A recent
study from EIGE on gender equality in decision-making shows that important
positions of power in the EU are predominately held by men, especially in the
finance sector where only 1 in 25 top jobs are held by a woman. The Eastern
Partnership countries - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and
Ukraine – wanted to check the situation in their countries and carried out a
similar study using EIGE’s know-how.
The findings show that women are
remarkably absent from the power structures in Eastern Partnership countries.
On average only 17 out of 136 senior ministerial positions in Eastern
Partnership countries were held by women in 2015. Women constituted 16 % of the
elected Members of Parliament, well below gender balance. In the highest
ranking civil servant positions, women accounted for only 17 %. The study
“Women in Power and Decision-Making in the Eastern Partnership Countries” not
only allows direct comparisons and benchmarking among Eastern Partnership
countries, but also with EU countries.
The study provides an overview
of the most recent policy and legislative developments in the areas of women’s
and men’s access to and participation in power and decision-making. It also
presents a selection of good practice examples from the region to promote
women’s participation in decision-making, ranging from gender mainstreaming in
the Georgian Defence Ministry to temporary support measures for women in
Moldovan politics.
The data collected for this
study and other Eastern Partnership data will be incorporated into EIGE’s new
Gender Statistics Database. The database contains comparable statistics on the
situation of equality between women and men in the EU and its neighbourhood in
a single, easy to use source.
You can find the study on “Women
in Power and Decision-Making in the Eastern Partnership Countries” here.
For more information about
EIGE’s cooperation with EU Candidate and Neighbourhood countries please contact Kristaps Petermanis.
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