The project “Social dialogue and gender equality: Empowering education trade unions to address gender equality in the teaching profession through social dialogue” aims to provide education trade unions with concrete tools and practices to address the challenges of gender inequality through enhanced social dialogue in the education sector at national, regional and local level.

Advisory Group

  • Rosella Benedetti UIL-Scuola Italy
  • Alexandra Cornea FSLE Romania
  • Ute Foit VBE Germany
  • Gabriella Tønnesen BUPL Denmark
  • Alexandra Bojanic SNUipp France
  • Inga Puisa FLESTU Lithuania

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The Closing Conference, which took place in Bucharest on 16-17 September in the Parliamentary Palace of Romania, concluded the project and provided opportunities to discuss burning issues of gender inequality in the education sector, and share practical tools to address it. In particular, Conference participants explored ways to introduce the gender equality aspect in social dialogue and collective bargaining with employers. Representatives of ETUCE member organisations from 29 European countries debated with European policymakers and gender equality experts, addressing such significant issues as gender stereotypes, sexism and the lack of teacher initial training on gender equality, as well as suggested solutions for speeding up Europe’s progress towards gender equality. At the Good Practices Fair, participants also shared their union’s work on promoting gender equality in the teaching profession and in society as a whole. Furthermore, during interactive working group sessions, participants had fruitful discussions which validated the updated ETUCE Gender Equality Action Plan.

Report  - Background document – Presentations (General Presentation - Researchers Presentation) – Pictures