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SARAJEVO, March 7 (FENA) – Women in Bosnia and Herzegovina have made significant strides when it comes to women's rights and gender equality, but their struggle on many fronts, in the private and professional sphere, continues, it was said during today's panel discussion 'Women's rights between generations', which was held in Sarajevo on the eve of International Women's Day, organized by the TPO Foundation and the University Gender Resource Center with the support of the Embassy of Switzerland in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Speaking about the position of women in academic circles, Professor Nermina Zaimović-Uzunović from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Zenica said that at the time she was studying, equality issues were not discussed at all.
“There was discrimination, and there was also violence in the family, but it was all limited to the private sphere. I never felt unequal in the academic community, but at the time when the first multiparty elections came, this inequality was suddenly clearly visible - there were no women candidates in the elections, and during the war women who contributed in different ways practically became invisible,” said Zaimović-Uzunović.
Activist Lana Jajčević says that in the period before the breakup of Yugoslavia, women's activism in these areas was practically unknown.
Journalist and activist Borka Rudić, Secretary General of the BH Journalists Association, said that as a journalist it was particularly important for her to promote gender-sensitive language and gender equality through her profession.
Lana Prlić, an MP in the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, spoke about the position of women in politics.
“A woman is always 'someone's' and women are always asked how they balance family life and work, while no one asks men. When I decided to engage in politics, some people would talk about me as someone’s lover, an illegitimate child, my last name was problematic. I had to work much more and much harder than my male colleagues to prove myself,” said Prlić.
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