1. Gender equality at home and work:
uthopia or our future?

3. Human rights are "basic rights and freedoms that all people are entitled to regardless of nationality sex age national or ethnic origin race religion language or other status“ (UN)

4. SEX- refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.
GENDER- refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviour, activities and attributes that a particular society considers appropriate for men and women.

6. GENDER EQUALITY?
Gender equality means that women and men have equal conditions for realizing their full human rights and for contributing to, and benefiting from, economic, social, cultural and political development. Gender equality is therefore the equal valuing by society of the similarities and the differences of men and women, and the roles they play. It is based on women and men being full partners in their home, their community and their society.

8. Defrenne vs Sabena
Court case in 1975, Gabrielle Defrenne vs Sabena resulted in legistlation- article 141 EC was invoked which stated "Each Member State shall ensure that the principle of equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value is applied".

9. EU legistlation about GE
Equal Pay Directive – 1975,
Equal Treatment Directive – 1976,
Social Security Directive – 1979,
Occupational Social Security Directive – 1986,
Self-employment Directive – 1986,
Pregnant Workers Directive – 1992,
Parental Leave Directive – 1996,
Burden of Proof Directive – 1997,
Equal Treatment in Employment Directive – 2002
Recast Directive Equal Treatment in Employment and Occupation – 2006

10. SO, WHY DO WE STILL HAVE:
higher unemployment among women
gender pay-gap (appr. 30% in Estonia, average 17,8% in EU)
horizontal and vertical segregation in labour market
“glass cealing”

11. less women in entrepreneurship,
less women represented in high end jobs and politics,
facing difficulties in combining parental duties with career,
quality education but lower level jobs for women,
sexual harassment at workplace

12. WHY GENDER EQUALITY?