Knowledge Society and Gender Mainstreaming
The aim of this project is to analyse recent trends in the service sector with a special focus on the challenges of the Information technology and to evaluate how these have and will shape the gender mainstreaming of the European employment strategy in selected European countries and Iceland.
Description
The research question driving this project, financed by the EU in the framework of the TSER, is whether the European social models are moving away from an emphasis on welfare/workfare towards know(ledge)fare as a response to growing global competition, technological development (IT) and changing employment, familly relations as well as pressures from social actors. Knowfare refers to the strategy of Lifelong learning involvind educational and vocational programmes designed to help people acquire and update the skills needed to cope with economic and social changes (skill-improvement) while workfare is used to describe policies aiming at the maximum integration of the labour force into the labour market-
An interdisciplinary and a comparative set of methods will be used to develop socio-economic models that address this research question. Case studies in selected countries will be carried out in order to gahter information on how recent trends in the service sector are affecting men?s and women?s employment opportunities on the one hand, and people?s opportunities to reconcile work and familly life on the other hand. The focus of these case studies will be on job opportunities and life long learning strategies as well as on leave arrangements, working hours and flexible working arrangements. Moreover, evidence (discourse, policies and statistics) will be collected at the macro level in order to evaluate the extent to which EEA is moving towards the Knowledge-based society and whether this trend challenges or enforcing certain development trajectories as concern employment and familly relations, e.g. a move away from the male breadwinner model to the dual breadwinner model. The study will also highlight divergence across countries and its implication for the EU.
Researchers
Publications
Last modified: 04/04/2005 5:34 pm
eZ publish™ copyright © 1999-2005 eZ systems as
eZ debug
|
|
|
SET NAMES 'latin1'
|
Module start 'layout'
|
Module start 'content'
|
Parameter content_node is not an object
|
Module end 'content'
|
Design element stylesheets/admin.css does not exist in any design
|
End
|
Timing points:
| Checkpoint |
Elapsed |
Rel. Elapsed |
Memory |
Rel. Memory |
| Module start 'layout' |
0.0000 sec |
0.1103 sec |
2,959.6484KB |
1,164.1406KB |
| Module start 'content' |
0.1103 sec |
0.3416 sec |
4,123.7891KB |
5,787.5156KB |
| Module end 'content' |
0.4519 sec |
0.0656 sec |
9,911.3047KB |
683.7266KB |
| End |
0.5175 sec |
|
10,595.0313KB |
0.6677KB |
| Total runtime: |
0.5713 sec |
|
Time accumulators:
| Accumulator |
Elapsed |
Percent |
Count |
Average |
| ini_load |
|
|
|
|
| Load cache |
0.0577 sec |
8.1100% |
13 |
0.0044 sec |
| Mysql Total |
|
|
|
|
| Mysql_queries |
0.0406 sec |
5.7037% |
25 |
0.0016 sec |
| Looping result |
0.0023 sec |
0.3174% |
18 |
0.0001 sec |
| Template Total |
0.2978 sec |
41.9% |
3 |
0.0993 sec |
| Template load |
0.0383 sec |
5.3778% |
3 |
0.0128 sec |
| Template processing |
0.2510 sec |
35.2813% |
3 |
0.0837 sec |
| Template load and register function |
0.0046 sec |
0.6461% |
1 |
0.0046 sec |
| override |
|
|
|
|
| Cache load |
0.0277 sec |
3.8985% |
6 |
0.0046 sec |
| Matching rules |
0.0008 sec |
0.1089% |
1 |
0.0008 sec |
| Sytem overhead |
|
|
|
|
| Fetch class attribute name |
0.0196 sec |
2.7553% |
6 |
0.0033 sec |
| General |
|
|
|
|
| String conversion |
0.0011 sec |
0.1587% |
3 |
0.0004 sec |
| String conversion w/ mbstring |
0.0007 sec |
0.0985% |
3 |
0.0002 sec |
| Total script time: |
0.7115 sec |
|
Templates used to render the page:
|
