The Minister of Gender Equality had also been transferred to the Ministry of Employment to provide a good opportunity to work harder on issues like the gender pay gap and a gender segregated labour market.
The single focus on human resource management in those ministries had been replaced by a wider focus on policies, resulting in the formulation of gender equality policies in each ministry and 15 cross-cutting gender equality goals. Noting that violence against women was a violation of the Danish Criminal Code, she said that from to , the number of women experiencing partner violence had fallen from 42, to 28, To further reduce the ranks of the battered, the Government had also launched a new National Strategy to Combat Violence in Close Relationships That strategy placed a special focus on migrant women, who were especially vulnerable and often ignorant of their rights.
Other forms of violence, such as honour-related violence and forced marriages, were also being targeted in a range of initiatives. Denmark believed that prostitution was a social issue, and while trafficking might include a criminal element, it was also being tackled in the social arena. As part of its longer-term vision, Denmark had placed a special focus on educating children and young people about gender roles so gender inequalities in education, employment and family patterns could be broken in the future.
Joining Ms. The new Government of Greenland, which consisted of four women and five men, would continue the work of the previously-established Gender Equality Council by reinforcing the gender equality debate through television campaigns and Internet forums, and placing gender equality ambassadors in every town.
Pol E. Egholm said that since the last time the Faroes had presented on the Convention, a vigorous debate on gender equality in politics had taken place. In , the Government had established an independent committee, Demokratia, which had encouraged women to participate in politics.
