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Importance of Top Management Support in Developing a Gender Statistics Program

This presentation discusses the history and development of gender statistics, examples of engendered statistics, the role of top management, ongoing developments, and future challenges.

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Importance of Top Management Support in Developing a Gender Statistics Program

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  1. REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA STATE STATISTICAL OFFICE Sub-regional workshopon gender statisticsThe importance of top management support in developing a Gender Statistics ProgramBlagica Novkovska, Director General, State Statistical OfficeSkopje, 15-17 February, 2010

  2. REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA STATE STATISTICAL OFFICE Presentation overview This presentation gives a quick review of: • The history of gender statistics development; • Some examples of engendered statistics; • The role of the top management; • What is going on with gender statistics development; • Future key challenges

  3. REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA STATE STATISTICAL OFFICE The history of gender statistics development • Participation at the Forth World Conference on Women (Beijing,1995) raised our understanding of the gender mainstreaming; • Since the Beijing Conference considerable efforts have been made in developing a gender statistical program; • The State Statistical Office ensures the regular production of a statistical publication on gender; Gender statistics is a relatively new area of study relating to traditional areas of statistics as well as the statistical system as a whole. 

  4. REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA STATE STATISTICAL OFFICE Gender publications http://www.stat.gov.mk/Publikacii/Gender2008.pdf

  5. REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA STATE STATISTICAL OFFICE Gender Data for Agriculture • Engendering data collection in Agricultural Census, 2007 : • Participation in farming activity and type of participation; • Composition of the agricultural work force; AC2007 • Type of work undertaken (paid and unpaid); • Production for the market and for own consumption;

  6. REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA STATE STATISTICAL OFFICE Other Engendered Censuses • Census of catering trade capacities, 2008 • CateringEmpl-AgeSexTypeOfStores.xls • Retail trade capacity census, 2008 • RetailTrade-SexAge.xls

  7. REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA STATE STATISTICAL OFFICE Gender data from the Time Use Survey Engendering data collection in the Time Use Survey: • Differences between women and men in the division of labour; TUSActivitySex.xls • Sharing of household responsibilities; • Time stress; • The balance between work and leisure; • Use of transport; Transport_FreeTime_Domestic.xls • Participation in educational activities

  8. REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA STATE STATISTICAL OFFICE The role of the top management in the State Statistical Office • Development of a Gender Statistics Program (GSP); • Sustainable commitment and support for GSP; • Development of a strategic and institutional framework for production, analysis and dissemination of gender statistics; • Commitment to development of gender statistics and engendering of economic areas of statistical work; • Establishment of working group which works as a team on gender statistics development and improvement; • Explicit support for competence development through staff training (internal and external);

  9. REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA STATE STATISTICAL OFFICE Lessons learned • Commitment to development of gender statistics by all managerial levels is crucial; • Cooperation with all ”players”, in order to improve transparency of measurement of gender statistics, is very important; • Harmonisation efforts are needed; • Monitoring process of all activities is necessary; • Dissemination of indicators in a way to reach as many users as possible; • Present it in a way that users can relate it to their own interests;

  10. REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA STATE STATISTICAL OFFICE Future key challenges • Making gender visible in statistics; • New topics; • Strengthening and promoting gender analysis; • Making gender statistics visible; • Raising awareness regarding gender related issues among partners in the national statistical system; • Statistics that incorporate a gender perspective will continue to be expanded and updated;

  11. REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA STATE STATISTICAL OFFICE Engendering statistics - change is needed Gender is not a sector but a cross-cutting issue

  12. REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA STATE STATISTICAL OFFICE Thank you for your attention Famous quotes about gender inequality • Women get the last word in every argument.  Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.  • Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty.  • Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember. 

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