Grants to men and women equality of measures, opportunities, and situations, falling within the scope of the innovation genome model. It is assumed, that the issue of equality of sexes in general, manifested as equal accessibility of education, equal rights, equal pay, equal access to labour market, equal access to vocational training, equal promotion opportunities in employment, equal social benefits and rights, equality in performance of social and political roles, equality as regards employment security, equal right to maternity leave and unpaid extended post-maternity leave in a given social and economic system is already maintained; any gaps in this respect may be only institutionally neutralized.
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Innovation, Innovativeness, and Gender: Approaching Innovative Gender
Ewa Okoń-Horodyńska (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland)
Copyright: © 2015
|Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8611-3.ch013
Abstract
The chapter deals with the search for the sources of broadly understood creativity in solving various problems: social, political, practical (related to everyday life), family, economic, culture, religious, etc. wherever traditional approaches proved ineffective. These creative solutions - unconventional and having their practical application - became innovations. How multi-dimensional one's predispositions to solve problems are affects the person's capabilities to develop innovations. In view of the growing importance of gender studies, the already mentioned elements should be supplemented with one more - gender. Hence, the concept of Innovative Gender is introduced where men and women are granted equality of measures, opportunities, and situations encompassed by the innovation genome model. The starting point for Innovative Gender research is the establishment of four dedicated matrixes containing information (variables) that describes a given area, taking into account gender issuer, with collaboration playing a major role here.