In the Courts; in the Labor Market; in Politics; in the Army; in Sports
The Impact of the Parliament
- Women’s Parliament has joined several coalitions, initiated by women organizations, in the common struggle against discriminating and humiliating women in Israel.
- Raising public awareness to various issues. The debates had an evident impact on the public discourse concerning “the trafficking in women” and on the understanding of the connection between prostitution, the trafficking in women and pornography. The Women’s Parliament had put on the public agenda issues like the economic discrimination and exploitation of women in the labor market and their exclusion from political power centers and other spheres of public influence.
WP Sessions 2003
Transformations and Changes in Israel’s Agricultural Sector – The Feminist Perspective
The session took place in February 2003 in Gezer regional municipality. Hilla Altshuler convened the discussion. On the panel were: Orna Agmon, Yaffa Mizrhi, Dr. Michal Palgi and Rozi Vagshal. The personal testimonies as to women’s lives in the Kibbutz and the Moshav, unveiled unexpected narratives, both amusing and sad, of women facing discrimination and exclusion.
The Gender, Nationality and Origins of Money: Economic Policies and Us
The session took place in June 2003 in Lev Hasharon regional municipality. Dr. Aliza Lavie convened the discussion and the panelists were: MP Ilana Cohen, Bracha Arajuani, Irit Zehavi, Manal Shalabi, Tamar Guzanski and Shely Yehimovitz.
The discussants emphasized the severe implications of the economic policy on women, and for the most vulnerable among them in particular. Mothers in single-parent families, teachers, Arab women, impoverished women and others, are being thrown with their children into unbearable poverty. The women’s organization were called to devote their energy to opposing practices and policies that weaken many women and their children.