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
Challenges and Changes: promoting women in law enforcement Type News article Topics Justice Migration Violence
Gender equality @ COP28: a newsfeed … she had been climate activist for years, she had never thought about the intersectionality between climate and … Type News article Topics Environment and climate change
The economic tolls of gender-based violence Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs Health Violence
The proposed EU-wide rules to combat violence against women and domestic violence is a critical step forward … violence? EIGE Director Carlien Scheele provided food for thought at the Renew Europe conference during Gender Equality … Type News article
Gender Equality Index 2021 conference … in Athens; ‘Back on Track’, in which he gives a thought-provoking insight into his journey with mental health … Type Page
Women-ReBoot: have you still got it? … knowing all the buzzwords, but I learned them quickly. I thought the ship had sailed for me. I had so little … Type Good practice Country Ireland Topics Digital agenda Employment
Gender analysis … N., Reversed realities — Gender hierarchies in development thought, Verso, London, 1994. United Nations Development … Type Method/Tool
Workshop: Bias-sensitising - Quality assurance for personnel selection … and reflection, participants discover that what they thought were neutral and objective evaluations are actually … Type Good practice Country Austria Topics Research
Political parties in the pillory … vote for the most outrageous among them. The campaign is thought to be one factor that has contributed to a small … Type Good practice Country Croatia
Czech female politicians learn from international experience … the nature of the mentoring relationship is carefully thought through before the start. What the mentee and mentor … Type Good practice Country Czechia
International Women’s Day: Zero tolerance for female genital mutilation … Union can help Member States to eradicate the practice – thought to have affected several hundred thousand women in … Type News article Topics Health Violence
Training Greek women to take their place in regional and local government Type Good practice Country Greece Topics Education Employment
Encouraging SMEs to give fathers time off for their kids … information. More generally they were given food for thought, new knowledge, perspectives and ideas, examples how … Type Good practice Country Austria Topics Employment
Sport … that have undertaken empirical studies in this area. It is thought that gender and sexual harassment occur in all … Type Policy area