Criteria and systems for professional promotion and promotions and non-discrimination on the basis of gender

Abstract

The legal guarantees to protect workers’ right to professional promotion and/or advancement in their profesional careers without suffering gender discrimination is a highly important issue in order to achieve an effective substantive equality between women and men in the labour relations field.

To eradicate or, at least, considerably reduce the observed horizontal and vertical segregation in our labour market today, it is necessary to identify key factors such as those preventing female workers from professional promotion or, at least, those making their promotion more difficult than in the case of their male colleagues. The aim of this paper/report is to point out the main key factors that should be taken into account and addressed when designing and implementing appropriate criteria and requirements for the systems of professional promotion in the labour relations in such a way that female workers can develop their profesional career without being directly, indirectly or socially discriminated against for gender reasons.