Why invest in Gender Equality in Europe and Central Asia

WHY INVEST IN GENDER EQUALITY in EUROPE and CENTRAL ASIA WOMEN ARE UNDER-REPRESENTED IN DECISION MAKING Çaucasus lCis Central & Eastern Europe 28% 34% Parliaments seats 19% On average 17% WOMEN Western Balkans and Turkey Ministerial positions 15% 18% 21% hold only 18% 11% 19% of POSITIONS Legişlators Senior officials Managers 29% 30% in decision making 19% 29% 31% 31% entral Western urope AND HAVE UNEQUAL ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES ll 65 cents 63 59 cents 54 76. 67 67% 67 64 55 51 45 Western Caucasus čis Sentral Western Sentral & Western Çaucasus cis Sentral Wester TUrkey Turkey WOMEN'S WORKFORCE WOMEN EARN LESS than 60% is 25% SMALLER than MEN'S of men's income GENDER EQUALITY IS FAR FROM BEING ACHIEVED Western Europe 0,13 Eastern Europe | 0,21 Lack of gender sensitive policies perpetuates INEQUALITIES Balkans and Turkey 0,26 Caucas s & CIS 0,34 and STEREOTYPES Central Asia 0,35 0,1 02 03 0,5 INVESTING IN POLICIES THAT PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN CREATE MORE SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES UN DP * Sources http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2009/ | http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm | http://databank.worldbank.org/ddp/home.do?Step=12&id=4&CNO=2 | http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2011/download/ | For more information please visit the UNDP Europe and CIS website http://europeandcis.undp.org/ Empowered lives. Resilient nations.