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The project entitled PROMETEJ addresses the issue of work-life balance of employees through the prism of their gender, possible parenting and different professional profiles. The project also takes into account the consequences of the new reality brought by COVID-19 (remote work) and encourages companies and organizations to establish their organizational structures on the basis of gender equality. Because the majority of care and other unpaid work is being performed by women, as many as 80% of them agree that the epidemic has negatively affected their lives (Deloitte, 2021). In the same survey, almost half of the women stated that they feel they should always be available to the employer and a quarter of them are afraid that they will eventually be faced with the choice between private and professional obligations. In this context, the project addresses the challenges of work-life balance of employees: (1) low awareness of possible solutions and measures to improve the work-life balance among employees; (2) markedly poorer work-life balance of persons, according to their gender, parenthood and professional profile; (3) lack of knowledge and competencies of company managements to establish organizational structures based on gender equality; (4) the unequal position of men and women regarding the performance of care obligations, conditioned by gender stereotypes. The specific objectives of the project are: (1) to acquaint 15,000 employees (men and women) with concrete measures and solutions to improve their work-life balance; (2) to include 125 employees in 5 selected companies in an educational program designed to empower employees to improve work-life balance; (3) to train 35 mentors in selected companies to implement the educational program through a two-tier mentoring scheme. One of the direct goals of the project is (also) to overcome gender stereotypes in the labour market, which will be possible through the institutional capacities of consortium partners.