Luisa Vinciguerra, Women For Europe, Girne 2011

Luisa Vinciguerra - MORE WOMEN IN SENIOR POSITIONS 1

1. ECONOMY, GENDER, ...AND THE PROJECT'S MISSION

2.ECONOMIC STABILITY AND GROWTH: MORE WOMEN IN SENIOR POSITIONS.

3.SITUATION IN VARIOUS SECTOR - THE CALL OF THE PARLIAMENTARY
ASSEMBLY OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE

4.ROLE AND PROMOTION STRATEGIES OF INNER WHEEL: PROMOTING
AWARENESS, PROMOTING EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP.

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The mission of the Project is
"A EUROPE FOR WOMEN, WOMEN FOR
EUROPE:
THE ROLE OF THE INNER WHEEL”

Luisa Vinciguerra - MORE WOMEN IN SENIOR POSITIONS

The Inner Wheel Members of the European
Countries, which have a medium high socio-
INNER WHEEL WOMEN cultural target, are cultured and active in their
professions, and have been and are also the
protagonists of this season in which the
European Union has dedicated constant
attention to such problematic themes.

Only in more recent years has growing attention
been given to the problem of access of women
A GENDER APPROACH

to retributive work, to the problems of female
work, and the European Strategy for
Employment has established the objective of
increasing female employment rate and of
promoting equal opportunity (removing the
existing inequalities).

 The Women remain  Women’s limited access
considerably under- to top management and
represented in top decision-making posts is
management, the result of multiple
including in economic forms of discrimination
to which they are
and social decision-
exposed throughout
making bodies.
their lives.


“Women are under-
represented in all forms of
Opinion of the leadership positions: political
European Economic leadership, the senior civil
and Social
Committee on Links
service and corporate
between gender boardrooms. At the same time,
equality, economic the companies where women
growth and
employment rates, are most strongly represented
October 2009 are also the companies that
perform best financially”.


“An equal participation of women
and men in decision-making
processes is a democratic and
economic necessity. In the
current economic situation it is
Report on Equality all the more important to
between women and mobilise all talents. This is not
men, European the time to waste skills and
Commission, 2009
production potential because of
outdated perceptions of women’s
and men’s roles and
leadership abilities”.


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An example:
…the Women are in gray….


It is necessary In addition

to set up and effectively
positive measures should be
implement far-reaching and
envisaged to help women
comprehensive anti-
break through the glass ceiling
discrimination policies

to introduce progressive
which holds them back in the
measures to enable women to
area of professional
reconcile family and
competition.
professional responsibilities


 Too few women are in the highest
posts in politics

 Too few women are leaders in the
public service

 Too few women are in decision-
making posts in major companies

 Too few women are leaders in
political parties and trade unions


 combat gender discrimination in education
and employment;
 ensure reconciliation of private and working
life;
 tackle the gender salary gap;
 promote training on gender equality in
schools and public administration;

 support the preparation and implementation
of training programmes and databases
geared to supporting women in their
professional careers and in access to top
management and decision-making posts in
the public and private sectors;
 ensure that the gender dimension is
included in all calls for public tender;
 promote the feminisation of post titles;

 set an example by adopting action plans
aimed at improving the representation of
women in decision-making bodies in all
branches of administration, at local, regional
and central levels, as well as in state-owned
companies;
 introduce the obligation for state-owned and
large private companies to guarantee a
minimum 40% of representation of women
on their governing and management boards.

ENABLING
WOMEN TO
GENDER PROMOTING RECONCILE INFLUENCING
QUOTAS EXEMPLARITY FAMILY AND ATTITUDES
PROFESSIONAL
LIFE


THE GENDER 1. THE ECONOMY AND LABOUR
EQUALITY MARKET
STRATEGY 2. EQUAL PAY
ADOPTED BY THE
3. EQUALITY IN SENIOR
EUROPEAN
COMMISSION POSITIONS
SPELLS OUT A 4. TACKLING GENDER VIOLENCE
SERIES OF 5. AND PROMOTING EQUALITY
ACTIONS BASED BEYOND THE EU.
AROUND FIVE
PRIORITIES:


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The Commission will also set up a yearly top-level Gender
Equality Dialogue involving the presidencies of the
European Parliament, the Council, European social
partners and civil society in order to assess progress in
implementing the strategy.


A new collective awareness

A change of attitudes in both women and men

Balanced access of women to managerial and decision-making
posts, including in the socio-economic field, would be a genuine
qualitative leap forward towards achieving de facto equality
between women and men in society.

Inner Wheel can do a GREAT DEAL in this
context.
Inner Wheel has a ROLE.
I’m convinced that the social gried Inner Wheel
should seriously TAKE ACTION and DEVOTE
ATTENTION to these issues, which concern
women in their respective countries.
THE PATH WILL STILL BE A LONG ONE


The Inner Wheel
Women must become
more aware, and then,
transmit their renewed
AWARENESS AND
KNOWLEDGE through
Club or District
initiatives, as a cultural
service.


INNER WHEEL WITH OTHER NGOs
 The Inner Wheel must always be ACTIVE, as a
Service Club, within the European Union, next to
all the other NGOs (organisations and female
associations) which represent the world of
Women and which can bring AN EXTRA VALUE
TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROGRAMMES TO
WOMEN, in a broad and dedicated sense.

 The INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS AND
INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS

SENSITISATION ACTIONS are some of the
activities which Inner Wheel, united with other
organisations committed in the sector, should
promote in order to achieve the Project's
objectives.


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not only are they constantly committed to service
in Developing Countries…. But they can, also, get
involved and make their mark in a concrete way in
the social processes of the community in which
they operate. The work of Inner Wheel is in fact
also a work involving relationships, to help
understand and promote spread and promotion of
European citizenship.


• What relations do women maintain with the EU and
what are their expectations of the EU?
EU

• What role do they ascribe to the European Institutions,
and what role would they like to see them play?
EU

• Why do women perceive the EU as distant?
EU


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The link between women and the EU is weaker than
between men and the EU.
Today, women do not sense what the role of the EU is,
as well as its relevance to their specific concerns. They
have little interest in it and have less knowledge of it
than men. This would explain why women perceive the
EU as distant.
Towards the role of Inner Wheel, if we can we manage
to break this vicious circle, women will better
understand the pertinence of the EU, have a greater
interest and better knowledge of it, and feel closer to it.

WOMEN IN POWER

On average women Women are more Although women
have a lower level of interested in national perceive the EU as
economic security and local rather than remote, they know
than men European politics the EU is important

They expect a They want a Europe
different European with a substantial
Union social agenda.


Women feel the EU Women have more
is relevant to them interest in the EU

EU

Women know Women feel close
more about the EU to the EU

Luisa Vinciguerra, Women For Europe, Girne 2011

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