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Equal Opportunities Committee News

21.03.2012

I bambini della scuola materna Girasole in visita al KidSpace Lilliput

Il 15 marzo sono venuti a trovarci dei bambini della scuola materna Girasole, ai quali è piaciuta molto la nostra "scuola dei grandi"!

16.02.2012

LEGO Friends Petition: Parents, Women And Girls Ask Toy Companies To Stop Gender-Based Marketing

"Some girls like superheroes, some girls like princesses, some boys like superheroes, some boys like princesses. So why do all the girls have to buy pink stuff and all the boys...

18.01.2012

The ABCs and Ds of Commercial Images of Women

This presentation by NOW Foundation's Love Your Body Campaign illustrates and describes how advertisers and the media enforce unrealistic beauty standards, sexual ideals and gender stereotypes that girls and women are expected to follow. What is the impact of these images on the health and well-being of women and girls, and what can YOU do? http://loveyourbody.nowfoundation.org/presentations/SexStereotypesBeauty/flash.html

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The Equal Opportunities Committee (EOC) was founded in 2007, the European Year of Equal Opportunities for everyone.

Mission, Objectives and Competences

The EOC is an advisory committee of the University and aims to promote and monitor effective equality for all members of the University community, irrespective of sex, ethnicity, religion, nationality, age, disability, sexual identity or any other condition that could give rise to discrimination against them.

The responsibilities of the Equal Opportunities Committee are:

to formulate plans of positive actions in order to allow real equality for all members of the University community;
to detect all forms of discrimination, whether direct or indirect, that impede the full realization of equality or equal opportunities for all members of the University community;
to make sure that situations possibly leading to discrimination will not arise.

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Inequality in Europe

This video clip looks into the challenges posed by inequalities by confronting ideas, opinions and suggestions from the public with the views of three distinguished experts.

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Will Jack and Jessica have the same career opportunities?

A short animated clip explaining the gender pay gap, part of the information campaign of the European Commission launched in all EU countries about the gender pay gap.

The gender pay gap is the average difference between men’s and women’s hourly earnings within the economy as a whole. Across Europe women earn on average around 18% less than men and in some countries the gender pay gap is widening.

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