This project will encourage professionals and organisations providing services for children – such as nurseries, schools, medical practices, hospitals and social services – to promote active, positive engagement with fathers and father figures in children’s lives.
Wider goals of the project include:
- Increasing the opportunities and support for fathers to engage in positive parenting
- Reducing gender stereotyping associated with caring roles
- Reducing occupational gender segregation in professions serving children and young people
- Reducing gender stereotyping in the career choices of current and future generations
- Promoting family-friendly working practices for both men and women as parents.
These goals will be achieved through monitoring and reporting on the implementation of the Gender Equality Duty in Scotland; and by identifying and sharing examples of good practice.
The project will inform the development of practices which:
- Promote the well-being and life opportunities of children
- Value carers and caring roles
- Support a healthy work/life balance and increase opportunities for both men and women.
