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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At the 1.5-day training workshop that took place on 28-29 March 2019 in Munich, Germany, more than 25 participants, representing Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom had the opportunity to exchange with fellow trade unionists on pertinent matters of gender equality such as horizontal and vertical segregation in the education sector, work-life balance challenges, gender pay and pension gaps in the teaching profession and gender-based violence in the workplace through a mixture of panel discussions, presentations, working groups and practical exercises. Participants provided examples of actions undertaken within their respective unions to address gender inequality using social dialogue instruments, such as establishing a gender equality department within trade unions, engaging staff dedicated to gender equality policy, introducing quotas to ensure greater representation of women in decision-making positions, and setting up a women’s organising forum to promote female engagement in the union.

Héctor Cebolla Boado, Research expert of Population Europe, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, spoke about the feminisation of the teaching profession and showed that economic governance has a strong impact on gender equality in the education sector while there is no difference in self-efficacy between the genders.

Report - Background document – Presentations (General Presentation - Background Research - AOb - OAJ - TUI - NUT - NASUWT - DOE - UNED) -  Pictures