The concept:
About me: Eva Søgnebotten
• Elected - municipal council in Stange, 2007
• Deputy mayor for the Labour, since 2011
• Laywer and have worked 10 years in the
military with leadership responsibilities and
property-related tasks.
• I also run my own business for approx. 15
years working with leadership development,
organizational development, workshops and
coaching, and also a lot with balance
between work and private life for different
leaders in business, politics.
Family and home
• I am married, mother of three grown up
children aged 16, 21 and 23.
• I live on a farm at the countryside, only 6
km from the train station that takes me by
train to Oslo airport in 45 minutes and to
Oslo a little bit longer.
About Stange municipality
• 20.000 people, living in Stange.
• One of the largest agricultural communities
in Norway and also large areas of forest.
• The population growth in Stange with the
construction of double-track rail and a new
four-lane E6 through the municipality.
• Most characteristic is agricultural landscape
by Norway's largest lake, lake Mjøsa, and
here your find many large farms.
My engagement
for this political & democracy
gender issure:
In Hungarian:
This pilot project between KS in Norway
and its sisterorganization TÖOSZ in
Hungary
Participate as deputy mayor in projects with
focus on motivation and understanding for
increased female participation in politics and
public life
Gender issue in Czech
• Participating in a 18 month mentoring
program «Give women a Chance» as a
mentor
• Its objective is to promote women in politics
at various levels. The project involves 10
Norwegian / Danish women politicians as
mentors with both experience from
parliament, county and local positions .
The history, roots and use of
Women Can Do It - concept
• A training program for women
• Originated and running by the Norwegian
Labour Party Women network.
• Conducted in approx. 30 countries
worldwide since the Berlin Wall falled, like:
The history, roots and use of
Women Can Do It - concept
Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Russia, Montenegro,
Moldovia, Macedonia, Libanon, Iraq, Palestine,
Sudan, Rowand, Mosambique, South Africa,
Zimbab, Nepal, Cambodia, Myanmar
• 3 – 7 days courses
• 30 000 women has done the courses
• normally with 2 trained workshopsleaders.
The connection: Welfare,
democracy and gender issue
• Women Can Do It, helps to make this
connection stronger
• Norway has the combination of high female
employment rate with high fertility rate.
• In EU only Island has a bigger combination,
followed by Sweden and Danmark.
• 7 of 10 women and 8 of 10 men are
working. 30 years ago, less than 50 % of the
women was working.
The concept and workshops
Help, techniques and motivation for:
• Giving women political influence
• Increasing women`involvement in business
and organizations
• To influence legislation
• Strength womens self-knowledge and
mastery
The Manual contents:
1. Introduction 4
2. Democracy and women’s participation 6
3. Communication 8
4. Argumentation, speeches, debates 13
5. Working with the media 16
6. Negotiations – resolution of conflicts 18
7. Networking 20
8. Advocacy and campaigning 22
9. Violence against women 26
10. How to arrange WCDI / Trainer skills 28
Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2
Democracy and womens participation
Chapter 3
Communication
Specially about domination teqniques
What is Domination Techniques?
• Used by those in power against those who
have less power.
• Often used by men towards women
In politics
At the workplace
In the family
• In media
Chapter 4
Argumentation, speeches, debates
Chaper 5
Working with media
Chapter 6
Negotiations
Chapter 7
Networking
Chapter 8
Advocacy and campaigning
Chapter 9
Violence against women
Chapter 10
How to arrange WCDI / Trainer skills
How can you use this
concept?
Political parties og groups
Workshops: – Learning by doing
What is needed to focus on?
Why talking about it here?
• It is about democracy
• Arranging WCDI is one way of increasing
women’s participation – a tool
• Encouraging women to participate in
society, in NGOs, in political parties,
speaking up at work or in the family, is
important.
• Women’s are important and should be
heard.
Why talking about it here?
• Women Can Do It is both training for
specific organizational skills, and
• Gives opportunity for women to meet and
form networks. WCDI can be arranged
independently of an organization for the
general purpose of increasing women’s
participation in society, or
• It can be held within a party or organization
Brussel and South Sudan
Brussel last year as Hospitant at Oslo Region
European Office in Brussels, duration: 1
month: Purpose: particular focus on women
in politics and business, meetings in EU
parlament, commision etc.
WCDI South Sudan - led workshops as head
coach in a project to mobilize local women
heading for political engagement / encourage
voter participation among women
Maybe we can do something
together?
Please contact me:
Eva Søgnebotten
+47 97662722 e-mail: eva@benow.no
Women can do it!
Thank you!
The manual
for women
Activists
- an introduction
Making invisible
• Disregard a person, not giving the floor,
interrupt, speaking like a person is not in the
room, not paying attention, overlook or
ignore
• Neglect a person
Taking a persons task or responsibilities
• The one exposed is being marginalized and
feel insignificant through being ignored
• Men overrepresented in media
Heaping blame and
putting to shame
• Women are told that they are
not good enough
• Women is responsible for
the situation
• If a women is not succeeding,
the explanation is in their
own personality
Ridicule
• Make fun of someone, laughed
• Laugh of a person and not with a person
• Laugh when someone speak, a smile to
another person
• Comparing a women to an animal
– Chicken
• Women are portrayed as emotional or sexual
Withholding Information
• Men talking only to other men
• Taking decisions or exchanging
information after the meeting
• Men's networking
• Passing or exchanging
knowledge to only
some people
Damned if you do, or damned
if you don't
• Whatever a woman chooses is wrong
• Either you is to passive or you are to
aggressive
• You get punished for what you do and for
what you don't do
• Women get a guilty conscience
Communication
• In the political arena we need to be
conscious about how we communicate
• Language is used to constitute reality
and to express opinions based
on that reality.
• People have different body
language in different
situations.
Working with the media
• Contacting the media
• Selling the story, in different ways
depending of the way of focusing.
• The media as a partner.
Learn to cooperate with the media
• How the media works
• The interview
Violence against women
• Discrimination of women is expressed in a
range of mechanisms at different levels.
• Statistics show a horrifying
picture of the situation
for women worldwide.
• What can be done?