The 8th of March marks International Women's Day, an internationally recognised holiday declared by the United Nations to commemorate the anniversary of the 1908 strike by 40,000 New York seamstresses. They fought for the abolition of the ten-hour day, against low wages and poor working conditions. Thanks to their fight, women were granted their right to vote all across the globe. In Slovakia, that right finally came in 1920.
Following the latest census from 2021, there are almost 2 million 8 hundred thousand women living in Slovakia, making up 51,1% of its population. Compared to the year 2011, the number of women in the territory of the Slovak Republic has increased by 14 630.
The share of university-educated women in the Bratislava region is the highest among all regions of the Slovak Republic: every third woman has a university degree.
Two of these women are Editor-in-Chief of daily SME, Beáta Balogová, and meteorologist Nikoleta Hrušková.
Beáta Balogová
We met in her office, where the European Press Prize from 2020 proves that she is the only Slovak journalist so far to have received such a prestigious award. The day we met started with the news of a tragedy in the Czech town Hradec Kralove, where a man stabbed two women in a gardening centre to death. At the time of the interview, we both knew that Afgani women were banned from working in radio. These information lead me to ask the first woman editor-in-chief of a major daily about the position of women journalists in Slovakia at the moment.
Beata Balogova on situation of woman journalists
Máte problém s prehrávaním? Nahláste nám chybu v prehrávači.
Nikoleta Hrušková
In 2021, she started forecasting the weather on national public TV, RTVS. She started with a respirator on her face, as it was the time of COVID-19 pandemic measures. The mask, however, could not hide the depth of knowledge in the daily forecast presented in a witty, popular way. Her love for meteorology and specific style of presentation attempting to popularise this science gave me the desire to meet the only woman weather forecaster currently on public STVR.
Nikoleta Hruskova on women meteorologists
Máte problém s prehrávaním? Nahláste nám chybu v prehrávači.
