Only three percent of women are directly engaged in politics, whereas 11 percent have no interest in involvement at all. This is what the research findings of the "Friedrich Eber" foundation say, which were presented by professor Besa Luzha. At the international conference "Freedom of Speech Borders", hosted by KosovaPress News Agency, she said that the struggle of women for inclusion in the political and media scene continues.

In the second panel on the topic "The innovation steps in the economic, social and culture development", Luzha said that the findings about women's willingness to work are worrying.

"It was worrying for us as researchers when we saw a result that about 49 percent of women who declared that they would work only if they were forced, in the sense that they have difficult conditions. This has worried us much more than perhaps the fact that there are still many unemployed women", said Luzha.

The Professor at the University of Prishtina, Besa Luzha, at the international conference, added that the struggle of women to be included in the political scene and in the media is continuing.

"In the beginning, it was a challenge to increase the participation and commitment of women in political life, I believe that it has more or less increased because we have had a commitment, society in general, to ensure once the presence through the quota in the Assembly. However, gradually the women who have been engaged have managed to win the votes of the citizens even without a quota and to be present. And this is the scheme that appears when we focus on the political part. It is interesting, the battle still continues because until we see that political scene in the media, the presence is a little bigger than before", she said.

In the second panel of the international conference " Freedom of Speech Borders", Luzha added that women are reluctant to take leadership positions.

"In a recent study that we did at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, I was the head of the research process, the study was done only for the women of Kosovo, in all spheres, it is very interesting when it now opens the focus to the entire Kosovar society, not only on stage, you can see that women's involvement in political life is still very small. The 30 percent, 40 percent that we see in the assembly may be an optical illusion in the sense that we have achieved a lot of success, but the real result, according to the research, is that only 3 percent of Kosovo women are actually directly engaged in politics. Only 11 percent of them are interested in politics", she said.

In the conference hosted by KosovaPress, members of the largest European network of news agencies EANA (www.newsalliance.org), as well as that of South-Eastern Europe ABNA SE (www.abnase.com), are participating, where KosovaPress is member in these networks.

Especially for this conference, Nataliya Kostina, head of the Department for Foreign Relations at the Ukrainian News Agency ‘Ukrinform’, also comes from Kyiv.

The first panel focused on the contemporary challenges facing news agencies and media in this period of great global change. In the second panel, the speakers were the president of the Prishtina MALL Board, Fatmir Zymberi, the leader of the UBT College Edmond Hajrizi, university professor Besa Luzha, Kushtrim Krasniqi from the Kosovo Olympic Committee, and Tualant Hodaj from the Kosovo Football Federation, who will present views about the possibility of creating synergies to support innovative initiatives that advance social prosperity. /Sh. Pajaziti