Jordan Times
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Women's representation
in decision-making positions examined
AMMAN — HRH Princess Basma on Wednesday said that women's representation in
decision-making positions continues to be of serious concern.
Speaking at the UN missions' commemoration of International Women's Day
yesterday, the Princess told the gathering: "As important as it is for us
Jordanian women to see a higher numerical representation of women, I believe
that we should be working at the same time to ensure a paradigm shift that
allows political actors, both men and women, to focus on gender equality policy
development."
"Our future direction should be to go beyond the numbers and ensure that there
are more active and effective voices among decision-makers calling for and
working on gender equality," she added.
The Princess stressed that effective participation has to begin at lower levels,
and that a top-down approach has not proven successful when it came to
decision-making.