1. "Chicken" and Other Forum 50 %'s Campaigns Veronika Šprincová Thessaloniki, 5. 10. 2011

2. Forum 50 %'s Activist Activities besides organizing conferences, seminars and trainings Forum 50 % also takes action mainly organizaton of pre-election campaigns supporting women besides pre-election campaigns – support of related causes ("race" for equality of women and men, counteraction to demonstration against antidiscrimination law, protesting against appoining ultraconservative officials etc.)

3. Forum 50 %'s First Campaign

4. The Chicken Campaign: Part One before the parliamentary elections (May 2010) launched by a press conference women politicians from all the parties present videos (website, facebook, youtube) web banners t-shirts stickers

5. Stickers

9. T-Shirts

10. Videos Videos used in both parts of the campaign

11. Chicken Meets President

13. Campaigning Everywhere

14. Results of the Campaign massive support for women candidates 14 women MPs elected by preferential votes representation of women increased from 18 % to 22 % 44 women MPs in total BUT There is only 1 woman the government (not a minister); she was appointed one year after the government was assebled.

15. Protest against Men-Only Government

16. before the local and Senate elections (October 2010) launched by a press conference "Chicken tour" around the whole country 14 towns visited audio-spots in local radio stickers leaflets (5.000 distributed) web banners video in the state TV Chicken Campaign: Part Two

17. Chicken's Blog kure.bloguje.cz (meaning chicken.blogs.cz) reports from all 14 cities visited sharing also on facebook

18. Chicken Speaking to Journalists

19. Campaigning Can Be Great Fun

20. Towards a Bright Future

21. Our Sweet Little Volunteers

22. Everybody Wants to Be a Chicken...

23. … Even a Cow

24. Chicken with the First Lady

25. Results of the Campaign number of elected women increased from 24,9 % to 26,3 % in statutory cities the number increased from 19,5 % to 22,8 % BUT There are only 2 female mayors in 24 statutory cities (one replaced male mayor appointed immediately after elections).

26. Thank you for your attention. Veronika Šprincová sprincova@padesatprocent.cz www.padesatprocent.cz