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"Here in Estonia, where more than half of the population is made up of women, men still dominate in the sphere of politics. In the Estonian parliament, there are 21 female parliament members, among the 226 local government leaders there are 25 women and only one of our 13 ministers is a woman. It can be said that in our country, the minority governs the majority. Such a situation is quite depressing, taking into account the fact that the majority of university graduates are women. Hence, the question is why educated women do not get involved in politics," journalist Toomas Randlo will discuss in the 20 September issue of Postimees.
Early in September, Randlo and other journalists from Estonia attended meetings with politicians and gender equality experts in Stockholm and Copenhagen. The trip was organised by the Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Estonia.
"The solution depends on the society's attitudes and for how long do people view as acceptable a situation in which we see merely a handful of women in leadership positions," states Randlo. The full text of his article is available here (in Estonian).
On the same subject, a commentary by Kadri Karro (in Estonian), journalist at Eesti Ekspress.
