Background and aim of the project The Gender Benchmarking and Mainstreaming Project wants to reach more effective methods for the managing and steering of gender equality work in organisations. The project is a cooperation between the county administrations of Western G taland and Stockholm. The aim of the project was to test and develop a method to evaluate the gender equality work of various organisations in cooperation with ten participant companies and organisations.
Gender equality can be a quality that can be judged and rewarded.
A good gender equality work must be carried on all the time, be followed up, evaluated and changed as in all other work. Via a benchmarking or quality certifying system organisations can find good routines for this. The method is founded on analysis of relevant and existing documentation according to a number of criteria. In the project the participants gender equality work was analysed and compared with each other according to the two-dimensional structure above. To be able to look into the areas that were to be judged, the participant organisations brought forward documentation according to a special specification.