Sustainable Gender Equality - a film about gender mainstreaming in practice
Summary
TLDRThe video script highlights the importance of gender equality as a human right and a factor in efficient public service delivery. It showcases how gender mainstreaming in Sweden improved municipal snow removal, leading to more equitable resource allocation and reduced accidents. The script also discusses the impact of gender-disaggregated statistics on enhancing services in areas such as public transport, healthcare, and education, emphasizing the need for integrating a gender perspective into daily activities for better management and quality control.
Takeaways
- 🌟 Gender equality is not only a human right but also a matter of efficiency in public services.
- 🚧 The film illustrates how gender mainstreaming can benefit both individuals and organizations that provide public services.
- ❄️ Post-snowfall municipal snow removal practices in Sweden have gender implications due to different travel patterns between men and women.
- 🚗 Women are more likely to walk, cycle, or use public transport, and thus, are more affected by inadequate snow removal.
- 🔢 Gender inequality in snow removal is quantifiable, with more pedestrians (mostly women) injured on icy roads.
- 🏥 The cost of hospital care and lost productivity due to accidents is significantly higher than the cost of winter road maintenance.
- 🔄 Goga municipality officials recognized that snow removal prioritized male-dominated areas and adjusted their approach.
- 👣 The new approach prioritized clearing pedestrian walkways and bike paths, making the city more accessible and gender-equal without extra costs.
- 👶 Clearing paths to schools and female-dominated workplaces improved accessibility for everyone, especially for children.
- 🚌 Introducing 'light stops' on buses in Kalmar made nighttime travel safer and more attractive for both genders.
- 🏥 Sahlgrenska University Hospital improved ambulance services by addressing gender disparities in patient care and response times.
- 🏫 Freya school's systematic campaign to change norms and attitudes improved boys' school performance and reduced girls' stress and insecurity.
- 🏠 Gender equality work has often been sidelined, but gender mainstreaming aims to integrate it into everyday activities and decision-making.
- 📊 Gender mainstreaming involves using gender-disaggregated statistics to detect and address differences in how decisions affect men and women.
- 🛠️ Applying a gender perspective to daily activities can improve management, governance, and service quality, ensuring justice and efficiency.
Q & A
What is the main argument presented in the video script about gender equality and public services?
-The script argues that gender equality is not only a human right but also a factor that enhances the efficiency and quality of public services. It uses the example of snow removal to illustrate how gender mainstreaming can benefit both individuals and service providers like municipalities and County Councils.
Why does the script mention the different modes of transportation used by men and women?
-The script mentions that women are more likely to walk, cycle, or use public transport, while men travel more by car. This difference is significant because it affects how municipal snow removal impacts each gender, leading to a form of gender inequality in the consequences of icy road conditions.
What was the cost implication of accidents caused by icy roads in the script's context?
-The script states that hospital care and lost productivity due to accidents in slippery conditions cost four times as much as winter road maintenance, highlighting the economic rationale for prioritizing safety measures like snow removal.
How did the Goga municipality address the gender inequality in snow removal?
-The Goga municipality rethought its approach to snow removal by prioritizing pedestrian walkways and bike paths before streets, especially those leading to schools and female-dominated workplaces, to ensure a more gender-equal allocation of resources without incurring extra costs.
What is the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) perspective on creating an equal society?
-The CEMR believes that an equal society can best be created at the level of municipalities and County Councils due to their proximity to people's everyday lives, emphasizing the importance of local governance in shaping gender equality.
How does gender mainstreaming help in improving the quality of services?
-Gender mainstreaming raises the quality of services by ensuring that decisions, actions, and treatment affect women and men equally. It involves using gender-disaggregated statistics to detect differences and implement changes that benefit both genders.
What was the issue with nighttime bus travel for women in Kalma, as mentioned in the script?
-Women in Kalma felt unsafe walking home from the bus stop in the evening. To address this, the solution introduced was 'light stops,' allowing passengers to be let off at specific places between normal stops for increased safety.
What changes did the ambulance services at Sahlgrenska University Hospital make to improve patient care?
-The ambulance services introduced new care routines, including giving women the same priority as men, providing equal pain relief, and performing tasks previously only done at the emergency department to expedite patient treatment.
What was the issue with boys' performance in school and how was it addressed in the script?
-Boys were underperforming in school due to social norms that discouraged academic effort and prioritized physical prowess. The school addressed this by implementing a campaign to change norms and attitudes, including teacher training, zero tolerance for fighting, and integrating relationship education into the curriculum.
What is the significance of gender mainstreaming in the context of the script's discussion on gender equality?
-Gender mainstreaming is significant as it involves integrating a gender equality perspective into all day-to-day activities and decision-making processes. It ensures that services are provided equivalently to women and men, enhancing legal protection, quality control, and overall efficiency.
How can gender mainstreaming improve management of governance structures according to the script?
-Gender mainstreaming can improve governance by ensuring that waiting times, resource allocation, and treatment are based on individual needs without being influenced by prejudice, ignorance, or routines, leading to justice and efficiency in service delivery.
Outlines
🛤️ Gender Equality in Public Services
This paragraph discusses the importance of gender equality in the context of public services, using the example of snow removal in Sweden. It highlights how traditional snow plowing prioritized male-dominated areas, leading to gender inequality in accessibility and safety. The municipality's approach was reevaluated, resulting in prioritizing pedestrian walkways and bike paths to ensure equal access for all, particularly benefiting women and children. The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) emphasizes the role of municipalities in creating an equal society through gender mainstreaming, which involves analyzing the impact of decisions on both genders and adjusting policies accordingly.
🚑 Addressing Gender Disparities in Emergency Services and Education
The second paragraph delves into gender-specific issues in emergency services and education. It describes how gender-disaggregated statistics at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg revealed disparities in ambulance response times and pain relief for elderly women with hip fractures. New care routines were implemented to address these issues, improving patient outcomes. Additionally, the paragraph discusses a school's efforts to improve boys' academic performance and reduce girls' stress and insecurity through campaigns aimed at changing social norms and attitudes, resulting in significant improvements in boys' grades and a more inclusive school environment.
🏛️ Gender Mainstreaming for Quality and Efficiency in Governance
The final paragraph emphasizes the concept of gender mainstreaming, which involves integrating a gender perspective into all aspects of governance and daily activities. It explains how monitoring tools that include gender can lead to a deeper analysis and detection of previously unknown quality issues. The paragraph also discusses the importance of applying gender mainstreaming to improve management, resource allocation, and service delivery, ensuring that they are based on individual needs without gender bias. It concludes by highlighting the benefits of gender mainstreaming for both legal protection and quality control, and invites interested parties to learn more about supporting gender equality work.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Gender Equality
💡Gender Mainstreaming
💡Public Services
💡Municipalities
💡Efficiency
💡Pedestrian Walkways
💡Icy Roads
💡Ambulance Services
💡Gender-Disaggregated Statistics
💡Educational Attitudes
💡Non-Critical Pedagogy
Highlights
Gender equality is recognized as a human right and a factor in the efficiency of public services.
The film demonstrates the benefits of gender mainstreaming for individuals and public service providers.
In Sweden, snow removal practices have gendered impacts due to different travel habits between men and women.
Women are more likely to be injured in accidents caused by icy roads, highlighting a form of gender inequality.
The cost of hospital care and lost productivity due to accidents is significantly higher than winter road maintenance.
Goga municipality officials analyzed snow removal from a gender perspective and found male areas were prioritized.
The municipality had to rethink its approach to snow removal to achieve gender equality without extra costs.
Clearing pedestrian walkways and bike paths before streets made the city more accessible for everyone.
Gender equality in snow removal can prevent suffering and costs due to accidents in slippery conditions.
Gender mainstreaming can improve the quality of all services by using gender-segregated statistics.
In Kalma, light stops were introduced to make nighttime bus travel safer for women.
Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg used gender-disaggregated statistics to improve ambulance services for women.
Boys' lower grades in school were addressed by changing norms and attitudes in the educational system.
Freya school's systematic campaign improved boys' school performance and reduced girls' feelings of stress and insecurity.
Gender equality work has often been sidelined in organizations, but gender mainstreaming aims to integrate it into core activities.
Gender mainstreaming involves applying a gender perspective to daily activities to combat inequality.
Monitoring tools that include gender provide a deeper analysis and can detect previously unknown quality issues.
Gender mainstreaming leads to increased legal protection, quality control, and efficiency in public services.
For more information on gender equality support, visit www.kcc.hawaii.edu.
Transcripts
gender equality is a human right but it
is also a question of the efficiency in
quality of public services this film
shows how gender mainstreaming can
benefit not only individuals but also
municipalities County Council's
and others who deliver publicly funded
services
it snows in Sweden and after the snow
falls the municipality plows the streets
in square so that we can get through
what does this have to do with gender
equality well women walk cycle and use
public transport to a greater extent
than men who travel more by car
this means that municipal snow removal
has different consequences for men and
for women this is a form of gender
inequality that we can put into figures
three times more pedestrians than
motorists are injured in single vehicle
accidents caused by icy roads most of
them are women hospital care and lost
productivity due to accidents in
slippery conditions costs four times as
much as winter road maintenance in cars
Goga municipality city officials
analyzed local snow removal from a
gender perspective and found that
typically male areas were prioritized
first the ring roads were cleared
usually late at night when only a few
trucks were passing through then the
major roads and streets were cleared
especially those leading to larger
male-dominated workplaces last to be
cleared were bus stops pedestrian
walkways and bike paths in other words
the municipality was prioritizing snow
removal for men above snow removal for
women this was not intentional of course
that were just doing things the way
they've always been done to solve the
problem
the municipality had to rethink its
approach three inches of snow are harder
to get through on foot that in a car so
was decided the pedestrian walkways and
bike paths should be cleared before the
streets infant schools were now given
first clarity because that's what
parents go first on the way to work
larger workplaces were given second
priority
but this time female-dominated white
places such as hospitals and municipal
facilities were also included pedestrian
walkways and bike paths leading to
schools were given priority 3 only when
this essential network have been made
accessible but the remaining streets and
roads cleared of snow working in this
order resulted in no extra costs for the
municipality but it did make the
allocation of resources more
gender-equal it also made the city more
accessible for everyone especially
children for whom driving is not an
option
gender equality means that women and men
enjoy the same rights obligations and
opportunities how municipalities and
County Council's shape their activities
is of course very important for equality
between women and men the Council of
European municipalities and regions CEM
R believes it is at the level of
municipalities and County Council's that
an equal society can best be created
because of their proximity to people's
everyday lives
gender equality is a right of citizens
but it can also be of utility for
municipalities and County Council's just
as gender equality in snow removal can
prevent suffering and costs due to
accidents in slippery conditions gender
mainstreaming can raise quality in all
services a key tool in this work is
gender to segregated statistics it is
only when we reveal how decisions
actions and treatment affect women and
men that we can detect differences and
do something about them here are some
concrete examples many women in kalma
avoided taking the bus home in the
evening the reason was that they felt
unsafe walking home from the bus stop
this was shown in a survey the solution
was to introduce so-called light stops
which means that passengers can ask the
bus driver to be let off at a specific
place even between normal stops the
driver will only open the front door and
makes sure that no one else gets off at
the same time lift has made nighttime
bus travels safer and more attractive
for both women and men
the ambulance services Sahlgrenska
University Hospital in Gothenburg some
years ago began compiling gender
disaggregated statistics they discovered
that three out of four patients with hip
fractures were women over the age of 85
the women had to wait longer for an
ambulance and received less pain relief
than the man for this reason they often
were in worse condition than the men
when they arrived at the hospital new
care routines were introduced emergency
dispatch personnel began giving women
the same priority as men and all
patients received equal pain relief in
the ambulance paramedics began carrying
out tasks previously only performed at
the emergency department so that
arriving patients could be taken
directly to radiology
now patients get to the operating room
more quickly this has resulted in fewer
patients suffering delirium which
shortens their stay at hospital and
reduces suffering especially for the
women
boys get lower grades than girls in
almost all school subjects for your
school engineer stat was no exception
when looking into what boys should be
like it was found they expected each
other not to study hard and to treat
school as unimportant instead they
sought status by shoving each other in
the corridors and being good at sports
they were noisy and took up a lot of
space even the teachers didn't expect
the boys to put as much effort into
their schoolwork as the girls a health
survey showed that the girls felt more
stress at school enjoyed their leisure
time less and felt less safe outdoors at
night to improve the boys school
performance and reduce the girls
feelings of stress and security the
school started a systematic campaign to
change norms and attitudes by increasing
teachers knowledge about norms that
inhibit girls and boys in their school
work introducing zero tolerance of boys
fighting even when only for fun
implementing non critical pedagogy among
students integrating sexy relationships
education into subjects such as Swedish
and civics the work with norms has
produced good results previously the
boys at Freya school performed below the
national average but in 2012 almost 80
percent of the boys finishing ninth
grade had achieved the targets for all
subjects the same proportion as the
girls however the work must continue new
teachers must also be educated about
norms and efforts to change boys
attitudes towards school reduce girls
feelings of stress and insecurity are
continuing
a lot of good work has been done over
the years to promote gender equality in
municipalities and counter councils
however if one compares an organization
with a house you could say that gender
equality work has often been consigned
to the garden shed it has been carried
out in separate projects without any
real impact on day to day activities
gender mainstreaming is about moving
gender equality into the house it is
only when we achieve a gender equality
perspective in day-to-day activities
that we can offer women and men
equivalent high quality services gender
equality is created and maintained where
we make decisions allocate resources and
create standards therefore it is in the
regular decision-making and in day to
day activities that we have to combat
gender inequality that's what's meant by
gender mainstreaming it means making men
and women visible in policy documents at
all target levels from the most
wide-ranging plans to concrete
operations to work plans we're talking
about gendering management writing men
and women makes it possible to set
gender equal objectives paving the way
for monitoring and illustrating gender
differences there is a difference
between writings students and writing
girls and boys in school or between
writing the elderly and elderly women
and men when you include gender among
your monitoring tools you get a deeper
analysis and can detect quality issues
that were previously unknown simply
because the tools for analysis were too
blunt in this way gender mainstreaming
leads to bonuses like increased legal
protection and quality control when
control and monitoring are functioning
as they should
you can track a decision through the
entire organization there is a common
thread running from decisions of the
assembly through the municipal boards
and the administration to the everyday
work in the field that is to say
if the assembly sets the goal of
providing equivalent and high-quality
services for women and men it can be
achieved but the reverse is also true if
the Assembly does not consider it a goal
will almost certainly not happen gender
mainstreaming means applying a gender
perspective to all our day-to-day
activities - snow removal ambulance
transport classroom teaching and all the
other services that we deliver on behalf
of the citizens through gender
mainstreaming we can improve our
management of governance structures we
ensure that waiting times allocation of
resources and how people are treated are
all based on individual needs without
being distorted by prejudice ignorance
or routines it's about justice for women
and men girls and boys but it's also
about efficiency and quality to learn
more about solid support for gender
equality work please visit
www.kcc.hawaii.edu click
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