"""Equal rights – Equal pay – Equal pensions"" Expanding the scope of implementation of gender equality actions and legal standards towards achieving gender equality and combating poverty in Croatia"

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Main objectives: To provide actions, standards and measures and to raise awareness on societal problem of gender pay gap (GPG) and gender gap in pensions (GGP), thus to prevent higher risks of poverty for older women in Croatia; to raise knowledge on the issue within the representatives of public authorities, public and private companies, trade unions and high school students on national and local level. Activities: In-depth national research focusing on 3 business sectors: Manufacturing; Finance and insurance; Human health and social work. Educational tool and program; National Legal framework and bargaining for equal pay and pensions; Raising awareness on the issue and dissemination of results through mutual learning and campaign; Direct beneficiaries: approximatively 3130 representatives of private and public companies, national, local and regional authorities, trade unions, CSOs, ministries, high school students and professors, pensioners, MPs, gender experts, researchers. Indirect beneficiaries: Approximatively 800 survey respondents and 12200 stakeholders included in awareness raising activities and Croatian citizens, especially women. Results: In-depth knowledge on reasons for and strategies against GPG and GGP; National legal framework for the implementation of gender equality and reduction of GPG; Educational tool for direct work with target groups to raise knowledge on GPG and GGP; Mutual learning event with experts and relevant stakeholders to share knowledge and solutions to the issue; National campaign and promotional activities to sensitize relevant stakeholders and Croatian citizens about GPG and GGP. Project deliverables: 3 internal research reports; 1 Final project report integrating the research results; 4 Educational workshops; 1 Educational program; 1 National legal framework; 1 Collective agreement; 2 National campaigns on EU equal pay day; 2 Educational videos; 1 Web site and FB; 22 issues of monthly magazine.