The CareDivide project aims at addressing the gender gap in informal long-term care, and especially in caring for older family members, that perpetuates gender inequality in the labour market. More specifically the project activities, implemented in Romania, Cyprus, Greece, Spain, and Italy aim to:
- Enhance understanding on the gender gap in informal long-term care and increase the availability of good practices, tools, and resources for promoting work-life balance.
- Sensitise and build the capacities of employers, managers, and human resources personnel on how to implement flexible work conditions and practices, fostering the equal inclusion of caregivers in the labour market.
- Promote the adoption and effective implementation of national and EU legal/policy frameworks towards supporting gender equality in informal long-term care and advocate for policy reforms.
- Challenge gender stereotypes and traditional perceptions, in the society and in the media, that perpetuate the gender care gap.
- Raise public awareness on the existence of the gender care gap, the obstacles and difficulties faced by carers, and the impact of caregiving responsibilities on gender equality.
This will be achieved through the following main activities:
- Mapping the existing situation in informal long-term care and collection of resources, good practices, and tools for promoting work-life balance.
- Capacity building and sensitization programme for 500 employers, managers, human resources personnel, and HR specialists.
- Advocacy campaigns, development of policy recommendations, and organisation of multi-stakeholder roundtables for 75 policy and decision makers.
- Info sessions for 100 mainstream and online media professionals on avoiding gender stereotyping and promoting diverse media representation.
- Dissemination and awareness raising campaigns and events.
During its 24-month lifetime, CareDivide will directly and indirectly positively impact:
500
employers, managers, human resources personnel, HR specialists, etc. on how to implement flexible working conditions and practices that support the labour market participation of informal carers, especially women
100
mainstream and online media professionals on how to challenge gender stereotypes and promote diverse media representation, in terms also of caregiving roles/responsibilities
50
men and women who (may) provide informal care
CareDivide at a glance
- 10 Co-creation workshops
- 1 transnational mapping report consolidating the resources and insights collected at national & EU level on the gender gap in long-term care, especially in caring for older adults
- 1 approx. 10 to 15-hour training and sensitization programme for employers, managers, and human resources personnel, aiming to tackle stereotypes, conscious and unconscious biases, and develop practical skills and policies
- 1 open access digital platform hosting the training programme
- One 1 or 2 half-day online seminar attended by 2 trainers of each partner (20 participants in total) to kick start the national implementation of the capacity building programme
- Training seminars targeting 100 employers, managers, human resources personnel, HR specialists, etc. in each country (500 participants in total)
- Five (5) national reports with an overview of the trainings implemented and the results of the evaluation and impact assessment activities in each country, based on individual feedback questionnaires
- 1 paper including policy recommendations on national and EU levels
- Five 2-hour (f-2-f or online) roundtables with 75 participants [15 per country] stakeholders from public, private & third sectors
- Guide/resources on identifying and combating gender stereotyping and promoting diverse representation in both mainstream and online media
- Five half-day (f-2-f or online) sessions for 100 mainstream and online media professionals (20 per country)
- Five half-day (f-2-f or online) project launch events, with 30-40 participants per country (150-200 in total)
- 1-day (f-2-f and online) conference, with 80 participants.