Translation of "non-traditional training for women " (English → French) :

In addition to traditional training, exchanges of experience and the identification of best practices are required in order to enable the phenomenon of interactivity to develop.

integrate specific ICT training for women within a broader process of cooperation between all the parties concerned: the education authorities and organisations, school and vocational guidance, the private and public sector, the training organisations, the lenders of capital, the central and/or regional and/or local authorities, equal opportunities organisations, undertakings, women's groups or associations; b) reorganise the school, university and vocational guidance services in such a way that they seek out rather than wait to be approached by the people concerned and encourage the participati ...[+++]on of girls in higher education, particularly in technical and technological fields c) encourage the participation of women and girls in specific ICT training courses by providing more decentralised and more widely distributed education and training facilities; d) develop awareness and information measures so as to offer women and those around them images of women engaged in non-traditional activities, particularly those related to ICT activities

The Committee highlights the importance of appropriate training for women, moving beyond the traditional mould, promoting on-going training, specialisation and the integration of women into the phenomenon represented by new technologies, so that society may gain a large number of highly qualified women whose participation at all levels – business, political and social – results from both qualitative and quantit ...[+++]ative criteria.

It is also important to encourage men and women to choose training opportunities which break with traditional labour market patterns and focus on equal opportunities training for men and women.

Women are particularly hard hit by unemploymet because the labour market remains a traditional model of distribution by sex. Women are still under-represented in relaion to men in vocational training and their training is less concerned with the occupations of the future. The introduction of new technologies threatens to promote even greater discrimination in employment both because of the lack of adequate training for women and the narrow choice of occupations for girls, ...[+++]while at the same vocational training for women is hamperedby their lack of adequate education and training.

The Commission wishes to stress te fundamental importance of adequate vocational training to meet the challenges of the future and considers that young girls an women are still concentrated in traditional women's work and are less prepared for occupations of the future, in particular as regards new technology.