Gender diversity:See the opportunity

The Netherlands

ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review

28 June 2010

More opportunities for women

Dutch emancipation policy 2008-2011

Part and parcel of all domains of public life

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Women are agents of changeDomestic

Charter Talent to the TopInternationalMDG3 Fund:

Investing in Equality

Critical for economic growth and stability

women with 2+ children working more than 24 hours a week

88%

12%

Economically indipendent women: 46%

46%

54%

The ability to make and implement conscious decisions on when and how often to get

pregnant improves women’s lives,

and the lives of their families

Unmet need for contraceptives: 200 million women worldwide

Combating violence against women

In public places

In the privacy of the home

Through punishment

Through prevention

The greater the difference, the greater the opportunity

National Action Plan on UN SCR 1325

First Dutch all female platoon in Afghanistan

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

1995 2000 2006

Ethnic minority enrollment in higher education: women catching up

male female

See the opportunity

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