This toolkit helps organisations across the EU carry out gender-neutral job evaluation and classification. It is the update of the EU guidelines on gender-neutral job evaluation and classification. It sets out practical steps to ensure jobs are assessed using objective, gender-neutral criteria. These criteria – known as ‘factors’ – include skills, responsibility, effort and working conditions. Designed for all employers...
This policy brief highlights the key benefits of implementing gender-neutral job evaluation and classification for employers and provides additional insights for workers and social partners, who can likewise apply these methods in their collective agreements. The policy brief also introduces the step-by-step toolkit on gender-neutral job evaluation and classification, developed by EIGE and the European Commission to support the implementation...
Gender-neutral job evaluation and classification is a helpful tool for employers to uphold the principle of equal pay for the same work or work of equal value between women and men. In cooperation with the European Commission, the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has developed a practical toolkit with clear steps, templates and examples to help organisations (and others)...
In January 2017, EIGE took over the database on women and men in decision-making (WMID), which was previously managed by the European Commission. The WMID entry point had been launched in 2003 to monitor the numbers of men and women in key decision-making positions to provide reliable statistics that can be used to draw comparisons between European countries and analyse...
This study is one of EIGE’s several initiatives to improve the current situation of administrative data collection on violence against women in the EU. This report provides the results of EIGE’s second data collection exercise, which ran between 2023 and 2024, covers the period 2014-2022 and analyses the current state of data collection in the police and justice sectors on...
This technical report details the methodology of the second wave of the Survey on Gender Gaps in Unpaid Care, Individual and Social Activities (the CARE Survey). It builds on the first wave conducted in 2022. The CARE Survey aims to address gender inequalities in care, enhancing the Gender Equality Index’s ability to monitor changes over of time more effectively and...
Description of the contract The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) envisages awarding a middle-value contract for a study on the gender equality dimensions of the deployment of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. This study will contribute to the thematic focus of Gender Equality Index 2027. It will seek to add to the knowledge base on the nexus between generative...
Violence against women – as shown by the results of the European Union gender-based violence (EU-GBV) survey conducted by Eurostat, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) – is widespread and takes many forms. The results presented in this report represent the experiences of women in the 27 Member States with...
The second wave of EIGE’s EU-wide survey on gender gaps in unpaid care and individual and social activities (CARE Survey) provides updated and comparable data on how women and men across the EU organise and experience unpaid care, housework, the use of informal and formal care services, and their leisure time. Conducted in 2024 across all 27 EU Member States...
