Lite facts & figures om kvinnor i Kosovo (ni som vill veta varför jag är där):

• The overall illiteracy rate among adults in Kosovo is 5.8 per cent. It is, however, significantly higher for women (12.5 per cent) than for men (3.4 per cent). Illiteracy skills are the main barriers for women in Kosovo to find employment.

• The average unemployment rate in Kosovo is 42.4 per cent, but among women, unemployment is at 69.4 per cent.

• On average, women earn 14 per cent less than men, despite legislation that stipulates wage parity for women and men.

• Only 2 per cent of businesses in Kosovo are owned by women. One of the main reasons is women’s lack of direct access to financial support and bank loans, because their family assets are mainly registered under the name of male members of the family. Inheritance of assets in Kosovo is often regulated by internal agreements within the family and based on traditional cultural norms.

• In line with the requirements of a quota, women constitute 30 per cent of members in Kosovo’s Assembly, but few are in influential decision-making roles. Only one of 15 ministers is a woman, and there is only one female deputy minister.

• Only 10 per cent of decision-making roles in public administration are held by women.


Källa: UNIFEM