The Fundación Mujeres en Igualdad (MEI), known in English as the Women in Equality Foundation, is an Argentine NGO created in March 1990. It has been awarded consultative status with United Nations ECOSOC. [1] The foundation sets out to combat gender-based violence and discrimination against women by promoting welfare, participation, and empowerment in the political, economic, social and cultural spheres. [2] From its inception Women in Equality promoted the use of the new technologies intensively, being the first women's NGO in Argentina to have a website. Through such initiatives, it has networked and created partnerships with NGOs and with the women's movement both at the national and international levels. [3]
Mujeres en Igualdad Foundation has its offices in Florida, Province of Buenos Aires. [4] The founder of Women in Equality was Zita Montes de Oca, [5] with Monique Thiteux-Altschul as its executive director. [6]
I had the privilege to accompany her in the creation of Mujeres en Igualdad in 1990, when the women's movement set out to enact an electoral quota law: a tough goal to attain but which would ensure critical changes for women in the political field. Since then, we shared eight years of feminism, friendship, and hard work, as well as the discovery of the digital world into which we dived with a passion, seeing how the networks that Zita had built from within the public sphere, grew, tied together, were enriched both in the way we communicated as well as on the issues we discussed.
— Monique Thiteux-Altschul [7]
Mujeres en Igualdad began its "About Representatives and Represented" Project breakfasts in 1993, [17] and has since held 176 breakfasts, in the City of Buenos Aires and numerous provinces. An average of 70 sundry participants attends each month, including women senators, deputies ad legislators, judges, lawyers, functionaries, journalists, academics, union representatives, members of NGOs and international agencies, embassies, aboriginal people's organizations, politicians, and grass roots organizations. These monthly meetings are meant to make town halls debate women's issues from the political agenda as well as special topics that allow the women present to pool their thoughts and coordinate their work. [18]
Mujeres en Igualdad Foundation has organized three forums and prepares its fourth Forum to be held in October 2016 [19] to analyze and draft public policies and gendered budgets to counteract actions used by corruption to threaten women's human rights. [20] The third Forum was held in 2008 in the School of Law in the University Buenos Aires, within the framework of Women for Equality and Transparency ( UNIFEM – UNDEF, United Nations), to debate and share experiences fostering transparency. [21]
The Fundación Mujeres en Igualdad (MEI), known in English as the Women in Equality Foundation, is an Argentine NGO created in March 1990. It has been awarded consultative status with United Nations ECOSOC. [1] The foundation sets out to combat gender-based violence and discrimination against women by promoting welfare, participation, and empowerment in the political, economic, social and cultural spheres. [2] From its inception Women in Equality promoted the use of the new technologies intensively, being the first women's NGO in Argentina to have a website. Through such initiatives, it has networked and created partnerships with NGOs and with the women's movement both at the national and international levels. [3]
Mujeres en Igualdad Foundation has its offices in Florida, Province of Buenos Aires. [4] The founder of Women in Equality was Zita Montes de Oca, [5] with Monique Thiteux-Altschul as its executive director. [6]
I had the privilege to accompany her in the creation of Mujeres en Igualdad in 1990, when the women's movement set out to enact an electoral quota law: a tough goal to attain but which would ensure critical changes for women in the political field. Since then, we shared eight years of feminism, friendship, and hard work, as well as the discovery of the digital world into which we dived with a passion, seeing how the networks that Zita had built from within the public sphere, grew, tied together, were enriched both in the way we communicated as well as on the issues we discussed.
— Monique Thiteux-Altschul [7]
Mujeres en Igualdad began its "About Representatives and Represented" Project breakfasts in 1993, [17] and has since held 176 breakfasts, in the City of Buenos Aires and numerous provinces. An average of 70 sundry participants attends each month, including women senators, deputies ad legislators, judges, lawyers, functionaries, journalists, academics, union representatives, members of NGOs and international agencies, embassies, aboriginal people's organizations, politicians, and grass roots organizations. These monthly meetings are meant to make town halls debate women's issues from the political agenda as well as special topics that allow the women present to pool their thoughts and coordinate their work. [18]
Mujeres en Igualdad Foundation has organized three forums and prepares its fourth Forum to be held in October 2016 [19] to analyze and draft public policies and gendered budgets to counteract actions used by corruption to threaten women's human rights. [20] The third Forum was held in 2008 in the School of Law in the University Buenos Aires, within the framework of Women for Equality and Transparency ( UNIFEM – UNDEF, United Nations), to debate and share experiences fostering transparency. [21]