Slovenië heeft een primeur in Oost-Europa te pakken. Het is namelijk het eerste land in de regio dat het homohuwelijk legaliseert. Ook mogen homostellen nu kinderen adopteren.
Lees verder en bekijk het interview bij Voor Elk Wat Nieuws.
Category Archives: Gender equality
Socialistische seks
Mijn bespreking van Kristen Ghodsee’s “Waarom vrouwen betere sex hebben onder het socialisme”.
Lees verder bij Donau.
Women to rule a district of Istanbul for first time in history
ISTANBUL— Largely gone unnoticed during the contested mayoral election in Istanbul, for the first time in Turkish history, female candidates managed to win in more neighbourhoods than men in a district, Turkey’s largest administrative unit after a province. The neighbourhoods of Kadıköy, a district of Istanbul with over half a million inhabitants, will now be ruled by 12 female mukhtars and nine male counterparts, reported bianet.
The Kadıköy district on the Asian side of Istanbul already had 10 female mukthars, heads of a neighbourhood, before the March 31 municipal elections but in two of the three neighbourhoods where the mukhtar changed, female candidates took over. In a country in which only 17.4% of MPs are women — the global average is 24% — and barely eight per cent of municipal politicians are women, this is a very significant development. This could well be the beginning of a trend in which women play a bigger role in Turkish politics in Istanbul and other urban centers like Ankara and Izmir.
The cosmopolitan Kadıköy district faces the historic city centre of Istanbul on the European side of the Bosporus. Kadıköy is also the name of the most prominent neighbourhood of the district, a residential and commercial area with numerous bars, cinemas and bookshops, and the cultural centre of the Anatolian side of Istanbul. The centre-left Republican People’s Party (CHP) is usually successful in Kadıköy in both local and national elections. Since the mid-1990s the mayor has been from the CHP. The CHP traditionally has been much more open to women and women’s political representation than the conservative AKP.
Outside Istanbul women have been successful in the location election too. The left-wing Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has won the elections in three metropolitan, five city and 46 district municipalities, according to the latest figures from the state-run Anadolu Agency. Using the co-chairpersonship system, the party nominated both a woman and a man for each of the municipalities that it ran for office. Although only one person can be officially nominated for a municipality, a co-chair can come into office after the elections. In five districts that HDP won in the southeastern province Mardin, all five candidates were women.
100 Years Ago, Peri-Khan Sofieva Became the First Muslim Female Member of Parliament
In many ways, World War I was a watershed when it came to women’s political rights. Before the war, women had the right to vote in only a few countries. In 1893, New Zealand became the first country in the world in which women won the right to vote, although in Sweden some women had voting rights since the 18th century. The first female members of parliament were elected in Finland in 1907. Yet thanks to the suffragette movement – the 1910s saw the first International Women’s Days –, women’s contribution to the war economies, and revolutionary worker’s movements around the world, many national parliaments adopted universal suffrage during or following the war.
Read further in Muftah Magazine.
Of Sex and Socialism
‘Sex at last!’ was the headline of an article in the German weekly Die Zeit about the opening of the first sex shop in Leipzig, East Germany in June 1990. These were the dying days of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), a country whose citizens “were not allowed to show themselves naked or see the naked bodies of others, except at the nudist beach.” “The workers and peasants,” the article went on, “could only practice voyeurism under the covers of the marriage bed.” The collapse of the Berlin Wall, Communism and the impending unification were giving them, at last, the opportunity to make up for lost time, according to the article’s author.
Read further in Muftah Magazine.
The gender gap in Romania
2018 ended on a high note: the gender gap in Romania continues to close. According to new figures from the renowned World Economic Forum, Romania has closed the overall gender gap to slightly more than 71%, which places Romania 63rdin the global ranking, just behind Croatia (59), Kazakhstan (60) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (62) but quite far behind our neighbours Bulgaria (18), Moldova (35) and Serbia (38).
Read further [in Romanian] in Dilema veche.
At Current Pace, It Will Take Eastern Europe and Central Asia 153 Years to Close the Gender Gap
According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2018, published yesterday by the World Economic Forum, the world has collectively closed 68% of the overall gender gap, as measured across four key pillars: economic opportunity, political empowerment, educational attainment, and health and survival. Stagnation in the proportion of women in the workplace and women’s declining representation in politics, coupled with greater inequality in accessing health and education, offset improvements in wage equality and the number of women in professional positions, leaving the global gender gap only slightly reduced in 2018 compared to 2017.
Read further in Muftah Magazine.
An Interview about the Glass Ceiling with Dana Reizniece-Ozola, Minister of Finance of Latvia
Dana Reizniece-Ozola is Latvia’s Minister of Finance. Before assuming this post, she served as the minister for economic affairs from November 2014-February 2016. She was a representative in the Saeima, Latvia’s parliament, for the Union of Greens and Farmers (ZZS) from 2010-2015. While in the Saeima, Reizniece-Ozola was chairperson of the Commission on Education, Culture and Science, member of the Legal Affairs Commission, and member of the European Affairs Commission. Ms. Reizniece-Ozola is an accomplished chess player and has held the title of Woman Grandmaster since 2001. In this interview, she talks about the glass ceiling and gender equality in Latvia.
Read further in Muftah Magazine.
Sahara occidental. “De nos jours, la lutte sahraouie prend de nouvelles formes”
Pour relancer des pourparlers bloqués depuis 2012, l’envoyé onusien pour le Sahara occidental a convié les différentes parties impliquées – le Polisario, le Maroc, l’Algérie et la Mauritanie – à une réunion à Genève les 5 et 6 décembre. Une militante sahraouie revient sur le chemin parcouru et explique les aspirations de son peuple.
Dans Courrier international.
Bulgarian Constitutional Court Calls Treaty to Combat Violence Against Women Unconstitutional
Last month, the Bulgarian Constitutional Court rejected the Istanbul Convention, a treaty intended to prevent violence against women — from marital rape to female genital mutilation –, as unconstitutional. The July 27 ruling likely kills any chance the treaty will be ratified by the Bulgarian parliament.
Read further in Muftah Magazine.
