What women want

Compared with the rest of Europe Slovenia is among the countries with the lowest number of women in politics and women in leading positions at large organisations are also a rarity there. In an opinion piece in the daily Večer, teacher Danica Jordan examines why this is the case: "In Slovenia the concerns of the women's movement are seen to only be relevant for certain women and above all in established circles are perceived as uninteresting. ... But what is happening on the periphery could take centre stage and bring a turnaround if activists and academic initiatives for women left their relatively closed circles and moved into the limelight; if by applying their theoretical and specialist knowledge they sought to bridge the gap between theory and practice and thus exert a global influence on the diverse and cultural relations within civil society where politics plays a key role."

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