gender

The report summarizes the debate held at a public event organized by EUROPEUM and GLOBSEC under the Think Visegrad platform on November 28th. The event focused on the ambitions of achieving a gender-equal Foreign and Security Policy within the EU and its potential to set global standards. The panel discussion featured insights from Jonna Neumanen, Vladislava Gubalova, and Danielle Piatkiewicz, moderated by Sofiia Shevchuk.

Ivana Uličná writes about the fact that even though some progress has been made towards gender equality in diplomacy, women remain underrepresented in ambassadorial positions worldwide. Quotas have been effective in boosting nominal representation of women but critiques focused on quotas being tokenistic and harming meritocracy place a double burden on women. However, even the current system is not meritocratic, as men benefit from a historical advantage and assumed competence, while women must justify their presence, prove their worth and disprove gender stereotypes.

The policy paper, written by Míla O’Sullivan, illustrates that to centre the gender dimension and women’s voices in all aspects of Europe’s security and recovery responses to Ukraine are areas with the most serious gendered impacts and identifies the risks of gender-oblivious responses to Ukraine’s peaceful and sustainable future as well as to its European integration.

We would like to invite you to an event organized by the GLOBSEC think-tank, which our Research Fellow Danielle Piatkiewicz is a guest of. It will take place in English online on Monday, July 19 at 2 pm.

We invite you to another debate within the Café Evropa format on Women in the 21st century - why do inequalities persist despite the "century of opportunities"? The debate is organized by the European Commission Representation in the Czech Republic and the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy in cooperation with Eurocentrum Prague. The media partner of the debate is Deník.cz. The debate will take place online on March 8 on our Facebook.

In cooperation with the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University of Prague we would like to cordially invite you to the lecture on the anti-gender phenomenon held by Andrea Pető – Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.