The document discusses a student group's project on discrimination against women. The group is made up of 9 members and their coordinator, Dana Raduly. They chose to focus on discrimination against women as it is common in their country. Through surveys, research, and discussions, they sought to understand the situation of women locally and globally. Their findings showed ways in which women face discrimination in areas like the workplace, politics, and domestic responsibilities. Discrimination negatively impacts women's well-being and limits their potential.

2. Group members and coordinator
Coordinator teacher: Dana Raduly
Group members:
Andra Sălcudean
Daniela Buda
Laurentiu Mureșan
Alexandra Luca
Tudor Dulău
Oana Vultur
Rucsandra Pintea
Daria Badiu
Alexandru Biro

3.  General theme:
Discrimination and Human Rights
 Sub-theme chosen:
Discrimination against women
 Why?
We chose this type of discrimination because
we feel it’s very common in our country and we
believe that by our action we can make a
difference.

4. What did we know about discrimination
in the beginning?
 We were aware that discrimination
existed, however we realized that many
people see discrimination as normal
behavior.
 Discrimination doesn’t allow women to
fully express themselves, and live a
normal life, equal to men’s.
 We realized that, in the case of women,
discrimination is mostly negative and it
has severe consequences on many levels
( social, political, religious etc.).

5. What steps did we take in order to find
out the situation of women in our
community?
 Brainstorming within small groups: we discussed general
facts regarding the situation of women in our community
 We devised an online survey: 83 people completed the
survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KC255Y6
 We disseminated the information we found out among
our colleagues and we collected their opinions on
discrimination

6.  We conducted a kindergarden survey – we asked the
children who does what in their household.
 We talked to priests regarding the alleged
discrimination of women in religion

8. brainstorming and researching
within the group
 domestic violence – several
women are abused either
physically or mentally
 discrimination at work - in some
cases women have difficulties in
obtaining a promotion
 there are specific situations when
women are not given enough
credit and are judged solely based
on their gender

9.  the maternal leave
- women are somehow
not given enough financial
support to stay at home and
take care of their children
(there’s a fixed amount of
money they get for childcare)
- also, if they choose to
stay an extra year on maternal
leave they may lose their jobs.
 inappropriate jokes (sexist
jokes on the topic of women
doing male specific things)

10. Why are women being discriminated?
Because :
 they are perceived as being the weaker sex
 they are seen as more fragile
 these ideas are planted in children’s heads from their
earliest days

11.  there are certain social habits which
separate men’s roles from women’s roles.
e.g. young children are usually dressed
in pink if they are girls or in blue if they are
boys.
e.g. young girls are usually told to play
with dolls or toys kitchen tools and boys are
taught to play with cars and action figures.

12. General situation of women
Worldwide
Women do two-thirds of the world’s work, receive 10 percent
of the world’s income and own 1 percent of the means of
production.” Richard H. Robbins, Global Problems and the
Culture of Capitalism, (Allyn and Bacon, 1999), p. 354
 According to Inter Press Service, “On a global scale, women
cultivate more than half of all the food that is grown.
 “The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership
has been due in large part to social and professional
discrimination.”(Rosalyn S. Yalow)

13. Gender equality is essential for the achievement of human
rights for all. Yet discriminatory laws against women persist in
every corner of the globe and new discriminatory laws are
enacted.(www.ohchr.org)
“From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and
experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the
various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself
and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but
unpleasantness”(Dalai Lama)

14. In advertisements, women
are presented as the ones
that clean the house and
need cleaning products
Even in movies and music
videos, women are fragile
and need the protection of
men.

15. In Europe
In many European countries there is a big difference between
unemployment rates
e.g. In Greece, the unemployment rate in the case of women
was 9,6% higher than in the case of men.
In Spain, the difference was 6,8%.
In other countries, such as Finland, Sweden, Germany
Netherlands, Slovenia, Hungary, the difference was inexistent or
very small.
Almost 17% of the European women are ranked as living in
poverty

16. In Romania
The unemployment rate for women
is also lower that in the case of men
The salary gap between genders is
17,4%
Women are considered inferior
because of the innate misconceptions
of people
There were cases of domestic
violence when women were also fined
for disturbing the breach of peace

17. What conclusions did we draw after
analyzing the results of the online
survey?

20. Conclusions
 The results from the first question shows us that
most of the people think that women are able to
have a good position in a company and take good
decisions .
 A very high percentage of the people who took our
survey think that the women are discriminated in
our country .
 Many people think that the women shouldn’t be the
only ones who do the house work , yet most people
agree that women do the harder tasks in a family .
 People think that reintegration programs would be
useful . (such as programs to prevent
discrimination)

21.  Women are most discriminated in politics and least
discriminated in education .

22. What effects does discrimination have
on women?
 Low self-esteem;
 Low expectations;
 Depression;
 Stress;
 Anxiety.