Gender museum Ukraine: Making Ukrainian Women Visible...

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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

Gender Museum, Ukraine 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! gender.museum@gmail.com