| Abstract [eng] |
Despite a great interest in differences of women’s and men’s status in the labour market, implementation problems of gender equality, there is no steady and unite approach concerning the selection and application of assessment indexes for gender status in the labour market and there is little attention paid to the fact that not only economic and social factors, but cultural and institutional environment of the country impact differences of women’s and men’s status. In the theoretic part of work there are indicated the factors influencing gender participation in the labour market and there are defined assessment sequence of gender participation in the labour market. In the second part there are assessed differences of women’s and men’s status in the labour market. In the third part of thesis, following the collected and systematized information in the first and second parts, which is related to assessment indexes for gender participation in the labour market and the carried out survey by experts, there was completed a complex identifying index for the differences of women’s and men’s status in the labour market and there was assessed and compared women’s status in the labour market in Lithuania and other European countries-members. Survey results show that women’s and men’s possibilities to participate in the labour market are not the same and to confirm the theoretical presumptions that differences of the women’s and men’s status in the labour market are influenced by the unity of different factors, and cultural and institutional factors are not in the last place. The cultural environment of the country plays an important role in the women’s and men’s life; besides, women’s and men’s status in the labour market depends a lot on the decisions made by the government, it executed policy, ability to distinguish underlying areas of activities. |
