Quesada Pallares, C, Pineda-Herrero, P, Stoian, A et al. (1 more author) (2015) Factors affecting Spanish and Catalan women participation in training. Journal for Educators, Teachers and Trainers, 6 (1). 82 - 99. ISSN 1989-9572
Abstract
Women are still not being offered equal opportunities in the workplace, be-cause apart from being workers, they are also caregivers, i.e. they do double shifts. One way to enhance women’s job opportunities is through their professional development. Training is one of the best strategies for professional development. Nonetheless, in Spain, there is a series of factors which hinder female workers’ access to training. In fact, scientific literature do not usually compares these factors from a gender perspective; therefore, the aim of this paper is to describe differences between male and female participation levels in training over the last five years, and analyse the factors that affect women’s participation. The methodology consisted of a mixed non-simultaneous approach: the analysis of three Spanish and Catalan sources of official data (n = 10,879), and interviews with 5 experts in gender policies and 6 trainer managers from 6 companies. The integrated results yield different types of difficulties to access training based on gender and a necessity to relate training policies to gender policies. Because of these differences, it is possible to establish a list of features related to women who participate in training, which allow both academics and practitioners to intervene to promote women’s training participation and therefore, their professional development.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2015, Universidad de Granada. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Journal for Educators, Teachers and Trainers. |
Keywords: | women; training; gender policies; training policies; gender equality |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jul 2015 09:41 |
Last Modified: | 14 Apr 2017 04:33 |
Published Version: | http://jett.labosfor.com/index.php/jett/article/vi... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Universidad de Granada |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:88172 |