WOMEN IN POLITICS ROMANIA

Intercultural Institute Timisoara

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Women as: Elected people (national, regional and local)

What Romania does for its women Intercultural Institute Timisoara Action plan

Women as elected people – national level Percentage of women in parliament increased from 3.5% in the mid 90's to

7.3% in 1998 and 9.65% in 2008-2012 (11.2% women in the

Chamber of Deputies and 5.9% of women in the Senate).

Current Parliament: 55 women in the Chamber of Deputies out of 412,

only 1 of the minority out of 20; in the Senate 13 women out of 137 Compared with an average of 20% women in the parliaments of the world,

Romania is at bottom of the list

The are only 5 women Ministers (Justice, Environment, Labor, Family and

Social protection, Social dialogue, IMM) out from 20

There was never a women as a Prime Minister

Women in local and regional elections Out of the 368 county councils presidential candidates, only 19 were

being women, and no one was voted Municipalities of cities, towns or villages, 970 applications were filed by

women. However, they represent only 6.8% Mayor in Bucharest among the 18 candidates running for mayor were no

woman candidates

In general regarding women on the party lists most come from the People Party – 221, and the Social Liberal Union – 205. Also, Democrat Liberal Party recorded 122 female applications, National Union for Romanian Progress 84 female application, Nationalist Party 79 female application and Hungarian Minority Party 12 female application. There are 8 party in the parliament out of 40 legal registered

Local and regional women representation Only 1 woman mayor of a big city Some position as mayor held by women are: 4 in

Galati county, 5 in Prahova county, 1 in Sibiu county, 3 in Iasi county, 4 in Constanta county, 1 in Arges county

There are 0 women as presidents of County Councils

Local Council – ex. in Timisoara, 18% are women

Women as elected people – European level The average of Romanian women in the

European Parliament, is 36.4% of MEPs

No RO Commissioner being a woman

Woman in politics

What Romania does for its women?

National initiative to introduce in the legislation gender quotas, of at least 30% of female candidates - it is a proposal

Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Protection that includes also Equal Opportunities for Women and Men

Anti-discrimination law and National Council for Anti-Discrimination

Established in 1992 by a group of teachers from Timisoara, with support from local authorities the Council of Europe

Mission: to promote the values and principles of the Council of Europe concerning the intercultural approach in education, cultural policy, research and civil society

Intercultural education

Education for democratic citizenship

Support for Roma communities

Cross-border cooperation

Research

Culture

I.I.T & Women – In politics

Local Youth Council from 2005 – until today Project citizen – promoting competent and

responsible participation with government at all levels

Participation in international trainings courses: “Young Women for a Participative, Open and Diverse Society”; Empowering women in EuroMed region

KeyRoma project

Other significant numbers

Number of kindergartens decreased by 85% from 1990 to 2011

71% of domestic violence victims are women

2 years maternity leave

95% of victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation are women

Action plan

Collaborating with the parties from ethnical minorities groups and others

Supporting Roma women movement Collaborating with the national imitative

regarding gender quotas Others

Thank you for your attention!

Romina Matei

Project coordinator

Intercultural Institute Timisoara