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Do you wish your students to consider equal pay for men and women, uncover blind spots or develop specific measures designed to improve pay equality? Compose a workshop on equal wage.

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Duration: 00h05min

5

Greeting

Duration: 00h05min

Aims

Explain and clarify the objectives of the workshop

Materials and preparation

We recommend that students do the quiz and the survey in advance. In addition, they should read the background information about equal pay.

You can also integrate these items into your workshop, in which case it is helpful if all participants have access to a computer.

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Duration: 00h10min

10

Brainstorming

Duration: 00h10min

Identify and record existing knowledge about the subject, any known solutions, and possibly any reservations or opposition. These posters can be referred back to in the course of the workshop.

Aims

Gathering participants' existing knowledge in order to be open to new input

Variations

Group or individual posters

Materials and preparation

Create posters and hang them somewhere visible in the space

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Duration: 00h20min

20

Show video clip and discussion A

Duration: 00h20min

Discussion questions :

  • What really stood out for you ? Why ?
  • Renata Lisser, department head at Buechberg Senior Centre, explains the usefulness of wage guidelines. Do you find that a good solution for achieving the target of equal pay for equal work ? Do you find these guidelines sufficient for wage transparency ?
  • What do you think of the proposals made by Priscilla Tripodi, the employee, to make salaries public ?
  • What do you think of government wage controls ?

Aims

Be inspired by real examples on video

Variations

All in plenary ; small groups

Before showing the video clip, you can also show the entire film. This will make the workshop 30 minutes longer

Materials and preparation

The video clip is the basis and starting point of the workshop.

Projector, sound system, laptop, video clip

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Duration: 00h30min

30

Show video clip and discussion B

Duration: 00h30min

Discussion questions :

  • How could we help the managing director, Claude Werder, to develop a transparent salary system for all positions within the company without regard to gender ?
  • What would be meaningful, non-discriminatory criteria for determining salaries ?

Then present results/ideas to the whole.

Aims

Develop awareness of the difficulties in designing a non-discriminatory wage system

Variations

All in plenary ; small groups

Materials and preparation

The video clip is the basis and starting point of the workshop.

Projector, sound system, laptop, video clip

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Duration: 00h45min

45

Role play

Duration: 00h45min

You just met Priscilla Tripodi, an employee at the Buechberg Senior Centre, in the video. Before she became pregnant, she was an active nurse and also responsible for training. After her maternity leave, she wants to work part-time (40 %) and only continue the leadership role as training manager with an appropriate salary.
Role play a conversation between Ms Tripodi and the nursing supervisor Renata Lisser, also seen in the video, in the following three variants :
Outcome 1 : Ms Lisser gives in entirely to the wishes and wage demands of Ms Tripodi ;
Outcome 2 : Ms Lisser points out the difficulties that Ms Tripodi's demands are causing and suggests a compromise ;
Outcome 3 : Ms Lisser refuses to consider Ms Tripodi's wishes and demands, and demotes her to care specialist with a corresponding drop in pay.

Then discuss in the whole group how the two roles felt in each of the variants and which variant would be most likely to occur in the real world.

Aims

Using examples from the video, role play a situation that could occur and thus uncover any blind spots you may have

Variations

All do the role play in groups of two ; two students do the role-play while the others watch. Then discuss in the whole group how the two roles felt in each of the variants.

Materials and preparation

The video clip is the basis and starting point of the workshop.

Projector, sound system, laptop, video clip, name tags for the role play

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Duration: 00h30min

30

Panel discussion

Duration: 00h30min

At the beginning of the video clip, you were introduced to social researcher Lucia M. Lanfranconi. As part of her research, she has found that equal pay is often not addressed in voluntary, in-house projects because any wage increases are not an attractive option for the company. What options are there to address the problem of wage inequality between men and women on a broader, even national level ? (For example, wage controls in companies with sanctions for non-compliance ?) Set up a panel dis-cussion with the following roles :

  • Representative of employer/managing director : categorically against national solutions
  • Union representative : in favour of national solutions
  • Equality expert : in favour of equality measures with which as many companies as possible go along

Then discuss in the whole group how the two roles felt in each of the variants.

Aims

Put yourself in different positions in order to become aware of difficulties that might arise when implementing the measures

Materials and preparation

Possibly nameplates for the role play
Students can be asked to research current real-world position papers and opinions reflecting their assigned positions in advance

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Duration: 01h30min

90

Creative tour

Duration: 01h30min

Step 1 :
Word associations : participants each have 30 sec. to write down on individual post-it notes as many words as possible that they associate with a phrase suggested by the facilitator (random words such as spring, solidarity, or having to do with the focus of the workshop). Quantity over quality here ! The post-its are collected after each round and then hung on an "inspiration board" poster.

Step 2 :
This is where the actual tour of the three posts begins. Participants have 5 minutes at each post and then move on until they have visited them all. The objective is to develop as many new and creative measures to improve pay equity in a company as possible.
Inspiration board : The post-it notes generated in step 1 can be rearranged or added to.
Random input : On the basis of random objects presented to them, participants write or draw associations related to the focus of the workshop.
Idea map : This is a brainstorming session in which the idea is passed around a circle, with each new participant providing new concepts, references and links.

Step 3 :
Inspired by the material from the tour and the elements on the poster from the beginning of the workshop, participants come up with 3-4 ideas for achieving greater pay equity within a company. This is done in pairs selected by the facilitators. Duration : 20 minutes.

Step 4 :
The pairs present their results in brief. Then the participants are given 5 glue dots each with which they can individually evaluate the ideas ; all of their points can be awarded to a single idea or split among the ideas as they wish.

Step 5 :
The pairs then decide on 2-3 of the most popular ideas and use them to develop concrete solutions or measures. Duration : 20 minutes.

Aims

Generate as many associations and ideas as possible in the opening phase, and then reduce them and make them more precise

Step 1 : Inspiration in a relaxed mood
Step 2 : Generate new associations for the workshop focus
Step 3 : Develop ideas from (combinations of) associations
Step 4 : Evaluate ideas
Step 5 : Take these ideas and develop them into concrete solutions/measures

Variations

For more information about these and other creative methods, see http://becreate.ch/.

Step 2 :
Depending on the number of students and available time, the tour can be done individually or in groups of 2.

Materials and preparation

  • Reserve a large space and set up before the workshop
  • 2 boxes with enough pens, post-its, adhesive dots
  • Flipcharts (2 each for inspiration board, random input and idea map) and pin boards (for hanging the flipcharts for the inspiration board and idea map), enough A3 sheets for sketching out ideas
  • Tables to facilitate random input
  • Random objects for random input

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Duration: 00h10min

10

Evaluation and conclusion

Duration: 00h10min

Aims

Receive impressions and feedback about the workshop

Materials and preparation

The e-learning box contains a template for the evaluation of the workshop which you can use to conclude your event.

Please adapt the template to your workshop.

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Additional elements

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