{"id":448072,"date":"2020-03-08T17:44:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T17:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=448072"},"modified":"2020-03-08T18:18:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T18:18:52","slug":"talking-about-gender-equality-on-international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/talking-about-gender-equality-on-international-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking about gender equality on International Women&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>A solidarity march was organised\u00a0by several NGOs at Chi\u0219in\u0103u today. Such events are organised all over the globe on International Women&#8217;s Day. People\u00a0advocate for women&#8217;s rights and gender equality. So let&#8217;s talk about the gender gap in Moldova and see what are the realities that describe it.<\/p>\n<p>Moldova ranked <strong>23rd<\/strong> out of 153 countries in the <strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">Global Gender Gap Index<\/span><\/strong>, having a score of 0.757. The Global Gender Gap <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.weforum.org\/docs\/WEF_GGGR_2020.pdf\">Report<\/a> 2020 showed that\u00a0the Republic of Moldova offers equal opportunities when it comes to access to health and education. However, in such aspects as political empowerment and equal professional opportunities the equal rights are not so equal anymore.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>For example, only 25.7% of MPs in Moldova are represented by women (as compared to 74.3% who are represented by men),\u00a0 whereas 40.5% of legislators, senior officials and managers are represented by women ( 59.5% are men).<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipn.md\/ro\/peste-24-de-mii-de-femei-au-concurat-la-8008_1071044.html\">data<\/a> presented by Central Election Commission, with the support of UNDP Moldova,\u00a0more than 24 thousand women were registered in the local elections last autumn as candidates for mayor or local councillor.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\">That means 44% of the total registered electoral competitors were women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>After announcing the elections results, a number of 196 women became mayors, which represented 22% of the total number of elected mayors.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As compared to the 2015 elections, the number of elected women mayors went up by\u00a01%, whereas as compared to the 2011 and 2007 elections, there was an increase of almost 4%.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>The share of women entrepreneurs is at 33.9% (2017), with women who wish to start their own business facing many barriers,<\/strong><\/span><\/em> <span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.md.undp.org\/content\/moldova\/en\/home\/gender-equality.html\">stated<\/a> UNDP Moldova.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Moldova is among the countries with relatively low differences in income between genders. The Global Gender Gap Report stated that, the country has closed<strong> 74.9%<\/strong> of its gender pay gap, along with Slovenia (80.9%) and Lithuania (76.3%).<\/p>\n<p>Still, the biggest issues related to the gender gap in Moldova are related to patriarchal attitudes in families that limit educational choices and employment options for women, mostly unrecorded and undeclared discriminatory practices, unequal sharing of work and family responsibilities and stigmas of being weak or dependant on men.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/promundoglobal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMAGES-Moldova-English-web.pdf\">study<\/a> <em>&#8220;Men and gender equality in the Republic of Moldova&#8221;<\/em> conducted by Women\u2019s Law Center\u00a0 and Center for Investigation and Consultation \u201cSocioPolis\u201d, cooking, cleaning and laundry are only seldom performed by men.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>5.9% of fathers declared that they were never involved in childcare, 18.9% &#8211; in cooking, 29.6% &#8211; in cleaning and 44.9% &#8211; in laundry.\u00a0\u00a090,5% of men and 81,5% of women believe that for a woman the most important thing is to take care of the house and cook for her family.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take the message of one of the most important men in the country &#8211; Prime Minister Ion Chicu and see what are his main points when congratulating women on International Women&#8217;s Day. Here is the official <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.md\/ro\/content\/mesajul-de-felicitare-al-prim-ministrului-cu-ocazia-zilei-de-8-martie\">message<\/a> posted on the Government&#8217;s page:<\/p>\n\n[aesop_content color=&#8221;#ac3800&#8243; background=&#8221;#dee2fc&#8221; columns=&#8221;1&#8243; position=&#8221;none&#8221; imgrepeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221; floaterposition=&#8221;left&#8221; floaterdirection=&#8221;up&#8221; revealfx=&#8221;off&#8221;]Dear Women, In the role of Mother, Grandmother, Daughter and Sister &#8211; you are always the beginning and the spirit of life. Not coincidentally Women&#8217;s Day is celebrated at the beginning of spring &#8211; when nature revives. Woman&#8217;s love brings life, while her care and dedication nourish life and make it flourish. The woman&#8217;s heart is peace, it is the light and the heat without which life would not be possible. Thank you for sharing your best with us unconditionally, thank you for your patience and wisdom. Be happy and fulfilled, dear women! Ion Chicu<\/p>\n[\/aesop_content]\n<p>Not a word about women&#8217;s rights:\u00a0the right to vote, to studies, to work, to property, to social protection, to equal functions and wages. It&#8217;s like this day celebrates the women ability of giving birth, being patient and wise with all bad-mannered men, especially with those in power.<\/p>\n<p>An even worse phenomenon is the gender-based violence, which is still widespread in the country, while efficient mechanisms for combating and preventing domestic violence and systems for providing effective remedies to victims are lacking, as UNDP Moldova <a href=\"https:\/\/www.md.undp.org\/content\/moldova\/en\/home\/gender-equality.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>One in four women aged 15 years or older experienced physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner over the last 12 months.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>13 women were killed by one family member, and another 22 women lost their lives as a result of traumas caused by their partners since 2018,\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">as NGOs\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"http:\/\/stopviolenta.md\/noutati\/236-apel-comun-doamnei-zinaida-greceanii-preedinta-parlamentului-republicii-moldova-domnului-ion-chicu-prim-ministru-al-republicii-moldova.html\">official data<\/a>\u00a0revealed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statistica.md\/pageview.php?l=en&amp;id=3626&amp;idc=350\">study<\/a><em>\u00a0&#8220;Violence against Women in the Family&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics, found that <strong>63%<\/strong> of women experienced psychological, physical or sexual violence from their husband or partner and one in 10 experienced economic violence at least once. Rural, elderly and separated or divorced women had the highest rates of multiple types of violence.<\/p>\n<p>More about violence against women the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/violence-against-women-in-moldova-facts-and-figures\/\">Violence against women in Moldova. Facts and figures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that Moldova has made international and national commitments to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women, when ratifying the <strong>Convention\u00a0on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)<\/strong> and adopting the <strong>Law on Equality of Opportunities for Men and Women<\/strong>, as well as a series of national strategies and action plans.<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/the-dispute-of-the-day-should-moldova-ratify-the-istanbul-convention-the-answer-of-the-moldovan-ngos\/\">Should Moldova ratify the Istanbul Convention? The answer of the Moldovan NGOs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, when it comes to more concrete things such as\u00a0<strong>Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence<\/strong>\u00a0(Istanbul Convention), Moldovan politicians are really reluctant, as it\u00a0has not been ratified until today.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Moldovan people don&#8217;t really understand why they do need gender equality, their common mentality being still influenced by Soviet ideas regarding a <em>&#8216;correct&#8217;<\/em> role of women in the family, job and society. Just think about it:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>43% of men and 33,8% of women believe that by giving rights to women means that men are at loss.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>46,5% of men and 37% of women believe that when women receive rights, they take over the rights of men, <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">according to the <em>&#8220;Men and gender equality in the Republic of Moldova&#8221;<\/em> study.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>A solidarity march was organised\u00a0by several NGOs at Chi\u0219in\u0103u today. Such events are organised all over the globe on International Women&#8217;s Day. People\u00a0advocate for women&#8217;s rights and gender equality. So let&#8217;s talk about the gender gap in Moldova and see what are the realities that describe it. Moldova ranked 23rd out of 153 countries in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":448073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,56],"tags":[571,631,630,35,633,27,632,95],"class_list":["post-448072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-reportaje","tag-discrimination","tag-equality","tag-gender-gap","tag-important","tag-international-womens-day","tag-moldova","tag-rights","tag-society"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>A solidarity march was organised\u00a0by several NGOs at Chi\u0219in\u0103u today. Such events are organised all over the globe on International Women&#8217;s Day. People\u00a0advocate for women&#8217;s rights and gender equality. So let&#8217;s talk about the gender gap in Moldova and see what are the realities that describe it.<\/p>\n<p>Moldova ranked <strong>23rd<\/strong> out of 153 countries in the <strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">Global Gender Gap Index<\/span><\/strong>, having a score of 0.757. The Global Gender Gap <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.weforum.org\/docs\/WEF_GGGR_2020.pdf\">Report<\/a> 2020 showed that\u00a0the Republic of Moldova offers equal opportunities when it comes to access to health and education. However, in such aspects as political empowerment and equal professional opportunities the equal rights are not so equal anymore.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>For example, only 25.7% of MPs in Moldova are represented by women (as compared to 74.3% who are represented by men),\u00a0 whereas 40.5% of legislators, senior officials and managers are represented by women ( 59.5% are men).<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipn.md\/ro\/peste-24-de-mii-de-femei-au-concurat-la-8008_1071044.html\">data<\/a> presented by Central Election Commission, with the support of UNDP Moldova,\u00a0more than 24 thousand women were registered in the local elections last autumn as candidates for mayor or local councillor.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\">That means 44% of the total registered electoral competitors were women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>After announcing the elections results, a number of 196 women became mayors, which represented 22% of the total number of elected mayors.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As compared to the 2015 elections, the number of elected women mayors went up by\u00a01%, whereas as compared to the 2011 and 2007 elections, there was an increase of almost 4%.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>The share of women entrepreneurs is at 33.9% (2017), with women who wish to start their own business facing many barriers,<\/strong><\/span><\/em> <span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.md.undp.org\/content\/moldova\/en\/home\/gender-equality.html\">stated<\/a> UNDP Moldova.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Moldova is among the countries with relatively low differences in income between genders. The Global Gender Gap Report stated that, the country has closed<strong> 74.9%<\/strong> of its gender pay gap, along with Slovenia (80.9%) and Lithuania (76.3%).<\/p>\n<p>Still, the biggest issues related to the gender gap in Moldova are related to patriarchal attitudes in families that limit educational choices and employment options for women, mostly unrecorded and undeclared discriminatory practices, unequal sharing of work and family responsibilities and stigmas of being weak or dependant on men.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/promundoglobal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMAGES-Moldova-English-web.pdf\">study<\/a> <em>&#8220;Men and gender equality in the Republic of Moldova&#8221;<\/em> conducted by Women\u2019s Law Center\u00a0 and Center for Investigation and Consultation \u201cSocioPolis\u201d, cooking, cleaning and laundry are only seldom performed by men.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>5.9% of fathers declared that they were never involved in childcare, 18.9% &#8211; in cooking, 29.6% &#8211; in cleaning and 44.9% &#8211; in laundry.\u00a0\u00a090,5% of men and 81,5% of women believe that for a woman the most important thing is to take care of the house and cook for her family.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take the message of one of the most important men in the country &#8211; Prime Minister Ion Chicu and see what are his main points when congratulating women on International Women&#8217;s Day. Here is the official <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.md\/ro\/content\/mesajul-de-felicitare-al-prim-ministrului-cu-ocazia-zilei-de-8-martie\">message<\/a> posted on the Government&#8217;s page:<\/p>\n\n[aesop_content color=&#8221;#ac3800&#8243; background=&#8221;#dee2fc&#8221; columns=&#8221;1&#8243; position=&#8221;none&#8221; imgrepeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221; floaterposition=&#8221;left&#8221; floaterdirection=&#8221;up&#8221; revealfx=&#8221;off&#8221;]Dear Women, In the role of Mother, Grandmother, Daughter and Sister &#8211; you are always the beginning and the spirit of life. Not coincidentally Women&#8217;s Day is celebrated at the beginning of spring &#8211; when nature revives. Woman&#8217;s love brings life, while her care and dedication nourish life and make it flourish. The woman&#8217;s heart is peace, it is the light and the heat without which life would not be possible. Thank you for sharing your best with us unconditionally, thank you for your patience and wisdom. Be happy and fulfilled, dear women! Ion Chicu<\/p>\n[\/aesop_content]\n<p>Not a word about women&#8217;s rights:\u00a0the right to vote, to studies, to work, to property, to social protection, to equal functions and wages. It&#8217;s like this day celebrates the women ability of giving birth, being patient and wise with all bad-mannered men, especially with those in power.<\/p>\n<p>An even worse phenomenon is the gender-based violence, which is still widespread in the country, while efficient mechanisms for combating and preventing domestic violence and systems for providing effective remedies to victims are lacking, as UNDP Moldova <a href=\"https:\/\/www.md.undp.org\/content\/moldova\/en\/home\/gender-equality.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>One in four women aged 15 years or older experienced physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner over the last 12 months.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>13 women were killed by one family member, and another 22 women lost their lives as a result of traumas caused by their partners since 2018,\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">as NGOs\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"http:\/\/stopviolenta.md\/noutati\/236-apel-comun-doamnei-zinaida-greceanii-preedinta-parlamentului-republicii-moldova-domnului-ion-chicu-prim-ministru-al-republicii-moldova.html\">official data<\/a>\u00a0revealed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statistica.md\/pageview.php?l=en&amp;id=3626&amp;idc=350\">study<\/a><em>\u00a0&#8220;Violence against Women in the Family&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics, found that <strong>63%<\/strong> of women experienced psychological, physical or sexual violence from their husband or partner and one in 10 experienced economic violence at least once. Rural, elderly and separated or divorced women had the highest rates of multiple types of violence.<\/p>\n<p>More about violence against women the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/violence-against-women-in-moldova-facts-and-figures\/\">Violence against women in Moldova. Facts and figures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that Moldova has made international and national commitments to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women, when ratifying the <strong>Convention\u00a0on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)<\/strong> and adopting the <strong>Law on Equality of Opportunities for Men and Women<\/strong>, as well as a series of national strategies and action plans.<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/the-dispute-of-the-day-should-moldova-ratify-the-istanbul-convention-the-answer-of-the-moldovan-ngos\/\">Should Moldova ratify the Istanbul Convention? The answer of the Moldovan NGOs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, when it comes to more concrete things such as\u00a0<strong>Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence<\/strong>\u00a0(Istanbul Convention), Moldovan politicians are really reluctant, as it\u00a0has not been ratified until today.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Moldovan people don&#8217;t really understand why they do need gender equality, their common mentality being still influenced by Soviet ideas regarding a <em>&#8216;correct&#8217;<\/em> role of women in the family, job and society. Just think about it:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>43% of men and 33,8% of women believe that by giving rights to women means that men are at loss.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>46,5% of men and 37% of women believe that when women receive rights, they take over the rights of men, <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">according to the <em>&#8220;Men and gender equality in the Republic of Moldova&#8221;<\/em> study.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div><div  class='heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing' data-heateor-sss-href='https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/talking-about-gender-equality-on-international-womens-day\/' data-heateor-sss-no-counts=\"1\"><div class='heateor_sss_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\" ><\/div><div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_ul\"><a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" 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