Gleichstellungspolitik in Europa

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Gender - policy
Beijing and EU-25
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ACTUAL SENSIBILITIES
Woman and Civil Society
Women's trafficking
Woman and Mother
Woman and Science
Woman and Environment
Woman and Exploitation
Woman and Economy
Woman and Human Rights
Woman and Politics
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REALITIES WITHIN 150 YEARS
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POLITICAL HIGHLIGHTS

• The international Womens Day looks back to a
  long tradition. It was product of a long fight
  for equal treatment and voting rights for women.
  Initiated by Clara Zetkin (1857-1933), the very
  first International Womens Day took place on
  March, 19th 1911. Millions of women from Denmark,
  Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the USA
  particpated. By choosing this date it was thought
  to underscore the revolutionary caracter of the
  Womens Day. For the 18 th of March was the
  memorial day for the victims of the german
  revolution of 1848 in Berlin.
• The principal demands were formulated as
• fight against the imperialistic war (I. WW)
• full electorate rights for women
• social security regulations for the workers
• sufficient protection for women and children
• 8-hours working day
• equal salaries for equal labour
• constitution of minimum wages

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ACTUAL SOCIAL REALITY exploitation
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ACTUAL SOCIAL REALITY trafficking
Trafficking in human beings for the purpose of
sexual and other forms of exploitation is a
highly lucrative business, largely controlled by
powerful criminal organizations. Most vulnerable
to being trafficked are women and girls, as they
are often subject to multiple gender-based
discrimination.
Already at the Fourth World Conference on Women
in Beijing 1995 trafficking in women and girls
was a major concern.
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ACTUAL SOCIAL REALITY trafficking
Traumreise in die HölleWie den "modernen
Sklavenmarkt" bekämpfen? Es ist noch nicht einmal
klar, wie viele Frauen angeboten und verkauft
werden. Das US-amerikanische Justizministerium
nennt 600.000 bis 800.000 Menschen, die jährlich
weltweit über Grenzen hinweg gehandelt werden,
achtzig Prozent davon sind Mädchen und Frauen, in
siebzig Prozent der Fälle handelt es sich um
sexuelle Ausbeutung.
Dream-trip to hell How to fight modern
slave-markets? It is not even clear, how many
women are offered and sold globally. The US Dpt
of Justice calculates 600.000 to 800.000 human
beings, which are commercialized internationally
each year 80 of them girls and women. In
some 70 of these cases it is a case of sexual
abuse
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ACTUAL SOCIAL REALITY trafficking
In Deutschland kamen 2003 die meisten
Zwangsprostituierten aus Russland, Rumänien und
Bulgarien, so das Bundeskriminalamt. Der
Großteil der Frauen wird durch Agenturen
angeworben, aber auch durch Freunde und entfernte
Verwandte. Im Westen ein wenig reich werden mit
babysitten oder kellnern - das ist ein
Hoffnungsschimmer für viele. Doch am Reiseziel
werden sie dann eingesperrt, vergewaltigt und
gebrochen. Knapp ein Drittel nimmt Prostitution
zwar wissentlich in Kauf, aber keine diese
Hölle.Rund vierzig Prozent der Frauen reisten
legal ein. Für die neuen EU-Mitgliedstaaten, wie
Polen, Tschechien und Lettland, besteht keine
Visa-Pflicht. Aus Rumänien und Bulgarien kommen
immer mehr Zwangsprostituierte, denn mit den
EU-Assoziationsverträgen ist die visafreie
Einreise für 90 Tage möglich.
In Germany the majority of forced prostitutes
comes from Russia, Rumania and Bulgaria. The
majority of the women is hired by specialised
agencies, by friends or relatives. Coming to earn
some money as babysitter or waitress they find
themselves easily in captivity, are violated and
abused. About 1/3 of the migrants exspect
prostitution but never the violent circumstances.

About 40 of the women enter the western
countries legally. For the new EU-member
countries, like Poland, Check Republik or Latvia
there is no visa obligation. But also from
Rumania and Bulgaria the migration of forced
prostitutes increases because through the
association status a 90 days visa is accessible
Dr. Elmar Römpczyk, FES, Vilnius 27.04.04
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ACTUAL SOCIAL REALITY trafficking
Täter- statt OpferschutzEinen Kampf ganz
eigener Art haben Frauen in Passau aufgenommen -
ihre Waffe ist die Moral. Mitglieder des
Katholischen Deutschen Frauenbundes wollten nicht
länger auf die Sexanzeigen in der "Passauer Neuen
Presse" blicken. "Auf den ersten Seiten geht es
um ethische Normen, auf den letzten Seiten wird
die Menschenwürde mit Füßen getreten", beschreibt
Walburga Wieland, Vorsitzende des Frauenbundes,
die Widersprüche in einer Ausgabe der
Tageszeitung.
Protecting victim not suspect A struggle of
certain characteristics was started by women in
Passau, southern Germany. Their weapon is their
moral. Members of the Catholic German Womens
Circles didnt want to see any longer the sex
commercials in the daily Passauer Presse.
On the first pages of this catholic paper they
deal with ethic values on the last page, human
dignity is humiliated through sex advertisement
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ACTUAL SOCIAL REALITY terror
At least 198 dead and 1.400 injured resulted
from the worst terrorist attack in Spain
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INTERNATIONAL Context
Womens rights Human rights In many countries
girls and women are discriminated systematically
No access to education, Legally discriminated,
Genitally mutilated,put to marriage against
their will In many countries whole people are
discriminated systematically No access to
education, Legally discriminated, Ethnically
mutilated the west-european women and the
west-european peoples are incomparably much
better off than 4 ½ billion of other people on
this globe Therefore in Europe-25 we have to
concentrate much on the subject Gender but
there is also need for practised solidarity among
the peoples, where still prevails the classical
womens discrimination...
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National
Organization for Women
Women Mathematicians
Women's Health Issues, Pregnancy Information,
Parenting Tips ... 4000 Years of Women in
Science Women's biographies Distinguished Women
of Past and Present A Celebration of Women
Writers League of Women Voters Phenomenal Women
Of The Web Society of Women Engineers
Womenin the INTERNET
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traditional POLITICAL ACTIVITY
The woman doesnt live through
man alone
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traditional POLITICAL ACTIVITY
actresses Christine Lahti and Whoopi Goldberg, 2
of 800.000 women demonstrating against Bush
Bushs government accused of a femal policy
similar to the muslim extremists and the
Vatican. Participants from over 60 countries
main subjects Birth controle, REPRODUCTIVE
RIGHTS, health prevention
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NEW labour AWARENESS
Volvo lets women do the design The car industry
identified women as target group and takes them
in account. Far in the front we find Volvo.
Volvo presented at the Car-Saloon in Geneve a
car concept that was exclusively desigend by
women YCC ("Your Concept Car"). Advantages of
YCC you see while entering the parking slot all
the edges of your car there is an extra space
for the handbag within reach of the drivers seat
and the paint is mud repelling as a teflon pan.
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in perspective EU Gender-policy
Innovations through Gender Mainstreaming
Gender-Mainstreaming is strategy and method for
equal treatment among the gender. the German
government has installed a Gender Competence
Centre at the Humboldt-Universität in
Berlin. The EU-Commission has no Commissioner
for gender
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in perspective EU Gender-policy

• support for gender approach in economy
• support for equal participation and
  representation
• 3. support for equal access to social rights for
  both genders
• 4. support for gender mainstreaming in relation
  to all civil rights
• 5. support for overcoming the gender stereotypes

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in perspective EU Gender-policy
1. Support for gender approach in economy
1.1. reforcement of gender dimension as part of
European employment strategy 1.2. more
effective implementation of structural funds to
facilitate gender aspects 1.3. development
of strategies to support gender
Mainstreaming in all policies that effect the
role of women in economy
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in perspective EU Gender-policy
2. Support for equal participation and
representation
2.1 assure a balanced relation between women
and men in political decision making
processes 2.2 assure a balanced relation
between women and men in economic and social
decision making processes 2.3. assure a
balanced relation between women and men in the
Commission
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in perspective EU Gender-policy
3. support for equal access to social rights for
both genders

• 3.1 improvement of knowledge and follow-up of
  the approved common regulations in the area
  of social policy
• 3.2 monitoring of gender mainstreaming in the
  conception, implementation and evaluation of
  policies and activities of the Union that might
  have effects for daily life of women and men

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in perspective EU Gender-policy
4. Support for gender mainstreaming in relation
to all civil rights

• 4.1 monitoring of the Unions judicial system
  and court decisions concerning gender and if
  necessary presentation of improved judicial
  norms
• 4.2 support of womens rights as human rights
• 4.3 fighting gender-related violence and
  trafficking for purposes of sexual abuse

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in perspective EU Gender-policy
5. Support for overcoming the gender stereotypes
5.1 awareness-building for gender
mainsztreaming 5.2 overcoming gender related
stereotypes in the various EU-policies
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Methods Instruments of EU gender mainstreaming

• Intensify cooperation among EU-authorities
  endowed with gender-related activities and
  their coordination
• 2. Enforcement of the procedures related to
  gender withinthe Commission
• 3. Amplify partnerships outside of EU
  institutions, like
• 1. cooperation with the social actors
  (unions) on the European level 2.
  cooperation with NGOs
• 3. cooperation with other international
  organizations
• 5. Agree upon indicators and benchmarks
• 6. information, reports and evaluation accessible
  for the public

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Lessons learnt from FES - Projects
Gender Mainstreaming should mean effective
equality of chances requires effective project
management
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Lessons learnt from FES - Projects
Leading cuestions for planning The problem that
is the starting point for formulating the working
strategy and the plan of activities affects women
and men in a different way? If so how and
why? how should be formulated the project
target on the basis of this analisis to meet best
with the own intentions and with the donors
requirements?how should be formulated the
working strategy? how should be formulated the
indicators? Which actors are capable to
implement with us the gender-sensitiv working
strategy? How could we probably improve their
and our own capacity?
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Lessons learnt from FES - Projects
Leading cuestions for implementation How can we
assure that the professional and the
methodological input will be gender sensitiv
(investigations, experts, incomings, capacity
building etc.)? How will we assure that men and
women will enjoy in the same way the projects
activities (e.g. adecuate place, time, children
are taken care of, etc.)?
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Lessons learnt from FES - Projects
Leading cuestions for Evaluation /
Monitoring Which are the quantitative impacts
through the implementation of the project Which
are the qualitative impacts through the
implementation of the project? (refers directly
to the appropiate indicators)
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gender mainstreaming
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