This publication on Women and Men in CARICOM Member States - Power and Decision Making: 1980-2000, is another attempt to compile gender statistics in a regional publication.

Power and decision-making was one of the areas identified by Caribbean countries for attention in the preparation for the Beijing Conference in 1995. Commonwealth Ministers of Women’s Affairs also identified this issue as important and called on all Commonwealth States to increase women’s participation in decision-making to 30 per cent by 2005. Additionally, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights articulates that everyone has the right to participate in the Government of his or her country. Similarly, in other aspects of the decision-making process and in policy formulation such as senior level government positions, managers of companies andorganizations and the judiciary, the composition of the society should be reflected. While in other spheres of activity in the household and in the community women have demonstrated considerable leadership qualities, the general tendency worldwide is for a low proportion of women to be involved in economic and political decision-making.

Exploratory as it is, this publication seeks to give within the limitations of the data, the status of the situation in Member States with respect to the nature of the inequality that exists in specific areas of the policy and decision-making process and an estimate of how close the Region is to achieving the goal of 30 percent participation of women in decision-making by 2005. The tables include: Parliamentary Assemblies, Public Order and Safety Occupations, Senior Level Positions in the Government Service and Managerial and Other Professional occupations.





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Women and Men in CARICOM Member States:
Power and Decision Making 1980-2002
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