Action 2 of the Agender project finished in September 2007 the final report looking soft indicators will be available from the Agender website shortly.
Action 3 work is well underway with tracking of a sample of beneficiaries taking place as I type. This will be availble as a report in the New Year.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Social footprints
Tomorrow I am presenting at the 'Social footprints' symposium at the ICC in Birmingham - this is a free event for Businesses, academics and policy makers to gather and report on various research relating to corporate social responsibility, work/life balance and various other related topics. I am doing a turn:
Challenging Gender Stereotypes in the Workplace; what the soft indicators tell us?
This will be reporting on some research I have carried out over the last couple of years on behalf of the Agender project. Here I have been immersed in the project, from chairing an EU working group looking at 'Women into non-traditional employment' to being part of the UK, specifically Birmingham based, working groups looking at: how we might better support women into some of these roles and as a researcher interviewing the participants throughout the lifetime of the project to capture the: 'soft indicators of distance travelled'. Some of this work has involved a film school, some has looked at construction and sports coaching. Each have their individual characteristics in terms of barriers and opportunities.
Challenging Gender Stereotypes in the Workplace; what the soft indicators tell us?
This will be reporting on some research I have carried out over the last couple of years on behalf of the Agender project. Here I have been immersed in the project, from chairing an EU working group looking at 'Women into non-traditional employment' to being part of the UK, specifically Birmingham based, working groups looking at: how we might better support women into some of these roles and as a researcher interviewing the participants throughout the lifetime of the project to capture the: 'soft indicators of distance travelled'. Some of this work has involved a film school, some has looked at construction and sports coaching. Each have their individual characteristics in terms of barriers and opportunities.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
So much has happened
It has been a really long time since I last posted to this blog! That is not to say that the Agender project has been quiet or my work with in it. I have been heavily involved in the transnational work and soon we will have a DVD available of case studies of WINGS (our transnational name) beneficiaries.
I am busy tracking the participants of the project and some interesting findings are emerging from the project. Issues around how women feel about working in non-gender traditional work places the types of support they might need including assertiveness (more on this later), issues relating to culture and cultural expectations (some surprises here) and some not surprising issues around childcare.
I will try very hard to update and substantiate on these points as I begin to draw out these conclusions for my final report due at the end of September.
But for now back to the interviews and tracking...
I am busy tracking the participants of the project and some interesting findings are emerging from the project. Issues around how women feel about working in non-gender traditional work places the types of support they might need including assertiveness (more on this later), issues relating to culture and cultural expectations (some surprises here) and some not surprising issues around childcare.
I will try very hard to update and substantiate on these points as I begin to draw out these conclusions for my final report due at the end of September.
But for now back to the interviews and tracking...
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