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Gender museum Ukraine:
Making Ukrainian Women Visible in
Public Life
Women in the Ukraine:
Statistics
21 million adult women.
56% of population.
53% of college and university students.
Women’s salaries are, on average 66% that of
men.
20 % of owners of small and medium-sized
businesses.
2% of owners of large businesses.
Main Issues faced by Women
Underrepresentation in
decision making process
War in the east of Ukraine
Gender violence
War 2014 until today
In the first two years of the conflict 22,212 people have been injured and 9,569 killed, among them 2,000 civilians.
17,147 women are serving in the Ukrainian army
2,540 women are commissioned officers
1,509 women have “combatant” status
Gender Violence
90% of the victims of domestic and sexual violence are women…
In 2015:
Four million women suffered violence.
One million suffered sexual violence.
Three million children observed or suffered violence in their family.
One in every 145 adult women files a complain to police annually.
Women Underrepresented in Decision making Processes
12 % - MP’s in the national parliament
12.5 % - Government ministers
15 % - Regional councillors
18.1 % - City councillors
The pages of Ukrainian “HerStory” are
unknown and as invisible as embroidery:
“White on White”.
The Gender Museum, Ukraine
Invisible pages of history,
invisible problems in
society:
“We write HERSTORY, we do
HERSTORY and we keep
HERSTORY”
www.gendermuseum.com
Today collection of Museum consists more than 3000
exhibits: books, children toys, pictures and photos,
drawings, posters, postcards, presentations,
documents, real things of gender experts and activists
from different countries: Germany, Lithuania,
Vietnam, USA, Sweden, Italia, Denmark, Argentina.
Ми постійно збираємо
нові експонати.
domestic violence, men’s problems, sexism in advertising.
The exhibits from Sweden
The exhibits from USA
From Italy
Museum’s exhibitions show that the gender problems are not only women’s problems but the problems of all society.
They help everyone to feel the processes of gender construction in society.
Museum promotes awareness of global women's issues and helps change values and attitudes toward women to end gender-based discrimination and oppression.
From August of 2013 Gendermuseum works
in new format. Today it has two rooms for it’s
exhibitions.
Gender Museum –
Museum for Dialogue Art projects;
Museum on Wheels;
Interactive excursions;
Exhibitions;
Hub for international
communication;
The Gender Museum on the
Internet
www.gendermuseum.com
Gender Museum:
A Museum for Dialogue Women’s Face of War (from
1939 to 2014);
Women’s face of
EuroMaydan;
Famous women of the
Kharkiv region;
Parenthood is…
Tortures for Women
Research
and Art
Projects
A Museum on Wheels
Interactive Excursions
Cross-Cultural Communications
Exhibitions in Different Spaces
Centre of Gender Culture:
A Space for Dialogue
Gender Museum Ukraine: our
propositions for cooperation
Exchange programs in gender issues for
students and teachers;
Excursions around Kharkiv (by “women’s”
places) and Gender Museum;
Trainings and seminars;
“Round” tables and open discussions
Gender Museum Ukraine
www.gendermuseum.com
www.genderculturecentre.org
www.gender.at.ua
We are open for DIALOGUE! [email protected]