With 60.8 out of 100 points, Latvia ranks 17th in the EU on the Gender Equality Index. Latvia’s score is 7.1 points lower than the EU’s score. Since 2010, its score has increased by 5.6 points. Latvia’s score has increased only slightly (by 1.1 points) since 2017. The country’s ranking has dropped by one place since 2010. Further information Explore...
With 60.7 out of 100 points, Estonia ranks 18th in the EU on the Gender Equality Index. Estonia’s score is 7.2 points below the EU’s score. Since 2010, its score has increased by 7.3 points. Only a slight increase (0.9 points) was achieved on the 2017 score. Estonia is progressing towards gender equality faster than other EU Member States. Its...
With 74.1 out of 100 points, the Netherlands ranks 5th in the EU on the Gender Equality Index. The Netherlands’ score is 6.2 points above the EU’s score. Since 2010, its score has increased by only 0.1 points. There has been a bigger increase since 2017, with an extra 2.0 points gained. The Netherlands’ ranking has dropped by two places...
With 72.7 out of 100 points, the United Kingdom ranks 6th in the EU on the Gender Equality Index. The United Kingdom’s score is 4.8 points above the EU’s score. Since 2010, its score has increased by 4.0 points. Only a slight increase (0.5 points) has been achieved since 2017. The United Kingdom’s ranking has remained the same since 2010...
With 72.2 out of 100 points, Ireland ranks 7th in the EU on the Gender Equality Index. Its score is 4.3 points above the EU’s score. Since 2010, Ireland’s score has increased by 6.8 points (+ 0.9 points since 2017). Ireland has progressed faster than the EU and improved its position by two places since 2010. Further information Explore the...
With 74.7 out of 100 points, Finland ranks 4th in the EU on the Gender Equality Index. Finland’s score is 6.8 points above the EU’s score. Since 2010, its score has increased by only 1.6 points. Most of the increase (1.3 points) has been achieved since 2017. Finland’s ranking has remained the same since 2010. Further information Explore the Gender...
With 63.4 out of 100 points, Malta ranks 15th in the EU on the Gender Equality Index. Malta’s score is 4.5 points below the EU’s score. Since 2010, its score has increased by 9 points (+ 0.9 points since 2017). Making faster progress towards gender equality than most of the Member States, Malta has improved its position by four places...
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) envisages awarding a medium value framework contract for the provision of interim personnel services to EIGE for a one year period. Description of the requested services The scope of the provision of interim personnel services to EIGE covers support under supervision to EIGE’s statutory staff in: carrying out, on a temporary basis, additional...
Description of the contract The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) envisages awarding a low-value contract for the study to provide an updated analysis of the economic costs of gender- based violence to the European Union and its Member States. This study is an update on the previous EIGE study from 2014 on the cost of gender-based violence. The new...
This report presents the fifth edition of the Gender Equality Index. The Gender Equality Index has been widely recognised for its contribution to monitoring progress on gender equality in the EU. The Index covers a range of indicators in the domains of work, money, knowledge, time, power and health. It also integrates two additional domains: violence and intersecting inequalities. The...
One of the areas of focus in EIGE's Gender Statistics Database is gender-based violence. The most widespread form of gender-based violence is intimate partner violence. Comparable data on intimate partner violence are of paramount importance in understanding and monitoring the nature and scale of the issue, itself a barrier to achieving gender equality. However, availability of comparable data across the...
