newsLetter 2 / 2013

newsLetter
02 / 2013
CONTENTS
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Editorial
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The Ministry of Education adopts a Mid-Term Gender Equality Strategy
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CULTURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION
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MISS UNIVERSITY: STOP SEXISM AT CHARLES
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2013 Milada Paulova Award in pharmacology
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Mentoring for Secondary School Students
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2013 Researchers’ Night: At the brim of a smog season
IN
OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME
EDITORIAL
Dear colleagues,
In this newsLetter from the Czech National Contact Centre for Women and Science we bring you
information about the recent developments in the gender & science arena. At the beginning of September
2013 the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports adopted a Mid-Term Gender Equality Strategy, which
contains a section on research and development. We are currently involved with the Ministry in
operationalizing these strategies into concrete actions to be taken in the upcoming period. One of the
actions in the Strategy is the inclusion of the cultural and institutional change in the upcoming funding
mechanism, Operational Programme Education, Research and Development. If adopted, this will give
Czech higher education and research organizations the opportunity to compete for funding to implement
institutional change. Also related to cultural and institutional change, we are happy to be part of the
TRIGGER project funded in the last FP7 Science in Society where we will assist the Institute of Chemical
Technology in Prague in implementing their gender action plan.
Last time we featured an article by Hana Tenglerova about beauty pageants organised by Czech
universities. In the meantime, students at Charles University took up the issue and staged a protest titled
Stop Sexism at Charles. Here we bring you the latest information.
Lastly, we feature the laureate and nominees for the 2013 Milada Paulove Award in Pharmacology
which was conferred on 5 December, our mentoring programme and 2013 Researchers’ Night
dedicated to air pollution and the science and policy surrounding it.
On behalf of the NKC I wish you inspiring reading and merry holiday season,
Marcela Linkova
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THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION ADOPTS A MID-TERM GENDER EQUALITY STRATEGY
In September 2013 the leadership of the Ministry of the Education, Youth and Sports adopted a document
titled “State of Gender Equality and a Proposal of a Mid-Term Strategic Plan in
the Field of Gender Equality within the Remit of the Ministry of Education,
Youth and Sports. Marcela Linková and Hana Tenglerová were two members
of the National Contact Centre for Women and Science who contributed to
drafting the document.
The Strategy focuses on four main objectives, which are in line with the ERA Communication:
1. Creating legal and political environment to ensure gender equality in Research, Development and
Innovations
2. Advancing gender equality in research careers through the partnership of public research
institutions and providers to support the cultural and institutional change
3. 40% representation of the under-represented sex,
4. Including the gender perspective in the creation of scientific knowledge and innovation.
To achieve these goals the Strategy identifies the following four mid-term goals:
1. Establishment of a platform to implement gender equality in research, development and innovation
2. Introduction of efficient gender mainstreaming in all strategic documents and policies of research,
development and innovation
3. Modernization of higher education and research institutions through the cultural and institutional
change for gender equality
4. Support the development of expertize as regards gender equality in research, development and
innovation.
The adoption of the document will be followed by a definition of annual priorities and policies to be
implemented by the Ministry and reported to the national coordinator of the gender equality agenda, the
Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs. A set of indicators has been proposed to monitor the achievement of
these goals. The NKC is currently engaged in negotiating with the Ministry the actions to be taken in 2014.
CULTURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL
DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION
CHANGE IN
OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME RESEARCH,
In 2013 the National Contact Centre for Women and Science has worked with the Ministry of Education,
Youth and Sports to include the cultural and institutional change for gender equality in the Operational
Programme Research, Development and Education.
If the document is adopted, higher education and research institutions will be able to apply for funding to
implement the cultural and institutional change in their organizations. The cultural and institutional change
will be supported in Specific Objective 5 Improve conditions for research-related teaching and development
of human resources in research and development.
NKC LAUNCHES THE CULTURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
In 2013 NKC members took active part in the genderSTE COST Action and cooperated with institutions
implementing cultural and institutional change abroad. During the entire year the NKC worked to introduce
the approach and its strategic goals to the expert public and representatives of Czech universities and
research institutions through seminars, workshops and the national NKC Club. We also prepared for the
launch of FP 7 project TRIGGER where the NKC will be acting as gender experts for the Institute of
Chemical Technology in Prague. Most importantly the NKC prepared a manual which will serve Czech
institutions as a guide to implement cultural and institutional changes, and is launching a new website at
www.nkc.cz at the beginning of next year, which will be dedicate to cultural and institutional change and
gender in Horizon 2020.
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MISS UNIVERSITY: STOP SEXISM AT CHARLES
Hana Tenglerová
In the last issue of our newsletter we brought you
information about the explosion of various beauty
contests in the Czech academic environment. We
were happy to see the piece attracted attention of
our readers. Half a year later things have moved
forward. At Charles University students’ initiative was
formed on 30 October 2013 titled “Stop Sexism at
Charles” which in an open letter addressed to the
rector of Charles University called on the University
to distance itself from the commercial and ethically
problematic Miss UK and take to measures to stop
further abuse of the university’s good name. The
initiators argue that this commercial beauty contest
does not belong in academia. The main criticisms
lodged against beauty contest addressed to the
rector are:
1. The contest reinforces traditional gender stereotypes about women by stressing students’
appearance – a criterion which is not used to judge their male counterparts – instead of their
education and capabilities. Men and women alike, study at Charles University in order to develop
their intellect and the university’s image should not be formed by events which reproduce
inequalities among students.
2. The critics object to the ways in which the students of the most prestigious university in the Czech
Republic are presented in the contest. The organizers claim that the contest is about intellectual
capabilities of the contestants but a quick glance at the visual presentation of the contest on the
website and Facebook clearly shows that it is primarily about presenting women’s faces and bodies
as sexual objects. Such presentation of women has no place in academia, and it is not ethically
acceptable that they be organized under the heading of an academic institution.
3. Charles University should not provide auspices for such an event. Miss UK is clearly a commercial
event; its sponsors include Radio Express, Czechoslovak Models, Frisco, Intercontinental,
Jagermeister, Mary Kay, Matrix, iReport.cz, Metropol TV, BMW and other commercial firms which
can hardly be connected with academic ideals of seeking knowledge and reflecting critically on the
world around us.
Within days more than 300 people signed the open
letter. The Facebook group which the initiative
started has more than a thousand members. The
letter was supported by the Czech Women’s Lobby,
of which the National Contact Centre for Women in
Science is a member. The initiative also huge
attracted media attention. In reaction to the initiative
Charles University published a statement on 12
November 2013 in which it distances itself from all
beauty contests. The statement goes on to say that
the university would take “any and all measures to
remove the name of the university from the name of
the contests”. According to a statement of the
speaker of Charles University Václav Hájek the
rector reached this decision before the initiative Stop
Sexism at Charles was created.
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The Miss University gala evening took place on
Friday, 29 November 2013 and Stop Sexism at
Charles organized a peaceful protest at the door to
the club where the ceremony took place. The
happening attracted quite a crowd of some 60
people (see photos) who distributed flyers to those
passing by. There were banners, slogans were
chanted, and speeches were made. A group of
about ten men and women in police uniforms
observed the whole event from safe distance. (You
can see photos from the happening here and here).
This was not the only Miss University-related news
featured in the media in November. The news portal
Česká pozice brought information about unethical
practices of one of the firms which organizes
university beauty contests. Allegedly, the organizers sell photographs of the students-contestants and offer
those who pay an opportunity to send a SMS to the contestants via an online form. All this without
contestants’ awareness and consent. For this reason, the leadership of South Bohemian University and the
Students’ Union at Liberec University of Technology distanced themselves from their respective Miss
contests.
Based on these events, teachers at the Masaryk University addressed a question to the leadership of the
University whether it takes any action against the abuse of its name by commercial entities organizing
beauty contests at Masaryk University. Another beauty contest targeting university students, Miss
Academia, announced that in the future it would drop the swimsuit/underwear part of the contest.
This republic-wide contest is organized by students
at the Faculty of Multimedia Communication (as well
as other Faculties) at Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín
as part of the KOMAG Communication Agency
subject. “With this we want to accommodate girls
who would normally participate in the contest but the
swimsuit part is unpleasant for them. On top of this,
we consider the promenade as an obsolete cliché of
standard beauty contests which simply does not
belong in a student contest organized under the
auspices of the university,” says the website of the
contest. With this, one of the arguments made by
the critics of the contest is gone. The other ones,
however, remain, especially the stress on looks in
women, construction of beauty and objectivization of
women which are part and parcel of the beauty
contest concept.
NKC is happy to see that its article half a year ago inspired this student-led activity at Charles, and since all
of us have a degree from there, we have joined For Charles Without Sexism. We hope that students and
staff at other universities will follow the suit and start interrogating the ubiquity of beauty contest at Czech
universities.
IN BRIEF: THE 2013 SEXIST PIGGY CONTEST
The 2013 Sexist Piggy, an anti-award given annually by the civil
society organization NESEHNUTI to sexist advertisements, goes to
Mendel University in Brno for its Lightly Titillating Faculty video.
Some of the other Sexist Piggy award recipients included:
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Stereotypes and Linguistic Sexism category
1st place
“Slim girl with a big feeding hole”
Fragmentation, or without a head category
3rd place
“We tow everything, including your wives”
Objectivization, or show it all category
2nd place
“Curtains and design
The last drop goes to the textiles”
2013 MILADA PAULOVA AWARD IN PHARMACOLOGY
Hana Tenglerová
On 5 December Prof Alexandra Šulcová received the 2013 Milada Paulova Award from the Minister
of Education Dalibor Štys and Chairman of the Evaluation Committee pharmacologist, Prof Květina.
Prof Alexandra Šulcová works at the Central European Technology Institute
CEITEC at the Masaryk University Brno. Prof Šulcová focuses on experimental
neuropsychopharmacology and etopharmacology. At the core of her professional
interest are neuropsychological effects of substances contained in hemp and
generally research into the neurobiology of drug addiction, and effects of drugs on
motor abilities, emotionality and cognition. Alexandra Šulcová is the head of the
research group Experimental and Applied Neuropsychopharmacology at the
Central European Technological Institute CEITEC at the Masaryk University in
Brno. Between 1990 and 2011 she was the head of the Pharmacological Institute
at the Medical Faculty, Masaryk University in Brno, has supervised many
successful doctoral students in medical pharmacology, a programme she
accredited at the Masaryk University.
In 2013 the Milada Paulova Award is given in pharmacology, experimental and clinical pharmacology
and toxicology, in reference to the work and life of Prof Helena Rašková, the legend of Czech and
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international pharmacology, and to the 100 anniversary of her birth in 2013, and Prof Hedvika
Zemánková-Kunzová, the first head of the Institute of Pharmacology at Palacký University in Olomouc, to
commemorate her work 60 years after her death. With the Milada Paulova Award the Ministry
acknowledges scientific research of outstanding Czech women researchers and provides inspiration to
early stage women researchers and students considering a scientific career. Milada Paulová was the first
woman to be granted the right to lecture at Czech university in 1925 and the first woman to be appointed a
professor in 1939.
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Photo: Stanislava Kyselová, Academic Bulletin, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
The following researchers were as well nominated for the award (in alphabetical order):
Věra Klenerová
Věra Klenerová’s research focuses on the regulatory function of neuropeptides,
which ensure communication among neurons and are involved in a range of brain
functions. Some of her outstanding results include the identification of neuropeptides
reducing stress and anxiety, which can be administered only after stress has
occurred. In the past Věra Klenerová also studied toxic and carcinogenic effects
contained in cigarette smoke and proved the existence of the phenomenon of
‘passive smoking’. Věra Klenerová is the head of Neuropharmacology at the Institute
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of Medical Biochemistry and Medical Diagnostics at 1 Medical Faculty, Charles
University in Prague. In addition to research she has been training and supervising
early stage researchers.
Hana Kubová
Hana Kubová focuses on experimental epileptology, research into differences in the
onset, nature, spread and termination of an epileptic seizure. Her research
concentrates on how potential or already used antiepileptics act in a child’s brain.
She studies differences in the anti-seizure effects of these of these medications in
children of various ages, and analyses their side effects on the development of brain
functions in children. It is also thanks to the results of her work that clinical studies of
new antiepileptics today are performed on adult as well as children patients, which
means better and faster access of small patients to the latest medications. Hana
Kubová is the head of the Department of Developmental Epileptology at the Institute
of Physiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
Lenka Maletínská
Lenka Maletínská studies peptide hormones involved in the regulation of food intake,
regulatory pathways and relationship of peptides involved in feeding related
processes and processes related to obesity. Another research area concentrates on
the relationship between type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer disease. Lenka Maletínská
works at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Academy of
Sciences of the Czech Republic where she is the head of the Antiobesity Peptides
Group. She also trains and supervises early stage researchers and is active in
science popularization.
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Marie Stiborová
Marie Stiborová works at the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural
Sciences, Charles University where she focuses on the study of molecular
mechanisms related to the onset and development of cancer and metabolic
processes of waste substances in the environment, medicines and other substances
foreign to the human body. Marie Stiborová elucidated the chemical causes of the
origin of interstitial nephropathy, a disease caused by the aristolochic acid common
in nature, and identified enzyme systems responsible for its toxic effects. She also
explained the mechanism of the effect of the 3-nitrobenzanthrone (a substance
arising from combustion of fuels in diesel engines), which has carcinogenic effects
and damages genetic information in cells. She also discovered the mechanism of
the effect of the anticancer medicine ellipticine, which served as the basis for a
number of new generation cytostatic drugs.
Jitka Ulrichová
Jitka Ulrichová focuses on research into the positive and preventative effects of plant
or animal substances on human health. For example, she studies the effects of
cranberries on the prevention of urinary inflammation in men, the effects of
flavonolignans, substances contained in the seed of one type of thistle which is used
in popular healing to prevent diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. She also
concentrates on the safety and side effects of alkaloids with anti-inflammatory and
anti-microbial effects used in dental hygiene or as part of additives of fodder for farm
animals. Jitka Ulrichová is the founder and head, since 2002, of the Laboratory of
Cell Cultures at the Medical Faculty, Palacky University in Olomouc.
Photo: Michal Ureš
MENTORING: YEAR 3
Kateřina Cidlinská
“It’s not that there are few girls keen on technology, but it’s necessary to give some of them a
push.”
The third year of NKC mentoring program finished before the summer holidays.
The program aims to support secondary school women students in choosing
technology and engineering as their field of study.
A total of 19 mentors and 26 mentees participated in the third year, a slight
increase compared to the previous year with 14 mentors and 22 mentees. The
number of universities involved increased from six to seven: Czech Technical
University in Prague, Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Brno University of
Technology, Masaryk University, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical
Sciences Brno, Palacký University in Olomouc and newly Charles University, to
be concrete, the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. The programme again took place in the cities of
Prague, Brno and Olomouc.
“The vets carrying out the operation thought that I was also from the veterinarian school and
so I had to assist a bit in the operation of the horse. The most important thing was to find out
that I actually don’t mind something like this.”
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The third year offered the following specializations: experimental nuclear and particle physics; physics –
optics and optoelectronics; structures and transport civil engineering; structural engineering and
architecture; construction material engineering; transport and communications technology – aviation
transport; graphics, programming, informatics; cybernetics and robotics; algebra, theory of numbers and
mathematical logic; organic chemistry; biochemistry; biotechnology of medicines; genomics and
proteomics; microbiology; molecular and cell biology; zoology; veterinary medicine. This list shows that the
number of mentors from technical specializations increased, and the programme thus came closer toward
its original intention, to increase the number of women in technical sciences.
Compared to the previous year, mentoring groups as opposed to couples
predominated. At the launch of the programme in 2009 couples were seen as
more appropriate because they give mentees more space to focus on what
really interests them. It is also easier to create a more intimate atmosphere in a
couple where mentees and mentors can establish a closer, more open and
friendly relationship. Groups were introduced as the numbers of interested
students started to increase, to accommodate as many of them as possible.
And while groups cannot ensure all the mentoring functions that a couple would,
it is much more fun for many girls. Moreover, most secondary school students
expect to gather as much information as possible about concrete schools and disciplines, which groups
facilitate. As one of the mentees put it: “The advantage of being in a group is that we all have different
opinions about a given school, we want to study different fields and thanks to this our horizons about these
various fields expand.”
“I reinforced my opinion that I have chosen a great discipline, and this increased my
determination to study the discipline.”
For most groups and couples the programme did not differ from previous years. Mentees visited schools,
attended lectures, exercises, and visited labs. One mentee even actively participated in an operation on a
horse. Mentees could also get a glimpse of less formal aspects of students’ life such as the cafeteria, a
students’ debate club, interviews on not strictly study-related topics and walks through university towns.
Mentors introduced their mentees to their schoolmates, co-workers and teachers.
In terms of fulfilling programme objectives, the mentees expected
especially assistance with choosing a field of study and a school, and
information about what it’s really like at a university. Almost all the mentees
stated in the final evaluation that their expectations were met. As one of
them stated: “It’s a great opportunity for active and indecisive people like
me”. The programme supported most of the mentees in their resolve to
study a school of technology and all the mentees stated they would
recommend the programme to other high school girls. Mentors’ expectations
were also met. As they said, they became more enthusiastic about their own
programme and improved their communication and organizational skills.
One mentor for example stated that she “learned to plan more efficiently”, another than the mentees’
questions forced her to think about things that an experienced university student does not often think about,
which came handy during her work in the faculty Senate. Overall, mentors, too, evaluated the third year as
a success and a large majority of them want to be involved in the next, fourth year.
“I expected that as in previous years the students would have terrible notions about technical
disciplines. This is exactly what happened and so I hope that I was able to dispel these
notions.”
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2013 RESEARCHERS’ NIGHT: ON THE BRIM OF A SMOG SEASON
Hana Tenglerová
On 27 September the NKC organized the ninth Researchers’
Night. This year we focused on air pollution, its effects on
human health, economic impact and how scientific
knowledge in this area is communicated to the public and
(not) reflected in public policies, to be concrete in the
recently adopted Act on Air Protection.
“We are on the brim of a smog season, the topic of today will
concern us heavily in the upcoming days and months,"
opened moderator and sociologist Karel Čada who cautioned
that the efforts to ensure acceptable and healthy environment often clashes with issues of employment and
work opportunities. The economic crisis makes the situation even more pointed. In the Czech Republic the
conflict concerns the Ostrava region in particular, where a major regional employer is also one of the major
air polluters. In the European context Čada mentioned the South Italian town of Taranto where the court
recently sentenced the leadership of a local steel plant for bribing politicians and officials who long kept
secret extreme excess of emissions; the court confiscated the owners’ property in a volume of EUR
900,000 million. According to the information available, pollution caused by the plant was responsible for
the deaths up to four hundred people. Plant employees are, however, strongly opposed to the closure of
the plant because there are very few job opportunities in the region.
The first to open the floor was Professor Radim Šrám,
head of the Genetic Ecotoxicology research team at the
Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Academy of
Sciences of the Czech Republic, who talked about
research into the effect of air on human health, carried
out in the Czech Republic since 1989. The effects of air
pollution on human health are huge. Negatively affected
are primarily pregnant women, foetal development and
quality of sperm. Children from polluted areas show low
birth weight, suffer from functional defects, and
consequently increased illness rate. At the age of fifty to sixty years, these people are at greater risk of
cardiovascular diseases, suffer from hypertension and diabetes. In Teplice, for example, one week after
people were exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, the number of diagnosed bronchitis increased
tremendously, and the percentage of asthma attacks went up from 10% to 38%. This data describes a
situation with significantly lower emissions than are normal today in the Ostrava region. Emissions in
Ostrava today are higher than in the above-mentioned Italian town of Taranto. Research has clearly
demonstrated that measures which mitigate air pollution also positively affect health of the population.
“Examples from abroad show that when there is will, investors and private corporations can behave in a
responsible manner. This, unfortunately, is not the case of the Czech Republic”, concluded Šrám his
introductory statement.
Sociologist Markéta Braun Kohlová from the Centre for Environmental Issues, Charles University, focused
on the costs to society when investors’ interests are prioritized over environment and human health, and
how people are willing to invest in environmental protection and their health. Acute and chronic impact on
human health, illness rate and death rate caused by air pollution can be calculated in terms of healthcare
costs, expenditures of an ill person, financial losses on
account of an ill person absenting from the labour market or
loss of income of the person tending to the sick. The costs in
the Czech Republic for curing one person down with light
bronchitis which demands seven day cure are between EUR
50 and 300, in the case of severe bronchitis the costs can
climb up to EUR 450. But we can also monitor ‘non-market’
values such as reduction in the quality of life due to pain,
discomfort and loss of leisure time. Interesting in this regard
are findings of research studies into the willingness to invest
money in reducing the risk of being ill. According to Braun Kohlová this willingness is most affected by a
person’s economic situation and personal experience with illness in the family. Braun Kohlová concluded
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that air pollution does not have effects on human health alone but also on structures, natural diversity and
climate.
Dr. Alena Bartoňová from the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) reflected on the relationship
between science and society when she discussed her experience abroad. Why don’t people believe
research results? Why isn’t their reaction to the threats brought by air pollution adequate? Bartoňová
argued it does not help to communicate scientific findings through negative news and pressure. One of the
events in which she participated abroad and which presents an example of good practice in communicating
science to society aimed—through people’s participation—at reaching a consensus among all the
participants. Such negotiation brought concrete measures on which an agreement was reached, and
therefore it was easy to implement them. According to Bartoňová it is the inability to enter into debate and
reach a consensus that poses a major obstacle to resolving problematic situations in environmental
protection and beyond.
Sociologist Jan Skalík, a doctoral fellow at the Faculty of
Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno, discussed one
concrete example of political negotiations surrounding the
Act on Air Pollution in the Czech Republic. In the previous
election term, two amendments to the law concerned air
specifically. The small amendment addressed the power of
self-administrative bodies to impose zero-emission zones
with restricted traffic and to define emission caps.
Municipalities would thus have the right to immediately
address a smog situation. Despite the resistance of most of
the opposition and the president’s veto, the amendment was adopted. The large amendment concerned
the implementation of EU requirements concerning air protection which the Czech Republic has long
exceeded and was threatened with a case at the Court of Justice of the European Union. The amendment
concerned air fees which had not been increased since 1992, not even by the inflation, and so they were at
half their value. As a motivation to introduce innovation they were totally dysfunctional. In the end both the
opposition as well as many MPs of the ruling parties were against the amendment. The debate of both
these amendments was affected by strong industrial lobby and so the resulting amendment, Skalík
concluded, is far from sufficient in terms of air pollution or human health.
2013 WOMEN’S CONGRESS: RESOLUTIONS
In the last issue we brought information about the plans for the first
Women’s Congress. The Congress took place on 15 June 2013 and
focused on the position of women on the labour market. Here we bring
the resolutions adopted by the Congress and presented to the Czech
government and leaders of both chambers of the Parliament. With more
than 700 participants, the Congress was a huge success, and the NKC is
happy to have been one of the co-organizers.
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The Women’s Congress calls on the State to:
 Create appropriate conditions for women’s professional advancement
 Define the conditions for flexible forms of employment and to support employers who offer flexible
working time
 Ensure sufficient capacities in kindergartens and nurseries for children
 Combat resolutely violence against women
 Improve the position of single mothers
 Address the unequal position of women seniors
The Women’s Congress calls on political parties to:
 Ensure balanced representation of women in decision-making position of political parties
The Women’s Congress calls on employers to:
 Increase the number of women in leadership of firms and to ensure equal career progression
 Use flexible forms of work and flexible working time
 Ensure equal pay
The Women’s Congress calls on the media and advertising industry to:
 Increase the percentage of women in the media
 Ensure non-sexist portrayal of women
The Women’s Congress calls on women and men to get involved in the fight for equality for women
and men!
What can we, women, do to create equal society?
 Let’s be active claiming our rights, speak up against sexism and respect ourselves and each other
 Let’s get engaged in an inter-generational dialogue, let’s listen, support and learn from one another
 Let’s look beyond our personal experience and be solidary – every injustice and inequality
concerns us all personally
 Let’s get to know each other, let’s network, power rests in communality!
How can men support the creation of equal society?
 Assume your share of responsibility in childcare and house work
 Support women – women’s success is not a threat for men but success of the whole society
What can we do together?
 Give priority votes to women in elections
 Bring up children without stereotypes
 Let’s have the courage for jobs and lifestyles regardless of stereotypical expectations
 Let’s not be afraid to publicly fight for equality
 Let’s speak up against sexism and discrimination
More information on the Congress can be found at http://kongreszen.cz/.
Registration
Plenary
Resolutions delivered to the
Office of the Government
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