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  Women at Home, in the Workplace and Beyond
... Cenetral European Alliance for Womens
Empowerment International Conference in Honor
of the Hungarian and Polish EU
Presidency Budapest, 29 September, 2011

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• Europe cannot afford to leave talent untapped
• empowering the role of women in busienss,
• social and political life.
• Anna Jancewicz, CAWF

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• CAWF activities in the changing economic and
  political environment
• Gender issues - not much mentioned issue
• due to the labor market organization
• though Woman is the Negro of the World
• household cires full time job
• Change together with the economy transition
• CAWFs activities
• First aid unemployed women
• Mid 2000 the economic changes well rooted
  new ideas, observations, phenomena

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• Background
• Over thirty years of equality legislation in
  the European Union to promote gender equality.
• Gender Equality widely accepted as socially
  important goal but also viewed as
• not necessarily in line with economic goals
• a constraint or a cost
• a societal choice or preference
• Need to recognize the costs of non-equality and
  the positive economic contribution of gender
  equality

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• Gender equality - the Economic Case
• Gender equality can be viewed as
• an investment and not a cost
• a productive factor not a constraint
• Investment in social infrastructure
• to reap rewards of investment in human capital
• akin to investment in physical infrastructure
• These benefits of equality expand when we move
  beyond GDP as a measure of
• progress
• quality of life,
• well being,
• child poverty, etc.

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• Barriers towards gender equality on the labor
  market
• structural
• invisible (mental)
• For over 30 years the EU has been taking numerous
  steps taken towards gender equality,
  corresponding to (set backs)
• the gender pay gap
• unequal care burden
• segregation in the labor market
• low representation in decision-making.

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• Steps to break down structural barriers holding
  women back
• Legislative measures
• Last generation workplace innovations , specially
  by corporations
• policies to support women with young children,
• measures to help women navigate their careers
  (mentoring)
• formal sponsorship programs to ensure
  professional development (trainings)
• The next frontier is toppling invisible barriers
  
• mind-sets widely held by managers, men and women
  alike, that are rarely acknowledged but block the
  way
• Role models (home/workplace)
• Intellectual presdispositions

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• An Economic Case
• Gender Equality can be viewed as an investment
• a productive factor (workforce)
• exploit full productive potential of the labor
  force ( another 50)
• economic gains at a national or regional level
• An economic case as a complement rather than
  replacement to the moral case.

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• Gender Equality and Growth
• Productive use of womens investment in education
  and human capital
• Utilization of all human capital investments
• Access to full range of skills - address
  shortages
• Returns on personal investment in human capital
• Gender equality as contributor to GDP
• higher productivity through avoidance of skill
  loss
• Lower taxes
• GDP growth

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• Gender Equality vs demographic challenges
• Sustainable populations
• positive relationship between female employment
  and fertility sustainable populations
  (advanced gender equality higher birth rates)
• rising dependency ratios ageing populations
• Integration of informal work recognizing the
  value of unpaid and informal work
• positive contribution of tax and social
  contributions
• modern fiscal systems that avoid perverse
  thresholds for job creation
• and/or household disincentives
• Integration into employment
• more than covers
• investment in social infrastructure.

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Gender equality - Economic Case
  Participation Growth Fertility Fiscal
Macro Employment rates, Utilization of investment in education system Investing in a productive Labor force Reduced poverty/social Exclusion Sustainable populations Funding and sustainability
Meso Utilization of Human resources Access to full range of skills skill diversity avoid skill loss Work life balance policies supporting retention Avoidance of perverse tax thresholds
Micro Return on personal investment in human capital domestic division of labor Reduce social risks and personal costs of inequality Individual rights, individual employment preferences Taxation without perverse disincentives Receive benefits on work done Rights for nonstandard Workers

The Economic Case for Gender Equality Mark Smith,
Equality Pays Conference - Brussels, 8 March 2011
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The Economic Case for Gender Equality Mark Smith,
Equality Pays Conference - Brussels, 8 March 2011
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• Drawing on the potential contribution from the
  whole population - risks
• Exit Strategies from the recession - a risk of
  reduced focus on gender equality goals and thus
  economic benefits
• Risk of trying to turn back the clock on gender
  equality (labor market challenges)
• Long-term challenges remain for European
  societies
• Making the case for
• Importance of gender mainstreaming policies
• Promoting coherent social and economic policy

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• Thank you for your attention !

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