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GENERO #12, 2008
Issue: 12
Year: 2008
ISSN: 1451-2203
Publisher: Center for Women's Studies, Belgrade
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Table of Contents
TOPIC OF THE ISSUE: GENDER EQUALITY POLICIES
Gender Equality Mechanisms
Summary / Abstract: The paper presents the facts essential for establishing and functioning of the institutions called mechanisms for gender equality. The history of their development and international treaties which comprise values of gender partnerships are presented, as well as partipatory democracy and goals of equal participation of women and men in political decision making processes.
Keywords: gender equality mechanisms, parliamentary bodies, executive bodies, European Union, participatory democracy
Page Range: 7-22
Language: Serbian
Post-Socialist Changes and Gender Position on the Labor Market in Serbia
Summary / Abstract: The paper examines gender differences and the level of employment, as well as other important characteristics of women’s economic participation in the changed environment of the post-socialist transition period in Serbia. The presented facts point out to unfavorable position of women in the labor market, characterized by low economic activity, limited access to managerial position and prestige wages, high unemployment, poverty and vulnerability. Although women’s level of education is higher than that of men, women still fail to ensure quality jobs and successful professional careers to the same extent as men. Regarding that aspect, women in Serbia share experience of women in other post-socialist countries, though it must be noted that women earn less than men even in the most developed countries of the European Union. Traditional female jobs lose the race in the market where jobs are still gender-specific. New tensions lead to two-fold vulnerability of women – at work and at home.
Keywords: gender inequalities, labor market, post-socialist transition, Serbia, European Union
Page Range: 23-46
Language: Serbian
Violence Against Women in Intimate Partner Relationships
Summary / Abstract: Violence against women in intimate partner relations is the most frequent form of violence in the family context. Although protracted and severe violence may leave grave consequences, adequate social reaction can prevent secondary victimization and redress the sustained damages. In international documents, violence against women has become a major human rights issue, which is why the key role of states in creating “a climate of tolerance” and developing an appropriate protection and prevention system is being stressed. A scrutiny of the state policy in this sphere in Serbia leads to the conclusion that it is incoherent, unsynchronized and fragmented. The key paradigms of protection are merely notional. The system of protection has proved to be inefficient in achieving its primary goal – to stop the ongoing and prevent any future episodes of violence. A complete, comprehensive, and specific protection of women against violence in partner relationships, organized after the model of “best practices”, can also be made possible within our context. Harmonizing views and principles will be the most difficult and the long term process, that can be enhanced by an explicit and clear-cut state policy.
Keywords: women, violence, intimate partnership, law, protection, security
Page Range: 47-67
Language: Serbian
Women in Media: 2010 in Serbia
Summary / Abstract: The paper analyzes the media contents dealing with women and gender equality published in the year 2010. The analysis is based on the systemically collected press clipping of the eight leading daily and two main weekly newspapers and two electronic media, mostly TV news channels. Th e results confirmed women’s invisibility as well as gender based stereotypes, misogyny, and lack of analytical texts.
Keywords: gender based violence, stereotypes, legal sanctions, hate speech, institutional reaction
Page Range: 69-93
Language: Serbian
Women and Education: The Dawn of the Third Millennium
Summary / Abstract: The paper analyzes the problems and policies of gender equality in education in Serbia at the dawn of the Third Millennium in Serbia, in historical and academic context. The factors of vertical and horizontal segregation in the sphere of women education in Serbia in the period of transition are overviewed and discussed. The analysis points out that many of the previously accepted and implemented measures and policies should be redefined and requestioned.
Keywords: women, education, gender equality, academia, Serbia
Page Range: 95-108
Language: Serbian
STUDIES AND ARTICLES
Jelena-Ilka Marković: Inscribing into the Political History of Serbia
Summary / Abstract: This paper reconstructs the life of Jelena-Ilka Marković and the reasons leading to her unsuccessful attempt of assassination of king Milan in 1882, regarding her gender roles, class and political orientation. The basic hypothesis is that the assassination was not only an act of personal revenge for the death of the husband, but also a politically inspired one. The paper positions Jelena-Ilka Marković in the context of her gender roles of a wife and childless widow and tracks the development of her political convictions through the political stands and activities of her two husbands: dr Jovan Andrejević, a member of educated bourgeoisie patriotically inclined class struggling to preserve their Serbian identity in the Habsburg Monarchy, and Jevrem Markovic, an opposition member of parliament, adversary of king Milan and a war hero that belonged to the emerging bourgeoisie intellectual class of socialists struggling against the absolutism of king Milan, and advocating the transformation of Serbian society into a modern state. From such a background emerges an emancipated women who possessed rationality, self-consciousness and agency, and who can thus be considered a political subject who acted not only out of personal but also political reasons.
Keywords: political assassination, gender roles, Serbian socialists, Jelena-Ilka Marković, Jevrem Marković, king Milan Obrenović
Page Range: 111-135
Language: Serbian
SOS Children’s Helpline Calls Following Disturbing Media Events
Summary / Abstract: The paper investigates SOS Children’s Helpline calls, the advisory service of telephone support for children and youth in Serbia, connected with a number of disturbing media events. The aim of this inquiry is to determine the characteristics of the calls related to sex, age, length of conversation and some specifi c aspects of the conversation due to disturbing media events, as well as the reactions of children to the events analyzed by questionnaire aimed for telephone counselors.
Keywords: children, media, telephone counseling, children’s lines
Page Range: 137-158
Language: Serbian
Social Inclusion Processes in Serbia
Summary / Abstract: The paper presents the results of reforms that took place in Serbia in the last ten years, dealing with the policies for poverty reduction and social inclusion that especially targeted socially vulnerable groups exposed to multiple marginalization such as women. The Strategy for poverty reduction defined goals and legal framework, as well as some concrete measures aimed to improve the status and social position of these groups. The paper presents the results of the actions taken from 2003 to 2010 that enabled the general concept of the policies and measures to be implied, as well the function of an efficient monitoring system, that could be compared with the results of other countries in the region and EU.
Keywords: social inclusion, marginalized groups, Serbia, strategy for poverty reduction
Page Range: 159-171
Language: Serbian
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