1. REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN TRADE UNIONS
2010
ITUC-PERC CEE & NIS Women’s Network
Prepared by Jasna A. Petrovic

2. WE “MEASURE” OURSELVES EVERY YEAR
The ICFTU Women’s Network for Central and Eastern Europe (ICFTU CEE Women’s Network) was established on November 14-15, 1997 in Gdansk. At the beginning it was consisted of 12 women’s structures/trade union confederations from 9 CEE countries.
Extetended to the former Soviet Union countries – New Independent States, Caucasus and Central Asia, the Network changed the name to the ICFTU CEE&NIS Women’s Network.
Before the unification of the ICFTU and WCL to the ITUC, their women’s networks merged on 30 October 2005, gathering together 43 women’s structures in 43 trade union confederations from 24 countries.
Today, now operating within the ITUC Pan-European Regional Council/PERC/, it puts together 48 trade union women’s structures from 26 countries grouped in 6 sub-regions:

3. WHO MAKES THE WOMEN’S NETWORK
1. North Europe (FNPR, VKT and KTR/ Russia; FTUU, CFTU and Vost/Ukraine; BCDTU/Belarus)
2. Baltic (EAKL/Estonia; LBAS/Latvia; Solidarumas, LPSK and LDF/Lithuania; NSSZ Solidarnosc, OPZZ/Poland
3.  Central Europe  (CMKOS/Czech Republic; MSZOSZ, Liga, MOSZ and ACTU/Hungary; UATUC, NHS and HUS/Croatia; KOZ and NKOS/Slovak Republic

4. WHO MAKES THE WOMEN’S NETWORK
4. East Europe (CITUB and Podkrepa/Bulgaria; NTUCM/Moldova; CNSLR-Fratia, BNS, Alfa-Cartel and CSDR/Romania)
5.  South Europe (KSSH and BSPSH/Albania; KSBIH/Bosnia and Herzegovina; BSPK/Kosovo; SSM, UNASM and KSS/Macedonia; CTUM/Montenegro; Nezavisnost and SSS/Serbia)
6.  Caucasus and Central Asia (CTUA/Armenia; AHIK/Azerbaijan; GTUA, Georgia; FPRK and KSPK/Kazakhstan; FPK/Kyrgyzstan; FITUT/Tajikistan; FTUU/Uzbekistan)

5. HOW IT WAS IN 2000 Average membership rate 43.6 Congress rate 27.8
The first women’s representation report was prepared in 2000:
Average membership rate
Congress rate
Highest decision-making body
Highest executive body
AVERAGE REPRESENTATION RATE 41.8
Now it is different…

6. INCREASE OF WOMEN MEMBERS ↑

7. MEASURING METHODOLOGY
The Women’s Network, self-organised in 1997 within the former
ICFTU/International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (today part of
the ITUC-PERC) started to gather gender related data from all trade
union confederations in the former communist region on regular annual
basis since 2000, started with 14 organisations surveyed and growing
to 50 organisations from 26 countries. The annual representativity
report is presented at the annual conference and discussed at regional,
subregional and national levels. A special methodology was developed
to enable ranking of the confederations on the basis of representativity
rate.
The rates are determined in relation to parity (which would amount to
100 percent – full equality or the representation in decision-making
bodies equal to representation in membership). 120 percent would
mean that the number of women in decision-making bodies is higher
for 20 percent than their share in membership and 50 percent that
there are half as many women than there should be.

8. LEADERS ARE STILL MEN? NORTH EUROPE WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION RATE 2010
Country
Organ.
WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION RATE 2010
% F Members
% F Branch
% F Congr.
% F Body1
% F Body2
% F Reg.
% F Aver.
RATE
DIFF.
2007
2010
NORTH EUROPE 1
Russia
FNPR
59,2
9,8
37,5
18,4
14,3
15,2
19,0
26,1
32,2 +  2
Ukraine
FPU
54,3
19,6
42,2
23,4
16,1
14,8
23,2
42,1
42,8  + 3
KVPU
48,6
10,0
45,8
48,3
49,2
37,0
38,1
75,9
76,4 4
VOST
46,0
0,0
46,4
41,7
40,0
20,0
29,6
71,5
64,4 -  5
Belarus
BKDP
28,2
22,0
15,3
10,5
55,1
37,3  -
TOTAL
57,7
7,9
38,8
29,4
27,0
17,4
54,1
47,2 -

9. BALTIC EUROPE WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION RATE 2010 + 44,7 39,7 45,7 41,1No
Country
Organ.
WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION RATE 2010
% F Members
% F Branch
% F Congr.
% F Body1
% F Body2
% F Reg.
% F Aver.
RATE
DIFF.
2007
2010
BALTIC EUROPE 6
Estonia
*EAKL
59,3
42,1
53,1
38,5
33,3
0,0
33,4
59,7
56,3 -  7
Latvia
LBAS
64,0
38,0
62,2
52,4
84,6
54,1
91,4
84,5  - 8
Lithuania
LPSK
57,0
50,0
57,8
60,5
46,9
60,0
55,0
82,0
96,6 + 9
LDF
57,6
72,7
59,5
52,0
55,5
25,0
52,9
87,4
91,9 10
LPSS
47,2
44,4
51,9
54,5
69,6
56,5
120,0
119,7 11
Poland
Solidarnosc
37,7
12,5
12,3
6,1
16,7
5,9
10,7
22,7
28,4 12
OPZZ
48,0
18,1
23,1
15,7
8,0
18,8
33,2
34,9
TOTAL
44,7
39,7
45,7
41,1
35,5
70,9
73,2

10. CENTRAL EUROPE WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION RATE 2010 TOTAL 44,5 34,2 27,7No
Country
WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION RATE 2010
% F Members
% F Branch
% F Congr.
% F Body1
% F Body2
% F Reg.
% F Aver.
RATE
DIFF.
2007
2010
CENTRAL EUROPE 13
Croatia
UATUC
39,0
17,7
24,9
35,3
13,3
15,8
21,4
60,8
54,9  - 14
NHS
49,6
24,5
29,6
27,3
50,0
31,7
70,4
64,0 15
HUS
34,4
22,2
45,4
18,7
9,1
0,0
19,1
46,2
55,5  + 16
Czech R.
CMKOS
45,5
24,8
34,3
14,3
27,0
44,8
59,4 17
Hungary
MSZOSZ
47,0
23,7
34,9
27,8
28,1
49,9
59,7 18
MOSZ
51,6
23,1
19,8
25,7
33,3
5,5
21,5
41,4
41,6 19
ATUC*
39,2
31,6
35,7
30,6
22,7
30,8
78,5  = 20
LIGA*
40,9
18,2
20,0
23,6
44,6
57,8 21
Slovakia
KOZ
41,9
16,2
31,2
22,3
15,4
37,5
58,5 22
NKOS*
60,0 ND
54,5
58,3
51,5
92,2
85,9
TOTAL
44,5
34,2
27,7
26,2
24,6
58,9
61,6

11. EAST EUROPE WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION RATE 2010No
Country
Organisat
WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION RATE 2010
% F Members
% F Branch
% F Congr.
% F Body1
% F Body2
% F Reg.
% F Aver.
RATE
DIFF.
2007
2010
EAST EUROPE 23
Bulgaria
CITUB
48,0
31,4
45,7
43,2
47,8
51,9
44,0
100,4
91,7  - 24
Podkrepa
42,0
18,5
33,3 ND
34,3
32,0
63,8
76,3  + 25
Romania
CSDR
65,1
3,1
28,6
15,2
0,0
21,4
13,7
21,0 26
CNSLR-Fratia
40,0
2,7
37,5
9,5
15,3
4,7
13,9
30,6
34,9 27
BNS
6,7
27,2
26,0
20,0
7,1
17,4
40,1
43,5 28
Cartel Alfa
23,5
10,9
19,0
14,2
25,9
29,5
TOTAL
47,1
35,2
24,6
20,8
23,4
52,2
55,2 + 
* Moldavian union National Confederation of Trade Unions is not included.

12. SOUTH EUROPE WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION RATE 2010 42,7 14,2 23,1 14,1 47,4No
Country 3
WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION RATE 2010
% F Members
% F Branch
% F Congr.
% F Body1
% F Body2
% F Reg.
% F Aver.
RATE
DIFF.
2007
2010
SOUTH EUROPE 29
Albania
BSPSH
35,3
16,7
30,0
43,5
22,5
40,0
30,5
86,3
86,5 +  30
KSSH
45,0
10,0
27,0
31,6
17,6
20,6
34,6
45,7  + 31
BIH
KSBIH/SSSBIH
40,8
8,3
21,1
14,3
28,6
0,0
14,5
60,5
35,4 -  32
KSBIH/SSRS
42,0
6,6
27,6
34,1
21,4
21,5
48,2
51,1 33
Kosovo
BSPSK
26,0
10,8
2,8
5,3
3,8
16,6  - 34
Macedonia
KSS
53,8
25,0
19,1
34,3
22,2
22,1
41,1 35
UNASM
28,0
33,3
18,3
20,0
89,3
98,7 36
Montenegr
CTUM
41,8
17,4
23,6
11,4
15,4
4,8
24,9
34,7 37
Serbia
*Nezavisnost
44,0
7,0
22,4
15,9 - 38
SSS
46,0
34,9
15,0
22,3
44,2
48,5
TOTAL
42,7
14,2
23,1
14,1
47,4
47,2
*Macedonian trade union confederation SSM is not included.

13. LEADERS ARE STILL MEN! WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION RATE 2010 TOTAL 48,2No
Country
Organisat
WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION RATE 2010
% F Members
% F Branch
% F Congr.
% F Body1
% F Body2
% F Reg.
% F Aver.
RATE
DIFF.
2007
2010
CAUCAUS AND CENTRAL ASIA 39
Armenia
CTUA
46,0
33,3
31,9
29,7
29,6 ND
31,1
60,2
67,7 +  40
Azerbaijan
AHIK
48,0
7,1
26,4
20,7
0,0
12,3
27,8
25,5 -  41
Georgia
GTUC
47,2
13,0
44,4
15,4
26,5
58,0
56,2 42
Kazakhstan
FPRK
45,0
34,6
38,1
31,3
28,6
40,0
34,5
67,3
76,7  + 43
KSPK
54,3
58,3
36,4
25,0
41,2
75,3
75,8 44
Kyrgyzstan
FPK
23,8
36,0
38,5
14,3
28,2
48,1
70,4 45
Tajikistan
FPT*
42,0
36,8
24,6
25,9
24,1
57,4  = 46
Uzbekistan
FTUU
50,8
29,2
20,8
21,4
25,6
51,7
50,3  -
TOTAL
48,2
29,4
25,7
27,1
19,1
55,7
57,0

14. WOMEN: More members, more leaders
YEAR
% F
Members
% F Branch
% F Congr.
% F Body1
% F Body2
% F Reg.
RATE
2006
52,6
21,0
31,3
24,6
22,4
24,7
53,1
2007
21,1
33,4
25,2
22,5
20,5
56,3
2008
53,3
22,3
27,6
22,8
20,7
55,7
2009
53,5
21,2
31,9
26,2
22,1
20,6
53,6
2010
54,0
32,2
25,7
23,6
21,4
54,8

15. PYRAMID OF DISCRIMINATION

16. HALL OF SHAME 1 NO or less than 10% women branch presidents:
1. VOST/Ukraine
2. BKDP/Belarus
3. BSPK/Kosovo
4. UGS Nezavisnost/Serbia
5. CNSLR-Fratia/Romania
6. CSDR/Romania
7. BNS/Romania
8. KSBIH-SSRS/BIH
9. KSBIH-SSSBIH/Bosnia/Herz.
10. AHIK/Azerbaijan
11. FNPR/Russia

17. HALL OF SHAME 2
NO or less than 10% of women in the main executive body:
1. Cartel Alfa/Romania
2. CSDR/Romania
3. Nezavisnost/Serbia
4. BSPK/Kosovo
5. AHIK/Azerbaijan
6. OPZZ/Poland
7. HUS/Croatia

18. SUBREGIONAL DIFFERENCES
Rep. RATE
Branch Presidents
“Government”
“Parliament”
Congress
North
47.2
7.9
27.0
29.4
38.8
Baltic
73.2
39.7
35.5
41.1
45.7
Central E.
44.5
24.5
26.2
27.7
34.2
East
47.1
15.3
20.8
24.6
35.2
South
42.7
14.2
18.3
22.5
23.1
Asia
48.2
27.1
25.7
34.5

19. RANKING: THE BEST 1
LPSS
Lithuania
119,7 2
UNSAM
Macedonia
98,7 3
LPSK
96,6 4
LDF
91,9 5
CITUB
Bulgaria
91,7 6
BSPSH
Albania
86,5 7
NKOS
Slovak Re.
85,9 8
LBAS
Latvia
84,5 9
ATUC*
Hungary
78,5 10
FPRK
Kazakhstan
76,7 11
KVPU
Ukraine
76,4 12
Podkrepa
76,3

20. FOLLING DOWN 13
KSPK
Kazakhstan
75,8 14
CTUA
Armenia
66,8 15
VOST
Ukraine
64,4 16
NHS
Croatia
64,0 17
MSZOSZ
Hungary
59,7 18
CMKOS
Czech R.
59,4 19
KOZ
Slovak Re.
58,5 20
Liga
57,8 21
FPT*
Tajikistan
57,4 22
EAKL
Estonia
56,3 23
GTUC
Georgia
56,2 24
HUS
55,5

21. BROKEN PARITY 25
UATUC
Croatia
54,9 26
NTUCM
Moldova
53,8 27
FPK
Kyrgyzstan
52,0 28
KSBIH/SSRS
Bosnia & Herz.
51,1 29
FTUU
Uzbekistan
50,3 30
SSS
Serbia
48,5 31
KSSH
Albania
45,7
¸32
BNS
Romania
43,5 33
FPU
Ukraine
42,8 34
MOSZ*
Hungary
41,6 35
KSS
Macedonia
41,1 36
BKDP
Belarus
37,3

22. ON THE BOTTOM 37
KS/SSSBIH
Bosnia & Herz.
35,4 38
CNSLR-Fratia
Romania
34,9 39
OPZZ
Poland 40
CTUM
Montenegro
34,7 41
FNPR
Russia
32,2 42
Cartel Alfa
29,5 43
Solidarnosc
28,4 44
AHIK
Azerbaijan
25,5 45
CSDR
21,0 46
Nezavisnost
Serbia
15,9 47
BSPSK
Kosovo
14,5

23. THE HALL OF FAME 119.7 98.7 96.6 91.9 91.7 1 2 3 4 5 LPSS Lithuania
UNSAM
Macedonia
98.7 3
LPSK
96.6 4
LDF
91.9 5
CITUB
Bulgaria
91.7

24. THE HALL OF “NO-NAME” 14.5 15.9 21.0 25.5 28.4 1 2 3 4 5 BSPSK Kosovo
Nezavisnost
Serbia
15.9 3
CSDR
Romania
21.0 4
AHIK
Azerbaijan
25.5 5
Solidarnosc
Poland
28.4

25. WHY WE INSIST ON PARITY OF WOMEN?
Representative democracy that
to every second female trade union member
denies to be represented in the decision-making bodies
is not real democracy at all.