Annual Report on the State of Women’s Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2013 -paper 2-
Publisher: Sarajevo Open Centre SOC, BiH Date: 2014 Volume: 23 pages, pdf Description This paper contains information based on a desk review of the most relevant and recent documents issued by governmental institutions, nongovernmental and international organizations recent data from local and national research on women’s issues and observations from the field. There is a serious problem of gender-based inequalities and discrimination in women’s access to the labour market, combined with structural stereotyping and the problem of unpaid work, which affects women disproportionately. The current employment strategies do not seriously address the issue of female participation in the labour market, the improvement of which would contribute to reducing poverty. In 2013, the situation of parental rights also remained stagnant, since maternity leave is regulated differently in different parts of BIH and there are places where women don’t even have access to maternity leave pay or are left jobless after becom- ing pregnant. In the public and political sphere, women are still underrepresented... This paper contains information based on a desk review of the most relevant and recent documents issued by governmental institutions, nongovernmental and international organizations recent data from local and national research on women’s issues and observations from the field.