Političke stranke Hrvatske o ulozi žene u društvu
Political Parties and Women

Summary/Abstract: One of the major roles of political parties within a multiparty democratic system is to encourage equal opportunities of men and women with the aim of realizing full democracy. Among the parliamentary parties in Croatia we can distinguish between those who can see no reason whatsoever to pay special attention to this issue, considering it settled, and those who advocate the need for and the continuity of promoting women rights. In the analysis of party attitudes on that issue the following model was used: a dimension whose extremes are state intervention and selfregulation. It was linked with the dimension of the continuum modernism-traditionalism. Thus we get a four-field chart. The first field includes the traditionalist political parties who view the social position of women as a result of a spontaneous development of the society in general, i.e. they accept the rule of self-regulation. These are HDZ, HSS and HSP. In the second, for the time being empty, there would be parties that strive for the social regulation in the realization of the traditional social values. The next field is complementarity shared by modern political parties inclined to selfregulation (HNS, HSLS, HND, SNS, IDS, DA) and those who advocate state regulation of the mentioned issue (SDP and ASH). The analysis of the attitude towards women in party organization shows the following: 1. Low percentage of women among party rank-and-file regardless of a party’s nature; and 2. "the rule" that the higher the level of political decision-making, the lower the number of women.

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