Gender Mainstreaming in the Chinese Trade Union Movement

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Gender Mainstreaming in the Chinese Trade Union
Movement

• WANG LimingDeputy Director GeneralInternational
  Liaison DepartmentAll-China Federation of Trade
  Unions (ACFTU)

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Indicators

• Labour force breakdown trade union members
  (national figure, industrial sectors)
• Full- and part-time unionists

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• ACFTU Headquarters structure
• Organizational Structure of the ACFTU

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Challenges

• Advantage of this structure for gender
  mainstreaming
• Awareness-raising needed
• Shift from women-workers specific approach to
  gender mainstreaming

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Objective and Contribution to the Promotion of
Trade Union Gender Mainstreaming Strategy

• Promoting gender equality through the
  institution -structural arrangements -outcomes
• Progress made toward gender mainstreaming
• Understanding difference between womens issues
  and gender issues
• -vision broadened with gender mainstreaming

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Integration at Policy Level and Capacity Building

• Policy integration of gender equality and
  sensitization -a process -gender equality
  concept introduced into ACFTU -priority
  identified in trade union strategic action and
  activities

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Project Operational Activities

• High-level workshop to raise awareness about
  gender equality
• Experience-sharing and networking
• Inclusion of gender-sensitive statistics into
  trade union databank
• Training activities

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Training Activities

• Training of trainers
• Gender equality practitioners training
• Training menu and tools development

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Increasing International Exchange and Cooperation

• Learning from other countries and enriching our
  practices
• International cooperation with ILO and UNDP helps
  with gender-focused planning and outputs in order
  to work toward making gender equality a reality.

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Thank you