European Trade Union Committee for Education

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

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

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