YEREVAN. – Armenia has always appreciated women; they have been free and have partaken—equally with the men—in solving crucial issues. United Armenians Party member Sima Iskandaryan stated this during Wednesday’s debate among the women who are included in the political parties’ lists for the upcoming parliamentary elections.     

In her words, signing an international agreement is one thing, securing gender equality is altogether something else. 

“Armenia was unable to secure this factual equality. That is why it assumed a supporting approach and attitude toward women,” Iskandaryan noted and added that the salaries in those domains, where the women are engaged in, do not secure the minimum conditions, and that is why a “feminization of poverty” is noticed in the country.