Latvia women in EU

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Latvia women in EU before and after

• Full member of the Latvia Academy of Sciences
• Baiba Rivza
• Helsinki, 27 October, 2004

Address Council of Higher Education of Latvia
Meistaru street 21, Riga, LV 1050, Latvia Phone
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7220423 E-mail aip_at_latnet.lv
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The Republic of Latvia in Facts (situation on 1
January, 2004)

• Area 64 589 km2
• Population 2.33 million
• Capital Riga 739
  000 inhabitants
• GDP growth 7.5
• GDP per capita 4.215 EUR or 2.719
  LVL
• Inflation 2.9
• Registered unemployment 8.6

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Current situation
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Percentage of women in population
Total in the country 54 Urban population
55 Rural population 52
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President of Latvia - Vaira Vike - Freiberga
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Females by main age group
Year Under working age, Of working age, Over working age,
1990 49 48 72
2003 49 50 69
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There are 32.5 women of the employers in
LatviaProportion of women employers in regions
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Women among researchers in the new EU member
states,
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Percentage of women in PhD graduates
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Percentage of women in researchers by main field
of science
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Problems
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Riga region and other Latvia
Socio economic indicators from total in Latvia
GDP 64
Non-financial investments 63
Industry 68
Density of enterprises 67
Density of innovative enterprises 69
Inhabitants 47
Students 78
Academic staff 77
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Unemployed women from total unemployed,

• 2000 57.6
• 2001 57.4
• 2002 58.7
• 2003 58 .0

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Monthly average gross wages and salary by gender
and kind of activity,LVL
Kind of activity Monthly average gross wages and salary, LVL Monthly average gross wages and salary, LVL
Kind of activity Females Males
Industry 131 160
Agriculture 100 116
Transport, storage and telecommunication 180 209
Education 135 151
Health and social work 117 140
Public administration and defence 189 188
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Relative share of women men in a typical
academic career
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Share of women from the new EU member states in
HE positions,
Country Full professors Associate professors
Bulgaria 16 31
Czech Republic 7 20
Estonia 16 32
Hungary 12 33
Latvia 11 25
Lithuania 12 33
Poland 15 22
Romania 10 32
Slovak Republic 8 25
Slovenia 10 15
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FEMALE PROFESSOR BY THE FIELD OF STUDY,
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Percentage of total number of women in the fields
of studies
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Possibilities from EU
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International cooperation in science

• EU framework programs
• COST
• INTAS
• EUREKA
• Bilateral cooperation
• Germany
• France
• USA
• Latvian Lithuania Taiwan support foundation
  for scientific cooperation

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EU structural funds in Latvia, 2004 2006
EU structural funds 625.4 million EUR
European Regional Development Fund 60
European Social Fund 21
European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund 15
The Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance 4
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Support for Latvia women from EU structural funds

• Specially targeted initiatives will promote
  employability and entrepreneurship of women,
  especially of those returning to the labour
  market after the child care leave
• Capacity of the institutions responsible for
  development and implementation of gender equality
  will be strengthened

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Support for Latvia women from EU structural funds

• EQUAL initiative measure equal opportunities
  for women and men

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Support for Latvia women from EU structural
funds

• The gender quality aspect as horizontal objective
  is included throughout the Latvia Development
  Plan 2004 2006, primarily within the priority
  Development of Human Resources and Promotion of
  Employment, e.g.
• Output indicators and baseline data are broken
  down by gender to monitor gender gaps and to
  measure progress in gender equality
• Additional points in the selection criteria will
  be assigned to those projects which contribute to
  gender equality
• Gender balance in Monitoring and Steering
  Committees will be encouraged

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Microcredit ? Interreg
Project Microcredit 2000 - 2003 Project Interreg 2004 - 2006
Sweden Finland
Finland Lithuania
Latvia Estonia
Lithuania Sweden
Estonia Latvia
Norway Norway
Germany
Belarus
Poland
Kaliningrad
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Activities of project Interreg

• Building up resource centres and meeting places
  to strengthen the role of women in society and in
  local and regional development.
• Resource centres
• Latgale - 3
• Vidzeme 1
• Kurzeme 1
• Zemgale 1

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Activities of project Interreg

• Networks for training and exchange of experience
  for advisors and resource centre leaders
• Mentorship program for women entrepreneurs

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Activities of project Interreg

• Networking in microcredit groups and/or other
  financial solutions for women entrepreneurs
• Internationalization of womens entrepreneurship
  in the BSR

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