- Promoting equality in the workplace
- Equality planning at workplaces
- Drafting an equality plan
- Assessment of the gender equality situation in the workplace
- Pay surveys
- The pay survey covers all employees
- Analysing pay and remuneration systems
- Pay comparisons and the classifications/groupings used
- Small groups of employees and groups consisting only of women or of men
- Assessing the reasons for differences in pay and deciding on measures
- Created in cooperation – the employer is responsible
- Measures and review of the implementation
- Information about the equality plan
- Consequences for neglecting equality planning
- Quotas and the equality rule
- Promoting equality in schools and educational institutions
- The educational institution's equality plan
- The aims of equality planning
- Cooperation with the staff and the students
- Questions that require special attention
- Sexual harassment and gender-based harassment at educational institutions
- Assessing the equality conditions in the educational institution
- Agreeing on clear measures
- Drafting an equality plan
- Information and commitment to the equality work
- Assessment and follow-up
- Consequences for neglecting equality planning
- The educational institution's equality plan
The aims of the equality planning
The equality planning carried out in educational institutions is an ongoing process to create a shared view on e.g.
- what an equal educational institution is like
- which things can prevent the attainment of equality
- which things promote equality in the educational institution.
The most important factor is that the educational institution's operations are assessed and developed from an equality point of view, and that this is clearly demonstrated in the documents that govern the educational institution's operations.
How often should the plan be drafted?
In principle an equality plan is drafted every year. It is, however, possible to agree on a two- or three-year equality plan rather than an annual review. The educational institution's needs and the measures included in the equality plan will, however, probably require that measures to promote equality are carried out on a continuous basis.
Equality planning that aims to develop the educational institution's operations, with commitment from everyone including the management and the participation of the students and staff, works as a tool in the purposeful and planned equality-promoting work being carried out at educational institutions.