Fifty years since the establishment of April 8 as International Roma Day, Roma women in Macedonia and beyond are trying to enter the labor market due to long-standing systemic discrimination, concluded the Hera initiative. Namely, the data according to which only four Roma women are employed in managerial positions in public institutions, and in non-managerial positions they are represented by only 0.47 percent of the total number of employees, testify to this. Orizari is the largest municipality with a Roma population in the country, out of a total of 18 employees in the municipality, only eight are Roma. It is also striking that not a single Roma woman has been employed in the employment centers in the country. In 30 employment centers across the country, only two Roma were employed in non-managerial jobs, the statement said. They add that out of a total of 7,647 persons who used the active measures and services for employment during 2019 at the national level, only 169 are Roma, which is extremely devastating given the fact that 4,632, or 4.6 percent of the registered unemployed faces are Roma.

They also emphasize that according to the National Operational Plan, out of the total number of registered unemployed Roma at the national level, 94.88 percent are without education or only with primary education.

Link: https://denesen.mk/megjunaroden-den-na-romite-od-vkupno-18-vraboteni-vo-opshtina-shuto-orizari-samo-8-se-romi/

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