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Name: Oľga Pietruchová
Date registered: June 5, 2012

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  1. „Work-Life Balance in a Changing Society“ Slovak Presidency Conference — September 9, 2016
  2. The High Level Group on gender mainstreaming in Bratislava — September 8, 2016
  3. Slovak Presidency priorities discussed in the FEMM committee — September 2, 2016
  4. Priorities of the Slovak Presidency in FEMM — August 23, 2016
  5. Project on Women in Decisionmaking — May 3, 2016

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Mar 26

Improving the status of women in business

Slovak Spectator / Radka Minarechová & Roman Cuprik/ THE EUROPEAN Union has been working on a plan to pave the way for more women to take managerial positions in top companies Europe-wide, since only 13.7 percent of top managers sitting on the boards of firms in 2011 were women. Compared to 2010 the number rose …

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Jul 20

Country report on measures to combat discrimination

This report has been drafted for the European Network of Legal Experts in the Non-discrimination Field (on the grounds of Race or Ethnic Origin, Age, Disability, Religion or Belief and Sexual Orientation). Slovakia 2010 – Country report on measures to combat discrimination (PDF 3.403 kB) State of affairs 01 January 2011

Mar 14

Eurobarometer: Idea of gender quotas not supported by women

Slovak Spectator / The introduction of quotas for women to allow them to participate in public life more actively has low support among women themselves, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey. The survey was conducted in all 27 EU member states over the past few weeks, and presentation of the results marked last week’s 100th …

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Feb 07

Bringing everyone inside

INCLUSION is one of the words that surfaces often during discussion with Trine Skymoen whenever she is asked to talk about the best traditions of her homeland. The Norwegian ambassador to Slovakia says that Norway is able to sit atop various human development indices because the Nordic social model is characterised by pulling all people …

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Jul 20

Comprehensive amendment of the Anti-discrimination Act

On 14 February 2008 the Slovak Parliament passed the second amendment of the Anti-discrimination Act (1) harmonising national law with the existing EU directives. The amendment was proposed by the Slovak government, the Deputy Prime Minister for Knowledge Society, European Affairs, Human Rights and Minorities. The first amendment from June 2007 represented a quick response to …

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