Women in Macedonia generally face difficulties in accessing the labour market. The situation is even more difficult for women from marginalized groups, especially for Roma women. They are exposed to double discrimination – from the majority population and from the Roma communities themselves, based on ethnicity and gender, which pushes them at the margins of the economic society.
According to the 2019 World Bank Report, the gender gap in labour force participation is still large, and there are a number of limitations for Roma women that make them unemployable and economically dependent.
In order to examine the situation on the ground we conducted a Monitoring of Utilization of Active Employment Measures and Services by Roma Women for 2020.
The findings unequivocally show that as much as 94% of the total number of registered unemployed Roma women are without education or have primary education.
Low utilization of active employment measures and services on behalf of Roma women can still be noted. Regardless of the fact that there is a tendency of increased number of Roma women as beneficiaries of active measures and services within the years, their coverage by active measures is slight and does not contribute sufficiently to increase the employment of Roma women.
To access more information from the conducted monitoring in Macedonian language, click here.
