why gender? where are we?
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Why Gender? Where are we?. Agenda Looking back Society today - some statistics Our Member organisations today Why gender. Our aim: Growing Membership. 2000 : Realized decline in membership 2001 : Forum III in Cyprus 2003 : Round Table in the Netherlands 2004 : Forum IV. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE
FORUM IV Growing Membership
through Gender Awareness!
Why Gender?
Where are we?
EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE
FORUM IV Growing Membership
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Agenda
• Looking back
• Society today - some statistics
• Our Member organisations today
• Why gender
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FORUM IV Growing Membership
through Gender Awareness!
Our aim:
Growing Membership
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2000: Realized decline in membership
2001: Forum III in Cyprus
2003: Round Table in the Netherlands
2004: Forum IV
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WAGGGS Mission:
To enable girls and young women to develope their fullest potential as responsible citizen of the world.
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Today´s society
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% of employed people in EuropeFull-time incl. part-time
FemaleMale FemaleMale
Denmark 44 % 72 % 67 % 81 %
Ireland 33 % 64 % 43 % 67 %
Italy 32 % 63 % 36 % 65 %
Portugal 48 % 69 % 54 % 71 %
Sweden 40 % 67 % 68 % 70 %
UK 35 % 70 % 62 % 75 %(European Research)
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Average Salaries in Europe (monthly)
Male: 1.817 Euro
Female: 1.235 Euro
Difference: 31 %
With university degree: 23 %
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Development of the salary within 4 years
female male
Leadership Position + 53,3 % + 79,1 %
Highly qualified Position + 57,1 % + 59 %
Administration/Office + 46 % + 42,3 %
Unskilled worker + 20,3 % + 28,4 %
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Female in the highest decision making bodiesin the 50 largest business companies (in each country)
Slovenia 23 %Norway 21 %Latvia 19 %Sweden 18 %Estonia/UK 15 %Denmark/Slovakia 13 %Finland 12 %Germany 10 %Greece 8 %Ireland 7 %Austria/Belgium/France 6 %Iceland/Portugal/Spain 4 %Italy 2 %
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What leads to inequality in our society?• unfavourable first choices of job
• maternity leave
• less education through companies
• less opportunities to climb the career
• more social (family) work leads to more restrictions in the choice of a job
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Why Gender-Equality?
• Society needs the best …
• The right of the individual …
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Our Questionnaires
18 Total
4 Girl only associations
14 Mixed associations
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How is the balance between women & men in your National Board?
2 Less than 20% are women
4 21-40% are women
6 41-50 % are women
2 More than 51 percent are women
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How does your Association ensure the equal participation of women and men in all levels of your Association?
2 We don´t address this topic at all4 We don´t have the problem: we have
equal participation. 2 Our constitution and/or other laws
ensures that we have equal (around 50/50 %) participation on all levels of our Association
6 Other
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How does your Association's educational programme and training prepare girls and young women for leadership roles?
1 We don't focus on preparing for leadership roles.7 We think that going through our grades is the
best way to prepare for leadership roles.4 We have special programme activities for some
of the age groups to prepare for leadership roles.7 We have special programme activities for all our
age groups to prepare for leadership roles.
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Is your Association's educational programme relevant to the role of women in your society today?
4 Our program is more than 10 years old and needs updating to be relevant
8 Our programme was recently updated, but we did not specifically look at the role of women today.
6 Our programme is recently updated and is very relevant in this field
1 Other
When your Association last revised your educational programme. did you consider the gender issue?
4 Yes9 No4 Partly
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How do gender issues and preparation for equal partnership get addressed when you train young leaders in your Association?
4 We don't address this topic.10 We don't address this topic separately, but
we touch the subject through other topics.2 We address this as a separate topic in some
of our courses for patrol leaders and young adult leaders.
1 We address this as a separate topic in all our courses for patrol leaders and young adult
leaders.1 Other
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Does your Association focus on the advantages of being a single sex/co-educative association when you seek partners?
Mixed Single-sex
4 1 Not at all
6 We use this sometimes
3 1 We use this very often
1 1 We use this constantly, it is our main “selling point”
0 1 Other
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What do we see in all those data:
Society does not offer equal gender opportunities
Our association doesn´t focus on Gender
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Challenge you• … on educational programme
• … on training
• … on structure and management
• … on finance
• ... Branding
that leads to membership growth