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
Working Party on Social Questions … equality across Member States. The research supports the Belgium Presidency of the Council of the EU. … Type Event
Belgian Presidency Informal Meeting of Gender Equality Ministers … Informal meeting of gender equality ministers organised by Belgium Presidency of the Council of the EU. At this informal … Type Event
Make 2024 the year you commit to a green and gender-equal Europe … part of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU, Belgium is hosting the ‘Climate Chance Europe 2024 Wallonia … Type News article Topics Energy Environment and climate change Poverty
Unpaid Care: committed actions can take us from a bleak to a bright future … up. In some countries, for instance Finland, Sweden and Belgium more men than women perceive facing work-life … 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
Post COVID-19 EU support funds: Will we see gender equality measures? … and design their RRPs. While Spain, Italy, Austria and Belgium have used a gender equality marker to classify their … Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs Health
Improving police and justice data on intimate partner violence against women in the European Union … in the European Union Outcomes per country Factsheets Belgium Bulgaria Czech Republic Denmark Germany Estonia … Slovakia Finland Sweden United Kingdom Recommendations Belgium Bulgaria Czech Republic Denmark Germany Estonia … Type Page
The economic tolls of gender-based violence … to support the first semester Presidency in 2024, in Belgium, centering on gender equality and financial … Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs Health Violence
#SafeSpaces: EIGE highlights widespread forms of cyber violence against women and girls, proposes definitions … Linas Kaziulionis (Lithuania) and Gunther Caz’n Baeyens (Belgium), alongside NGO partners Women’s Information Centre … Type News article Topics Digital agenda Youth Violence
The COVID-19 pandemic reinforced gender inequalities as women took on more of the intensified informal care and housework demands … for this age group ranges from 7 percentage points in Belgium to 30 percentage points in Germany and Portugal. … Type News article
Gender Equality Index 2022: Gender Equality under Threat, Specific Groups Hardest Hit … increases in Index scores were found in Lithuania, Belgium, Croatia and the Netherlands. Gender Equality Index … Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs Education Employment Health Violence
GRPP: Four letters can unlock €2 trillion to accelerate our drive towards gender equality … continues: “There was a gritty anti-drugs campaign in Belgium that used images of men with needles in their arms. … Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs
Women at the forefront of decision-making in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic … for >60%) men in Sweden (70.6%), Finland (70.6%), and Belgium (64.7%) but, at the other end of the spectrum, held … Type News article Topics Health
APRIL 2015: High-level Forum on the Future of Gender Equality … on Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 April 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. As the current Strategy on equality between women … Type Event
Exploring the potential of restorative justice for sexual violence … take place from the 12 to 14 November 2014 , in Leuven (Belgium) at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). The … Type Event
Becoming a manager as a woman: what differences between conventional and social enterprises? … Institute for Equality between Women and Men (Brussels, Belgium), a full day of participative workshops on the access … Type Event
Supporting victims from the workplace - #VSEAnnualConference2021 side event … Socials, Spain) Moderator Solène Baudouin-Naneix ( VSE , Belgium) … Type Event
Companies against domestic violence: final event for the CEASE project … their employees victims of domestic violence in Belgium, France and Greece. • Expose the institutionnal … Type Event
ESF+, a PLUS for our Future! … of ESIF 2014-2020 programmes in 11 member states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, … Type Event
Female genital mutilation: estimating girls at risk in the EU – focus on Malta … at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Greece, Belgium, France, Italy, Malta and Cyprus - focus on Malta. … Type Event