{"id":17996,"date":"2025-06-26T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasprotivnasilstvo.org.mk\/?p=17996"},"modified":"2025-07-08T16:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:06:42","slug":"public-event-gender-equality-as-a-foundation-for-a-society-without-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasprotivnasilstvo.org.mk\/en\/public-event-gender-equality-as-a-foundation-for-a-society-without-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Event: Gender Equality as a Foundation for a Society Without Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On June 25, 2025, a significant public event entitled \u201cGender Equality: The Foundation for a Society Without Violence\u201d was held in Skopje, which opened the space for a courageous and substantive discussion on the true meaning of gender equality. The event attracted speakers and participants from various fields \u2013 academia, media, politics, civil society \u2013 united in the view that the fight against gender discrimination must be strategic, systemic and vocal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first panel \u201cSex \u2260 Gender Equality: Where did we go wrong in understanding?\u201d focused on the essential difference between biological sex and social gender, emphasizing that their mixing in public and institutional discourse leads to confusion, wrong policies and marginalization \u2013 especially among trans and non-binary people. Speakers such as Zarko Trajanoski, Sa\u0161ka Cvetkovska, Nazim Rashidi and Sanela Shkrielj pointed out the need for the media and politicians to use the term \u201cgender\u201d responsibly \u2013 not declaratively, but as an essential concept for building just institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second panel, \u201cInvisible Economy, Visible Injustice\u201d, examined women\u2019s economic dependence as an instrumentalized form of inequality. The panelists \u2013 Sneshka Ilic, Igor Jadrovski and Elena Dimushevska \u2013 spoke about how cultural norms and patriarchal policies legitimize limited access to resources, education and protection, and how this makes it difficult to escape violent situations and perpetuates the cycle of poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event was a space for vision and analysis, but above all \u2013 for strengthening resistance to systemic injustices. Thanks to all who participated and contributed to a public discourse that not only informs, but also transforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n