Trade Union Training on Youth Employment for Leaders of Youth Committees in Asia and the Pacific region

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• Trade Union Training on Youth Employment for
  Leaders of Youth Committees in Asia and the
  Pacific region
• Bangkok May 13, 2004
• Sara Spant
• Associate Expert on Employment Promotion
• ILO Subregional Office for East Asia

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Policies and Strategies for Youth Employment

• Equal Opportunities

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Ensuring equal opportunities

• How do we ensure
• equal opportunities?

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General Actions for ensuring equal opportunities

• Conduct surveys on the transition from school to
  work to identify needs and formulate programmes
  to help young women and young men find and hold
  decent jobs.
• Ensure equal rights for and special support to
  young people whose gender, ethnicity or
  disability makes it more difficult for them to
  find jobs.
• Incorporate gender concerns into the general
  education system.
• Include gender concerns in policies for
  employment creation.

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General Actions for ensuring equal opportunities

• Provide job counselling for young women through
  employment services through materials and
  training.
• Develop specific gender sensitive programmes for
  education and training, to instruct young women
  in general education and vocational training as
  well as school graduates and drop-outs About
  how to get a job.
• Develop specific training programmes for young
  women to promote employment and self-employment
  through micro credit schemes and livelihood
  skills programmes.

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Practical measures to Promote Equality between
Young Women and Men

• Measures for equal recruiting
• Avoid indicating a preference for a certain group
  or sex unless it is clearly justified.
• Encourage everyone to apply through information
  channels that reach young women and young men.
• Use criteria, tests and interviews for selection
  that relate to job competencies and are the same
  for everyone.

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Practical measures to Promote Equality between
Young Women and Men

• Measures for the equality at the workplace
• Ensure respect and a healthy working environment
  free of harassment including sexual harassment
  for all workers.
• Ensure that workplaces are family friendly.
• Measures for positive action known as positive
  discrimination or affirmative action are
  practical temporary measures to combat the direct
  and indirect results of past discrimination.

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Priorities in training and retraining for Girls
and Women

• Adopting explicit equal opportunity goals and
  measures in vocational training systems
• Including both males and females meaningfully in
  the full range of standard vocational training
  programmes rather than providing only
  traditionally female-oriented skills to girls and
  women
• Revising all training curricula to avoid gender
  stereotyping and to promote equality between the
  sexes

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Priorities in training and retraining for Girls
and Women

• Encouraging both boys and girls to enter
  non-traditional occupations in order to break
  existing patterns of job segregation for
  example girls into scientific and technical
  fields and boys into jobs in the care sector
• Establishing more effective linkages between
  training systems and labour markets so that girls
  and women are trained in employable skills
  alongside boys and men
• Raising awareness among male workers in
  workplace-based training programmes about their
  role in sharing family responsibilities