- 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 educational institution's equality plan
The equality plan drafted in schools or educational institutions is a tool for supporting the work promoting equality in the school or educational institution. The equality plan supports the promotion of gender equality in the everyday activities of the school and prevents discrimination based on gender. The equality plan ensures that schools and educational institutions are engaged in systematic work to promote equality.
It is important in regards to equality work that the work is based on the needs of the school or educational institution and its students. When the school or educational institution drafts an equality plan that aligns with its needs, the commitment towards promoting equality will also be stronger.
The equality plan must include a review of the equality situation in the school or educational institution, the necessary measures to promote equality and an assessment of the implementation and results of measures included in the previous plan.
The obligation to draft an equality plan which aims to develop the educational institution's operations applies to all institutions providing statutory education or training. At the beginning of 2015 the obligation was extended to also include schools providing education under the Basic Education Act.