• Gender Equity, Leadership and Ageing

Gender equity is an educational, cultural and economic challenge that requires actions aimed at building a Gender Equality Culture Transition Plan (GEC TPlan). This is needed as women’s and men’s rights, responsibilities and opportunities do not depend on whether they are born female or male.

A roadmap needs to be conceived that can accompany the identification of gender equity as a constitutive component of the political, economic and social life in our countries. The roadmap must include actions involving individuals, workplaces, communities.

The proposal for the IACE Hall of Fame Working Group is to work together on four “building blocks” that are helpful for the future GEC TPlan. This is a collective work that should bring together the converging results of many research and reflection groups.

The Florence meeting can be the opportunity to reflect on the kind of concrete actions that could be designed and implemented for the year to come.

The proposal takes into consideration the longevity as a mainstream focus.

We propose four possibilities of cooperation below:

a. Identification of indicators connected to management models and embedded learning in the productive processes, enabling to monitor individual and organizational gender equity-oriented behaviours

b. Verification of the possibility to utilise indicators to reinforce gender certification within organisations (USA, Europe)

c. Setting up a model of training pathway for international micro-credentials to fight against economic violence of women in lifelong perspective (employed women, women preparing for retirement and for new subsistence methods, women in old age)

d. Evaluate the possibility to devote one dedicated Call for Papers connected to specific Journal(s). Restricted discussion events and proposals for social and political actions may be built based on that

Discussants:

Janet Poley, University of Nebraska, United States, IACE Hall of Fame Member of Board of Directors

Malgosia Malec Rawinski, Stockholm University, Sweden

Chiara Biasin, University of Padoa, Italy

Belinda Biscoe, University of Oklahoma Outreach/College of Continuing Education, USA, Acting Executive Director of IACE Hall of Fame

Sturla Bjerkaker, Norway, Member of the IACE Hall of Fame

Gabriella Campanile, University of Florence, Italy

Nic Dickson, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Regina Egetenmeyer, Julius-Maximilian-University Würzburg, Germany, Member of the IACE Hall of Fame

Dearbháil Lawless, AONTAS, the National Adult Learning Organisation, Ireland, Hall of Fame Organization Award recipient

Thomas Nash, Coalition of Lifelong Learning Organizations-COLLO, United States

Kimberly Osborne, Germany

Claudia Pavoletti, Lawyer and Executive, Italy

André Schläfli, Switzerland, Member of the IACE Hall of Fame

Shirley Walters, Promoting, Interrogating and Mobilising Adult Learning and Education, South

Africa, Member of the IACE Hall of Fame

Hall of Fame Mentor:
Mary Alfred, Member of the IACE Hall of Fame Board of Directors

Preparatory Webinars scheduled on 

October 2024, 8th at 5.00 pm CEST and 

October 2024, 18th at 4.00 pm CEST