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  • Mind the Gender Gap! Smoking and Drinking in Women and Young Girls

    Increasingly, smoking and binge drinking are becoming alarming lifestyle factors for young girls and women in Europe. Our Roundtable will sound the alert about the serious health challenges for women due to tobacco and alcohol use. Already today, cancer of the lung/bronchus is the third most common cancer among women in Europe; lung cancer death has overtaken that of breast...

  • Jobs, Equality, Trust

    What is the greatest challenge we face today – jobs, inequality, economic growth? In the sixth year of the economic crisis, what are governments doing to reduce public debt, rebuild trust and ensure a sustainable future? OECD Forum 2013 is your chance to be part of the debate on how to craft better policies and create better lives, focussed on...

  • Pioneering New Paths: Databases for Gender Balance in European Boardrooms

    Following the European Economic and Social Committee’s Opinion (SOC/475) on “Gender Balance on Company Boards”, the Female Board Pool Belgium in association with the IFPM Center for Corporate Governance at St. Gallen University / Switzerland, European Professional Women’s Network / Brussels Chapter (PWI), and ASTIA, have the pleasure to invite you to a debate jointly organised with the European Economic...

  • Presentation and debate: fathers on paternity leave

    Is earmarked maternity for fathers a good idea? What are the prerequisites for introducing earmarked maternity? Wherein lies the resistance to such a scheme? And what do the proponents say? Both Norway, Sweden and Iceland have an earmarked paternity leave for fathers, while Denmark chose to abolish it in 2001. By comparison, Iceland, has just extended the period of earmarked...

  • 5th Christina Conference on Gender Studies

    Feminist thought – politics of concepts The 5th Christina Conference of Gender Studies focuses on the role of concepts in feminist thought. Concepts are crucial in all research, and also often deeply political, as feminist scholarship creates and circulates conceptual innovations which transform social realities transnationally. Concepts such as “gender” and “queer” have already showed their transformational power. A plethora...

  • 5th World Forum on Human Rights

    Sustainable Development - Human Rights: a common struggle? The International Permanent Secretariat Human Rights and Local Governments (SPIDH) announces the 5th World Forum on Human Rights. The main purpose of the Forum is to bring together all categories of actors working for the implementation of human rights in order to foster an extensive exchange of knowledge, ideas and experiences. One...

  • First meeting on benefits of gender equality

    EIGE has launched a new project on the benefits of gender equality and organises the first meeting of experts in Vilnius on 15-16 May 2013. The Thematic Working Group on Gender and Evaluation within the European Evaluation Society (EES), the Platform for Equal and Non-Transferable Parental Leaves (PLENT) and independent experts are invited to attend the meeting. The participants will...

  • Regional meeting on the Gender Equality Index - Rome

    EIGE is meeting leading gender equality experts, policy-makers and statisticians from Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Malta, Slovenia and Romania. The aim of the meeting is to present the conceptual framework and preliminary results of the Gender Equality Index and discuss its benefits and possible use before it is officially launched on 13 June 2013. EIGE constructed the Index so that...

  • International Conference on Gender and Migration: Critical Issues and Policy Implications

    Irrespective of the causes of migration, there are a combination of factors that may play out differently for men and women at every stage of the migration cycle. While in many cases migration can improve the conditions of women’s life by providing more income and social status, in other cases – especially if they are irregular migrants – they may...

  • Regional meeting on the Gender Equality Index - Paris

    EIGE is meeting leading gender equality experts, policy-makers and statisticians from Belgium, Ireland, Spain, Spain, France, Luxemburg, Netherlands and Portugal. The aim of the meeting is to present the conceptual framework and preliminary results of the Gender Equality Index and discuss its benefits and possible use before it is officially launched on 13 June 2013. EIGE constructed the Index so...

  • Meeting with EMPL Committee of the European Parliament

    EIGE met with a delegation of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee of the European Parliament (EMPL), composed by the following MEP's: Phillippe Boulland Alejandro Cercas Vilija Blinkeviciute Jean Lambert We presented EIGE's report on Reconciliation of work and family life and discussed on future co-operation between EIGE and EMPL committee. The delegation chair concluded that during the Lithuanian presidency...