State report on women issued
The Source: sabanews.net - 11/06/2009
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Woman National Committee (WNC) issued its recent state report on challenges facing women, empowering her and future tendencies to promote her in different fields, political, economic, cultural and social.Granting the two sexes equal opportunities to get work based on equity in all issues included in the report.Women limited and weak political participation, women parliamentarian representation, enacting with quota demand, woman lower participation in the work, illiteracy spread, increasing mortality percentage among woman and false conceptions on woman's issues are the main issues the report talked about.Presented to Escwa on the bases of the WNC's commitment to Beijing accord, the report counted women working in places of decision-making. According the report, there is only a single woman against 300 members in the parliament and two female members against 109 members in Shoura Council.
There are also two female ministers against 36 men and one ambassador against 116. The report counted 38 female members in the local councils against 7594 and eight women as deputy ministers and 83 judges.According to the report, women represent 23.7 percent of labor force; 24,6 percent of them are active. However women who are economically inactive are 72,1 percent. Women working in none-state sector are 92,7 percent of female labor force and women working in trade field represent only 3 percent. Accordingly, unemployment rate among woman raised from 8, 2 to 39,5 percent.The report indicated that number of women attending technical education and vocational training has increased only by one percent during the period 2004-2008 while female teachers in this sector has reached 14,64 and 22,4 percent of women have attended disabled centers.Concerning education, the report pointed out the government has created independent sector at the ministry of education specialized in girl's education. The government has also created three general women departments in the ministry of education and in illiteracy system.The report indicated that number of children's incubations and kindergartens has increased from 198 to 408 in the period 2004-2008 and the number of children attending them has reached 11956 male children and 10096 female children.Basic education among girls has increased to 42 percent in the period 2007-2008 and decreased among male student to 58 percent.
In secondary education, percent of female students has increased from 30,36 during 2004-2008 to 34,60 respectively. Due to increasing public universities to seven and 13 private universities across the country, female students increased during the 2004 -2008 to 29 percent. Research centers also increased to 14, two of them are for females.The report registered increase of attendants of illiteracy centers during the period 2006-2007 to reach 9157 against 11461 female attendants so that illiteracy percent retreated from 79,4 in 1994 to 61,6 in 2004.Over woman health, the report indicated that mortality's rate still that 365 case among 100 thousand and that fertility' rate decreased in 2004 from 6,2 percent to 5,2 in 2008. and that rate of using birth control among women reached last year 28 percent comparing to 13,4 percent in 2004.The report pointed out that female workers in health sector are 45 percent and that maternity and childhood centers increased from 333 in 2004 to 586 in 2008.The report registered rate of mortality because infection with malaria as 30 percent of death cases among women and that 49 women from 100 thousand die because of cancer.Women infected with Aids are 38 percent from the 2550 infected people. The government has worked on establishing specialized center to cure people infected with the disease besides setting up strategy to fight the disease.The report disclosed that the government has allocated YR 65 million to woman projects in health field.Concerning poverty, the report mentioned that the government has committed itself to reduce poverty to half by 2011 via increasing cases of beneficiaries of social insurances. Cases of social insurances reached in the period 2004-2008 more than one million, 47 percent of them are female.According the report, beneficiaries of the Productive Families National Program are 2129 woman with support of 41 centers of civil society organizations. Eight centers were added across the country in 2008. Female graduates from these centers in the period 1998- 2008 reached 3223. While Small Industries Fund granted women 783 loans worth more than YR 182 million.The report talked about women situation in media and touched on violence against woman and activities regarding this.
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