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Telework for life-work reconciliation in EU: promoting women participation and mobility

Although the latest Eurostat data pointed at the increased female participation in the labour market (Eurostat: statistics in focus, 57/2010), at the same time, we found out that nearly one woman in five aged 25-64 was outside the labour market, half of them due to family reasons (Eurostat newsrelease: 185/2010-07/12/2010). Among the latest employment trends, we could observe an increase in the proportion of part-time employment, for men and women alike. The prevalence of part-time employment among women is linked to the unequal distribution of the caring responsibilities between men and women. Within the framework of the described trends, as well as, referring to the Medium-term forecast up to 2010 „Skills supply and demand in Europe“ (Cedefod:2010), calling to secure an increase in labour market participation, in particular women, and adapt the potential of the inactive (in particular, women, whose qualifications are surpassing those of men), by making a more effective use of existing skills and encouraging skills development, the project aims at encouraging women participation in labour market by promoting the teleworking option, providing with the essential transversal skills and key competences on teleworking, at the same time, aiming at promoting the teleworking option at institutional level, as workplace flexibility programme and its potential benefits to the company.As the final outcome, the results of the previous “Telework for the life-work reconciliation of Spanish women” (El teletrabajo en la conciliación de la vida familiar y laboral de las mujeres españolas, ref. TSI-040100-2008-10) project has been transferred and extended at EU level, converting the Virtual Environment – Resources Center (developed in the previous project), into an authentic training repository , permitting regular updates through web 2.0 resources and enriched with EU perspective and a great range of instruments and resources, collected from the different national experiences.The partnership of the project fell into 7 highly experienced partners: UGT Euskadi (ES) (project promoter), INVESLAN (ES) (project coordinator), BEST (AT), EEDE (EL), INFOART (BG), GINGERBREAD (UK) AND INCSMPS (RO).

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