Collection of resources

✨ Get to grips with the challenges of gender equality in Europe, particularly within the social economy, by exploring this collection of resources we’ve put together for you!

Initiatives and tools: 

EUROPE 

• Set the tone  

  is a European alliance for the promotion of safe and inclusive working environments for all genders. This project promotes equality and respect at the heart of the world of work.

BELGIUM 

• Gender toolkit
  For the social economy sector developed by CREDAL.
  

SPAIN

• Guide to drawing up equality plans in Spanish companies
  Proposes a methodology, with technical guidelines, tools and models, for carrying out the process of negotiating, drawing up and implementing an equality plan in Spanish companies.
  
  
• Training modules for drawing up equality plans
  These training capsules, made up of videos and multimedia content, provide a didactic understanding of the different phases in the process of drawing up and implementing equality plans in Spanish companies.

FRANCE 

• Gender equality guide, my company is committed
  This guide is designed to help all those working in VSEs and SMEs who want to commit their company and get involved in setting up an equality initiative. It provides a simple deployment method and directly operational best practices, illustrated with real-life examples from the world of VSEs and SMEs.

• L’Université du nous
  Provided free access to toolkits on collective intelligence and shared governance.

• Advice booklet
  Promoting gender equality within social economy organisations.

Articles, reports and publications: 

EUROPE 

• Gender Equality and Women Empowerment in Social Economy Enterprises: Enablers and Barriers – Diesis

• Gender equality strategy 2020 – 2025 – European Commission

• 2024 report on gender equality in the EU – European Commission

BELGIQUE 

• Quotas law: where are the loopholes? – Alterechos
  

• Women’s access to positions of responsibility in Belgium – Pour la Solidarité 

• Cahier de l’Observatoire: overview of the social economy, 2021 – ConcertES
  

• Gender, the blind spot of the social economy – CREDAL

• What is the role of the social economy organisations in tackling gender inequality? – Compagno 

• Serial tensions: Investigating gender and work in the governance of Belgian cooperatives – Marlier

ESPAGNE 

• Female Entrepreneurship: Can Cooperatives Contribute to Overcoming the Gender Gap? A Spanish First Step to Equality – Batisda

• Mujeres en la Economía Social y Solidaria: ¿alternativas socio-económicas para todas? – Di Masso

• El emprendimiento de mujeres en España dentro de la Economía Social: Análisis en el periodo 2016-2020 – Roldán

• Mujeres, cooperativismo y economía social y solidaria en iberoamérica – Marcuello Servós

FRANCE

• Overview of gender equality in the social economy, 2019 – CNCRESS

• Professional equality between men and women in cooperatives –  CoopFR 

• Why combine the feminist economy with the social economy? – Verschuur

• Why is the glass ceiling still there? – Di Paola