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  • Gender-responsive public procurement

    Gender-responsive public procurement (GRPP) is a gender mainstreaming tool to promote gender equality through public procurement. GRPP promotes gender equality through the goods, services or works being purchased. This means that buyers and suppliers examine the impact of all contracted activities on women’s and men’s needs, interests and concerns, and design and deliver contracts in a way that reduces inequalities...

  • EIGE's 2021-2023 Single Programming Document

    Amended by Management Board Decision No MB/2021/024 of 10 December 2021 During the programming period 2021-2023, the Institute will focus on measuring progress at EU and Member State levels through the Gender Equality Index reviewing the implementation of the EU’s international commitments as part of the Beijing Platform for Action and through research notes that focus on EU-specific challenges. Regularly...

  • Researcher - Gender-based violence (GBV)

    The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is organising a call for applications with a view to establishing a reserve list for the post of Researcher - Gender Based Violence (GBV). The registration of applications will begin on 10 December 2021 and will close on 24 January 2022 at 13:30 Eastern European Time. The Institute Based in Vilnius, Lithuania, EIGE...

  • Artificial intelligence, platform work and gender equality

    The growth of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and platform work is rapidly changing the world of work. These two phenomena have the potential to create new opportunities for gender equality, but at the same time can reinforce gender stereotypes, sexism and discrimination in the labour market. This policy brief is based on the report ‘ Artificial intelligence, platform work and...

  • Defining and identifying femicide: a literature review

    This literature review contributes to a comparative analysis of definitions of, types of, indicators of and data collection systems on femicide in the EU Member States and the United Kingdom, and at international level. It is based on a comprehensive and in-depth search for studies published in respected peer-reviewed journals and in books. The aim is to give an overview...

  • Measuring femicide in the EU and internationally: an assessment

    Sound and comparable data on gender-related killings of women and girls is essential to understanding the prevalence of femicide. This data gathering must be based on a commonly acknowledged definition of femicide and recognised units of measurement and indicators, as well as a typology of femicide. This report gives a comprehensive overview of definitions, data collection systems, methodologies and variables...

  • Femicide: a classification system

    Sound and comparable data on the gender-related killing of women and girls is central to preventing this crime, through understanding its prevalence, based on a commonly acknowledged definition and typology of femicide, with recognised variables, units of measurement and indicators. Data-collection systems across the EU Member States remain very heterogeneous, as they are grounded in national crime statistics or other...