Welcome to conference in Girona!
The conference Fostering Caring Masculinities takes place in Girona in Spain from Friday 20 to Sunday 22 October 2006.
At the conference we will present the national and comparative results of the project and suggest future guidelines for fostering caring masculinities.
The target groups of the conference are employers, researchers, politicians, journalists, gender equality consultants and representatives from social partners such as trade unions
If you have any questions regarding the conference, please us!
About the project
Fostering Caring Masculinities (FOCUS) aims to examine and improve men’s opportunities for balancing work and private/family life in order to encourage the preparedness of men to take over caring tasks.
To reach this goal the project will focus on companies' framework conditions to perceive and include men as actors and target groups in equality policies.
This project involves five countries: Germany, Iceland, Slovenia, Spain and Norway.
The project is funded through EU's Community Action programme to promote Gender equality between men and women. FOCUS is connected to one of priority themes of the program, "the role of men in the promotion of gender equality, in particular the role of men and fathers in the reconciliation of work and private life".
The project was initiated by the Norwegian Ministry of Children and Equality who also co-funds the project.
