Gender diversity: See the opportunity
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Gender diversity:See the opportunity
The Netherlands
ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review
28 June 2010
More opportunities for women
Dutch emancipation policy 2008-2011
Part and parcel of all domains of public life
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Women are agents of changeDomestic
Charter Talent to the TopInternationalMDG3 Fund:
Investing in Equality
Critical for economic growth and stability
women with 2+ children working more than 24 hours a week
88%
12%
Economically indipendent women: 46%
46%
54%
The ability to make and implement conscious decisions on when and how often to get
pregnant improves women’s lives,
and the lives of their families
Unmet need for contraceptives: 200 million women worldwide
Combating violence against women
In public places
In the privacy of the home
Through punishment
Through prevention
The greater the difference, the greater the opportunity
National Action Plan on UN SCR 1325
First Dutch all female platoon in Afghanistan
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
1995 2000 2006
Ethnic minority enrollment in higher education: women catching up
male female
See the opportunity
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