Advancing women’s rights in the EU: meet Stella and Linda

Reaching gender equality, protecting victims of gender-based violence and fighting for a fairer society… Across the EU, organisations are working to defend and promote women’s rights.
Stella at Women on Top, in Athens, proposes workshops for female entrepreneurs to feel empowered at work and in life. She and her team ensure women are properly skilled, independent and confident.
Linda at MARTA Centre, in Riga, is working towards the eradication of gender-based violence and human trafficking. They offer psychological and legal consultations for victims.
The European Parliament is acting to defend women’s rights, from ending unequal pay to eliminating gender-based discrimination. EU funds, like Erasmus+, the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund and European Women on Boards support projects that empower women across the EU.

[@PlayingBunny1]

Fidesz policewoman threatens the German in Hungary, she also stole my money

[@MrAverageViewer]

It's unlikely we'll ever see equality in the number of women who engage in 1) CONSTRUCTION, 2) WELDING, 3) PLUMBING, 4) OIL RIGGING, 5) FISHING, 6) FARMING, 7) ACQUACULTURE, 8) LANDSCAPING, 9) MINING, 10) MILITARY DEFENSE. Where are the women, when we need them in these jobs??

[@BrainInJar]

Because those are physical labour jobs. They aren't even particuarly highly paid. Where women want equality is in the jobs they can typically do, such as stem, office work, teaching, accounting, and pretty much every non-physically intensive job. This is not to say there are no women in construction, but typically it doesn't suit them. One of the main problems with the gender pay gap isn't that women are paid less for the same jobs (it does sometimes happen but not that regularly,' but the fact that the jobs women typically take are valued less. Teaching, for example is one of the most important jobs in society. Without it, we wouldn't have literacy. And yet these jobs are low-paying. You can see the same for nursing, child-care jobs, among others. There's also the fact that in a lot of households, women are expected to do most of the house work despite having a full time job. They have the double burden of being a full time worker and the primary child-rearer.