EQUAL-CARE

The gender pay gap is a big issue in the disability care and support sector, both in formal and informal care. A gender transformative approach is needed to understand the underlying causes and find solutions that promote equal opportunities, fair working conditions, and improved work-life balance for formal and informal carers alike. The EQUAL CARE project looks into tailored and innovative tools, training and awareness-raising initiatives to inform and empower workers, managers, employers, and HR professionals

Duration: 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2026

Funding: European Union, DG Just

• IAT (INSTITUT ANTONA TRSTENJAKA ZA GERONTOLOGIJO IN MEDGENERACIJSKO
  SOZITJE)
• Tukena
• CHANCE B

• Identify barriers and best practices for promoting gender equality in care support services.
• Strengthen the competencies of employers and workers in gender equality in the workplace.
• Assess care stereotypes and gender gaps in formal and informal care, finding new approaches through surveys with target groups and society at large.
• Challenge stereotypes and recognise care as valuable work through focus groups and interviews.

• Insight report on gender stereotypes in care work.
• Report executive summary of the Insight report on gender stereotypes in care work.
• Training and Awareness raising Manual “Empower Care: Promoting Gender Equality in Disability Care”.
• Toolkit for to promote Gender Equality in the disability care and support sector.
• Policy recommendations addressing the root causes of the gender care gap and promoting gender equality, work-life balance, inclusive workplace cultures in the disability care sector.

For more information, please contact:

Alina Pavicevac
Senior Project & Policy Officer
alina.pavicevac(at)socialemployers.eu