Insight view

THE COUNTRY: HUMAN RIGHTS
Participation of female MPs in Parliaments in the region (%)
30.9
32.2 32.4
17
21.4
23.8
Montenegro
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Croatia Macedonia Slovenia Serbia
Average share of women at position of judges is 37%. Situation is somewhat better in Prosecution
and Supreme Court where 60% of prosecutors are women.
Data regarding share of women at higher position in local authorities indicate extremely low participation
of women – only in three municipalities (Andrijevica, Kolašin and Podgorica) share of
women in local authorities is barely exceeding 30%, while in Ulcinj it is extremely low with 6,25%.
Only 6 women are among 78 key positions of presidents and vice presidents of municipalities
and presidents of local parliaments. Only one mayor is women – in Kolašin municipality. Situation
is somewhat better in legislative power with 23% of women members of 23 local parliaments.
Although women make half of working force in economy in Montenegro, their participation in
entrepreneurship is less than 10%. This is much less than the average of countries (members
of the EU) with the lowest rate of women’s entrepreneurship. Even though they do the same job
under the same conditions, studies show that women are less paid than men for 14%.
Messages from the European Commission remind us that representation
of women in politics in Montenegro is very poor, and that is
up to the Parliament of Montenegro and Board for gender equality
and their responsibility to change the Law on representation of
women and culture. The EC also believes that it is important to
harmonize and amend all laws on political parties in order to
improve representation of women in the process of access to
the European Union, at both national and local level. Even competent
ministries believe that it is important to improve representation
of women in representative and executive bodies of
authority at all levels.
95 th
position in the world -
Montenegro holds this
position according to the
percentage of women’s
representation in the
Parliament
21