Positive measurement instrument aimed at accelerating the achievement of gender-balanced participation and representation by establishing a defined proportion (percentage) or number of places or seats to be filled by, or allocated to, women and/or men, generally under certain rules or criteria.
… Congratulations to North Macedonia for their first national Gender Equality Index! This EU candidate country achieved a … "We welcome the publication of North Macedonia’s first Gender Equality Index, which shows that North Macedonia is … praise, partly thanks to the country’s 17-year-old gender quota for members of parliament. In general, this …
… Over the last 20 years, gender balance (quota of at least 40 % of each gender) has improved in EU Member States’ parliaments. And the application of legislative quotas that aims to ensure a minimum proportion of each …
… PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY IN RESEARCH Legal framework The main gender equality laws that apply to higher education … ministries, including research. It also introduced a 40 % gender quota for the composition of juries for acceding to …
… of GRPP criteria, tender documents may influence the gender outcomes of a tender in other ways. For example, the use of gender-sensitive language to refer to bidders and staff … The criteria also include the application of women’s quotas or a gender equality quota during the performance of …
… future for Europe's women after COVID-19: mental load, gender equality in teleworking and unpaid care work after the … three steps forward? Well, over recent years we have seen gender equality take one step forward, only to be followed by … to take three steps forward, in order to finally achieve gender equality. We hope you will join us. Thank you. Read …
… Scheele delivered this speech for the press at EIGE's Gender Equality Index 2020 conference on 29 October 2020. … I’d like to start by saying a few words about EIGE’s Gender Equality Index, which we publish annually. The Index … did not come without effort: several countries introduced quotas to bring in more women, and this clearly had an …
… Scheele delivered this keynote speech at the event "Gender diversity & leadership in the Nordics-Baltics", … balance in boardrooms, with the representation of either gender no lower than 40 %. But EU countries aren’t keen and … Because taking action works. Countries that have adopted quotas for gender balance on company boards have tripled the …
… remains the only EU country to have at least 40 % of each gender on the boards of the largest companies, with women … the largest companies in the EU have at least 40 % of each gender on their boards. However, nearly one in five still … (supervisory boards or boards of directors) and binding quotas, by EU Member State (%, April 2021) NB: National …
… score of 55 points remains the lowest of all the domains. Gender balance gains in the subdomain of economic … between 2012 and 2016 and have noticeably slowed since. Gender equality in political decision-making has advanced by … From 2010 to 2019, countries with legislative electoral quotas have, on average, nearly doubled the proportion of …