Successful spreading of AFAEMME’s study
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Within the framework of its project “Increase of SME’s Productivity through the Application of Gender Policies in Decision-Making Positions”, aimed to sensitize Catalan companies about the economic and social benefits of promoting a larger number of women in decision-making positions in small and medium enterprises, AFAEMME has realized, in collaboration with the Federation of Employers of the Small and Medium Enterprises of Catalonia (FEPIME-CATALUNYA) and with support of the Catalan Occupation Service (Servei d’Ocupació de Catalunya), a detailed study on the present situation of women in the Catalan labour market.
The report has been successfully disseminated, including in Barcelona with the business organizations belonging to FEPIME-CATALUNYA, the last 7th of September, but also at European level through the “European Commission’s Network of Women in Decision-Making in Politics and Economy”, in Brussels on December 11th. With this wide diffusion, it can be confirmed that the project has been an important step to favour cultural changes as the improvement of equality of opportunities in the labour market and the sensitization of companies about the potential value of hiring more women. The official presentation of the study has been done by Mª Helena de Felipe Lehtonen, President of AFAEMME, during AFAEMMEs last General Assembly held in Barcelona on November 5th.
