On the global map of values, Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine are surrounded by countries, where traditional values of survival still dominate the societies. Among other things it means patriarchal perception of gender roles. That is why, in spite of the different political contexts, in all three countries, women’s participation in politics is undervalued, they feel a strong negative

In 2007 The Centre for Equality Advancement issued a booklet with statistics that confirmed that the ratio of women-men positions in government institutions related with decision-making is 1:10. The Centre encouraged the Lithuanian Parliament to pay more attention to the fact that the social-political breach creates the tendency to ignore women’s experience in government life.

This book is basically based on the common research methodology developed within the framework of the project “”Modern Men in Enlarged Europe II: Family Friendly Policies”. The qualitative and quantitative research was carried out in all project partner countries: Denmark, Iceland, Italy and Lithuania. The research marked an attempt to focus on men’s participation in work-family reconciliation processes and to develop better knowledge

These guidelines are a tool developed by “Modern Men in Enlarged Europe II” project team that will help policy decision-makers, employers, trade unions, NGO activists and individual workers that are parents or are planning to be parents to understand and develop their own work and family reconciliation strategies in their particular surroundings and according to

This collection of articles Gender, Media and Mass Culture is based on the papers of two conferences initiated and organised by the Center for Equality Advancement (Vilnius). The first conference Gender and Cinema (2003) examined the ways of constructing sexual identity and representations of gender in the cinematic tradition; the second conference Gender and Pop Culture (2004) focused on the

What are the experiences of men on parental leave? What reactions do they get from their friends, colleagues, relatives? Does it change their relationship with their partner? Why does a man with a pram attract so much public attention? These and other questions were posed to the fathers in Denmark, Iceland, Lithuania and Malta by

A Joint Report based on qualitative research with fathers on leave, employers and decision makers in Lithuania, Iceland, Denmark and Malta. Reasearchers: Lea Vedel Drews, Franz Wilhelm Cybulski (Denmark), Ingólfur V. Gíslason, Gísli Hrafn Atlason (Iceland), Jolanta Reingardė, Artūras Tereškinas, Arnoldas Zdanevičius (Lithuania), Celia Callus (Malta). Vilnius, 2005