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
CSW68 newsfeed – Director Carlien Scheele shares reflections from New York Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs Poverty Violence
Challenges and Changes: promoting women in law enforcement Type News article Topics Justice Migration Violence
Actioning solutions where gender-based violence and crisis meet Type News article Topics Environment and climate change Violence
Amid crises and rising inequalities, legislation needs gender perspective … Young women, those with disabilities and those from a migrant background were hardest hit." Evelyn Regner, … Type News article Topics Employment Energy Health Migration Poverty Youth
The evident benefits of gender equality for the EU and beyond … since the pandemic. Like the youth, women and men of a migrant background or women and men with disabilities. If we … Type News article
The Gender Equality Index 2022 reveals slow progress. How can we turn threats into opportunities right now? Type News article
Gender Equality Index 2022: Gender Equality under Threat, Specific Groups Hardest Hit … in the economic fallout of the pandemic, and women with a migrant background were at an even higher risk. An uptick in … Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs Education Employment Health Violence
International Migrants Day … Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. UN Member … Type Event
Fotoparoda "Moterys migrantės ir prieglobsčio prašytojos Europos Sąjungoje" / Photo exhibition ''Women Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the EU'' Type Event
Consultation meeting "From Practices with Potential to Good Practices on Women and Poverty. Non-monetary measures to tackle women’s poverty and social exclusion" … women at risk of in-work poverty and women with a migrant background. This meeting will primarily target … Type Event
2 JUN: #womensvoices European Dialogue - From Conflict to Peace? Women and Girls’ Voices on the Move … joint work will create a ripple effect among women’s and migrant and refugee women’s organisations across Europe to … Type Event
22 JUN: European Strategy for Gender Equality - Combating Discrimination in the Workplace and Beyond … for the Vulnerable Groups: Access to Labour market for Migrant women, Single Parents and other Minorities … Type Event
28 Jan: Online Discussion on good practices on non-monetary measures in the area of 'Women and Poverty' … poverty - specific focus on 40+year old women women with a migrant background - specific focus on Roma women. Specific … Type Event
Gender-based violence prevention in the work with male refugees and migrants: an anti-racist and culturally sensitive approach Type Event
Female genital mutilation: estimating girls at risk in the EU – focus on Malta … studied. This is because a large part of the female migrant population are young girls originating from countries … Type Event