EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness! Why Gender? Where are we?

EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness! Agenda Looking back Society today - some statistics Our Member organisations today Why gender

EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness! Our aim: Growing Membership

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

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

EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness! Today´s society

EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness! % of employed people in Europe Full-timeincl. part-time FemaleMaleFemaleMale Denmark44 %72 %67 %81 % Ireland33 %64 %43 %67 % Italy32 %63 %36 %65 % Portugal48 %69 %54 %71 % Sweden40 %67 %68 %70 % UK35 %70 %62 %75 % (European Research)

EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness! Average Salaries in Europe (monthly) Male: Euro Female: Euro Difference: 31 % With university degree: 23 %

EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness! Development of the salary within 4 years femalemale Leadership Position+ 53,3 %+ 79,1 % Highly qualified Position+ 57,1 %+ 59 % Administration/Office+ 46 %+ 42,3 % Unskilled worker+ 20,3 %+ 28,4 %

EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness! Female in the highest decision making bodies in the 50 largest business companies (in each country) Slovenia23 % Norway21 % Latvia19 % Sweden18 % Estonia/UK15 % Denmark/Slovakia13 % Finland12 % Germany10 % Greece8 % Ireland7 % Austria/Belgium/France6 % Iceland/Portugal/Spain4 % Italy2 %

EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness! 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

EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness! Why Gender-Equality? Society needs the best … The right of the individual …

EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness! Our Questionnaires 18 Total 4 Girl only associations 14 Mixed associations

EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness! How is the balance between women & men in your National Board? 2Less than 20% are women % are women % are women 2More than 51 percent are women

EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness! How does your Association ensure the equal participation of women and men in all levels of your Association? 2We don´t address this topic at all 4We don´t have the problem: we have equal participation. 2Our constitution and/or other laws ensures that we have equal (around 50/50 %) participation on all levels of our Association 6Other

EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness! How does your Association's educational programme and training prepare girls and young women for leadership roles? 1We don't focus on preparing for leadership roles. 7We think that going through our grades is the best way to prepare for leadership roles. 4We have special programme activities for some of the age groups to prepare for leadership roles. 7We have special programme activities for all our age groups to prepare for leadership roles.

EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness! Is your Association's educational programme relevant to the role of women in your society today? 4Our program is more than 10 years old and needs updating to be relevant 8Our programme was recently updated, but we did not specifically look at the role of women today. 6Our programme is recently updated and is very relevant in this field 1Other When your Association last revised your educational programme. did you consider the gender issue? 4Yes 9No 4Partly

EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness! How do gender issues and preparation for equal partnership get addressed when you train young leaders in your Association? 4We don't address this topic. 10We don't address this topic separately, but we touch the subject through other topics. 2We address this as a separate topic in some of our courses for patrol leaders and young adult leaders. 1We address this as a separate topic in all our courses for patrol leaders and young adult leaders. 1Other

EUROPE REGION WAGGGS REGION EUROPE AMGE FORUM IV Growing Membership through Gender Awareness! Does your Association focus on the advantages of being a single sex/co-educative association when you seek partners? Mixed Single-sex 41Not at all 6We use this sometimes 31We use this very often 11We use this constantly, it is our main “selling point” 01Other

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

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