The document is a quiz about women's rights and achievements. It contains 7 multiple choice questions about international documents related to gender equality, women's representation in politics and decision making, barriers to women's participation, and statistics about violence against women. The questions cover topics such as the first international document to recognize gender equality, when and where the OSCE Action Plan for Gender Equality was adopted, the top barriers preventing women from entering politics, countries with the highest rates of women in parliament, the low percentages of women as chief mediators and signatories in peace negotiations, and the statistic that 1 in 3 women experience physical or sexual violence.

1. On Women’s Day take
ODIHR’s short quiz on
women’s rights and
achievements

2. Question No. 1: Recognizing equality
between women and men
Which document of international relevance was the first one to
recognize the equality of women and men?
A. United Nations Charter
B. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
C. Convention on Elimination of all forms of Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW)
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3. Recognizing equality
between women and men
Correct answer: A. United Nations Charter
UN support for the rights of women began with the Organization's
founding Charter in 1948. Among the purposes of the UN declared in
Article 1 of its Charter is “To achieve international co-operation…in
promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental
freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.”
Source: http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/women/
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4. Question No. 2: OSCE and gender equality
When and where was the OSCE Action Plan for the
Promotion of Gender Equality adopted?
A. 2011, Warsaw
B. 2004, Sofia
C. 2000, Vienna
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5. OSCE and gender equality
Correct answer: B. 2004, Sofia
The 2004 OSCE Action Plan for the Promotion of Gender Equality is the
key OSCE document assigning responsibilities and tasks to all parts of
the OSCE and its 57 participating States in attaining gender equality.
Among its objectives are:
• To ensure all OSCE policies, programmes and activities are gender
mainstreamed, in other words, assessing the different implications for
women and men in all OSCE planned activities and policies;
• Within the OSCE, developing a professional, gender-sensitive
management culture and working environment; and
• Supporting the efforts of participating States in achieving gender
equality.
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6. Question No. 3:
Top barriers for entering into politics
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While there is a general assumption that women do not enter politics
because of lack of confidence, Inter-Parliamentary Union research
shows that women actually face different barriers, compared to men.
What are the three top barriers for women?
A. Domestic responsibilities, stereotypes about women’s and men’s
role in society, lack of family support
B. Lack of support from electorate, lack of finance, lack of support of
political parties
C. Lack of interest for politics, fear of discrimination and concerns
over prejudices

7. Top barriers for entering into politics
This visual is from the Compendium of
Good Practices for Advancing Women’s
Political Participation in the OSCE Region.
To learn more, visit,
www.osce.org/odihr/224171
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Correct answer:
A. Domestic responsibilities,
stereotypes about women’s and
men’s role in society, lack of family
support
Women are more often overburdened
with household and family
responsibilities and presumptions of their
gender roles that do not support them
being leaders. For men these barriers do
not factor in, and they mostly struggle
with gaining support from the electorate
and political parties, as well as access to
campaign financing.
Source: Equality in Politics, A Survey of
Women and Men in Parliaments, IPU,
2008.

8. Questions No 4:
Women’s representation in parliaments
While women’s representation in
national parliaments has been
changing over the years, some
countries are making more progress.
Name the top four countries in terms
of women’s representation in national
parliaments in the OSCE region:
A. Hungary, Armenia, Georgia,
Ukraine
B. Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Spain
C. Canada, United States of
America, France, Kazakhstan.
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This visual is from the Compendium of
Good Practices for Advancing Women’s
Political Participation in the OSCE Region.
To learn more, visit,
www.osce.org/odihr/224171.
Women’s Representation in Parliaments
OSCE Average

9. Women’s representation in parliaments
Correct answer: B. Finland, Iceland, Spain and Sweden
Women’s participation in parliaments is crucial to improving the
representative nature, accountability and quality of democracies, and
has a profound impact on the way politics is practiced in terms of
policy-making agendas and political content. Yet despite the many
international conferences, documents and commitments, with a small
number of exceptions, parliaments remain a long way from parity
between men and women.
Only 17 OSCE countries are currently above the 30 per cent target set
by the UN Economic and Social Council to be reached by1995 (50 per
cent by 2000). Only four countries can boast more than 40 per cent
women MPs in their lower or single houses – Sweden, Finland,
Iceland and Spain.
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10. Questions No. 5:
Women in conflict prevention,
peace- negotiations and peace- building
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Even though numerous studies demonstrate the benefits of women’s
contribution to conflict prevention, peace-negotiations and peace-
building, a study of 31 major peace processes between 1992 and 2011
revealed that …..% of chief mediators and ….% of signatories were
women:
A. 2% chief mediators and 4% signatories
B. 5% and 10% respectively
C. 10% and 15% respectively.

11. Women in conflict prevention,
peace- negotiations and peace- building
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Correct answer: A. 2 per cent chief mediators and 4 per cent
signatories
Data on the numbers of women in peace talks are scarce, as this
information is not consistently tracked by any authority. A sample of 31
major peace processes between 1992 and 2011 reveals that only 4 per
cent of signatories, 2.4 per cent of chief mediators, 3.7 per cent of
witnesses and 9 per cent of negotiators are women.
This is in spite of growing participation of women in politics and that
peace negotiations characterized by high civil society involvement are
less likely to result in resumed warfare.
Source: Women’s Participation in Peace Negotiations: Connections between
Presence and Influence, UN Women, 2012.

12. Questions No. 6: Violence against women
How many women experience physical or sexual intimate-partner
violence or sexual violence by a non-partner at some point in their
lives, according to global statistics?
A. 1 in 10
B. 1 in 7
C. 1 in 3
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13. Violence against women
Correct answer: C. 1 in 3
It is estimated that 35 per cent of women worldwide have experienced
either physical and/or sexual intimate-partner violence or sexual
violence by a non-partner at some point in their lives.
Source: http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-
against-women/facts-and-figures#sthash.SXrpzaoz.dpuf
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14. Question No. 7: Women in sports
It’s not known definitively whether women took part in ancient Olympic
games. In which modern Olympics did women first compete in five
sports: tennis, sailing, croquet, equestrianism and golf?
A. Athens, 1896
B. Paris, 1900
C. Stockholm, 1912
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15. Women in sports
Correct answer: B. Paris, 1900
Twenty-two women competed for the first time at the 1900 Games in Paris.
With the addition of women’s boxing to the Olympic programme, the 2012
Games in London were the first in which women competed in all sports,
making up 44 . per cent of the participants.
Source: http://registration.olympic.org/en/faq/detail/id/135
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16. Thank you for taking the quiz!
• ODIHR works to strengthen gender-equality institutions,
identify discriminatory laws and policies, and increase women’s
participation in politics and electoral processes.
• Through gender equality training for parliamentarians, civil
society and security-sector personnel, and by encouraging
women’s recruitment and promotion within the security ranks,
ODIHR supports effective institutions, policies and programmes
that reflect the needs and interests of both men and women.
• To learn more, visit www.osce.org/odihr/gender
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