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OPEN DOORS SYSTEM
Date
01/01/2004-31/12/2008
Contact
KYRIACOS CHRISTOFOROU
Country
CYPRUS
Development Partnership
Cyprus Gender Equality Observatory
Demand
A)Develop a business culture friendly to women and a suitable labourenvironment B)Eliminate any gender discriminations, to the reconciliation of family , professional life. C)"reconciliation plans" within specific organizations. D)"Adviser of Equal issues" E)Move towards a change of a long term social collective conscience regarding the social position of women, bias and stereotypes linked togender F)Application of proportional policies, revision of existing policiesandenrichmentof the existing institutional frame
Solution
configuration of a relatively new business culture and the development of labor structural forms friendly to the family, with the support of enterprises willing to include relative strategies to their operations and to adopt "reconciliation plans development of essential supporting mechanisms and structures to offer services to women and further more to estimate the possibilities that these services can offer distribution of experiences and good practices present to the Cypriot labor market a substantially new profession to be developed within the frame of public administration, enterprises, non governmental organizations
Products
1."CONCILIATIONS PLANS FOR THE HARMONIZATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL AND FAMILY LIFE" 2.COMPARATIVE SOCIAL STUDY FOR WOMEN 3. DELIVERED PROJECT SUB-PROJECT 4 - CHARTING OF GENDER SOCIAL MAP OF THE CYPRUS REPUBLIC 5.THE METHODOLOGY OF RECONCILIATION PLANS 6EDUCATION IN BUSINESS ADVISORY BASED ON GENDER
Results
-26 people did a research in workplaces to investigate inequalities or equalities in the working environment -over 250 women have been advised at the advisory centres regarding their rights,their skills,appropriate positioning in the market place etc -over50 businesses have been informed about the obstacles that women face when entering the work market -30 trade unionists know the importance of gender equality and are ready to introduce gender equality rights in the collective bargaining.