{"id":9967,"date":"2026-02-13T00:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxygen.org.am\/?p=9967"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:39:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:39:38","slug":"decent-work-as-the-ground-of-resilience-yerevan-womens-group-meets-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxygen.org.am\/en\/news\/decent-work-as-the-ground-of-resilience-yerevan-womens-group-meets-employers\/","title":{"rendered":"Decent Work as the Ground of Resilience: Yerevan Women\u2019s Group Meets Employers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Women who completed capacity-building courses within the \u201cWomen Empowerment for Demographic Resilience in Armenia\u201d initiative, women preparing to return to work or take their first steps into the labor market, met with employers in Yerevan. This meeting became more than an information platform. It turned into a living bridge between lived experience, bought skills, and real opportunities waiting on the other side.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The meeting was organized in Yerevan on February 11\u201312 in cooperation with the \u201cSME Cooperation Association.\u201d What appeared was a space intentionally shaped to be safe and open: a space where dialogue mattered as much as job offers, and where understanding each other\u2019s realities was as important as discussing potential partnerships.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"In her opening remarks, Margarita Hakobyan, Executive Director of the OxYGen Foundation, spoke about the deeper value of such platforms. Effective cooperation, she emphasized, begins with listening. Honest conversations make it possible to find the real needs of both job seekers and employers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The women from the Yerevan group spoke about their professional skills alongside the lived realities that have shaped them: the responsibilities they carry, the transitions they have endured, and the quiet strength that rarely fits into a formal CV. Among them were single mothers, women caring for elderly family members, women forcibly displaced from Artsakh, and women on maternity leave. These were not stories framed as limitations. <\/span><\/p>\n

They were shared as evidence of strength, of responsibility carried quietly, of resilience shaped by circumstance, of the ability to navigate complexity. Throughout the capacity-building courses, trainers had consistently underlined this: experience is not something to hide. It is something to understand, articulate, and claim.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t