MaureenByrne
Dr.Byrne Wg-USA; NY Rep GWI 2021 Equal Pay Day Forum Nicole Faux; Dr. C. Nicole Mason; Leah Rambo; Scher Khawaja; Gloria Middleton PowHer NY National Taskforce on Trades CWA Union President of 1180 Women in power and decision-making, Women and the economy, Human rights of women, Education and training of women, Institutional mechanisms SDG 1 – No Poverty, SDG 2 – Zero Hunger, SDG5 – Gender Equality, SDG8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, SDG 10 – Reduced Inequality Young Members (2016), Sexual Health and Reproduction Education (2019), Women and STEM (2019), Sexual Harassment in Workplace (2019) Gave specific steps that can be taken to get women into good paying jobs/ training/ fighting discrimination in the work place. Specific to NY and USA but could be a model for other nations. Dr. C. Nicole Mason – Women have lost 4x as many jobs as men during COVID. Many of these jobs are low paying and lack benefits. Many were primary breadwinners in their families. Need a national childcare structure – no family would pay more than 7% of their income for childcare. Leah Rambo – President of her Local Sheet Metal Workers Union. Asked why women should enter the trades she responded, "Why wouldn't they? The pay and benefits are excellent. They provide women a path out of poverty. It allows them the financial freedom to move out of toxic relationships. No training required before they begin their apprenticeship. " Their are obstacles- cultural, patriarchal. One major one is that you need to be at the job by 6:30 am or 7:00 am -leave home at 5:30 am – how do you find daycare? The Sheet Metals Union put their money where their mouth is. They changed their constitution adding penalties for bullying/discrimination/harassment. Recruitment and retention is vital – go to schools, gyms, churches. Provide mentorships. If Biden's Infrastructure plan goes through, there will be nontraditional jobs for women. Scher Khawaja – The Title VII Act prohibits pay discrimination based on gender if doing "substantially similar work". Law is insufficient – employers have justifications not related to gender; women afraid of retaliation; many women can't find out what the men make in income. Need pay transparency laws, especially in the private sector. R86529 and S5598 are NYS pay disclosure bills in the NYS legislature. All employers would have to disclose salary, benefits, bonus etc to existing workers. Would need to report pay equity data by gender and race. Prohibits retaliation and allows for lawsuits if women get harmed. This law could have a transformative effect on all workers. Gloria Middleton – sued the...
ElisabethFrancis
Ms.Francis VAÖ Austria Side Event – Shifting masculine norms to promote women’s economic empowerment Mon 22 Mar 9:00 – 10:30 OECD Development Centre, Austrian Development Cooperation Women in power and decision-making, Women and the economy, Human rights of women, Education and training of women, Violence against women SDG4 – Quality Education, SDG5 – Gender Equality, SDG8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG16 – Peace and Justice Strong Institutions Bullying (2016), Harassment (2016), Sexual Harassment in Workplace (2019) Restrictive masculinity / gender norms can significantly impact women's lives, empowerment, gender equality. It is important that these social norms and practices are well recognised by the general public. The underlying perceptions and opinions in the public and private spheres matter in terms of gender equality and need to be understood and addressed. Here in Austria, we can follow up with the Austrian Development Cooperation, one of the Side Event's sponsors. – Main theme – 'Some masculinities stand in the way of women’s economic empowerment and must be urgently addressed'. – The event launched the OECD Development Centre’s new publication, “Man Enough? Measuring Masculine Norms to Promote Women’s Empowerment”. This discusses the ways restrictive masculinities hamper women’s empowerment and emphasises the need for data to support gender-transformative policy making. – The panel discussed the ways policy makers and NGOs can promote gender-equitable masculine norms. Speakers included Gary Barker of Promundo-US, an NGO with offices in Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and USA, that work to promote caring, non-violent and equitable masculinities and gender relations; Marlon Bascombe of CariMAN, the regional representative in the Caribbean of the MenEngage Global Alliance; Juanita Lopez, Colombia, who talked inter alia about the gender aspects of the Colombian National Development Plan and the programs established such as a Fund for Women, Families in Action. They gave excellent examples as to the issues, what must be achieved and what can be done: the need to work on gender relations, working with families, boys and girls, women and men: Breaking up the idea of the 'real man', 'get men to see their mistakenness' (G. Barker). Evidence shows that men with more egalitarian views are healthier and happier men. The importance of early childhood intervention was emphasised by the speaker from India. To build forward better and achieve a culture of equality, the right policies must be in place. The Report gives various suggestions that can help change attitudes which hinder women's empowerment and equality. These are valid in all countries. Awareness raising; support for data gathering / tracking the proposed indicators; evidenced based approach to policies promoting gender equality; need to address these issues in schools –...
KameliaAssenova
Prof.Assenova Bulgarian association of University Women Women's Economic Empowerment – A Holistic View of Women's Economic Participation, Side event, 22 March Saudi Arabia Women and the economy, Education and training of women SDG4 – Quality Education, SDG5 – Gender Equality Women and STEM (2019) The role of women in the process of economic recovery and development increases during the time of crisis as COVID19 pandemic. At the same time, the gender stereotyping consists of beliefs and attitudes that create different expectations for individuals based on their gender and can lead to biases, including on the labour market. The main challenge for women is abusing of this gender bias and takes part in on equal base in economic development improving an empowerment of women. The event showed the cases of increasing women empowerment in Arabic region with the aim to achieve economic progress. The protection of women rights on the labour market is main factor for increasing economic empowerment of women. On this market the processes are bilateral. From one side, the high economic growth leads to strong protection of women rights. From other side, more active participation of women in the economy supports to be used all human recourses and to be produced higher Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Main measurements for participation on labour market – primary condition on this market – education, degree of active participation on this market – rate of unemployment and the valuation of women activities on this market – income. The education of women depends on the economic growth in the countries. On other side, when there is an economic growth, the disposal public resources for education as a part of GDP are increased. The education give knowledge and skills for successful participation on labour market. According the information gave on the session 60% of postgraduate students in Saudi Arabia are women. The digitalization and new technology requires more women to study STEM. The women in our region are so good educated and the rate of women with upper secondary school in Central and Eastern Europe are 74,23%.The main challenge for women is abusing of this gender bias and takes part in on equal base in the economy. it necessary to reduced pay gap for equal work. The measures to increase economic empowerment of women; • Changes in law; • Women leadership positions; • Equal access to education; • Equal payment by unemployment; • Equal payment for equal...
KameliaAssenova
Prof.Assenova Bulgarian association of University Women Women and Corruption Parallel event, 19 march WUNRN Graduate Women International Women in power and decision-making, Women and the economy, Institutional mechanisms SDG5 – Gender Equality, SDG 10 – Reduced Inequality Harassment (2016) The findings of the Global Corruption Barometer survey show that economic development, corruption and public health are three most important problems that the governments should address in the countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Balkans. The negative effects of corruption have a greater impact on women's lives. They can also escalate gender inequality that already exists within society, which creates additional obstacles for women's access to resources, services and opportunities. Gender and corruption according Jennifer Bradford may be defined in public and in private sectors. In the public sector it is required equal payment for equal work. It was presented so interesting practice – audit finds not equal payment for women and man by the projects financed with public recourses and have been terminated this agreements. According Prof. Lena Wangnerud, higher participation of women in local councils leads to lower level of corruption. It is possible to identify several private sectors’ areas in which corruption can find gender differences: • access to basic services, markets and loans; • involvement in the political live; • human rights violations; • consequences of ineffective management. Gender can also be a factor in business corruption, which affects business opportunities, the access of companies to markets and resources, and cooperation with the regulatory authorities. There are numerous indications that female entrepreneurs face barriers when look for loans and that it can be more difficult for them to obtain permits and licenses to start their own business. The region of CEE and Balkans need more transparency in public and private sectors and more effective management of all resources. Anti-corruption measures should include a number of transparent recommendations, which promise to bring about positive inter-sectorial results: • using of gender-disaggregated data in the planning of activities, determination of the system of basic indicators and target indicators of monitoring, and evaluation of the effectiveness of implemented activities ; • conducting targeted studies to fill the existing information gaps on gender aspects of corruption ; • using of gender analysis in identifying problematic issues in anticorruption policy ; • ensuring gender balance among members of anticorruption bodies to better take into account the interests and needs of both women and...
KameliaAssenova
Prof.Assenova Bulgarian association of University Women Advancing Women Leadership in Public Finance – side event 17 march International Budget partnership Women in power and decision-making SDG5 – Gender Equality Building Peace through Women’s Education (2019) The financial resources in Bulgaria and Balkans countries are limited. The fiscal policy is restrictive. It do not permit fully to be financed the payments by unemployment of women, social protection and s.o. We need more effective management of public finance. The participation of women in decision-making support the achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. It will more important during recovery of economy from the COVID-19 pandemic. The participation of women by allocation of financial recourses and distribution of the budget would make these activities more effective . On 1 January 2021, only 11% of countries in the world had financial ministers – women. What you need for gender equity in public finance: • Public management for gender equity; • Support of institutions; • Women leadership; • Gender oriented budget. In session participated women leaders from Costa Rica, India, Morocco and Rwanda representing finance ministries, supreme audit institutions. They presented barriers and stereotyping overcome for more active participations of women in decision making process in Public finance. Effective management of public resources; Women participation by distribution of national and local budgets. The budget procedure has several stages: • identification of needs • preparation of programs • funding of the programs • getting results The participation of women leaders to present the female point of view will make this process effective and will overcome gender...
