New Dissemination Project on Gender Stereotypes in Spanish SMEs

AFAEMME has recently launched in Spain the information campaign for its project “Agregando Valor, Rompiendo Estereotipos (Add Value, Break Stereotypes)”, which will be executed until August 2009.

The project, which is financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Social Policies and Sport, will disseminate data regarding the situation of women in the labour market and the existence of gender stereotypes in Spanish Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and the economic impact that these stereotypes have in different economic sectors.

Apart from this, the project plans to execute two workshops in Barcelona and Madrid to inform its target audience about the European and Spanish legislation regarding equality in the labour market, the economic benefits that SMEs can obtain when fighting gender stereotypes and will present, as well, a set of tools to help companies improve their capacity to gender discrimination in the labour scope.

The workshops will be imparted by AFAEMME experts, including Mrs. Mª Helena de Felipe Lehtonen, President of AFAEMME; Dr. Elizabeth Villagómez, AFAEMME’s Gender and Business Expert and by Mrs. Beatriz Fdz.-Tubáu Rodés, AFAEMME’s Legal Advisor.

The information disseminated by this project is based on the reports generated by EU commissioned project “Break gender stereotypes, give talent a chance”, which held its closing conference in Brussels, on November 2008. Information on this project can be found here.