Unlocking the female potential
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Governments
Governments hold a wealth of knowledge on skills development, and are increasingly realizing the value of learning from each others’ experiences. Their policy documents, programme evaluations, and research findings contain their experience and ideas on how to better link skills to employment
Gender equality
Women represent both half of the world's population – and half the world's economic potential. Their participation in the labour market reduces poverty because they often invest 90 per cent of their income in the well-being, education and nutrition of their families. Yet labour force participation by women has stagnated at about 55 per cent globally since 2010. Moreover, women are disproportionately represented in precarious work – low-paid, low-skilled and insecure jobs.
Training plays an important role in the pursuit of equality of opportunity and treatment for women and men in the world of work. Yet women often lack access to technical and vocational education and training. Many also lack the basic functional skills, such as literacy and numeracy, to participate meaningfully in the work force. Overcoming this challenge requires the adoption of a life-cycle approach. This includes improving girls’ access to basic education; overcoming logistic, economic and cultural barriers to apprenticeships and to secondary and vocational training for young women; and meeting the training needs of women re-entering the labour market and of older women who have not had equal access to opportunities for lifelong learning.
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Research papers
Working papers, reports, and other publications from international organizations, academic institutions and bilateral agencies. Research findings to stimulate informed debate on skills, employment and productivity issues.
• To increase the overall female employment rate by providing indirect incentives to work.
• To provide policy makers with vital information through the research on the current situation of which this research forms part, of women in Malta and Gozo.
These objectives were, in turn, broken down into four specific objectives, namely:
• To understand the jobs/skills match and the inactive population in order to ensure employability;
• To create a need for businesses to become ‘certified equal opportunities employers’, to have a family-friendly environment at the work place;
• To incentivise the inactive to the labour market through better work arrangements available;
• And to further promote the need for a work/life balance both for men and women.
This report has been designed and published as part of this same project. It brings together all the components of the project and the activities that were held as part of the same constituents.
Gender
Gender and development
Globalization
Inclusion
Women
Europe and Central Asia
