General objective: to approach, measure and communicate relevant measures to improve women representation in positions of management and leadership and to promote gender-balanced representation at the various levels of the hierarchy in, primarily, public and private companies in all sectors of Lithuania.
Specific objectives:
– to analyze business leadership situation with a particular attention on gender dimension in boardrooms at national level as well as the composition of the boardrooms of both public and private enterprises in Lithuania;
– to foster political and business competence on and commitment to gender-balanced economic decision-making;
– togender-mainstream the main actors and target groups of the project;
– to raise awareness of broader society on economic and social benefits of gender balance in decision-making;
– to promote positive image and rhetoric for gender balance in decision-making and temporary specific measures.
WIIC responsibilities: Awareness raising campaign
- Awareness of target group’s about the insufficiency of women participation in the economic decision-making and stimulates public and political debates challenging to break the glass ceiling that continues to bar female talent from top positions in business decision making will be raised.
- Awareness of broader society on gender economic equality issues will be raised and practical evidences on the benefits of active women participation in the decision making will be disseminated.
- Active, professional women will be connected to networking, encouraged to break the multiple barriers they facing to become the board members of companies.
- Policies of equal opportunities and welfare among employers, employees and companies will be promoted by contribution with information that more balanced boards have a possibility to create more productive and innovative working environment to improve companies’ performance.
Coordinator:
Ministry of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania
Partners:
Office of Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson (Equality body according to the Directive 2002/73), Lithuania,
University of Šiauliai, UoS (Lithuania)
Women’s Issues Information Centre, WIIC (Lithuania)
