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Why Gender? Where are we?

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.

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Why Gender? Where are we?

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  1. Why Gender? Where are we? FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  2. Agenda Looking back Society today - some statistics Our Member organisations today Why gender FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  3. Our aim: Growing Membership FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  4. 2000: Realized decline in membership 2001: Forum III in Cyprus 2003: Round Table in the Netherlands 2004: Forum IV FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  5. WAGGGS Mission: To enable girls and young women to develope their fullest potential as responsible citizen of the world. FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  6. Today´s society FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  7. % of employed people in Europe Full-time incl. part-time Female Male Female Male 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) FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  8. Average Salaries in Europe (monthly) Male: 1.817 Euro Female: 1.235 Euro Difference: 31 % With university degree: 23 % FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  9. 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 % FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  10. Female in the highest decision making bodies in 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 % FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  11. 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 FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  12. Why Gender-Equality? Society needs the best … The right of the individual … FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  13. Our Questionnaires 18 Total 4 Girl only associations 14 Mixed associations FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  14. 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 FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  15. 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 all 4 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 FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  16. 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. FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  17. 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 Other When your Association last revised your educational programme. did you consider the gender issue? 4 Yes 9 No 4 Partly FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  18. 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 FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  19. 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 FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  20. What do we see in all those data: Society does not offer equal gender opportunities Our association doesn´t focus on Gender FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

  21. Challenge you … on educational programme … on training … on structure and management … on finance ... Branding that leads to membership growth FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness!

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