Press Release, 27.05.2021

Photo by the European Dialogue Expert Group

The “European Dialogue” expert group together with the Gender Faction of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko opens a cycle of international online seminars “Time for Women” on gender equality and the advancement of women in Russia and the world.

The first meeting will be held on Monday, May 31, at 19.00. It will be devoted to “Discrimination Against Women and the Fight for Gender Equality: European Experience and Its Applicability in Russia”.

The gender wage gap is 23%, and somewhere it even reaches 40%, the share of women in political institutions is on average less than 25%, and even less in companies management. More than a billion women worldwide are denied protection from domestic violence. These and many other problems indicate that humanity is still far from complete equality of men and women in terms of their rights and opportunities.

At our seminar, experts will discuss why there is still discrimination against women in the 21st century, what European countries are doing to solve this problem, and how this experience can be used in Russia.

The anchor of the conference:

Galina Mikhaleva, Chairwoman of the Gender faction of the Yabloko party, professor, doctor of political sciences

The reports will be made by:

Olga Radayeva, First Deputy Chair of the Gender faction of the Yabloko party;

Yeugenia Ivanova, Belarus, Co-Chair of the feminist organisation “Adliga: Women for Full Citizenship”,  Co-Editor of the feminist almanac “Women in Politics: New Approaches to Political”;

Tanya Lyungqvist, Finland, Swedish People’s Party of Finland, member of the Inkoo Municipal Council, member of the Party Council;

Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Russia, journalist, Co-Chair of the Zhurnalistka club (Female Journalist);

Olga Nemanezhina, Ukraine, head of the public organisation “Rada of Women’s Initiatives”, head of the women’s wing of the Sila Lyudei Party (People’s Power);

Olga Shnyrova, Associate Professor, Head of the Ivanovo Centre for Gender Studies, candidate of historical sciences.

You can connect to the Zoom conference here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85002271106

The online seminar will be broadcast on the EuroDialogTV youtube channel.