The concept:

About me: Eva Søgnebotten

• Elected - municipal council in Stange, 2007• Deputy mayor for the Labour, since 2011  • Laywer and have worked 10 years in the

military with leadership responsibilities and property-related tasks.

• I also run my own business for approx. 15 years working with leadership development, organizational development, workshops and coaching, and also a lot with balance between work and private life for different leaders in business, politics.  

Family and home• I am married, mother of three grown up

children aged 16, 21 and 23. • I live on a farm at the countryside, only 6

km from the train station that takes me by train to Oslo airport in 45 minutes and to Oslo a little bit longer.

About Stange municipality• 20.000 people, living in Stange. • One of the largest agricultural communities

in Norway and also large areas of forest. • The population growth in Stange with the

construction of double-track rail and a new four-lane E6 through the municipality.

• Most characteristic is agricultural landscape by Norway's largest lake, lake Mjøsa, and here your find many large farms.

My engagementfor this political & democracy gender issure:

In Hungarian:

This pilot project between KS in Norway and its sisterorganization TÖOSZ in Hungary

Participate as deputy mayor in projects with focus on motivation and understanding for increased female participation in politics and public life

Gender issue in Czech• Participating in a 18 month mentoring

program «Give women a Chance» as a mentor

• Its objective is to promote women in politics at various levels. The project involves 10 Norwegian / Danish women politicians as mentors with both experience from parliament, county and local positions .

The history, roots and use of Women Can Do It - concept

• A training program for women

• Originated and running by the Norwegian Labour Party Women network.

• Conducted in approx. 30 countries worldwide since the Berlin Wall falled, like:

 

The history, roots and use of Women Can Do It - concept

Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Russia, Montenegro,

Moldovia, Macedonia, Libanon, Iraq, Palestine,

Sudan, Rowand, Mosambique, South Africa,

Zimbab, Nepal, Cambodia, Myanmar

• 3 – 7 days courses• 30 000 women has done the courses• normally with 2 trained workshopsleaders.

The connection: Welfare, democracy and gender issue

• Women Can Do It, helps to make this connection stronger

• Norway has the combination of high female

employment rate with high fertility rate.• In EU only Island has a bigger combination,

followed by Sweden and Danmark. • 7 of 10 women and 8 of 10 men are

working. 30 years ago, less than 50 % of the women was working.

The concept and workshops

Help, techniques and motivation for:• Giving women political influence• Increasing women`involvement in business

and organizations• To influence legislation• Strength womens self-knowledge and

mastery

 

 

The Manual contents:1. Introduction 4

2. Democracy and women’s participation 6

3. Communication 8

4. Argumentation, speeches, debates 13

5. Working with the media 16

6. Negotiations – resolution of conflicts 18

7. Networking 20

8. Advocacy and campaigning 22

9. Violence against women 26

10. How to arrange WCDI / Trainer skills 28

Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 2

Democracy and womens participation

Chapter 3

Communication

Specially about domination teqniques

What is Domination Techniques?

• Used by those in power against those who have less power.

• Often used by men towards womenIn politicsAt the workplaceIn the family

• In media

Chapter 4

Argumentation, speeches, debates

Chaper 5

Working with media

Chapter 6

Negotiations

Chapter 7

Networking

Chapter 8

Advocacy and campaigning

Chapter 9

Violence against women

Chapter 10

How to arrange WCDI / Trainer skills

How can you use this concept?

Political parties og groups

Workshops: – Learning by doing

What is needed to focus on?

Why talking about it here?• It is about democracy• Arranging WCDI is one way of increasing

women’s participation – a tool• Encouraging women to participate in

society, in NGOs, in political parties, speaking up at work or in the family, is important.

• Women’s are important and should be heard.

Why talking about it here?• Women Can Do It is both training for

specific organizational skills, and

• Gives opportunity for women to meet and form networks. WCDI can be arranged independently of an organization for the general purpose of increasing women’s participation in society, or

• It can be held within a party or organization

Brussel and South Sudan

Brussel last year as Hospitant at Oslo Region European Office in Brussels, duration: 1 month: Purpose: particular focus on women in politics and business, meetings in EU parlament, commision etc.

WCDI South Sudan - led workshops as head coach in a project to mobilize local women heading for political engagement / encourage voter participation among women

Maybe we can do something together?

Please contact me:

Eva Søgnebotten

+47 97662722 e-mail: eva@benow.no

Women can do it!

Thank you!

The manual for women

Activists- an introduction

Making invisible• Disregard a person, not giving the floor,

interrupt, speaking like a person is not in the room, not paying attention, overlook or ignore

• Neglect a personTaking a persons task or responsibilities

• The one exposed is being marginalized and feel insignificant through being ignored

• Men overrepresented in media

Heaping blame andputting to shame

• Women are told that they are not good enough

• Women is responsible for the situation

• If a women is not succeeding, the explanation is in their own personality

Ridicule• Make fun of someone, laughed• Laugh of a person and not with a person • Laugh when someone speak, a smile to

another person• Comparing a women to an animal

– Chicken• Women are portrayed as emotional or sexual

Withholding Information• Men talking only to other men• Taking decisions or exchanging

information after the meeting • Men's networking• Passing or exchanging

knowledge to only some people

Damned if you do, or damned if you don't

• Whatever a woman chooses is wrong• Either you is to passive or you are to

aggressive• You get punished for what you do and for

what you don't do • Women get a guilty conscience

Communication• In the political arena we need to be

conscious about how we communicate• Language is used to constitute reality

and to express opinions basedon that reality.

• People have different body language in different situations.

Working with the media• Contacting the media• Selling the story, in different ways

depending of the way of focusing.• The media as a partner.

Learn to cooperate with the media• How the media works• The interview

Violence against women• Discrimination of women is expressed in a

range of mechanisms at different levels.• Statistics show a horrifying

picture of the situation for women worldwide.

• What can be done?