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REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN TRADE UNIONS

REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN TRADE UNIONS. 2010. ITUC -PERC CEE & NIS Women’s Network. Prepared by Jasna A. Petrovic. WE “MEASURE” OURSELVES EVERY YEAR.

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REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN TRADE UNIONS

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  1. REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN TRADE UNIONS 2010 ITUC-PERC CEE & NIS Women’s Network Prepared by Jasna A. Petrovic

  2. WE “MEASURE” OURSELVES EVERY YEAR The ICFTU Women’s Network for Central and Eastern Europe (ICFTU CEE Women’s Network) was established on November 14-15, 1997 in Gdansk. At the beginning it was consisted of12 women’s structures/trade union confederations from 9 CEE countries. Extetended to the former Soviet Union countries – New Independent States, Caucasus and Central Asia, the Network changed the name to the ICFTU CEE&NIS Women’s Network. Before the unification of the ICFTU and WCL to the ITUC, their women’s networks merged on 30 October 2005, gathering together 43 women’s structures in 43 trade union confederations from 24 countries. Today, now operating within the ITUC Pan-European Regional Council/PERC/, it puts together 48 trade union women’s structures from 26 countries grouped in 6 sub-regions:

  3. WHO MAKES THE WOMEN’S NETWORK 1.North Europe (FNPR, VKT and KTR/ Russia; FTUU, CFTU and Vost/Ukraine; BCDTU/Belarus) 2.Baltic(EAKL/Estonia; LBAS/Latvia; Solidarumas, LPSK and LDF/Lithuania; NSSZ Solidarnosc, OPZZ/Poland 3.  Central Europe (CMKOS/Czech Republic; MSZOSZ, Liga, MOSZ and ACTU/Hungary; UATUC, NHS andHUS/Croatia; KOZ and NKOS/Slovak Republic

  4. WHO MAKES THE WOMEN’S NETWORK 4.East Europe(CITUB and Podkrepa/Bulgaria; NTUCM/Moldova; CNSLR-Fratia, BNS, Alfa-Cartel and CSDR/Romania) 5.South Europe (KSSH and BSPSH/Albania; KSBIH/Bosnia and Herzegovina; BSPK/Kosovo; SSM, UNASM and KSS/Macedonia; CTUM/Montenegro; Nezavisnost and SSS/Serbia) 6.Caucasus and Central Asia(CTUA/Armenia; AHIK/Azerbaijan; GTUA, Georgia; FPRK and KSPK/Kazakhstan; FPK/Kyrgyzstan; FITUT/Tajikistan; FTUU/Uzbekistan)

  5. HOW IT WAS IN 2000 The firstwomen’srepresentation report was prepared in 2000: • Average membership rate 43.6 • Congress rate 27.8 • Highest decision-making body 23.8 • Highest executive body 15.5 • AVERAGE REPRESENTATION RATE 41.8 Now it is different…

  6. INCREASE OF WOMEN MEMBERS 2000 43.6 2004 48.0 2006 50.3 2007 53.1 2008 53.3 ↑ 2009 53.5 2010 54.0

  7. MEASURING METHODOLOGY The Women’s Network, self-organised in 1997 within the former ICFTU/International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (today part of the ITUC-PERC) started to gather gender related data from all trade union confederations in the former communist region on regular annual basis since 2000, started with 14 organisations surveyed and growing to 50 organisations from 26 countries. The annual representativity report is presented at the annual conference and discussed at regional, subregional and national levels. A special methodology was developed to enable ranking of the confederations on the basis of representativity rate. The rates are determined in relation to parity (which would amount to 100 percent – full equality or the representation in decision-making bodies equal to representation in membership). 120 percent would mean that the number of women in decision-making bodies is higher for 20 percent than their share in membership and 50 percent that there are half as many women than there should be.

  8. LEADERS ARE STILL MEN?

  9. * Moldavian union National Confederation of Trade Unions is not included.

  10. *Macedonian trade union confederation SSM is not included.

  11. LEADERS ARE STILL MEN!

  12. WOMEN: More members, more leaders

  13. PYRAMID OF DISCRIMINATION

  14. HALL OF SHAME 1 • NO or less than 10% women branch presidents: 1.VOST/Ukraine 2.BKDP/Belarus 3.BSPK/Kosovo 4.UGS Nezavisnost/Serbia 5. CNSLR-Fratia/Romania 6. CSDR/Romania 7. BNS/Romania 8. KSBIH-SSRS/BIH 9. KSBIH-SSSBIH/Bosnia/Herz. 10. AHIK/Azerbaijan 11. FNPR/Russia

  15. HALL OF SHAME 2 • NO or less than 10% of women in the main executive body: 1.Cartel Alfa/Romania 2.CSDR/Romania 3.Nezavisnost/Serbia 4. BSPK/Kosovo 5. AHIK/Azerbaijan 6. OPZZ/Poland 7. HUS/Croatia

  16. SUBREGIONAL DIFFERENCES

  17. RANKING: THE BEST

  18. FOLLING DOWN

  19. BROKEN PARITY

  20. ON THE BOTTOM

  21. THE HALL OF FAME

  22. THE HALL OF “NO-NAME”

  23. WHY WE INSIST ON PARITY OF WOMEN? Representative democracy that • to every second female trade unionmember denies to be represented in thedecision-making bodies is not real democracy at all.

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