Shared Parental Leave: A step for breaking down gender inequality?

07.03.2017 D4D

On March 7th 2017, the Next Tuesday Salon was held on the topic: “Shared Parental Leave: A step for breaking down gender inequality?”

Opening speeches were delivered by: Agim Shahini, Chairman, Business Alliance of Kosovo emphasized that businesses do not have the problem of maternity leave or now shared parental leave, as a right granted to their workers. But the burden of parental and maternity leave should be changed as it damages businesses since most of them are individual ones. Visar Gorani-Gashi, from the Swedish Embassy in Kosovo, said that joint parental leave should not be considered as a privilege but as a right that belongs to both as women and men. Even the Law on Gender Equality and the Anti-Discrimination Law should not be seen as taking the rights of men but as equality between the two sexes. Luan Hoti, Chairman, IPKO Workers’ Union said that the union serves as the first door to workers for consultations. Taking into account the economic situation, the shared parental leave is the last issue to be discussed. Perhaps this topic would be more debatable when we have a economic development.

The salon was moderated by Iliriana Banjska, Analyst on Gender Issues, Kosovo’s Women Network and the op-ed was written by Dardan Hoti, Editor, Gazeta Metro.

The editorial for the Salon is written in the Albanian language and it can be read here.

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