International organisations experts' meeting on the EU Gender Equality Index

The aim of the international organisations expert's meeting on the EU Gender Equality Index (EU GEI) is in:

• Sharing and comparing common experiences and best practices in measuring gender equality;
• Debating different perspectives and achieving a common understanding of the gender equality concept;
• Defining an exhaustive, relevant and comprehensive theoretical framework of gender equality within the EU 27 Member States.

Particularly organisations who are now developing a gender equality index will provide input on

• which are the priority areas in gender equality?
• how they implement the measurements?
• which obstacles they faced and how did they overcome them?

The participants list includes:

• Christopher Garroway, OECD - statistician
• Jane Hodges, ILO - Director, Bureau for Gender Equality, International Labour Office
• Milena Kadieva, Social watch, gender expert
• Sami Nevala, Fundamental Right Agency, statistician
• Andres Vikat, UNECE, Head of Social and Demographic Statistics Section, Statistical Division