social role

The combined effects of ageing and declining fertility raise questions about the claims and social role of elderly people and pose major economic and health challenges for the future.

In social dialogue, social partners assume an important role, responsibility and power.

Socialization for the traditional social roles of genders is demonstrated also in the vocational and study orientations.

They shall strengthen the role of voluntary employers' organisations as the social partners and parties to collective agreements.

Education and awareness-raising are important tools for achieving social changes and changes in the understanding of gender-based social roles and for overcoming gender stereotypes.

The Union recognises and promotes the role of the social partners at its level, taking into account the diversity of national systems.

economic life, equal participation and representation in decision-making, social and civil rights, changing of gender roles and stereotypes.

Furthermore, women politicians must have support in a wider social and political environment in which they opt to assume an active role in politics.

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on Obesity in Europe - role and responsibilities of civil society partners, SOC/201, September 2005

By changing of social values, by the development of science and accompanying technolgies the physician's position, role and working method is being changed.

Equal partnership and a balanced role of women and men in the family life are the foundation for implementing equal opportunities in a wider social context.

Emphasizing the importance of culture for social cohesion in general, and in particular its potential for the enhancement of the status and role of women in society,

If the life on social margin is the most threatened in Slovenia, socioeconomic factors, or generally speaking, economic poverty play an important role in this context.

In this article, there is presented a set of exercises in social medicine for students of medicine which reinforce the role of a future physician as lecturer and adviser.

Authoress deals with some basic social conditions which enable safe motherhood and integration of mother role with the employment of women at the end of the 20th century in Slovenia.

It can be concluded that personal and social factors play an important role in the occurrence of postpartum depressions, i.e. in minor as well as major postpartum depressive episodes.

An important sector of the culture are also the media that have a decisive role in creating the image of a modern individual and shaping the viewpoints on the social roles of women and men.

Social patterns strongly determine gender roles of individuals in the society, therefore it is important that the socialization environment provides a model for ensuring the gender equality.

The genesis of pospartum depressive disorder involves personality and social factors. The object of the study is their role in pospartum blue, postpartum neurotic depresion and major postpartum depressive episode.

The system of education and schooling frequently reproduces stereotypical social roles of women and men, reflected both in educational curricula and programmes, as well as in the vocational and study orientations.

i) exchange of information and experience concerning structure, management and financing of the social assistance system as well as competence and role of the state, municipalities and non-governmental organisations;

The partners hereby agree that the funds for compulsory health insurance remain autonomous and outside the state budget as a special part of public finances, and that the role of the social partners in managing these funds be ensured.

All above mentioned international organisations highlight in particular the significance of awareness-raising with a view to overcoming stereotypical cultural patterns associated with gender roles in all areas of social and private life.

A balanced role and participation of women and men in science and research are important for the development and operation of the society, which is based on gender equality and takes into consideration the needs of different social groups.

Noting that the landscape has an important public interest role in the cultural, ecological, environmental and social fields, and constitutes a resource favourable to economic activity and whose protection, management and planning can contribute to job creation;

Those documents emphasise that gender equality should not be understood as implying that women and men are the same or similar but as acceptance of difference or distinctness between women and men and as equal valuation of those differences and of different social roles.

Establishing conditions for such a society is not only the role of the state and its gender equality policy; an important influence in this respect is exerted also by the economy and different social organizations and particularly the individuals in their mutual relations.

Reducing inequalities and overcoming the stereotypical social roles in education by systematically integrating gender equality perspective in the planned and implementing curriculum, in teaching material and in the programmes of vocational training in the area of education and schooling

Data about the increasing number of socially threatened population in Slovenia, some observations concerning the actual state measures on the domain of social policy and the role of the Republican Institute on employment at the solving of long-term unemployment are given in the contribution.

In order to fully implement these rights, the change of the traditional social patterns and overcoming the stereotypes on the role of women and men in the society and providing the environment where the life of women and men is not restricted by any form of violence and exploitation, are required.

In order to promote media and advertising policies that will provide equal opportunities for women and men and eliminate the stereotypes on the role of women and men in the society, it is necessary to adopt the measures that will promote the formulation of such messages as will change the social values and patterns on the stereotypes and roles of women and men.

Through the curricula, programmes, the methods of teaching and directly through the relationships between the genders during lessons and extra-curriculum activities, the stereotypes and gender roles are formed. Therefore it is important that the entire system of education and schooling is based on providing equal opportunities for women and men and that it introduces certain special measures that will eliminate inequalities and overcome stereotypical gender social roles in different areas, ranging from directing to certain educational programmes to promoting different sports activities.

IN ORDER TO establish a mutually agreed legal framework and a basis for their cooperation, and having in mind the basic purposes and objectives of promoting economic and industrial development assistance in developing countries and countries in transition, and the upgrading of economic and social roles of industry, by promoting the benefits of development in those countries, and

Recognizing the importance of productive and freely chosen employment for all workers, the economic importance of part-time work, the need for employment policies to take into account the role of part-time work in facilitating additional employment opportunities, and the need to ensure protection for part-time workers in the areas of access to employment, working conditions and social security, and

Without prejudice to Articles I-5, III-166, III-167 and III-238, and given the place occupied by services of general economic interest as services to which all in the Union attribute value as well as their role in promoting its social and territorial cohesion, the Union and the Member States, each within their respective competences and within the scope of application of the Constitution, shall take care that such services operate on the basis of principles and conditions, in particular economic and financial conditions, which enable them to fulfil their missions.

To discuss psb today is to discuss its social role and significance.

Regardless of her social role or status, knowledge, needs and wishes, woman is expected to continually care for the self and for others.

This is a sure indication that an orientation towards the female body is a common denominator of women's magazines and that as such it must have a social role.

The knowledge she extracts from these supplements is not just the practical, instrumental knowledge used in the child's upbringing, but it is also an instrument used to constitute her social role of consumer.

Honesty is the impression of unity between social and private roles, although social roles are never the same as individual identities.

underlined the role of the social partners in the modernisation of the social protection process.

This distinction was also extended to other social roles of both sexes.

The newspresenter in the populist version of the television news is 'all-wise', 'a machine without subjectivity', 'a person who knows everything and imparts it to me' (M. Morse); he/she is absolutely honest, and his/her social role should be in correspondence with his/her projected, or constructed, private identity.

In recognition of the important environmental role played by the nut sector in protection against erosion, fire prevention and preservation of indigenous genetic material, and of its important social role in keeping people on the land and thus furthering preservation of the countryside, it is appropriate, for the year 2001, to grant to those producer organisations whose improvement plans expire in 2001, and who continue to fulfil the recognition criteria, continued financing of their plans within the 2002 budget.

Gender divisions are vehicles for effecting the division of social roles and the establishment of power relations.

By analyzing various forms of address, we can pinpoint various methods for the social construing of women readers and (re)production of stereotyped divisions of social roles.

The Conference emphasises the social significance of sport, in particular its role in forging identity and bringing people together.

Today's debates on the role and significance of psb in ex-socialist countries are comparable to those in western countries in the 1970s and 1980s.

Small and medium-sized enterprises play a decisive role in job creation and, more generally, act as a factor of social stability and economic drive.