| Arrangement Liste |
| ’24orMore’
International Conference on increasing female labour participation. |
| Konferanse |
| Dato: 04.11.2009 - 06.11.2009 Tid: |
| Sted: Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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This international conference will encourage the sharing of new approaches and instruments towards increasing female labour participation in research and practice. |
According to the recent MENA report ‘Shaping the future’ by the World Bank, national income growth and prosperity depend on the availability of a sufficiently large and skilled workforce that has the ability to adapt to the changing needs of society. Meanwhile, Europe and several other regions are facing a shrinking population and labour force. Assuming that participation levels remain unchanged, Central Asia, China, the East-Asian high-income countries, Europe and North America will collectively lose 216 million workers between now and 2050. The European Union alone stands to lose 66 million workers. The latter implies that there will be two retirees for every active person.
At the same time, the participation rate of women in the labour force is far below their potential when compared to their male counterparts. If we take the Netherlands as an example, we see that the majority of women is working part-time jobs of less than 24 hours. To compensate for this, innovative solutions, measures and instruments are required. |
| Lagt inn av: NIKK |
| Arrangementets nettsider: http://talentclasses.org/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_7RUBMF_Eng |
| Arrangert av |
| The Taskforce Part-Time Plus |
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