Inter-organizational Relationships in Policy & Strategy Development: A Systems Map of Women’s Employment Project

Gendelity - System Map of Stakeholders only- MicroCredit Project WEETU Pearson 2002 showing 5 stakeholder groups: National Government, Unemployed Employee Workforce, Rural Low Income Women, WEETU and Funders

A Systems Exploration of Pearson’s Paper on the ‘Full Circle’ Project

The ‘Full Circle’, a project of the Women’s Employ, Enter & Training United (WEETU) group, is used to explain core systems thinking principles, including visual representation via a systems map.  Strategy, policy and programme development often suffers from impractical and unimplemented actions, and unintended consequences.  Systems thinking principles help avoid some of these challenges.   Additionally, three types of inter-organizational relationships, a form of tension which interacts with strategy and policy development, are also explored.  This article aims to be useful in strategy, policy, and programme development, particularly in collaboration with others.

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Employment Gaps Between Women & Men in Northern Ireland – Census 2021

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Workforce gender gaps, that is differences between the numbers of women and men in the workforce, is one way of considering workforce inequality. While the census does not contain information about salary, it does consider employment status, or rather “economic activity”. These statistics shed light on the overall difference between women’s and men’s employment gaps.

=> ARE THERE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WOMEN & MEN’S EMPLOYMENT STATUS?

SDG 5.5.2 – Measuring Workplace Gender Inclusion for Managerial Positions in the Republic of Ireland

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“What gets measured gets managed”, (V. F. Ridgway).

For Ireland’s labour force, what proportion of those in managerial positions are women? The UN Sustainable Development Goal, SDG 5, gender empowerment, has two indicators for leadership in economic life, the first for team leadership/management overall, and the second for senior and middle management.

=> LEARN ABOUT THE GENDER MIX IN MANAGERIAL POSITIONS

Ireland’s Local Governmental Approach to Gender Equality Sustainable Development Goal 5.5

Irish Local Government Approach to SDG 5

SDG Target 5.5 states: “Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life”. Gendelity reviewed Ireland’s approach to SDG 5.5 at local government level.

Is your local government acting on Ireland’s national ambitions to achieve SDG 5.5?

=> EXPLORE THE STATUS, PLANS & ACTIONS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT. THEN CONSIDER VOTING FOR WOMEN.

An International Comparison of Gender Income Gaps

International Comparison of Gender Income Gaps

In every country in the world, the average working woman earns less than the average working man. Countries have different average incomes, and different gaps between female and male workers. Which countries have smaller income gaps between male and female? Within each country, what is the absolute amount of the gap between female & male? What is the percentage gap?

=> Find out Here