Kosovo’s President Atifete Jahjaga participated in the annual Assembly of the Kosovo Women's Network on Sunday. Jahjaga said that Kosovo women have held onto their shoulders the heavy burden of survival, peaceful resistance, war and that certainly the peace building would not be achieved without them. “We as a society are still facing gender prejudice and patriarchal mentality. Challenges to the complete realization of gender equality are many, for all of us, on every level and in all fields of life. But you have proved that there is no challenge which cannot be overcome, that there are no problems which cannot be solved, when there is a will and support for one another. In Kosovo there are many successful women and many powerful women in politics, education, science, technology, business, media, in the security sector and justice, but this does not mean that our joint work and engagements must come to a stop. On the contrary, this is just the right beginning of our very long and challenging traversing to the full realization of women’s rights, through their inclusion of decision-making in every walk of life. Gender equality, respecting of women’s rights and greater inclusion of women in decision-making, not only in politics but in other fields as well, has been and continues to remain a priority of my work. We still have a lot of work ahead of us, but our determination is more solid than ever before, for the protection of highest of values upon which we have built our state, the respect of rights of all citizens,” Jahjaga said.