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Reflecting on women in Albania instead of a well-deserved party

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By Alba à‡ela The beginning of the month of March in Albania brings along with the new season two important holidays, 7 and 8 of March respectively Teachers’ Day and Women’s Day. And since a large majority of teachers are women it turns into a two-day party of flowers, speeches and parties for women, by women and mainly with women. Indeed women deserve to get the attention, appreciation and special treatment for the heroic venture they carry out every day: surviving and being successful in a country where they face many obstacles. Although I tend to look a bit down…

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  • Women participation and strength in political decision making and economic activity of Albania needs not only a jump forward in quantity but also in substance, in style and in fairness. It needs to be a process of multiplication, through which more and more women get empowered and uplifted. Poverty, unemployment, discrimination at the job place continue to mar the experience of women in the economic life and initiatives taken so far are simply not enough or not well-structured enough to become systemic.

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