Lechner, Reiter & Riesenfelder
Sozialforschung OG, Wien

GeM-InfoLetter "Gender Pay Gap" (Infoletter, 2006)

The GeM InfoLetter is published 4 x annually and presents the talks and discussions of a GeM topic forum.

The GeM InfoLetter No. 15/2006 summarises the GeM topic forum "Gender Pay Gap – Approaches for the reduction of gender-specific income differences".

The objective of the topic forum was to exchange information on the ongoing issue of gender-specific income differences as well as to develop practical and effective solutions on the on basis of expert inputs.

Team: Nadja Bergmann, Claudia Sorger

External Team: Hedwig Hasil, Peter Prenner

Project: GeM Co-ordination Unit

Project description:

The GeM Coordination Unit was a comprehensive counselling, information and development project, which was conducted by the L&R Social Research on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour of the Republic of Austria (BMWA) from 2000-2007.

Key task of the GeM Coordination Unit was the support of the implementation of gender mainstreaming within the measures of the ESF (European Social Fund) and in a broader sense within the Austrian labour market policy.

Target groups of the GeM Coordination Unit amongst others were the Public Employment Service Austria (AMS), the Federal Social Welfare Offices, the territorial employment pacts, the federal state authorities as well as the project executing organisations, which implement employment market and educational measures.

To support the implementation of gender mainstreaming a number of multifaceted activities have been developed and designed, which can be subsumed in following focal points:

Information and Knowledge
(Amongst others development of the GeM website, GeM Info Letter is published four times a year)

Networking and Cooperation
(Amongst others: GeM Roundtables as well as GeM Topic Forums in all federal states)

Counselling and Development
(Amongst others: development of the GeM 4-Step Method as well as thereon based guidelines for the implementation of GeM within the GeM Toolbox, organisation of GeM Workshops and creation of the GeM Practice-Guide as well as the GeM Field-Report)

Main publications:

Bergmann, Nadja / Sorger, Claudia: The implementation of gender mainstreaming in the Austrian employment market and policy. A field report of the gender mainstreaming coordination unit. Vienna 2007

Bergmann, Nadja / Pimminger, Irene: Practice Guide Gender Mainstreaming. Concept. Implementation. Experience. Vienna 2004

Bergmann, Nadja / Pimminger, Irene: The Toolbox Gender Mainstreaming. Vienna 2004

Austria’s Employment Pacts Gender Mainstreaming Platform (TEPGEM_Platform): Policy paper for the implementation of gender mainstreaming in the territorial employment pacts. Vienna 2004

2001-2006: GeM Info letter, published 4 times a year

Client: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour

Status: finished

Other activities in this project:

Conference: Gender Mainstreaming in Austria - Equality policy between utopia and realisation (Conference, 2007)
GeM-InfoLetter "Time for Women - Time for Men" (Infoletter, 2006)
GeM-InfoLetter "Gainful Employment and Caring" (Infoletter, 2006)
Topic forums Gender Mainstreaming Coordination Unit (Workshop, 2004-2006)
GeM-Infoletter "GeM Parting" (Infoletter, 2006)
GeM-InfoLetter "Diversity" (Infoletter, 2005)
GeM-InfoLetter "Gender Budgeting 2" (Infoletter, 2005)
GeM-InfoLetter "Lifelong Learning and GM" (Infoletter, 2005)
GeM-InfoLetter "Gender related segregation" (Infoletter, 2005)
Monitoring of the implementation of gender mainstreaming in Austria´s Territorial Employment Pacts (Consulting, 2002-2005)
Practical Handbook Gender Mainstreaming (Book, 2004)
GeM-InfoLetter " Disability and Gender" (Infoletter, 2004)
GeM-InfoLetter "GM during award of contract" (Infoletter, 2004)
GeM-ToolBox (Book, 2004)
GeM-InfoLetter "Gender Budgeting 1" (Infoletter, 2004)
GeM-InfoLetter "Evaluation and GM" (Infoletter, 2004)
GeM-InfoLetter "Equal treatment in the EU" (Infoletter, 2003)
GeM-InfoLetter "GM & Equal" (Infoletter, 2003)
GeM-InfoLetter "GM Evaluation in ESF" (Infoletter, 2002)
GeM-InfoLetter "TEP-GeM Platform" (Infoletter, 2002)
GeM-InfoLetter "GeM ToolBox" (Infoletter, 2001)
GeM-InfoLetter "GeM Offer" (Infoletter, 2001)

Downloads:

GeM-InfoLetter_15_2006.pdf