It has raised the question of quotas for women, in offices, on company boards, in parliaments. In business and politics too, women remain underrepresented, and face barriers to entry that simply do not exist for men. The business worldīut regression has not merely been limited to reproductive rights. Titled Welcome to Gilead, the report raised serious concerns about the abuse of reproductive rights by these governments, echoing the pronatal dystopia of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. In many countries, leaders fear the impact on their economic and political goals of women choosing to have fewer children.Ī major report published last year by the UK charity Population Matters detailed how predominantly right-wing, populist and/or nationalist administrations are stigmatising women who choose careers in the business world, portraying any decision to have smaller families - be that decision linked to their career or not - as unpatriotic. Much of the regression has been brought about by the region’s demographic decline.
Tackling the under-representation of women in STEM in CEE and Central Asia.However, this is not true for the entire region, and even in some hitherto more progressive countries a resurgence in what often gets referred to as “traditional values” threatens many gains of the past. Many of the countries of emerging Europe have a proud history of empowering women: in education, in business, in politics, in society. But despite much progress made towards gender equality, they still face obstacles men do not. Emerging Europe does not want for talented women.
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