📋 Tender Overview
The government presents a strategy for a more equal education and labor market 2021-2024. The strategy will contribute to more equality between girls and boys women and men in education and working life.The strategy has two main goals one is to get more men into women-dominated industries and the other is to get more women into male-dominated industries. The strategy shows the direction the government has for this work in the future says Minister of Culture and Gender Equality Abid Raja.The strategy addresses one of our important gender equality challenges the gender-segregated labor market. Women and men work in different parts of the labor market in different professions industries and sectors. This contributes to a rigid and inflexible labor market and is linked to other important gender equality challenges such as gender differences in pay and working hours.It is not a simple answer to how we solve gender division in education and in working life but this strategy shows overall measures we believe are necessary to break up gender division in a number of educational careers and professions. The most important move is to further develop the Directorate for Children Youth and Families Bufdir as a professional directorate for gender equality says Minister of Culture and Gender Equality Abid Raja.The Government also wants to improve the gender perspective in career guidance facilitate role models and network measures continue regional work with gender equality and continue research efforts in the field of gender equality and discrimination.The school has an important role as a common arena that provides knowledge and awareness of gender equality. We believe it is important to enable students to make good educational and career choices without regard to traditional gender roles. We have already made many good moves and this strategy is a starting point for further work on the road to full equality says Minister of Education and Integration Guri Melby.The strategy points to six areas in which the government believes there is a particular need for more gender balance. This applies to more men in kindergarten primary school and health and care and more women in technology more female entrepreneurs and more female leaders.A smaller gender-segregated labor market in these areas is important because we must be able to recruit from the entire population. It is important for both students and patients to meet a diversity of employees. I am absolutely certain that it contributes to a better school and better services and that an equal working life is a good thing for all of us says Minister of Research and Higher Education Henrik Asheim.
