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Funds for active measures for employing women set aside from budget
Belgrade,
17 July 2007
Assistant Minister of Economy and Regional Development Radmila Bukumiric-Katic said today that the Serbian government has set aside budget funds for the implementation of active employment measures for women through the National Employment Service and that self-employed women who start a business will get one-off assistance.
Bukumiric-Katic said that unemployment rate of women in Serbia stands at 27.4% whereas with men the percentage is 17.6%.
According to her, there are 1.93 million inactive women, 494,000 of whom are housewives.
She noted that women still rather work in state companies than in the private sector.
President of the Association of businesswomen and co-author of the research Sanja Popovic-Pantic said that the survey on the position of women in the Serbian labour market was taken from a sample of 656 unemployed women who had attended some kind of entrepreneurship training in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Nis from late 2003 to the middle of 2005.
Popovic-Pantic said that out of that number of women, a quarter started their own business, and the same number found jobs in other firms, while one-third remained jobless.
As much as 33% of women who started their own business after the training, set up enterprises in the field of retail and wholesale, while 27% opened various craftsmen shops, Popovic-Pantic said and added that more than half of those women said that setting up their own business was the only way for them to find job.
According to her, some 25% of women who underwent entrepreneurship training believe that favourable loans and tax reliefs are the most important for starting a business, and they also said that additional training and free legal advice are necessary.
According to her, there are 1.93 million inactive women, 494,000 of whom are housewives.
She noted that women still rather work in state companies than in the private sector.
President of the Association of businesswomen and co-author of the research Sanja Popovic-Pantic said that the survey on the position of women in the Serbian labour market was taken from a sample of 656 unemployed women who had attended some kind of entrepreneurship training in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Nis from late 2003 to the middle of 2005.
Popovic-Pantic said that out of that number of women, a quarter started their own business, and the same number found jobs in other firms, while one-third remained jobless.
As much as 33% of women who started their own business after the training, set up enterprises in the field of retail and wholesale, while 27% opened various craftsmen shops, Popovic-Pantic said and added that more than half of those women said that setting up their own business was the only way for them to find job.
According to her, some 25% of women who underwent entrepreneurship training believe that favourable loans and tax reliefs are the most important for starting a business, and they also said that additional training and free legal advice are necessary.
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