Promotional spot for the Department of the Interior marketing campaign
Currently, solely 2% of the officers of the physique are girls In the approaching weeks a name for 240 new positions will start For the primary time there shall be a reserve of 40% of positions for girls
The Department of the Interior, by the Directorate General for Prevention, Fire Extinguishing and Rescue, has began disseminating a brand new marketing campaign with the intention of accelerating the feminization of the Firefighters of the Generalitat. Specifically, the marketing campaign seeks to extend the variety of girls who seem within the subsequent name for entry to the Corps.
The Government is predicted to publish a brand new name to entry the essential scale of the Generalitat Fire Brigade within the first quarter of 2023, a name for 240 new locations with the applying for the primary time of a reservation of 40% of locations for girls .
Under the slogan “We want firefighters such as you”, the marketing campaign, which has been carried out in collaboration with the Diffusion General Directorate, has as essential goals to advertise the recruitment of girls within the subsequent name for entry and improve their illustration within the Corps. Likewise, it desires to offer visibility to girls within the Firefighters collective, promote the vocation of girls firefighters in the long run and transmit a contemporary and extra equal picture of the Fire Brigade of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
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Currently, solely 2% of the officers of the Generalitat Fire Brigade are girls. With the applying of the reserve measure of 40% of locations, Interior desires to reverse the present low feminine illustration. Along the identical traces, “the measure ought to make it doable to maneuver successfully in direction of equality and parity, whereas accelerating the rebalancing of gender within the composition of the workforce,” they level out from Interior.
In current years, the Department of the Interior has taken measures to appropriate the underrepresentation of girls in operational our bodies: campaigns have been launched to interrupt gender stereotypes and improve feminine candidacies; the scoring scales within the bodily entrance exams have been tailored; necessities corresponding to peak, and so on. have been diminished or eradicated.
In the final name for entry, a complete of 422 girls registered, a notably greater determine than within the earlier name (with 301 girls registered) and in 2019, the place 231 girls utilized for a place on the physique.