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As part of its activities celebrating the International Women’s Day 2017, UNESCO-UNEVOC endeavors to draw the attention of global TVET stakeholders towards this year’s theme “Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030”. Particularly in the realm of TVET, UNESCO-UNEVOC together with its global network of more than 250 centres across 167 countries, strives to mainstream gender equality in accessing opportunities in education, skills acquisition, and a dynamic labour market.
The global progress in the area of gender equality has been encouraging as unprecedented gains have been made by women in education and training, access to jobs and livelihoods. According to the UNESCO Institute of Statistics, gender gaps in primary schooling have closed in many countries and in 1/3rd of all countries girls now outnumber boys in secondary school, and the global average of female enrollment in secondary level TVET programmes stands at 43%. It must however be noted that while the global averages are encouraging, there is disparate progress between countries with some countries featuring much below the global average. Despite this progress, gaps continue to persist in many areas, especially in the context of women in the changing world of work.
To go beyond the macro-level understanding of the key issues, challenges and trends in the realm of gender equality, UNESCO-UNEVOC also organized a special discussion on this year’s theme of the International Women’s Day on its TVeT Forum. The UNESCO-UNEVOC TVeT Forum is an online discussion board where TVET experts from around the world can share information and knowledge about different aspects of TVET. The purpose of the moderated UNEVOC TVeT Forum discussion was to invite the views of the communities of practice across the UNEVOC network and enable a contextualization of the broader trends and issues through specific examples. These discussions particularly solicited inputs from our network of TVET stakeholders on:
Furthermore, this year we have successfully reached out to the global community and our stakeholders through a social media campaign highlighting the key points of action to better enable women to deal with the changing world of work. In the leadup to the International Women’s Day, UNESCO-UNEVOC’s outreach exceeded 2000 impressions on Twitter and more than 11000 views on Facebook. This signifies the interest of TVET stakeholders globally to continue the efforts to make gender equality a priority in their action and advocacies going forward.