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Gender equality: Seminar in Reykjavik, Iceland 2018

Submitted by -girard on Thu, 07/05/2018 - 15:17

Documents, presentation and other related material from the Seminar in Reykjavik in June 2018 on gender equality and gender mainstreaming as a tool to reduce the gender pay gap and the gender pension gap, resulting from a lower participation of women in the labour market, part-time jobs and lower wages.

It also showed the example of Iceland, where non transferable maternity and paternity leaves led to an increased participation of the fathers in the care and education of children and therefore creating more equality.

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Family benefits
Children
Maternity
Parental leave
Old-age pensions
Long-term care
Inequalities

Report recognises efforts to ensure adequate pensions in the EU, but more needs to be done

Submitted by fabbri on Wed, 05/09/2018 - 09:47

Europa (30.04.2018) The 2018 Pensions Adequacy Report analyses how current and future pensions help prevent old-age poverty and maintain the income of men and women for the duration of their retirement. It underlines that Member States pay more and more attention to sustainable, adequate pensions in their reforms, but further measures will be needed in the future.

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european union
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Pensions

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[Opinion] Uganda's pension pilot has been a huge success — but can it survive?

Submitted by fabbri on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 14:08

Devex (03.01.2018)  Every week, the speaker presiding over Uganda’s 426-member parliament fields questions, comments, complaints, demands, and even threats regarding the uncertain future of Uganda’s elderly population, who have been left vulnerable after decades of difficulties. Since 2010, some districts of the country have benefited from a pilot pension scheme that has helped not only the ever-increasing aged population, but also the families they are often responsible for.

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uganda
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Old-age pensions
Population ageing
Social assistance
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Silicon Valley Pushes the Wrong Kind of Basic Income

Submitted by lasalle on Sat, 10/14/2017 - 16:51

bloomberg.com (10.08.2017) ' People and nations don't have to accept a future in which a small group of companies -- and, let's face it, successful tech firms are a small, oligopolistic group -- controls the fruits of what they call progress. It's up to them to tax and regulate the monopolies and oligopolies. The opaque digital advertising business, for example, is under-regulated and possibly based on false claims about audience sizes. Killing U.S.

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Social assistance
Inequalities

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