Gender 4 GrowthGender 4 GrowthRegion Île de France presentation

Françoise BeletBarcelona 26 march 2009

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4 billions Euros budget8 districts 1281 cities11,5 millions citizens

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The regional council acts in :• The construction, renovation, maintenance and equipping of secondary schools.• Adult learning and apprenticeship.• Public transport and roads.• Regional development and planning .• Economic development.• Housing and social welfare.• Higher education and research.• The environment and promoting the region’s heritage.• Culture, ICT, Sport, leisure and tourism.

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8 women and 8 men to manage Île-de-France region as members of the executive board

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However our region is far from achieving equality between man and woman

More women are unemployed, work part time, are lone parents and as everywhere Deal with domestic tasks.

There is a strong concentration of jobs in a limited number of sectors, with lower salariesand carreer propects.

Moreover there is a lack of statistics and research about gender.

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In order to fight all discriminations the region as launched a framework policy in september 2007 called "Regional commitment for a global policy of fight against discriminations.

This policy includes all ground of discriminations, including sex either specifically or in mainstreaming.

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Some examples :1. Giving more visibility to regional actions

• Organising an event each 8 of march • Writing a charter about a gender in communication

2. Support to local projects•Book "l'Apprentissage au féminin"

3. Partnership •Local partnership with regional state services

• DRDFE•European partnerships

• ARE• CCRE charta

•Trans-Regional partnerships• ARF committee on equality

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4. Improving knowledge about discriminition• Support to research about Gender (Institut Emilie du Chatelet, DIM de

genre)• Improving the collection of gender statistics (observatory)• Project of the reation of a ressource center on gender.

I will be the project manager for the institutions and I will mainly forma group of expert for G4G.

My mail adress : francoise.belet@iledefrance.fr