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• by launching an EU-wide awareness raising campaign, focusing on youth

The key objectives are ending gender-based violence; challenging gender stereotypes; closing gender gaps
in the labour market; achieving equal participation across different sectors of the economy; addressing the
gender pay and pension gaps; closing the gender care gap and achieving gender balance in
decision-making and in politics. While the Strategy focuses on actions within the EU, it is coherent with the
EU’s external policy on gender equality and women’s empowerment .
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1.4 Gender equality – Examples and best practices

Equality and diversity: Netlight (Finland)

Context: Finland has always been among the best-performing countries in the EIGE’s equality index.
Yet levels of segregation in the labour market are relatively high in Finland, and women spend significantly
more time on housework and childcare compared with men.

Result: Netlight is an IT company providing a variety of services. The share of women in the company is
followed in order to maintain a relatively high proportion of women across diverse roles. The number of
women in consultant roles with a more technical background is also followed; the proportion of women
here is 25%, compared with a total share of 30%.

More information: https://eige.europa.eu/gender-mainstreaming/good-practices/finland/equality-and-
diversity-netlights-cornerstone-and-strategic-objective

Women-ReBoot (Ireland)

Concept: Women-ReBoot is an intensive, active programme designed, developed and implemented by
Software Skillnet, an enterprise-led skills network, led by a sector federation (Technology Ireland), in
partnership with technology companies.

Context: The programme addresses the skills shortage in the tech industry by enabling already qualified
women to re-enter the workforce after a career break. Women participants benefit from a combination
of opportunities in updating knowledge and skills, work preparation and experience, one-to-one coaching
and mentoring. At the same time, companies find experienced and valuable new employees.

Results: Whereas most tech companies have a written gender-equality policy, Women-ReBoot actively
enabled companies to see the considerable business benefits of employing well-qualified, experienced
women. As a measure of success, the number of companies and the number of participants has almost
doubled between the first and second rounds of Women-ReBoot. The initiative is funded by the Irish
government through the Skillnets Ireland body.

More information: https://www.softwareskillnet.ie/women-reboot/

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