, acquiring new knowledge regarding legal instruments used to fight inequality between men and women at school, in the family, in the workplace and in society.

Solution

•Equip trade union representatives with skills that allow them to introduce equal opportunity between men and women as priority in collective bargaining. •Prepare instructors in the field of equality between men and women, making them agents for change of attitudes and behaviours. •Equip teachers with instruments that support pedagogical intervention in Gender Equality in the various curricular areas. Stimulate their performance in forming new mentalities that allow opening up of other forms of relationship in the pedagogical action.

Products

Pedagogical Instruments for Initial Training in Equality between Women and Men 1 Video supporting awareness actions in the field of Equality between Men and Women 2. Comic strip supporting awareness actions in the field of Equality between Men and Women (with and without words) 3 Practical Guide for Applying the Act Methodology for Equality in Schools Continuing Education Standards in the field of Equality between Women and Men 1.Act Training Program in Human Resource Management for Equality between Women and Men 2.Training Program in Equality between Women and Men - Level II (Instructor Training) 3.Pedagogical Training Program for Instructors in Equality between Women and Men 4.Training Program in Equality between Women and Men - Teachers Other Standards and Pedagogical Instruments for Continuing Education in the field of Equality. 1.Professional Profile - Instructor in Equality between Women and Men 2.Subject Book - Pedagogical Workbook Activities Knowledge and intervention toward equality between women and men 1.Intervention Methodologies for Equality between Women and Men in the workplace 2.Analysis Methodologies of working conditions from the point of view of promoting Equality between Women and Men 3. Video - How to develop positive actions at companies and Project results 4.Manual on Positive Actions and Good Practices for equality in the workplace and in employment. 5. Rights Guide

Results

Training of 300 Teachers Application of the Acting for Equality Methodology in schools, involving 1750 students 4 Awareness Actions for Managers, Delegates and Trade Union Activists