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Sanja Major Importance of women's political empowerment Being a young woman in Croatia today – obstacles and challenges My name is Sanja, I'm a 31 year old woman who acquired over the years a college degree, certain skills and has a strong will to fulfill my potential in order to be a valuable member of the community. Regardless to all mentioned competencies I still have two major obstacles to cross in climbing the social ladder – being a young person and being a woman. In Croatia, women predominate in the rate of unemployment, they are paid approximately 18% less and have a higher risk of long-term unemployment than men within the same age range. We are the second country on the youth unemployment scale in Europe because of the perception that young people are a social burden rather then a social potential of the community. Poor financial situation prolongs staying with nuclear family and postponing creating a family of their own. According to research, young people that have obtained college degrees have more possibilities to find a better paid job and SDP's political framework for the next 4 years rests on the idea of a policy that will enable higher quality of education, easier access to the labour market and the beginning of independent life as a young person. This policy is known as a – education, career, living space - triangle. The Kukuriku coalition will encourage active employment measures, which include direct payments and subsidies for every new employment, a major intervention measures will provide a temporary exemption from paying the contribution for each new employee. Also, a special attention will be given in building a strategy of employing women. One of the most important policy for the Kukuriku coalition is to achieve full equality in the prevalence of gender conditioned diffrences from an early age through the education system or the eradication of stereotypes, to open space for equal educational outcomes of The Kukuriku coalition (Croatian: Kukuriku koalicija) is a political alliance in Croatia formed in 2010. It consists of four centre-left parties in the Croatian Parliament: Social Democratic Party of Croatia, Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats, Istrian Democratic Assembly, and Croatian Party of Pensioners. Their somewhat facetious name Kukuriku, meaning 'cock-adoodle-doo', was taken from a restaurant of the same name in Kastav, where they first convened in July 2009 became well known, and eventually became the coalition's official name. http://www.kukuriku.org 49
50 Being a young woman in Croatia today – obstacles and challenges girls/women and boys/young men, and therefore fundamental changes in economic, social and family policy in the medium and long term. One of the problems within the political parties is the fact that very often young women are in youth organizations, and women over 30 are in women's organizations and that's why the first have the lack of gender perspective while the others miss the age perspective. One of the major problem is that young women are primarily identified as young persons, and then as a woman. In the SDP an attitude is still engrained that women's issues are dealt primarily by older women. With the improved position of women within their own party we can work better in promoting the idea of complete equality in the wider social context. The system of mentoring young women in the SDP doesn't exist and is still based on personal commitment, will and persistence of certain young women to become politically involved to come in contact with older and more experienced female politicians from whom they can learn. The system of mentoring is essential for the formation of a new political force and should be run not only by women's organizations in our party, but also by youth organizations where the party can recruit perspective young people. Suggestions: • Conducting surveys on the desire for mentoring young people by older members of the SDP • Conducting surveys and testing of the expressed interest in a particular area, the level of knowledge and preferences of young women who entered into the system of mentoring • Create a program for a period of one / two years through which a young woman and her mentor can work on specific projects / policies • This mentoring system may be extended by the expressed desires, needs or start a new form of cooperation with another politician, and work on other issues My final thought is that nothing is stronger than a sinergy between young woman's enthusiasm guided by knowledge and experience of a mature woman. More information: http://zagreb.hr/
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