Abstract
This study highlights forms of gender inequality in post-communist Romania, generated by an unsustainable political algorithm which marginalizes women and fails to use their potential, both in politics and in formal and informal resistance, and maintains women's traditional duties as a type of environmental injustice. Having as a starting point the assertion that equality, as required by a democratic and developed country, plays a key role in society issues, the study analyses, using human geography pathway, a series of demographic data on Romanian women and attempts to explain the observed fluctuations, both at a national and regional level and correlates them with women's degree of representation in politics, governance. It aims and focuses at analyzing gender inequality through the women's participating in governance after 1990 and their overall effects and feedbacks on the society. The results show the paradox between the prevalence of female population both in number and as workforce and its unequal involvement in all governs of Romania's post-communist period and as a new EU member. The study also draws several priorities of women politics, to alleviate this type of injustice, which could help the future society development. .
Highlights
Women represent half of the world population, in many countries women’s role is still related to childbearing, childcare and household duties instead of successful careers (Jaggar, 2002)
For the vast majority of them, this implies new tasks, as the employee status is coupled with household chores while gender equality and women’s rights policies remain in many countries only at a theoretical level
In Romania, as in other countries of the world, the female population outnumbers the male, women have entered in politics, administration and economy only in the past 50 years
Summary
Women represent half of the world population, in many countries women’s role is still related to childbearing, childcare and household duties instead of successful careers (Jaggar, 2002). For the first approach it were chosen several simple indicators using secondary external data (NIS, Govern) like genders structure, ratio female-male, workforce structure, while in the second part it combines indicators concerning the women presence in Governmental bodies, at national or local levels, with the results obtained from 20 semistructured interviews, taken in 2008, summer, in urban areas, different as the population’s size: Bucharest, Predeal, Botosani and three in rural areas: Suceava, Mehedinti and Sibiu counties.
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