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WOMEN DEMANDING MORE ATTENTION
The Forum of Women’s Organizations, the 50/50 Political Women’s Club, and the Gender Centru organization have stood up with an appeal to the Moldovan authorities and civil society to treat women with a greater attention and care.
Forum Chairperson Elena Burca told a news conference in Infotag today that on the eve of the March 8 holiday it would be particularly topical and timely to speak about the problems, which women in Moldova come across, particularly in the period of a global financial and economic crisis.
“Moldova needs to solve such problems as e.g. creation of equal possibilities for women and men, including equality in salaries and wages, because women’s pays constitute only 68% of men’s, on the average”, Burca said.
And 50/50 Chairperson Valentina Stratan indicated a fairly widely spread practice of discrimination when women lose their jobs at going on maternity leave.
“Maternity mortality statistics are deteriorating. In Moldova, this kind of mortality is twice higher than in Europe. Many Moldovan women die of breast cancer because they don’t have a caring doctor by their side, so they often apply to specialists only when they can’t stand pain any more. But this means they are suffering the last, incurable phase of cancer. Also, due to very low wages, women in Moldova, particularly provincial residents, cannot afford expensive medicines”, she said.
According to Olga Ojog, the lawyer of the Casa Marioarei organization, 90% women in Moldova fall victims to family violence at least once in their life.
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