Romanian woman involvement in governance after 1990

Abstract

This study highlights forms of gender inequality in post-communist Romania, generated by an unsustainable political algorithm which marginalizes women and fails to use their potential, both in politics and in formal and informal resistance, and maintains women's traditional duties as a type of environmental injustice. Having as a starting point the assertion that equality, as required by a democratic and developed country, plays a key role in society issues, the study analyses, using human geography pathway, a series of demographic data on Romanian women and attempts to explain the observed fluctuations, both at a national and regional level and correlates them with women's degree of representation in politics, governance. It aims and focuses at analyzing gender inequality through the women's participating in governance after 1990 and their overall effects and feedbacks on the society. The results show the paradox between the prevalence of female population both in number and as workforce and its unequal involvement in all governs of Romania's post-communist period and as a new EU member. The study also draws several priorities of women politics, to alleviate this type of injustice, which could help the future society development. .

Keywords

• gender inequality
• woman rights
• employment
• governance