Call for youth participation at the EIGE Gender Equality Forum 2024: Make your voice heard! The countdown is on for the second edition of the Gender Equality Forum! Join us online or on-site in Brussels on 10-11 December 2024 to engage in discussions on the future of gender equality in the EU until 2030. We want your voices and ideas to be heard, contributing to a call to action for equality 24/7. To ensure a...
EIGE Director Carlien Scheele calls for greater gender equality in access to the labour market In a High-Level Conference on a future oriented European Pillar of Social Rights on 15 April 2024 in Brussels, Director Carlien Scheele gave a key note address on access to the labour market from a gender equal and intersectional approach. Publication date 15 Apr 2024
Gender Equality Index 2023: Towards a green transition in transport and energy The Gender Equality Index 2023 presents the EU in relation to gender equality amid crises and uncertainties. In recent years, the world has been hit by repeated shocks and multiple crises. What remains constant is the fact that when crisis strikes, women and girls suffer disproportionally. The crises and shocks continuously threaten to create new challenges and reverse years of... Topics Culture Digital agenda Economic and financial affairs Education Employment Energy Entrepreneurship Environment and climate change Health Justice Migration Poverty Regional policy Transport Youth Violence Publication date 24 Oct 2023 Available in: EN
Gender-sensitive communication This toolkit provides guidelines for the use of gender-sensitive language in writing. Gender-sensitive communication ensures that women and men – and those who do not conform to the binary gender system – are treated as persons of equal importance and dignity. Section Publications
What does it take to achieve gender equality? – Resources and structures key for women's empowerment With International Women’s Day just around the corner, progress towards gender equality is high on the agenda. But what does it take to really pave the way for gender equality? Publication date 27 Feb 2023
GRPP: Four letters can unlock €2 trillion to accelerate our drive towards gender equality Each year the EU spends 14% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on public works, from building projects to social infrastructure. Smart targeting of that €2 trillion in public funds and considering how it impacts the lives of both women and men is the essence of Gender-responsive public procurement, or GRPP. Topics Economic and financial affairs Publication date 18 Oct 2022
Two years on: women fleeing Russia’s war in Ukraine need more support How can essential healthcare services be strengthened for victims of conflict-related sexual violence? Topics Health Migration Youth Violence Publication date 20 Feb 2024
EIGE stresses the need for gender dimension in DSA transparency reporting EIGE, in its contribution to a public consultation on the design of transparency reports under the Digital Services Act (DSA), has highlighted the need to include gender-based measurement instruments. Topics Digital agenda Violence Publication date 01 Feb 2024
Apply to become our Seconded National Expert: Gender-based Violence! The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) 1 invites applications with a view to establishing a reserve list for the post of Seconded National Expert (SNE) – Gender-Based Violence (GBV). The registration of applications will begin on 5 April 2024 and will close on 13 May 2024 at 13:30 Eastern European Time (EET). The Institute Based in Vilnius, Lithuania, EIGE... Type Seconded national experts Ref. number EIGE/2024/SNE/GBV Published date 03 Apr 2024 Closing date 13 May 2024, 13:30 Europe/Vilnius
Today’s choices are tomorrow’s consequences Type News article Topics Digital agenda Economic and financial affairs Employment Energy Environment and climate change Poverty Violence
Unpaid Care: committed actions can take us from a bleak to a bright future Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs Employment Health
Gender Equality Index 2023: Far From The Finish Line? Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs Education Employment Energy Environment and climate change Health Poverty Transport
EU gender equality reaches new milestone: is progress accelerating? Type News article Topics Digital agenda Economic and financial affairs Employment Energy Environment and climate change Transport
Unpaid care: Around one third of women and men struggle to strike a work-life balance in the EU Type News article Topics Employment
Characteristics and income of platform workers with childcare responsibilities Type News article Topics Digital agenda Employment
Gender differences in motivation to engage in platform work … Platform work together with other new forms of employment are gaining ground in the European labour market. … Type Publication Topics Digital agenda Employment
Platform work: Has flexibility become a cover story? … and benefit from. Address the legal uncertainty in the employment status of platform workers to combat disguised employment. Read the joint policy brief with Eurofound In … Type News article Topics Digital agenda Employment
Amid crises and rising inequalities, legislation needs gender perspective Type News article Topics Employment Energy Health Migration Poverty Youth
Gender Equality Index 2022: Gender Equality under Threat, Specific Groups Hardest Hit Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs Education Employment Health Violence
Delivering pension justice for our daughters and sons—so they don’t pay tomorrow for today’s inequalities … women tending to work fewer hours and in more precarious employment, then Europe faces an even wider pensions gap … Type News article Topics Employment Migration Poverty Youth
How Spain and the EU can take steps forward for gender equality … The astonishing overload of care work and destruction of employment has particularly affected the most vulnerable … Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs Employment Violence
How we can successfully avoid paying the high price of gender inequality Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs Employment Health
The differing impacts of work-life balance on women and men during the pandemic Type News article Topics Employment Health
Maternity Cover Fund and Return to Work policy (UK) Type Toolkit page Country Non EU countries Topics Education Employment Research
Comprehensive funding support scheme for parents at German RFO (DE) … After prior consultation with the Foundation, part-time employment combined with a proportional project prolongation … Type Toolkit page Country Denmark Topics Education Employment Research
Gender equality in recruitment and career progression Type Toolkit page Topics Education Employment Research
European Union objectives for gender equality in research and innovation Type Toolkit page Topics Education Employment Research