Who, What, Where HIGHLIGHT – Ageing and Gender
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Who, What, Where HIGHLIGHT – Ageing and Gender
APRIL 2014 Volume 123 Who, What, Where 6 April International Day of Sport for Development and Peace 7 April World Health Day 22 April International Mother Earth Day 28 April World Day for Safety and Health at Work HIGHLIGHT – Ageing and Gender Ageing is not only a biological factor, but has strong social and economic components. Inequalities do not disappear, sometimes they are stressed or even exacerbated by the passing of time. This month's focus collects a number thinkpiece describes the results of the CogitoStudy, now published by the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy on a confirmed higher productivity of older workers. An article on lifestyles and middle age, including a witty checklist of the of articles that will provide you with "top 40 signs of getting on" follows. more insights on the gender aspects Last but not least, read a male of ageing. The first article features an perspective on ageing on pages 28& interesting study on Afghan older 29. women and introduces a lifespectrum approach. The second APRIL 2014 Volume 123 Who, What, Where ...............................................................................................................................1 6 April International Day of Sport for Development and Peace ............................................. 1 7 April World Health Day ................................................................................................... 1 22 April International Mother Earth Day .............................................................................. 1 28 April World Day for Safety and Health at Work ................................................................ 1 HIGHLIGHT – Ageing and Gender ......................................................................................................1 The Centre and the ILO.......................................................................................................................4 Interview with Sara Falcão Casaca ....................................................................................... 4 Summer School on Gender Economics and Society - ITCILO Campus, Turin, Italy - 7 – 11 July 2014.................................................................................................................................. 5 ILO Global Business and Disability Network and Better Work ................................................ 7 ILO Lisbon celebrates IWD 2014 with a focus on the relationship between Portugal and ILO during the 1970 decade! .................................................................................................... 7 UN & WOMEN ......................................................................................................................................8 Women of the UN Working to Make a Difference .................................................................. 8 UNESCO ............................................................................................................................. 8 Imaging Equality: Your Voices on Women’s Human Rights ................................................... 9 What's new on the web.................................................................................................................... 10 Women in business: le nouveau portail de l'entrepreneuriat féminin à Bruxelles ................. 10 Gender Equality, Women’s Rights and Women’s Priorities: Recommendations for the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Post-2015 Development Agenda 10 African Women’s Decade 2010-2020 ................................................................................ 11 European Commission's programme of exchange of good practice on gender equality ....... 11 An In-depth Look At The Funding Landscape For Women’s Rights And The Powerful Impact Of Resources In The Hands Of Women’s Organizations ...................................................... 12 Maroc: lancement d’un portail dédié à l’égalité de genre ................................................... 13 What are they doing? ....................................................................................................................... 14 Une femme commissaire pour la première fois en Afghanistan .......................................... 14 Les ABC de l’égalité. ......................................................................................................... 14 ALBANIA - SWORN VIRGINS - FEMALES AT EARLY AGE TAKE ON MALE SOCIAL IDENTITY FOR LIFE.................................................................................................................................. 15 No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project - Women & Girls ................................................ 16 NONPROFIT CHALLENGES - WHAT FOUNDATIONS CAN DO ................................................ 17 EGYPT - FIRST WOMAN ELECTED TO LEAD MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY ................................... 18 Gender Issues ................................................................................................................................... 19 Stéréotypes ...................................................................................................................... 19 UK PROJECT BASED IN FIVE PRIMARY SCHOOLS ABOUT GENDER STEREOTYPES .................... 19 Focus on – Gender and Ageing....................................................................................................... 20 EMPOWERMENT OF AGEING WOMEN .................................................................................. 20 Study: Older employees are more productive than younger ones ........................................ 25 International Training Centre of the ILO 2 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 Relax...you’re not middle-aged until 53 ............................................................................ 26 Inequalities, health and well-being ................................................................................... 28 The European Male Ageing Study ...................................................................................... 29 On-going and/or coming Gender Programmes/ Conferences / Events: ................................... 30 Next Generation Women Leader ........................................................................................ 30 12th edition of the European Business Summit .................................................................. 30 Grants/Funding opportunities/Awards/Fellowships/ .................................................................. 30 Vacancies .......................................................................................................................................... 30 Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women, IFC To Raise Up To $600 Million to Support Women Entrepreneurs .................................................................................................................. 30 EDGE Funders Alliance ...................................................................................................... 32 Post-doctoral researcher (3-year 100%) ............................................................................ 32 Post-doctoral researcher (3-year 100%) ............................................................................ 33 PhD researcher (4 year 100%)............................................................................................ 33 One Year Replacement Teaching Position in Gender and Literature/Cultural Studies ........... 33 Call for Teaching Portfolios for Visiting Lecturer Positions in the Near Future ..................... 34 Torna La Nuvola Rosa per colmare il divario di genere in Italia ........................................... 34 THE ITALIAN CORNER...................................................................................................................... 35 Le donne dell’India ........................................................................................................... 35 Poets’ Corner .................................................................................................................................... 38 DOLORES ......................................................................................................................... 38 Quote for the Day:............................................................................................................................ 39 JUST FOR FUN: .................................................................................................................................. 40 International Training Centre of the ILO 3 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 The Centre and the ILO Interview with Sara Falcão Casaca Professor of Sociology at the Lisbon School of Economics & Management, and resource person for the Centre’s activity on “Gender and organizational change”, 31.3-4.4.14 Your background is as a researcher on gender relations in the labour market, new forms of work organization, gender and well‐being, and work and employment flexibility. Can you tell us a little more about this work? This is indeed my main area of research. I am a sociologist and teach at the School of Economics and Management at the University of Lisbon, so my specialization is in areas that have some relation to the core academic work of my own institution. My PhD was in Economics and Organizational Sociology. In 2000, when I started the process, I decided to analyse the key dynamics in the Portuguese labour market from a gender perspective. Portugal is really fertile ground to explore gender issues. Female participation in employment is relatively high, much higher than in other southern European countries. Participation rates are significantly high when women working on a largely full-time basis become mothers and have small children. However, the welfare state benefits they received specifically at that time in terms of childcare facilities were very low (and it is still below family needs). The dominant models of work International Training Centre of the ILO organization are far from being family-friendly (except in some exceptional cases), and most women are still the ones bearing the burden for caring and domestic activities. Therefore, the well-being of women is very much affected by these multifaceted dimensions of their lives. Moreover, the quality of their employment is very low, and the trend towards greater labour market flexibility has given rise to new forms of labour segmentation across gender lines too. This means that, despite their overqualification compared to men and high levels of labour market participation, they are found in the most precarious occupations that are less challenging, lower paid, and in less protected jobs. These are the issues I have been exploring, and the gender-sensitive perspective has always been there… Full text available on the Centre’s website in: English http://www.itcilo.org/en/com munity/news/interview-sara-falcao Français http://www.itcilo.org/fr/com munity/news/intervies/?set_language =fr Português http://www.itcilo.org/pt/c ommunity/noticias/entrevista-com- 4 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 a-sra-sara-falcaocasaca?set_language=pt Español http://www.itcilo.org/es/com munity/news/entrevista-con-la-srasara-falcao-casaca?set_language=es Italiano http://www.itcilo.org/it/com unita/notizie/intervista-a-sarafalcao-casaca/?set_language=it Summer School on Gender Economics and Society - ITCILO Campus, Turin, Italy - 7 – 11 July 2014 There is now a widespread recognition of the importance of gender strategies in order to promote growth and development and to improve welfare systems. This is reflected in the increasing importance both of gender-based programmes aimed at strengthening women’s participation in economic life, in politics and in institutions, and in the progress of theoretical analysis as well as of indicators for monitoring and evaluating these programmes. The course will focus on the gender dimensions of the economy and their different impacts on society and will have an interdisciplinary approach. Programme Information International Training Centre of the ILO Target: Master and Phd Students in Economics, Sociology, Politics, Demography, Management Engineering and related disciplines, from both European and nonEuropean Countries. Maximum number of students: 50. 10-15% of places will be reserved for non-students involved in research work and mentoring. Course length: One week. Course structure: The course will be organized in: morning lectures; afternoon sessions (devoted to seminars, case studies, best practices and experiences) and late afternoon poster sessions. 5 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 A more detailed programme will be available by mid-April on the course website at: http://gendercampus.itcilo.org/summerschool Fees: Participants are required to partially contribute to the course costs with a fee of 200 € for students and of 400 € for nonstudents. The fee will cover course material, lunches, coffee breaks and a social dinner. Participants will have to cover their costs for travel and accommodation in student residences (at reasonable rates). Grants (total and partial) will be available. Certificate of attendance: provided at the end of the course. Applications: will open on April 14th, 2014 and close on May 12th, 2014. The application form can be accessed on-line at: http://appgender.itcilo.org/index.php?mod=ac tivity_ iscription&act=detail&id=159 Accepted participants will be notified by the end of May. Programme Abstract Lectures will cover a variety of topics - analyzed from a gender perspective - such as: labour force participation; family planning; retirement decisions; savings and portfolio decisions; financial education and planning; financial communication and language; timeuse; pay gap; glass ceiling; gender responsive budgeting; equality and International Training Centre of the ILO wellbeing indicators; diversity management; political participation; migration issues. The course will include both academic sessions and case studies. Speakers will have a key role experience in public administrations and private sectors, such as Ministries, European Commission, Bank of Italy and the private sector. Keynote Speakers • Viviane Reding (European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship) - Invited • Emma Bonino (former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy) • Elsa Fornero (Professor of Economics, University of Turin, former Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Italy) Confirmed Speakers • Francesca Bettio (University of Siena) • Magda Bianco (Banca d’Italia) • Daniela Del Boca (University of Turin) • Maria Laura Di Tommaso (University of Turin) • Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto) • Letizia Mencarini (University of Turin) • Flore-Anne Messy (OECD) • Laura Montanaro (Polytechnic of Turin) • Maria Franca Norese (Polytechnic of Turin) • Marina Nuciari (University of Turin) • Henriette Prast (Tilburg University) • Annalisa Rosselli (University of Rome Tor Vergata) 6 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 • Mariacristina Rossi (University of Turin) • Chiara Saraceno (Collegio Carlo Alberto) • Eva Sierminska (CEPS/INSTEAD) • Alessandra Venturini (University of Turin) Concept and Design Elsa Fornero, Letizia Mariacristina Rossi Mencarini, Organizing Committee • Elsa Fornero, Letizia Mencarini, Marina Nuciari, Mariacristina Rossi (University of Turin) • Simonetta Cavazza, Benedetta Magri (ITCILO) • Laura Montanaro (Polytechnic of Turin) • Mario Calabresi (La Stampa) Organisational Support • Claudia Fuggiaschi (ITCILO) • Silvia Maero and Beatrice Magistro (Collegio Carlo Alberto) ILO Global Business and Disability Network and Better Work The ILO Global Business and Disability Network and Better Work have produced an awareness raising animation about the business case for employing people with disabilities (entitled The Ability Factor). Original: http://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=o0lt0KFhUek (French and Spanish subtitles available) AD Version: http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=mktLKnQb47M ILO Lisbon celebrates IWD 2014 with a focus on the relationship between Portugal and ILO during the 1970 decade! Relações Portugal-OIT: promoção do estatuto das mulheres é uma das iniciativas do projeto Portugal-OIT dinâmicas de uma relação, que assinala a relação quase centenária entre Portugal e a Organização Internacional do Trabalho. Este ano, a OIT-Lisboa assinala o Dia Internacional da Mulher (8 de março), disponibilizando elementos significativos dessa relação. International Training Centre of the ILO A seleção de documentos que aqui destacamos ilustram a dinâmica de um país que, após a revolução, vê aprovar um conjunto de medidas legislativas com um impacto acentuado no estatuto das mulheres portuguesas. http://www.ilo.org/public/portugue/region/eurpro /lisbon/html/portugal_dia_mulher_pt_2014.htm 7 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 UN & WOMEN Women of the UN Working to Make a Difference The Secretariat has produced a short promotional outreach video, "Women of the UN Working to Make a Difference" to attract women to apply to positions at the P-5 and above levels, and for difficult-to-fill positions in our field operations as well as in aviation, engineering, security. This video serves to raise awareness about the UN through a female lens and is in all 6 official languages. Link to the UN Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=df6Fs6Gh3aQ&list=UU5O11 4-PQNYkurlTg6hekZw UNESCO On the occasion of the International Women’s Day (IWD) on the March 8, UNESCO joins forces with international and regional partners to launch the annual Women Make the News (WMN) initiative. The theme this year is “Advancing Global International Training Centre of the ILO Partnerships to Achieving Gender Equality in and through Media.” “Advancing Global Partnerships to Achieving Gender Equality in and through Media.” 8 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 Imaging Equality: Your Voices on Women’s Human Rights http://community.globalfundforwomen.org/o/6174/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1286291 Calling all artists, photographers & writers! We are thrilled to announce our latest call for submissions for our upcoming project "Imagining Equality: Your Voices on Women's Human Rights." What is equality to you? Submit your work and share this opportunity with your friends » As the UN prepares to create a new set of international development goals, we want your voices and ideas to spark a global conversation about a new decade for women's human rights. What issues should be at the forefront as we imagine a new future for the world's women? Submissions of photography, video, audio, journalism, creative writing and more are accepted online through April 30th, 2014. Be part of this extraordinary and important conversation. Submit your work online today » International Training Centre of the ILO 9 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 What's new on the web Women in business: le nouveau portail de l'entrepreneuriat féminin à Bruxelles Une série de mesures d’encouragement, d’accompagnement et de soutien à la création et au développement d’activité par des femmes entrepreneures, existent. Vous trouverez ici une description de toutes ces initiatives. Le portail vous propose également un aperçu d’études et de documents intéressants sur le sujet de l’entrepreneuriat féminin ainsi qu’une sélection d’actualités et d’événements. Enfin, vous pouvez vous laisser inspirer par des réussites d’entrepreneures témoignant de la dynamique féminine. Source : womeninbusiness.be Read more Gender Equality, Women’s Rights and Women’s Priorities: Recommendations for the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Post-2015 Development Agenda Direct Page to Full 133-Page 2013 Publication: http://www.womenrio20.org/docs/Womens_priorities_SDG.pdf International Training Centre of the ILO 10 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 African Women’s Decade 2010-2020 Direct Link to Full 120-Page 2014 Report: http://www.makeeverywomancount.org/images/stories/documents/MEWC_AWDR eport_Feb2013.pdf European Commission's programme of exchange of good practice on gender equality The European Commission's programme of exchange of good practice on gender equality aims at disseminating good practice on gender equality in Europe. For this purpose, three exchange seminars are organised each year, focusing on the key priority areas of the Strategy for equality between women and men 2010-2015. The programme provides an opportunity for the stimulation of debate and exchange of experience International Training Centre of the ILO between governmental representatives, independent experts and other relevant stakeholders from across Europe. The independent experts taking part in the seminars are requested to write a short paper describing the situation in their countries in relation to the seminar theme. These papers – as well as a comprehensive summary report of each seminar – are available here. 11 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 An In-depth Look At The Funding Landscape For Women’s Rights And The Powerful Impact Of Resources In The Hands Of Women’s Organizations AWID’s new research provides an indepth analysis of the current funding trends and actors impacting women’s rights organizing, the financial status of women’s organizations around the world, and the collective impact of women’s rights organizations, when supported in a meaningful and strategic way, to build women’s collective power for change and advance women’s rights. Watering the Leaves, Starving the Roots paints the funding landscape for women’s organizations, underlining key trends and offering an updated analysis of how diverse funding sectors are supporting women’s rights and gender equality. For the first time, this third report in our FundHer series also includes results from an in-depth survey of 43 women’s funds as well as findings from the 2011 FundHer survey of more than 1000 women’s organizations from all regions of the world. One of the trends discussed in Watering the Leaves, Starving the Roots is the growing role and impact of “new actors,” including corporate sector actors, in supporting women and girls. Given the significance and prominence of this trend, we undertook expanded research, profiled in New Actors, New Money, New Conversations: A Mapping of Recent Initiatives for Women and Girls. This mapping illuminates key characteristics of 170 different partnership initiatives focused on women and girls. The report provides a preliminary analysis of opportunities, and potential challenges that many of these initiatives may International Training Centre of the ILO encounter to create sustainable positive change in the lives of women and girls. The report also discusses considerations for forging “new conversations” with new actors going forward. Finally, one of the questions we often hear in response to our research on funding trends for women’s organizations is, “Why does support for women’s organizations matter; isn’t it enough to support women’s empowerment through other kinds of organizations?” Women Moving Mountains, our survey of the aggregate impact of the women’s organizations that received support from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs MDG3 Fund, responds to this question by demonstrating the kind of huge reach and transformative changes that are possible when organizations working to build women’s collective power for change receive significant, strategic resources. The MDG3 Fund experience holds lessons for other funders in terms of effective, quality approaches to creating change for gender equality; as well as lessons for women’s organizations, in the power of collectively “making our case” for sustainable long-term funding. It is our hope that the information, ideas and analysis in these reports contribute to catalyzing more and new conversations on the effective use of financial and other resources for advancing women’s rights and the crucial role and importance of women’s rights organizations in that process. We encourage and welcome feedback and questions at [email protected]. 12 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 Watering the Download Read Leaves, Starving thePDF Online Roots: The Status of Financing for Women's Rights Organizing and Gender Equality By Angelika Arutyunova and Cindy Clark New Actors, New Money, New Conversations: A Mapping of Recent Initiatives for Women and Girls Download Read PDF Online Arutyunova, and Cindy Clark Women Moving Download Read Mountains: PDF Online The Collective Impact of the Dutch MDG3 Fund By Srilatha Batliwala http://awid.org/Library/Beyond-investing-inwomen-and-girls-An-in-depth-look-at-the-fundinglandscape-for-women-s-rights-and-the-powerfulimpact-of-resources-in-the-hands-of-women-sorganizations By Julia Miller, Angelika Maroc: lancement d’un portail dédié à l’égalité de genre La plateforme web www.egalite.ma, lancée, à Rabat, par l’ambassade du Royaume des Pays-Bas au Maroc et l’ONU Femmes, vise notamment à renforcer et valoriser les luttes et les acquis de l’action féminine afin de promouvoir l’égalité hommesfemmes. Ce nouveau dispositif, se veut, selon ses initiateurs, un portail national de référence dans le domaine de l’égalité de genre et un outil important de plaidoyer en faveur de la redevabilité des pouvoirs publics en matière de protection et de promotion des droits humains des femmes, tel qu’en dispose la nouvelle Constitution du Maroc. S’exprimant lors de la conférence de presse pour le lancement du site, l’ambassadeur des Pays-Bas au International Training Centre of the ILO Maroc, Ron Strikker a salué l’engagement constant de SM le Roi Mohammed VI à faire du développement de la femme un chantier prioritaire dans la réalisation du progrès et l’harmonisation du pays. Le Maroc a fait d’énormes progrès dans le domaine des droits de la femme, comme en témoignent largement les réformes constitutionnelles de ces dernières années, a affirmé le diplomate néerlandais, ajoutant que le lancement de ce portail s’inscrit dans le cadre de la coopération et des relations amicales liant les Pays-Bas et le Maroc. Pour sa part, la représentante de l’ONU Femmes Maghreb au Maroc, Mme Leila Rhiwi a indiqué que le 13 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 lancement du site Egalité.ma s’inscrit dans le cadre de la stratégie de l’ONU femmes visant à rendre accessible au plus large public les connaissances accumulées dans le domaine de l’égalité entre les sexes, à faciliter les plateformes d’échanges et à préserver la mémoire des savoirs produits par le mouvement des droits des femmes. http://www.maghrebemergent.com/a ctualite/breves/filmaghreb/item/35657-maroclancement-d-un-portail-dedie-a-legalite-de-genre.html What are they doing? Une femme commissaire pour la première fois en Afghanistan Elle accède à un poste jamais obtenu par une femme auparavant dans ce pays. Djamila Bayaz, 50 ans est devenue commissaire de police en Afghanistan, le 14 janvier. Jusqu’à cette promotion inédite, cette mère de cinq enfants travaillait au sein d’une brigade d’intervention criminelle chargée de traquer les contrebandiers. Djamila Bayaz, nommée par le ministère de l’Intérieur afghan, dirige désormais un district de la police à Kaboul, le poste le plus élevé possible pour une policière afghane. «Tous les regards sont braqués sur moi. Je suis très optimiste sur l’impact positif que ça aura, affirmait l’intéressée peu après sa nomination. http://www.leparisien.fr/ international/une-femmecommissaire-pour-la-premiere-foisen-afghanistan-23-01-20143520937.php Les ABC de l’égalité. http://femmes.gouv.fr/abcd-de-legalite-face-aux-rumeurs-retablissez-la-verite/ International Training Centre of the ILO 14 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 ALBANIA - SWORN VIRGINS - FEMALES AT EARLY AGE TAKE ON MALE SOCIAL IDENTITY FOR LIFE "Sworn Virgin" is the term given to a biological female in the Balkans, as in Albania, who has chosen, usually at an early age, to take on the social identity of a man for life. As a tradition dating back hundreds of years, this was sometimes necessary in a society that lived within tribal clans, followed the Kanun, an archaic code of law, and maintained an oppressive rule over the female gender. The Kanun states that women are the property of their husbands. The freedom to vote, drive, conduct business, earn money, drink, smoke, swear, own a gun or wear pants was traditionally the exclusive province of men. Young girls were commonly forced into arranged marriages, often with much older men in distant villages. A family suddenly without a International Training Centre of the ILO patriarch or male heir would find themselves in jeopardy of losing everything.As an alternative, becoming a Sworn Virgin, or ‘burnesha” elevated a woman to the status of a man and granted her all the rights and privileges of the male population. In order to manifest the transition such a woman cut her hair, donned male clothing and sometimes even changed her name. Male gestures and swaggers were practiced until they became second nature. Most importantly of all, she took a vow of celibacy to remain chaste for life. She became a “he”. This practice continues today but as modernization inches toward the small villages, this archaic tradition is increasingly seen as obsolete. Only a few aging Sworn Virgins 15 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 remain.” http://www.jillpetersphotography.com/s http://www.demilked.com/burnesha-albanian- wornvirginsofalbania sworn-virgins-women-who-live-as-men-jill-peters/ No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project - Women & Girls http://www.clintonfoundation.org/our-work/no-ceilings-full-participation-project No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project is an effort led by Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Clinton Foundation to bring together partner organizations to evaluate and share the progress women and girls have made in the 20 years since the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. This new effort will help chart the path forward to accelerate full participation for women and girls in the 21st century. The full participation of women and girls is critical to global progress, development, and security. Guiding Principles We're all in this together. Nothing truly happens unless a life is changed. No one has all the answers, but we can bring together the people who can find them. Results you can measure are the only results that matter. International Training Centre of the ILO Empowerment is liberating and lifechanging. There is always a way to be faster, leaner, and better. The greatest good is helping people live their best life story. Background In 1995, at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, 189 nations agreed to an ambitious Platform for Action that called for the “full and equal participation of women in political, civil, economic, social and cultural life.” At this conference, Secretary Clinton memorably declared that “human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all.” Nearly twenty years later, progress has been made. The gender gap in primary education has closed. More women hold jobs and serve in public office. In many countries, laws that once permitted unequal treatment of women and girls have been replaced 16 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 by laws that recognize their equality. And a powerful new current of grassroots activism enabled by new technologies is giving voice to women and girls around the world. Yet, for all of this progress, women and girls still comprise the majority of the world’s unhealthy, unfed, and unpaid. Hard-won rights and legal protections remain elusive on the ground. Advancing the status of women and girls remains the unfinished business of our time. The Project To understand where we need to go, we need to know what we’ve achieved. The No Ceilings project will work with leading technology partners to create a comprehensive and accessible global review that will bring together and widely distribute the best data on the status of women and girls and their contributions to prosperity and security. Advocates, academics and leaders will be able to see the gains we’ve made, as well as the gaps that remain, and access and share this information across platforms in order to design reforms and drive real change. The project will also feature stories from women and girls around the world. Through the No Ceilings project, Secretary Clinton will also outline a 21st century agenda to accelerate full participation for women and girls around the world. The project will convene the private sector, government, civil society, and individuals to accelerate progress toward this agenda. NONPROFIT CHALLENGES - WHAT FOUNDATIONS CAN DO The Center for Effective Philanthropy http://www.effectivephilanthropy.org/about/ Foundations can take on pressing challenges that other actors in society cannot, or will not. Given this unique opportunity, foundations have a moral imperative to maximize their effectiveness. Living up to that International Training Centre of the ILO imperative requires foundations to assess their performance, gathering the relevant data to fuel continuous improvement. Direct Link to Full 24-Page 2013 Report: http://www.effectivephilanthropy.org/wpcontent/uploads/2014/01/NonprofitChallenges.pdf 17 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 EGYPT - FIRST WOMAN ELECTED TO LEAD MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY The 59-year-old has become the first woman and Copt/Christian to serve as the president of a major political party Hala Shukrallah won the liberal Constitution Party's elections on Friday to succeed Mohamed ElBaradei as the party's president. Shukrallah won 108 out of 189 votes to become the first woman and Copt to head an Egyptian political party. Hala Shukrallah was born in 1954. She is the director of the Development Support Center for consultancy and training, a consultancy firm providing support and assistance to civil society organizations. Shukrallah's opponents, former TV host Gamila Ismail and physician Hossam Abdel-Ghafar - both also founding members - won 57 and 23 votes respectively. Two votes were spoilt. ElBaradei resigned as party head when he was appointed vice president following the ouster of Mohamed Morsi on 3 July. He resigned this post to register his objection to the violent International Training Centre of the ILO dispersal of the pro-Morsi Rabaa AlAdawiya protest camp which left hundreds dead. ElBaradei posted on Twitter on Friday, encouraging the youth and calling on them to stay united against "ignorance, extremism and oppression.” Party member Sayed Kassem has been acting as interim head since July. The party has seen public divisions and mass resignations since its founding head resigned. Many members resigned as the party came under fire for El-Baradei's opposition to the violent dispersal of Rabaa. Another major dispute was over the appointment, rather than election, of the party's current senior leaders. The party attracted support of a number of young revolutionaries when it was founded by ElBaradei in 2011 after the revolution. http://english.ahram.org. eg/NewsContent/1/64/94894/Egypt/ Politics-/BREAKING-Hala-Shukrallahsucceeds-ElBaradei-as-hea.aspx 18 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 Gender Issues Stéréotypes Les stéréotypes, c’est pas moi, c’est les autres ! La nouvelle publication du Laboratoire de l’égalité doit permettre à chacun et chacune de prendre conscience des stéréotypes, les débusquer et contribuer à limiter leurs effets. Elle est l’aboutissement des travaux des ateliers réunis par le Laboratoire de l’égalité en 2013, qui ont mené une réflexion sur les inégalités et les stéréotypes dans l’éducation, au travail et dans les médias. www.laboratoiredelegalite.org/spip.p hp?action=acceder_document&arg=3 39&cle=fdd692fd0a9f1e193361ac70 efedd8dc0b5dd6d4&file=pdf%2FLes_ stereotypes_c_est_pas_moi_c_est_les_ autres_-_Laboratoire_de_l_egalite__nov_2013.pdf UK PROJECT BASED IN FIVE PRIMARY SCHOOLS ABOUT GENDER STEREOTYPES NUT - National Union of Teachers UK The NUT worked for two years with five primary schools to consider how ‘traditional’ gender stereotypes could be challenged in nursery and primary classrooms. The project quickly acquired the name Breaking the Mould. The five schools were provided with support and training. International Training Centre of the ILO Direct Link to Full 32-Page Publication: http://www.teachers.org.uk/files/ster eotypes-stop.pdf 19 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 Focus on – Gender and Ageing EMPOWERMENT OF AGEING WOMEN Massouda Jalal, Founding Chairperson of Jalal Foundation and Former Minister of Women, Afghanistan I. IMPERATIVES OF EMPOWERING THE WORLD’S AGEING WOMEN Recent population statistics assert the imperatives of empowering ageing women all over the world. Among other trends, data show a sharp upward direction in the growth of older women’s population globally; and at a speed that is faster than commensurate growths in other age groups. The United Nations Fund for Population (UNFPA) predicts that in the next 10 years, the number of people over age 60 and above will surpass one billion. For the AsiaPacific region including South Asia, the population of older people is predicted to triple from 453 million in 2012 to 1.26 billion by 2050. During such period, it is estimated that one in every four people in the region will be over 60 years old. More importantly, the same data shows that women constitute 53.5 percent of the population aged 60 or older in the region. As the age go higher, the proportion of ageing women to men also increases. At present, women already represent 61 percent of the “oldest old” or 80 years and older age group [1]. This trend, which also holds true for other regions of the world, shows that ageing has already taken a feminized trend. Confronted with a International Training Centre of the ILO near future that will increasingly be populated by ageing women, we need to think strategically as early as we can in order that our future older women could continue to have meaningful influence and contributions to our families, communities, and countries. II. DEFINING A FRAMEWORK FOR THE EMPOWERMENT OF AGEING WOMEN IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: The MIPAA and a Life-spectrum Approach 1. Women-specific empowerment provisions MIPAA or the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and its Political Declaration may be considered as the major springboards in defining a framework for the empowerment of ageing women globally. These international policy instruments were adopted in April 2002 by 159 governments. Their priority directions are: (1) older persons and development, (2) advancing health and well-being into old age, and (3) ensuring enabling and supportive environments. They put emphasis on the role of governments in “promoting, providing and ensuring access to basic social services, bearing in mind 20 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 specific needs of older persons”. [2] More importantly, Article 5 of the Political Declaration states that, “We reaffirm the commitment to spare no effort to promote democracy, strengthen the rule of law and promote gender equality…”. MIPAA also provides that “Older women outnumber older men, increasingly so as age increases. The situation of older women everywhere must be a priority for policy action. Recognizing the differential impact of ageing on women and men is integral in ensuring full equality between women and men and to the development of effective and efficient measures to address the issue. It is therefore critical to ensure the integration of a gender perspective into all policies, programs, and legislation”. [3] These provisions serve as guiding principles to governments and international agencies in ensuring that the differential needs of women and men are analyzed and taken into account in the design and implementation of policies and actions for their older population. 2. Opportunities from the review of MIPAA implementation The implementation of MIPAA has been under review in the recent years. The result of the review provides vital information and insights that are crucial to the empowerment of ageing women in various regions of the world. Captured in the UNFPA report entitled, “Ageing in the 21st Century: A Celebration and A Challenge”, the findings provide evidences on the differential impacts of ageing for women and men. For the Asia-Pacific region, including South Asia, the International Training Centre of the ILO report pointed out that “older women are more vulnerable to poverty than older men due to a combination of disadvantage throughout their lives, including lower educational levels, limited participation in the formal sectors, and the continued reliance on women in many societies to provide unpaid care giving and other work.” The review process also created opportunities that are important in widening the advocacy for ageing women. Among the many opportunities created during the regional review was the adoption of resolution 67/5 by Member States of the Economic Commission on Asia and the Pacific in May 2011 which calls for the full and effective implementation of the MIPAA in the region and the incorporation of a gender perspective into all policy actions on ageing and strengthen the empowerment and legal protection of older people, in particular of older women. [4] Likewise, the MIPAA review in the Asia-Pacific region noted commendable achievements which could serve as strong foundations in furthering the empowerment of ageing women. For example: at least 21 countries have already introduced national policies on older persons; 12 countries have established special bodies on ageing within ministries; and several countries have made progress in improving social protection and care for older people, such as Republic of Korea’s Second Basic Plan on Low Fertility and ageing society which 21 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 pointed to the need to develop a policy on employment that can tap into the professional knowledge and skills of older women as well as on the expansion of pension rights for older women. Among the general recommendations of the region, the need to support older women in their role as primary caregivers, address their health condition and reduce their vulnerability to poverty, social isolation and violence and abuse were highlighted. The recommendations also called for the collection and analysis of data that are disaggregated by sex, disability, and economic status as well as age. 3. Other possibilities to empower ageing women through MIPAA In addition to the above mentioned gains, it is extremely important to flesh out in detail the gender dimensions of all other actions that have been proposed in the general recommendations to empower the ageing population in the Asia-Pacific region. Below are examples of actions that we could advocate to further promote the empowerment of ageing women within the context of the recommendations for MIPAA implementation in the region: National mechanisms on ageing - State Members should ensure that their national mechanisms for the promotion of ageing persons are equipped with capacity for gender sensitive policy making, implementation, monitoring and budgeting. A regional program may be initiated to train key staff of national mechanisms on ageing in this regard. An on-line International Training Centre of the ILO introductory, interactive, didactic and self-paced e-course on the empowerment of the ageing women may also be made available to them. Gender responsiveness and empowerment of ageing women should be explicitly reflected in the mandate and functions of such mechanisms and in the job description of staff, especially the decision makers and senior technical officials. Older people’s associations – In supporting the development of older peoples’ associations and community mechanisms for hearing the voices of older people, attention should be given to proportionate representation of ageing women in the management and leadership of such bodies as well as their equal participation in community activities and decision making. Comprehensive and universal protection systems – A system for the valuation of care-giving within the household should be studied with the end-view of developing a scheme to provide social protection to family members who are engaged in the provision of unpaid care to other family members. Governments should also consider implementing a home-visit program for older people who live alone, such as parents of overseas workers, to ensure that they are able to meet contingencies in life through proper referral, information, and support in regularly communicating with relatives, especially during crises. 22 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 4. A life-spectrum approach Ageing is another layer of the many factors that already bear down upon the status of women in society. I believe that in conceptualizing a framework for the empowerment of older women, we need to pay very close attention to these age-related factors, not only during the older years, but throughout women’s life spectrum. For this reason, we should not only think of what we can do within the framework of MIPAA. We should also consider the importance of the many activities that are already going on in the field of gender equality and the empowerment of girl children, female adolescents and women in general. Within such initiatives, we need to incorporate an ageing perspective to ensure that the female population is able to acquire the skills, support systems, knowledge, and status that they need to lead the increasingly ageing population of the future. Women who were born in 1990, for example, are only 23 years old today but they are the first generation of women to jump into the 1.26 billion mark of ageing women in the AsiaPacific region by 2050. Right now, they are preoccupied with living their life as young adults without realizing that they have the potential and responsibility to serve as the pilot generation for older women’s leadership in the next 37 years. We could target them as a primary group to carry the torch and serve as model of how women should be, as ageing people. We need such a model generation to demonstrate to the rest of the women and to the society in International Training Centre of the ILO general an entirely transformed vision of ageing women – from being treated as used, worn out, useless, burden, dependent, and weak to being looked up to for wisdom, strength, inspiration, and power. Within this age group, we could ignite a strong awareness of the scenario predicted by population statistics. We should inspire them to embrace a new vision that will make ageing a positive destination that women should look forward to, rather than fear, deny or avoid. Among Hollywood women, there is a trend which says that “40 is the new 20” in terms of looks. We could also make 60 as the new 30, not in terms of looks but in terms of a life-stage of increased autonomy, empowerment, productivity, leadership and selffulfillment as women. There are so many more strategic actions that we could do to add an ageing perspective into our interventions for girl children, female adults, women, and even their male counterparts. For example, interactions could be deliberately promoted among associations of girl children and female senior citizens to enable girl children to learn from older women’s experience and encourage them to enlist in the new vision of ageing for women. We could also train older women and promote their appointment into governing boards of NGOs for female adolescent. We could also call upon all our networks to examine their current efforts on women’s empowerment and gender equality to determine ways of incorporating a perspective on older women’s 23 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 empowerment into their programs and projects. The possibilities are many and exciting. And their potential outreach and impacts are enormous. 5. Lobbying for an International Convention for Older People Given the imperatives of promoting the empowerment of ageing women all over the world, the region should support the global campaign to adopt an international convention for older people. The implementation of MIPAA demonstrated that while an international Plan of Action is helpful, it is not enough. Although there have been positive gains in the past, the absence of MIPAA’s binding effect may have been a factor for its tepid implementation in some countries. According to HelpAge, unprecedented demographic ageing means that the number of people who may experience age discrimination and violation of their rights in old age is likely to increase. The adoption of an international convention on the rights of older people is therefore necessary because it would: • provide a definitive, universal position that age discrimination and ageism are morally and legally unacceptable, • provide clarity on governments' human rights obligations towards older people, • create an enforceable monitoring mechanism to hold those in authority to account for their actions towards older people, International Training Centre of the ILO • put age discrimination and older people's rights higher up on governments', donors' and NGOs' agendas, and • encourage a shift in attitude from older people being considered recipients of welfare to rights holders with responsibilities [5]. In this connection, women’s organizations like ours can launch a campaign in our respective countries to support the regional and global initiatives towards an international convention on the rights of older people. We could engage the media to educate our people to prepare for the worrisome scenario that is predicted by statistics on world population. We can even talk to our governments and send lobby letters to the concerned bodies of the United Nations to strengthen the international lobbying on this matter. We can also forge alliances around this agenda, sign an online petition, and get all our networks to do the same. We can do many things and we should do them right away. In the meantime, the good practices of other countries in empowering ageing women should be documented and disseminated regionally and internationally so that countries like mine could learn and draw inspiration from them. CONCLUSION Paradoxically, while we know that ageing is an inevitable course of life, we still live our younger years without sufficient regard for our needs when we reach our older years. Some 24 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 people continue to deny that they are already ageing unless the diminishing efficiency of their body functions tells them so. Some people even live as if they are not going to grow old. But even in a country that is constantly battered by war like Afghanistan, where people do not expect to live beyond the present, we still see a substantial proportion of older population – proof of the fact that ageing is here to stay and whether we like it or not, we are growing older every day. This conference is an important step in getting the issue of ageing and the importance of empowering women into the realm of our consciousness. Ageing is not something to avoid or deny, but something to prepare for. Empowerment of women is one way to do so. While we still have enough opportunities to create for them an empowering life during their twilight years, the most effective measures should begin when they are still young. Thus, the empowerment of ageing women cannot be divorced from the empowerment of the female population across their life spectrum. En enabling environment that empower and support female members of society to attain autonomy, raise their voice, make decisions, access and control resources, and constantly interact with people and institutions throughout their lifetime is one of the most effective strategies we should continue. This way, we can transform the older years into a stage of life that women could look forward to not with anxiety or fear – but with anticipation of self-fulfillment, peace of mind, and greater appreciation of life. Study: Older employees are more productive than younger ones Older people are, on average, more reliable and more productive than younger people. This is one of the most surprising results of the CogitoStudy, which has now been published by the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy. A team of researchers from Berlin, Frankfurt and Stockholm examined the mental performance of 200 individuals over a period of 100 days. Half of the group was 20 to 31 years of age, the other half was older than 60 years. On a daily basis, the participants’ speed of perception, their memory retention and working memory was tested in repeating sessions with different exercises. International Training Centre of the ILO The study examined tasks in nine different categories and in all these areas older participants were more stable in their results than younger ones, while showing lower average levels of performance. The analysis confirms that older people can rely on a rich source of experience and hence draw upon a whole set of strategies to solve a variety of tasks. Moreover, self-reports show that older people display higher levels of motivation and don’t suffer from regular moodiness as younger people do. “Just like others, this study is intriguing for Diversity experts as it both dissolves some deep-rooted assumptions about diversity and 25 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 explains others”, Diversity guru Michael Stuber says. Other results of the research, cited as the largest study to date in the field of brain training, are of interest to both employers and employees and might actually lead to a better use of potential in future. First of all, the brain – unlike postulated in other studies – can actually improve through regular training. In addition, the study notes that mental powers fluctuate quite often, mostly, however, during a work day rather than between two. Thus, personal impressions of a very good or very poor working day can often be misleading: Productive and less productive phases are distributed throughout the day and differ individually. In this respect, younger employees showed more fluctuation than their older peers. Employers wanting to boost the productivity of their different age groups will have to consider individual peaks and valleys, encouraging individual time planning. Another study of the Max Planck Institute in the automotive industry showed “that older employees make significantly less heavy mistakes incurring high costs than their younger colleagues”, Axel BörschSupan, Director of the Center for the Economics of Aging, reports. Higher productivity was confirmed by other studies in a number of different industries, he adds. In total, older employees are confirmed as a valuable and cost-effective asset for employers. This should result in an enhanced appreciation of older generations in the workplace, including specific ways to motivate them to continue to participate in training courses and educational programmes, and avoiding that their professional development comes to a halt. EMEA DiversityNews 50 Autumn 2013 Relax...you’re not middle-aged until 53 Attitudes towards middle age are changing fast – and most people do not believe it strikes until 53 on average, researchers have found. Rising life expectancy and healthier lifestyles mean the average person no longer expects to feel they are going downhill in their 40s. People also said they notice less difference between age groups these days, with social media and lives increasingly led online contributing to International Training Centre of the ILO the blurring of divisions between young and old. In fact 53 per cent of Britons in a survey of 2,000 men and women said they do not even believe middle age exists anymore. But the research, commissioned by Benenden Health, came up with a familiar top 40 signs of approaching middle age. People listed frustration with modern technology as the top sign of ageing, 26 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 followed by a tendency not to have a clue what young ¬people are talking about. Aching joints, needing naps, hating noisy pubs, not knowing what is in the charts and choosing clothes for comfort over style were also on the list, printed in full on the right. As ever, thinking policemen look young and taking a comforting flask of tea when you go out are seen as sure signs of middle age. Paul Keenan, communications chief at Benenden Health, said: “Britons are happily skipping over traditional notions of middle age. It’s a term with less significance and is no longer a numerical milestone. A variety of factors are involved, including more active lifestyles. “It’s clear that what age you are has become less important in determining how young you feel. “Being old appears to be a state of mind rather than being a specific age.” Eight in ten people polled agreed that the term middle age is much harder to define now than it used to be. The same number think it is mostly a state of mind. Among over-50s, 43 per cent felt they had not experienced middle age yet. Nearly three quarters said there was less of a divide between the age groups than in the past, with improved health care seen as the main reason. Illness and memory loss were named as the threats people fear most in growing old. But a massive 84 per cent of those surveyed were of the International Training Centre of the ILO belief that if you think of yourself as old, you will naturally start to feel old. Paul Keenan admitted: “I’m 54, with the mindset of a 30-something – and sometimes of a teenager!" TOP 40 SIGNS OF GETTING ON 1. Losing touch with everyday technology such as tablets and TVs 2. Finding you have no idea what 'young people' are talking about 3. Feeling stiff 4. Needing an afternoon nap 5. Groaning when you bend down 6. Not remembering the name of any modern bands 7. Talking a lot about your joints/ailments 8. Hating noisy pubs 9. Getting more hairy - ears, eyebrows, nose and face 10. Thinking policemen/teachers/doctors look really young 11. Preferring a night in with a board game than a night on the town 12. You don't know any songs in the top 10 13. Choosing clothes and shoes for comfort rather than style 14. Taking a flask of tea on a day out 15. Obsessive gardening or bird feeding 16. Thinking there is nothing wrong with wearing an anorak 17. Forgetting people's names 18. Booking on to a cruise 27 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 19. Misplacing your glasses/bag/car keys etc. 31. You get shocked by how racy music videos are 20. Complaining about the rubbish on television these days 32. Taking a keen interest in the garden 21. Gasping for a cup of tea 33. Buying travel sweets for the car 22. Getting bed socks for Christmas and being very grateful 34. Considering going on a 'no children' cruise for a holiday 23. Taking a keen interest in The Antiques Road Show 35. When you know your alcohol limit 24. When you start complaining about more things 36. Obsessively recycling/knowing the collection dates 25. Listening to the Archers 37. Always carrying a handy pack of tissues 26. You move from Radio 1 to Radio 2 38. Falling asleep after one glass of wine 27. Joining the National Trust 39. Spending more money on face creams/anti-ageing products 28. Being told off for politically incorrect opinions 29. Flogging the family car for something sportier 30. When you can't lose six pounds in two days anymore 40. Preferring a Sunday walk to a lie in http://www.express.co.uk/news/heal th/425087/Relax-you-re-notmiddle-aged-until-53 Inequalities, health and well-being Inequalities in later life Race and ethnicity Global health, development and ageing Resilience Public health and epidemiology Legal, ethical and political aspects of ageing International Training Centre of the ILO http://www.micra.manchester.ac.uk/r esearch/themes/inequalities-healthwell-being/ 28 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 The European Male Ageing Study Prevalence, Incidence and Geographical Distribution of Symptoms of Ageing in Men, and Their Endocrine, Genetic and Psychosocial Correlates This is the largest ever study of ageing in men in the world and intends to identify the nature and frequency of some of the symptoms of ageing in men, the relationships between these symptoms to hormonal changes and other risk factors . In total, 3200 men in 8 different countries in Europe are taking part in the study. These 8 centres are Manchester - UK, Malmo - Sweden, Tartu - Estonia, Lodz - Poland, Szeged - Hungary, Florence - Italy, Santiago de Compostela - Spain, Leuven - Belgium. In each centre, 400 men aged between 40 and 79 years at the start of the study have been recruited. They will be followed up to look for future changes in their hormonal and general health status. The men will be investigated initially on two occasions, at the start and then 5 years later. It is highly likely that the study will continue beyond 5 years and further testing will be organised subsequently. The study intends to identify and measure the differences in the symptoms and disabilities associated with ageing in men from various regions in Europe. It will also help clarify whether there is a clinical International Training Centre of the ILO condition specific to the ageing male similar to the female menopause. Ageing is the major global healthcare challenge of the 21st century due to the increasing average life expectancy and the concomitant burden of degenerative diseases, frailty, mood disturbances and disabilities/ dependency in a rapidly expanding elderly population worldwide In women, symptoms and clinical consequence of ageing - related changes in hormone levels (in particular oestradiol) during and after the menopause are well documented In men, there is good evidence that many hormones, e.g. testosterone (especially free testosterone), dehydroepiandrosterone and growth hormone, decline progressively with age after the fourth decade. The exact relationships, however, between falling levels of circulating hormones in elderly men and the ageing-related symptoms, morbidity and health outcomes are unclear There is an urgent need for multidisciplinary observational population studies to document the development of ageing-related changes in health status in elderly men and investigate their relationships with hormonal decline and other potential predisposing risk factors. http://www.emas.man.ac.uk/main.as p 29 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 On-going and/or coming Gender Programmes/ Conferences / Events: Next Generation Women Leader McKinsey & Company invites female students and experienced professionals across Europe and the Middle East to be inspired and make a difference! http://www.next-generationwomen.mckinsey.com/ 12th edition of the European Business Summit Brussels, 14-15 May To register. http://www.ebsummit.eu/subscription.php Grants/Funding opportunities/Awards/Fellowships/ Vacancies Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women, IFC To Raise Up To $600 Million to Support Women Entrepreneurs Announcing joint partnership to create The Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity Facility, the first-ever global finance facility dedicated exclusively to women-owned small and medium-sized enterprises that will enable approximately 100,000 women to access capital. Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS), and Jim Yong Kim, International Training Centre of the ILO President of the World Bank Group, today announced a partnership to increase access to capital for women 30 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 entrepreneurs. The partnership, which deepens 10,000 Women’s commitment to women entrepreneurs, will aim to spur lending in developing countries through the first-ever global finance facility for women-owned small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity Facility will be seeded by the Goldman Sachs Foundation and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and will raise up to $600 million in capital through investments from additional public and private co-investors to enable approximately 100,000 women entrepreneurs to access capital. Goldman Sachs and The Goldman Sachs Foundation will also continue to operate its business and management education program. “Through the experiences of 10,000 Women graduates, we have seen, first-hand, that investing in women leads to economic growth and job creation, but there is clearly more that can be done to unlock the potential of women-owned businesses” said Lloyd C. Blankfein. “By partnering with IFC, we will address one of the biggest obstacles to growth for women-owned small and medium-sized businesses – access to capital.” “This new initiative will create opportunities for tens of thousands of female entrepreneurs to thrive and prosper,” World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said. “At the World Bank Group, we are committed to providing opportunities to aid women as leaders, business owners, employees, and stakeholders. We cannot afford to International Training Centre of the ILO exclude half of the world’s population from their rightful role in helping to change the face of the global economy.” A wide range of surveys show access to credit is the biggest constraint on growth for all SMEs and womenowned businesses face an even larger credit gap than their male counterparts. IFC estimates that about 70% of women-owned SMEs in developing countries are either unserved or underserved by financial institutions, resulting in an estimated $285 billion credit gap for womenowned SMEs. Goldman Sachs has released new research, Giving Credit Where It Is Due, which demonstrates increasing female access to capital can have a tangible impact on per capita income, particularly in developing and emerging markets. According to the report, if the credit gap is closed by 2020, by 2030 incomes per capita could be on average around 12% higher across the BRICs and Next 11 countries, relative to our baseline scenario. This gain could be as large as 25-28% for Brazil and Vietnam, where the credit gaps in the formal SME sectors are currently widest. Through this partnership, The Goldman Sachs Foundation and IFC will work with local banks in developing countries to catalyze existing capital for women-owned SMEs by addressing barriers in the lending market. http://www.goldmansachs.com/citize nship/10000women/news-andevents/10000women-ifc.html 31 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 EDGE Funders Alliance Mission EDGE Funders Alliance addresses the systemic nature of the social, economic and ecological crises threatening the future of our planet. By supporting reflection and collaboration among members and forging strategic partnerships in and outside philanthropy, EDGE works to increase resources for community well-being and transnational organizing in ways that promote justice and build lasting, meaningful change. Goals Inspire, mobilize and organize funders in support of community empowerment, grassroots organizing, civil society advocacy and movementbuilding to advance deep, meaningful and lasting change; Build connections and forge strategic partnerships among a diverse set of grantmakers and others within philanthropy, as well as with community leaders and social movement actors around the world; Facilitate peer learning, research and reflection on models and approaches to improve the impact of grantmaking that helps reduce structural inequities and power disparities between and within societies at local, national and international levels. http://www.edgefunders.org/mission -values/ Post-doctoral researcher (3-year 100%) Vrije Universiteit Brussel, RHEA Centre of Expertise Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality Délai: 15.04.2014 RHEA is a multi-disciplinary and interfaculty research group devoted to fundamental and applied research about gender and especially gender inequality and its interactions with other sources of inequality. Half of your time is devoted to conducting research in broad domain of intersectionality. You also International Training Centre of the ILO participate in national and international conferences and networks and publish widely and high level on your research topic. The other half of your time is devoted to assisting the Director in the coordination of RHEA’s key tasks. https://www.gendercampus.ch/fr/akt uell/stellen#168 32 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 Post-doctoral researcher (3-year 100%) Vrije Universiteit Brussel, RHEA Centre of Expertise Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality Délai: 15.04.2014 You conduct research within the scope of the Strategic Research Programme, and more precisely within one of the Programme’s work packages. You also participate in national and international conferences and networks and publish widely and high level onyour research topic. You seek to establish synergies between the research projects running within the Strategic Research Programme. You seek to increase the academic and societal visibility of the projects running under the Strategic Research Programme. You actively seek to secure extra funds for research within the scope of the Strategic Research Programme. https://www.gendercampus.ch/fr/akt uell/stellen#169 PhD researcher (4 year 100%) Vrije Universiteit Brussel, RHEA Centre of Expertise Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality Délai: 15.04.2014 You conduct a doctoral research within the scope of the Strategic Research Programme, and more precisely within one of the Programme’s work packages. You also participate in national and international conferences and publish on your research topic. https://www.gendercampus.ch/fr/akt uell/stellen#170 One Year Replacement Teaching Position in Gender and Literature/Cultural Studies Central European University, Budapest Délai: 25.04.2014 The successful candidate will also be expected to supervise several MA students in thesis research and writing. For this post we envision a scholar at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. We are looking for quality scholarship as evidenced through publications, demonstrated teaching experience in gender studies or relevant fields, and an ability to teach across disciplinary boundaries. The term of appointment is from 1 International Training Centre of the ILO September 2014 to 30 June, 2015; teaching terms are 12 weeks each; most teaching is concentrated in the Fall and Winter terms while Spring term is mostly dedicated to MA thesis writing. Remuneration will be commensurate with experience within budgetary limits, and subject to Hungarian taxation. https://www.gendercampus.ch/fr/akt uell/stellen#156 33 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 Call for Teaching Portfolios for Visiting Lecturer Positions in the Near Future Central European University, Budapest Délai: 25.04.2014 Candidates at any level will be considered as long as they have a completed PhD degree by the time they would teach. We are looking for quality scholarship as evidenced through publications, demonstrated teaching experience in gender studies or relevant fields, and an ability to teach across disciplinary boundaries. In terms of course topics, we welcome proposals for courses with a focus on gender and/or sexuality that complement our current curriculum but may also consider those that duplicate current offerings in cases where faculty members go on leave. Fields in which we anticipate a need for temporary staff include film theory, feminist philosophy, religion, and policy related topics, but we welcome proposals for courses in other fields as well. https://www.gendercampus.ch/fr/akt uell/stellen#157 Torna La Nuvola Rosa per colmare il divario di genere in Italia Il progetto si impegna a valorizzare il talento tecnico-scientifico delle ragazze: le iscrizioni sono aperte online Cinquecento ragazze dai 17 ai 24 anni potranno seguire gratuitamente oltre 30 corsi suddivisi in 6 percorsi tematici che si avvalgono del contributo di oltre 50 relatori e della collaborazione di 14 partner italiani e non: questi i primi numeri della seconda edizione della Nuvola Rosa, l’iniziativa ideata da Microsoft Italia per sensibilizzare le giovani studentesse italiane sulla necessità di colmare il divario di genere nella scienza, nella tecnologia e nella ricerca. Realizzata con la collaborazione del Dipartimento per le Pari Opportunità della Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri e dell’Università La Sapienza, Microsoft Italia organizzerà La Nuvola Rosa a Roma dal 22 al 24 aprile con il International Training Centre of the ILO contributo di 4 partner fondamentali: Asus, Avanade, Intel e Telecom Italia. Il progetto si avvale della partnership dell’associazione Valore D, da sempre impegnata nella valorizzazione del talento femminile. Come lo scorso anno, La Nuvola Rosa si conferma un progetto di ampio respiro internazionale, grazie al supporto delle più importanti istituzioni a livello mondiale come UN WOMEN, l’Entità delle Nazioni Unite per l’Uguaglianza di Genere e l’Empowerment Femminile, UnRic, ITU e Unesco, i cui rappresentanti saranno presenti a Roma nei giorni dell’evento. L’evento si avvale anche della collaborazione di Fondazione Adecco, Fondazione Cariplo, Junior 34 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 Achievement, Fondazione Mondo Digitale. I numeri sono chiari, oltre il 42% dei ragazzi tra i 15 e i 24 anni non ha lavoro e l’Italia resta fanalino di coda in Europa in particolare per quanto riguarda l’occupazione femminile, con solo il 46,5% delle donne che lavorano. A fronte di ciò in Europa risultano tuttora disponibili 449mila posizioni nel mondo del digitale che si prevede che nel 2020 saranno comprese tra 730 mila e 1,35 milioni: in questo contesto emerge sempre più come la formazione tecnico scientifica possa giocare un ruolo chiave nella ricerca di lavoro, soprattutto per quanto riguarda le donne. E’ qui che si inserisce la Nuvola Rosa, giunta alla seconda edizione, e che, rispetto all’anno passato, vede un’attenzione ancora maggiore all’aspetto della formazione, con un aumento dei training e delle opportunità lavorative disponibili per le ragazze partecipanti. L’edizione 2014 della Nuvola Rosa riparte con il lancio della nuova piattaforma digitale www.lanuvolarosa.it in cui è possibile registrarsi e da cui si possono scaricare informazioni, ricerche, video e testimonianze di personalità del mondo delle imprese, della scienza e della società civile a sostegno della formazione tecnico-scientifica delle ragazze italiane. Grazie alla partnership con Telecom Italia, La Nuvola Rosa diventa un evento collettivo aperto al pubblico del web: un ricco palinsesto di contenuti verrà trasmesso in streaming live e on demand su lanuvolarosa.it e telecomitalia.com/lanuvolarosa . THE ITALIAN CORNER Le donne dell’India Di Anna Masera per “La Stampa” Immagine del fotografo indiano Sri Kolari Bangalore è la capitale dell’informatica, ma molto spesso l’altra faccia della medaglia dello sviluppo è lo sfruttamento e la povertà. E sono proprio le donne, con International Training Centre of the ILO coraggio e costanza, a battersi contro emarginazione e miseria. Con l’aiuto di una Ong come ActionAid Shanta Marry ci offre il té nella baracca della sua vicina, Danavalli, e 35 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 circondata da un folto gruppo di altre compagne di sventure ci racconta la sua storia. È una donna Dalit, la casta più bassa, quella degli Intoccabili. E’ stata scacciata dallo slum Enjipura nel quartiere Koramangala di Bangalore, in cui viveva con la sua famiglia dalle guardie pagate dalla Maverick Holdings, che ha acquisito quel terreno non si sa come (c’è un’indagine in corso) per costruirci un centro commerciale. Gli slum sono baraccopoli che accolgono i poveri in cerca di lavoro nelle megalopoli dei Paesi in via di sviluppo. Sono miseri, ma in India sono protetti dalla legge, sebbene siano pochi a saperlo fra i loro abitanti. “Un giorno all’alba sono arrivati con le scavatrici e hanno raso al suolo la mia abitazione assieme a centinaia di altre, piene di donne, vecchi e bambini, senza pietà, con il benestare della polizia” racconta Shanta. Quando ha protestato è stata arrestata, rinchiusa in isolamento per un giorno e una notte picchiata da uomini mascherati. Quando è stata liberata il marito l’ha lasciata, pensando che fosse stata violentata: oltre al danno, la beffa ed è la norma, per queste donne. Gli stupri e i femminicidi sono nei notiziari regolarmente ormai, in stridente contrasto con le notizie dei passi da gigante che l’India fa verso lo sviluppo, la crescita economica e la modernità: le donne qui -soprattutto quelle appartenenti alle caste più povere e alla cultura contadina devono ancora conquistare il diritto all’uguaglianza e alla parità di trattamento fra i sessi. Fanno una vita durissima, in un mondo antico che osserva ancora costumi medievali nonostante il boom della tecnologia e International Training Centre of the ILO la globalizzazione. Ma grazie al mix di organizzazioni locali e aiuti da onlus internazionali come ActionAid, è tempo di “empowerment”, emancipazione. Rimasta madre sola a proteggere sè stessa e la sua bambina, Shanta non si è persa d’animo. Ha deciso di battersi e ha organizzato una vera e propria resistenza con le altre compagne evacuate dallo slum. Adesso vive accampata con la figlia sul ciglio della stessa strada, ma sul marciapiede opposto, in una tenda improvvisata, senza acqua nè gabinetto. Dove un tempo sorgeva la sua dimora adesso c’è un cartello con la scritta: “No trespassing”. Ha esposto denuncia alla polizia. Per tutta risposta hanno prelevato sua figlia da scuola e per farla rilasciare l’hanno costretta a ritirare la denuncia. Poichè non si è arresa, sono tornati di notte - sempre mascherati - a picchiarla, stavano per ammazzarla di botte, si è salvata richiamando attenzione della gente con le grida. Gli aggressori si sono dileguati. Per quanto, non si sa. Ma le proteste di donne come lei sono riuscite intanto a fermare i lavori per il centro commerciale, le gru che sovrastano il loro piccolo accampamento nel traffico di Bangalore sono ferme. Quella di Shanta è una delle tante storie di donne coraggiose che abbiamo incontrato nel corso di una visita organizzata da ActionAid Italia con ActionAid India lo scorso dicembre. Donne che vivono nella miseria urbana o contadine, come le Dalit residenti del villaggio Jungwad del distretto Belgaum del Kernataka, 36 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 che si sentono fortunate quando possono zappare la terra dieci ore di fila per poco più di un euro al giorno. “Il 77% degli indiani vive con meno di un dollaro al giorno e lotta per la propria sopravvivenza” spiega Kshithij Urs, ex sindacalista dirigente locale della onlus ActionAid a Bangalore, capoluogo del Kernataka noto nel mondo per essere la “Silicon Valley” dell’India, capitale dell’Hi-Tech. “Non chiamatela così, a Bangalore si produce per l’Occidente sulla pelle del nostro popolo” ribatte snocciolando citazioni e cifre documentate. Urs fa parte della borghesia illuminata dell’India, e ha fatto della causa dei poveri del suo Paese la sua missione. ActionAid è la Ong internazionale che aiuta le comunità di poveri nel mondo a emanciparsi, a conoscere e far valere i propri diritti, a battersi per il rispetto della propria dignità. Non elargisce elemosina, ma grazie alle donazioni dei sostenitori a distanza collabora con i sindacati, le associazioni locali, spesso composte interamente da donne, quando è necessario procura avvocati per combattere le ingiustizie, la violenza, la corruzione. “A volte ci sembra di svuotare il mare con il cucchiaino, ma da qualche parte bisogna cominciare se vogliamo l’emancipazione: combattiamo la povertà perché porta con sé emarginazione e mancanza d’istruzione, di occupazione e di servizi di base, problemi di salute, disparità tra i sessi. Quasi il 50 per cento degli affamati del mondo vive in India” ci spiega Urs. “Quasi la metà delle donne indiane è analfabeta. International Training Centre of the ILO Quasi 136 mila donne muoiono durante la gravidanza o il parto ogni anno. Nelle zone rurali, sono poche le donne che hanno sentito parlare di Aids e non conoscendo la malattia non hanno alcuna possibilità di difendersi e prevenirla. Nove donne incinte su dieci, di età compresa tra i 15 ei 49 anni, soffrono di malnutrizione e anemia. Più della metà dei bambini sotto i cinque anni è malnutrita. Oltre la metà dei bambini indiani abbandona la scuola prima dei 14 anni. L’India ha il più alto numero di bambini lavoratori sotto i 14 anni di età”. Un quadro drammatico dovuto soprattutto alla mancanza di accesso della popolazione ai propri diritti fondamentali. E sebbene siano centinaia di milioni le persone bisognose (”meno di 40 persone in India guadagnano tanto quanto 850 milioni e detengono il potere” sottolinea Urs), mentre quelle finora raggiunte da ActionAid sono “solo” qualche milione, in India abbiamo avuto la possibilità di vedere e toccare con mano i tanti cambiamenti avvenuti nella vita delle persone, donne e bambine in particolare, grazie alla presenza da oltre vent’anni di un’organizzazione come questa: ActionAid lavora in India dal 1972 e raggiunge 6 milioni di persone. “Lavoriamo in oltre 40 zone dell’India, dalle baraccopoli, ai margini delle grandi città, ai villaggi rurali più remoti”. Quello che sembra funzionare di questa onlus è il suo sostegno ai gruppi di auto-aiuto. Per esempio Surya Ranjini, sindacalista fondatrice dell’organizzazione Nisarga nel 37 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 distretto Chittoor dell’Andhra Pradesh, collabora con ActionAid per ottenere il riconoscimento dei diritti delle comunità Dalit e tribali nelle campagne: ma a chiedere al governo locale il rispetto delle leggi che prevedono diritto al lavoro alla sanità e allo studio con sussidi e facilitazioni per tutte le famiglie ci vanno loro, le donne Dalit e le capo tribù: grazie agli incontri con ActionAid si sono emancipate e hanno imparato a farsi valere. “Siamo al fianco di donne e bambini per dare loro la possibilità di diventare cittadini attivi e consapevoli dei loro diritti. Ci impegniamo affinché il governo renda funzionanti e accessibili i programmi statali per il sostentamento delle famiglie, tra cui quello che regolamenta la proprietà della terra” ci spiega Surya. “Vogliamo migliorare la disponibilità di cibo informando le persone dei sussidi statali esistenti, come le pensioni di anzianità, di cui la gente, in modo particolare le donne, non è a conoscenza. Sosteniamo i contadini per garantire loro l’accesso alle risorse naturali facilitando la diffusione delle informazioni sulle leggi per il diritto alla terra grazie alla traduzione delle norme nella lingua nativa. In tutte le nostre attività le donne hanno un ruolo di rilievo. Lavoriamo per sradicare la discriminazione di genere intervenendo in primo luogo contro la violenza sulle donne grazie alla creazione, in ogni stazione di polizia, di uffici dedicati alla raccolta delle denuncie da parte di personale qualificato. Ci impegniamo affinché venga affermato il diritto alla terra ed in particolare che le comunità e le famiglie riconoscano il diritto alla proprietà delle case e dei terreni per le donne rimaste sole”. L’emancipazione delle donne comincia con la garanzia della loro salute e della loro sicurezza. Poi c’è il diritto all’istruzione e al lavoro. Mentre il diritto a scegliersi il partner resta ancora un miraggio: resta il dramma delle spose bambine come Gangamma, data in matrimonio a due anni allo zio di 13. Per non parlare delle bambine vendute dai padri e poi costrette a una vita da schiave del sesso.”La strada da percorrere è ancora lunga, ma prima o poi ce la faremo. We shall overcome” e Surya sorride, mentre le contadine che la circondano smettono di zappare e per salutarci cantano, come un tempo facevano le nostre mondine. Poets’ Corner DOLORES Hoje me deu tristeza, sofri três tipos de medo acrescidos do fato irreversível: não sou mais jovem. Discuti política, feminismo, International Training Centre of the ILO 38 APRIL 2014 Volume 123 a pertinência da reforma penal, mas ao fim dos assuntos tirava do bolso meu caquinho de espelho e enchia os olhos de lágrimas: não sou mais jovem. As ciências não me deram socorro, nem tenho por definitivo consolo o respeito dos moços. Fui no Livro Sagrado buscar perdão pra minha carne soberba e lá estava escrito: "Foi pela fé que também Sara, apesar da idade avançada, se tornou capaz de ter uma descendência..." Se alguém me fixasse, insisti ainda, num quadro, numa poesia... e fossem objeto de beleza os meus músculos frouxos... Mas não quero. Exijo a sorte comum das mulheres nos tanques, das que jamais verão seu nome impresso e no entanto sustentam os pilares do mundo, porque mesmo viúvas dignas não recusam casamento, antes acham o sexo agradável, condição para a normal alegria de amarrar uma tira no cabelo e varrer a casa de manhã. Uma tal esperança imploro a Deus. 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