Women’s Day Ukraine
Women’s Right to Vote in Ukraine
March 10, (1919)
Number of female heads of state to date: 1
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The general active and passive right to vote for women existed since March 10, 1919. Ukrainian women were elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine and elected to the Parliament of the Soviet Union. In March 1990, 13 women received seats in the last parliament of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine and remained in office on December 25, 1991 after independence.
After independence in 1991 the general active and passive right to vote for women was confirmed. The first parliamentary elections after independence were held in April 1994, seven women received seats.
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Women’s movement
In Ukraine the development of organized groups of women sharing common goals and common interests was hampered by the nonexistence of a Ukrainian state and the severe limitations placed upon Ukrainian community organizations by various foreign authorities. Nevertheless, from the 1880s on, Ukrainian women managed to create effective organizations under all the states that occupied Ukraine—the Russian Empire and Austria-Hungary and interwar Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and even the USSR. Women’s organizations were also established by immigrant women in Europe and the New World. Ukrainian women’s organizations were primarily self-help and community-oriented in nature. The members were not initially interested in feminism, women’s liberation, or traditional women’s causes such as the struggle against prostitution and the promotion of philanthropy, education, and suffrage. Instead the thrust of the women’s movement in Ukraine was similar to that under all colonial regimes: it addressed the needs of the entire community, and not only of women. Organized Ukrainian women sought to expand the role of women in existing institutions and the national-liberation struggle and to ameliorate poverty, disease, and illiteracy. They adapted to existing institutions and mores and, instead of challenging society, highlighted the importance of the family and of the economic and socializing role of the mother. They also, however, maintained their political independence and did not become adjuncts of male-dominated political parties. As the women’s organizations grew, opposition forced women to articulate a feminist agenda. Interest in feminism among those women developed as a result of their activism.
> Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine
A Mosaic Model of Gender Democracy in Ukraine
From the book Gender, Politics and Society in Ukraine
With the results of the 2004 elections, when pro-European forces came to power, Ukraine for the first time openly declared its commitment to follow the European way of development and to seek membership in the European Union (EU). Governmental policy aimed at European integration was confirmed by the Ukraine – EU Action Plan signed in 2005. According to the plan, the state assumed obligations to re-spect and implement program documents of the United Nations and the European Commission and to promote equality between women and men in social and economic life (Plan dij Ukraina – Evropejsky Sojuz 2005, 10). In this context Ukraine’s movement towards European norms of democracy becomes a central concern to policy makers in the country, and this includes heightened awareness of gender equality standards within the European Union.
> degruyter.com/document/doi/10.3138
Ukrainian Women’s Congress
Nov 26, 2020 – Ukrainian Women’s Congress is an on-going public platform, which annually forms the gender policy agenda for Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, government, private sector, civil society and media.
The 4th Annual Ukrainian Women’s Congress took place 2 days in a row on November 25th, 26th, and it united 55 speakers in Kyiv, Lviv and Mariupol for establishing new agenda in Ukrainian gender policy in the times of the pandemic challenges and the lockdown.
> Postrelease 4th Annual Ukrainian Women’s Congress
Has Ukraine’s ‘Revolution of Dignity’ left women behind? | openDemocracy
Oct 26, 2015 – by Francesca Ebel
Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution called for dignity and justice, but almost two years later gender equality is not a priority on the Ukrainian political agenda – not even for female lawmakers.
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