The area of Employment, Socioeconomic Development and Foreign Action launched a new project to promote the employment of 150 unemployed women and no previous professional experience. The ISOS project offers participants the opportunity to carry out non-working internships for six months in companies, in order to obtain their first experience in the sector for which they were trained.
The Island Councilor for Employment, Socioeconomic Development and Foreign Action, Carmen Luz Baso, and the Councilor for Equality and Prevention of Gender Violence, Priscila de León, held a meeting with the beneficiaries of the program, who are facing the last part of the preliminary training at the beginning of internships in companies.
Carmen Luz Baso points out that this project, managed by the Insular Foundation for Training, Employment and Business Development (Fifede), “has, among its objectives, promoting female employability and helping to alleviate the imbalance that exists between men and women when it comes to finding a job. The counselor maintains that, despite advances in terms of equality, “women continue to be in a disadvantaged situation compared to men when it comes to accessing employment.” She considers that, among other reasons, this happens “because of family responsibilities and the difficulties of reconciling.”
Priscila de León explained that one of the problems detected and those they are trying to solve, in the Tenerife Violeta Strategic Framework, «is that women find it difficult to find their first job after training. We give the opportunity for first experience in what they prepared so much for.
The project has a budget of one million euros and is co-financed by the Canary Islands Development Fund (fdcan), within the Strategic Framework for Insular Development (Medi). During the last month, the participating women have undergone different training in social and work skills and in job search techniques.
