Published 3 December 2012
ESF Gender Equality workshops
The Department for Work and Pensions’ ESF Division recently held two national workshops for ESF Co-financing Organisations and some large providers to consider what further action can be taken to increase female participation in the ESF programme.
The overall programme-level female participation rate is currently lower than the target of 51 per cent, and the workshops focused on identifying the barriers that exist as well as the specific action that can be taken to overcome these barriers.
The European Commission were represented by Petr Musiol, who attended both workshops and Effie Meletiou, who attended the event in London. They offered a wider European perspective and some thoughts on how to improve female participation levels from 2014.
DWP representatives set out how gender equality is managed in the current programme and measures that are being taken to raise awareness amongst providers and to increase participation levels.
More information about the workshops can be found on the ESF-Works site.
