14.02.2025. Today, a meeting dedicated to connecting financial institutions with women entrepreneurs was held at the invitation of the Center for Women’s Rights. The meeting was attended by representatives of the CBCG, UBCG, commercial banks, the Tax Administration, Microfinance Organizations, a women’s organization that promotes the Women’s Mark, etc.
The economic empowerment of women affects the economic, social, and cultural development of society, affects the reduction of inequality and the prosperity of society. In this context, it was agreed to work on the visibility and promotion of the importance of the “We finance Code” initiative, which improves standards for the economic empowerment of women. They discussed statistical data, the importance of education, financial literacy, obstacles, but also the opportunities that lie ahead of us all in helping vulnerable categories of society with the help of the EBRD and the Frankfurt School of Economics and Management, which will provide technical assistance at the system level.
The gender equality index measures gender equality in the member states of the European Union through six domains: work, money, knowledge, time, power and health. The value of the index is displayed on a scale from 1 to 100, where 1 represents complete inequality, while the value 100 represents complete equality.
The Gender Equality Index in Montenegro for 2023 is 59.3, which is an increase of 4.3 index points compared to the Index from 2019. In the EU-27, the Gender Equality Index is 68.6. Compared to the EU-27, Montenegro records a lower value of the index by 9.3 index points. The index of the main domains of gender equality shows that the biggest inequality gap is in the area of money (lower value of the index by 20.7 index points compared to the EU-27 average), while the smallest gap in Montenegro compared to the EU-27 average was recorded in the domain of health (lower value of the index by 0.8 index points compared to the EU-27 average).
