1. Equal Opportunities for Women and Men

Monitoring Law and Practice in New Member States and Accession Countries of the European Union

The findings and recommendations in Equal Opportunities for Women and Men are based on monitoring conducted by national gender equality experts and local NGO representatives in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Turkey.

The report describes existing national institutional mechanisms, policies, and programs on gender equality, and highlights several shortcomings. The research identified a general lack of awareness among men and women about how gender inequality affects their daily lives as well as a lack of political will to enforce existing national and EU gender equality policies.

The report's key recommendations include a call for governments to establish regular monitoring of how equal pay principles are practiced in both the public and private sectors and making these monitoring results public; they urge the governments in Bulgaria, Hungary, and Poland to adopt official gender equality strategies; and appeal to all governments to collect gender disaggregated statistical data, without which gender equality policies can hardly be successful.

2. Equal Opportunities for Women and Men Report
Monitoring Report issued in the framework of the Program on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men in the European Accession Process (EOWM) show that, despite positive changes in the standards on gender equality generated by the process of EU accession, significant areas of concern related to ensuring de facto equality for women and men in the accession countries remain.
The EOWM report on Romania shows that although Romania has a well-articulated and non-discriminatory de jure framework, many steps remain to be taken in order to bring the principles of equal opportunities between women and men into everyday life.
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3. Girls and Boys. Partners in Private and Public Life
The guide is a useful instrument that contains conceptual definitions, theoretical aspects, methods, activities and exercises for achieving a gender partnership education for the high-schools teachers. Authors: Elena Balan, Elena Anghel, Marcela Marcinschi-Calineci, Elena Ciohodaru

4. Gender Differences in Rising and Educating Children
The guide presents theories, concepts and intervention procedures, approaching the essential aspects of gender counseling, and representing an important resource for the field of rising and educating children.
Authors: Domnica Petrovai, Bogdana Bursuc, Raluca Anca, Raluca Tataru, Diana Calenic

5. Guide on Education for Preventing Trafficking in Women
The guide approaches the issue of trafficking in women, and not trafficking in human beings in general. It contains useful information for training.
This guide was used at trainings with young institutionalized girls that represent the most exposed target group to the risk of being trafficked.
Translation, adaptation and new materials: Ana Maria Oancea, Alexandru Postu, Diana Calenic

6. The Women Access on the Labor Market
The present volume intends to offer a "gender-sensitive" image on the relationship between women and the labor market in 2003 in Romania. The vast majority of gender policies which aims at labor market have started from the political power in force at one moment in Romania. The approach proposed by this volume is a different one and the target-group which those measures aimed are the Romanian women.
Authors: Valentina Marinescu, Valentina Pricopie

7. Be European: Promote and Sustain the Equal Opportunities for Women and Men!
This material is a civic education guide for high school teachers and contents examples of  actions for promotiong and sustain the equal opportunitties for women and men in education, on the labor market and in the social life.

8. Be European: Get Involved in the Community Problems!
This guide is for teeanagers and contents instruments and resources for the equal opportunities for women and men promoter: how to organized lobby and advocacy campaigns, fundraising campaigns, how to work with mass-media for promoting and respect the women rights etc.

9. Guide of Information and Good Practices in the Area of Equal Opportunitties for Women and Men
The guide is an important and useful resource for the Citizens Advice Bureau counselors regarding the equal opportunities for women and men problems, an instrument for the citizens needs.

10. Gender Mainstreaming. Methods and Instruments
A guide for the NGOs members, which can be use also by the public administration representatives, mass-media and by political and economical policy makers.

11. Who to develop a Healthy Lifestyle?
The present volume offers informations and know-how about the promotion of a healthy lifestyle between the teenagers.
Authors: Domnica Petrovai, Bogdana Bursuc, Raluca Tataru, Maria Nistor

12. Domestic Violence in Mass Media. Case study: Main National Romanian Newspapers

The project was focused on the analysis of the domestic violence phenomenon in the mass media. Taking into consideration the diversity of the communication methods, the authors chose only a certain type of media - six national Romanian newspapers.

Authors: Valentina Marinescu and Simona Stefanescu.

13. Personal Optimization of the Young Girls from Orphenages

The guide is an instrument for the psyhologists and social assistants that works with the young girls from the orphenages. Such an instrument was necesary because of the trafficking in women phenomenon that has a semnificative proportion in the entire world, but especially in the South-East European countries.

Authors: Elena Angel, Diana Vasile.

14. Your Connection to Europe!

The guide contains general information about the European Union and it was developed for teenagers and was published in the framework of "Ambassadors of Europe" Project.

Authors: Raluca Anca, Diana Calenic, Alina Chiriac, Elena Salomia.

15. Domestic Violence in Mass Media. Guide for Good Practices for Journalists

The guide appeared in the framework of „Violence against Women" Program and represents a developing of the CPE research and monitoring projects from 2003 and 2004.

Authors: Valentina Marinescu, Simona Stefanescu.

16. Equal Opportunities for Women and Men - An European Value
The publication provides information concerning the steps to be taken and the needed orientation support in the field of advancing equal opportunities for women and men and refers to themes related to gender discrimination and equal treatment on the labour market: acces and employment, labour relations, maternity protection and sexual harrasment.
Authors: Livia Aninosanu, Florentina Bocioc, Dana Martis, Irina Sorescu.

17. Zero Tolerance for Domestic Violence
The guide is an instrument that intends to increase the awarness and information level of the high schools teachers, school counselors and pupils regarding the consequances of the domestic violence phenomenon.
Authors: Mugur Daniel Ciumageanu, Mihaela Taranu.