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EWE PROJECT Research in Spain. Situation and results. EWE Project. Research in Spain. Research not finished yet. To be finished by the 10th June. Questionnaires submitted till now: 7 employers, 6 trainers, 10 trainees. EWE Project. Advanced results.
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EWE PROJECT Research in Spain Situation and results
EWE Project. Research in Spain • Research not finished yet. To be finished by the 10th June. • Questionnaires submitted till now: • 7 employers, 6 trainers, 10 trainees.
EWE Project. Advanced results. • Young workers are preferred in general for several reasons: economic, preparation and flexibility. • Senior workers are preferred for very specialized jobs, or for hard jobs. • All the users perceive the age as a barrier. Some trainers pointed out the need of motivation. • Differences between hiring women or men: More than a half of the employers think there are real differences (economic, assertivity, communication competences, work in groups, conflictivity...).
EWE Project. Advanced results. • 50+ women don't work for: • Lack of opportunities. • Many years out of the labor market. • More inconvenients than advantages. • Family models. • Labor market should change: • Improve 50+ women skills. • Mixed programmes of training and job.
EWE Project. Advanced results. • 50+ women find attractive: • Any kind of job opportunity: they are flexible. • Services centered on the person. • Jobs that offer them the opportunity to fulfill economic expectations. • Have the right to get a retirement pension. • 50+ women competences: • Manual jobs. • Services focused on the person.
EWE Project. Advanced results. • Good examples: • Local programmes of home assistance to elderly people. • Special difficulties: • Long periods of inactivity. • Lack of professional skills.
EWE Project. Advanced results. • Highlights: • All the target groups agree that long periods of inactivity and the lack of professional competences are barriers for 50+ women. • Some trainers partially disagree and observed that 50+ women are more competent than what they think themselves, and pointed to the need of programmes to improve their self-steem.
EWE Project. Advanced results. • Highlights: • When asked about what 50+ women find attractive, employers and trainers focused on specific jobs. Almost 50% of trainees, giving some examples, answered that any job would be good. • The need of feeling themselves useful is a common idea expressed by the trainees, and for the trainers as well.
EWE Project. Advanced results. • Highlights: • Only 2 trainers and 1 employer was able to give a good example on 50+ women good practice. • When talking about job satisfaction, trainers and trainees pointed more on personal factors. Employers pointed more on socioeconomic factors.