One in three women globally still experiences physical and sexual abuse, thus gender-based violence remains of epidemic proportions. The results of various studies reveal that the violence against women not only restricts the civil and political participation of women, their equal treatment in the labour market, but is also one of the preconditions that decelerate the functioning of economy and...
Trade Unions are fully determined to eliminate violence against women through collective agreements, and their proper implementation with employers, at national, sectoral and company levels. In a ground-breaking, and unpublished, study ‘Safe at Home-Safe at work’, which will be presented in Madrid on November 24-25 to mark the International Day against Violence against Women (November 25), the European Trade Union...
Statistics show that violence against women is a serious problem in the European Union today. About 30% of women in Europe have experienced physical or sexual violence. This is the case also in Lithuania. To address the issue, a European awareness-raising campaign will be kicked off on 25 November 2016 and run throughout 2017. EIGE starts the campaign in Vilnius...
This year EIGE will finalise a measurement framework of violence against women (VAW) in the EU, which will become a part of EIGE’s Gender Equality Index and will be monitored every two years. The next update of the Gender Equality Index will be launched in October, 2017. The measurement framework shall support the EU and its Member States to monitor...
Prepare to discover some of the world’s most disruptive, change agents at the SAFE Ireland Summit 2016. On the 14th and 15th November, the SAFE Ireland world will come to life in The Round Room at the Mansion House, Dublin as we gather world thinkers, creators and doers who have so much to contribute to the vision of a safe...
The General Secretariat for Gender Equality (GSGE), i.e. the governmental organization in charge of equality between women and men in Greece, is organizing a Seminar entitled "Men's Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children" (Athens, 11th of November, 2016). It is underlined that the Seminar is being organized in cooperation with the Embassy of Sweden in Greece on the occasion...
"I welcome the Summit’s objective to discuss how gender continues to be addressed in Horizon 2020, as well as how to further gender mainstreaming in my 3 priority areas of open innovation, open science and open to the world. The future of Europe’s knowledge economy will be entirely dependent on women reaching their full potential in STEM careers. My services...
As an overarching topic for this meeting, we have chosen to explore the relevance of gender equality in the European Pillar of Social Rights – one of the major priorities announced by President Juncker in the field of employment and social affairs. The outcomes of our debate will contribute to the extensive consultation that the European Commission is carrying out...
On the 8th of November, the End FGM European Network is organising a conference on FGM in the EU asylum procedures. The conference is organised as part of our 2016 focus on asylum and builds on the capacity building seminar on asylum and FGM that took place in June. Read why we are organising this conference and see the draft...
The 2016 annual EIGE's RDC partners' meeting will be coorganised with GenPort and will have the form of a workshop on taxonomies. The RDC partners and a group of experts on taxonomy will discuss and identify areas of collaboration and synergies regarding the gender gossaries/thesauri/taxonomies.
Much attention is given to the existence and measurement of gender inequality, but relatively little attention is given to the macroeconomic costs that result from the presence of inequality. EIGE's Director, Virginija Langbakk, is going to participate in the conference and will be presenting the preliminary results of EIGE's new study on Economic Benefits of Gender Equality. The aim of...
The conference "Gender Equality and reconciliation" will take place in San Sebastian, Spain. The conference is organized by the Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa and will take place 27-28 October 2016. EIGE will present the its study on the economic benefits of gender equality in the European Union.