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Gender mainstreaming

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If you want to learn how gender equality relates to your area of work, you have come to the right place. In this section we highlight gender challenges in 19 policy areas, ranging from fisheries to culture. We also give recommendations on how to best address these challenges. We have developed many practical tools to help you integrate a gender perspective into all stages of policymaking and strategic planning. Our step-by-step toolkits will guide you through the process. Feel free to use them to make your organisation more gender-sensitive.

What is gender mainstreaming?

Relevance of gender in 19 EU policy areas

Step-by-step toolkits for institutions

More gender mainstreaming tools and resources

Gender perspective in all stages of policymaking

Good practices on gender mainstreaming from the EU

Gender equality institutions and structures in the EU

Glossary of gender mainstreaming concepts

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Acknowledgments

EIGE's Gender Mainstreaming Platform is a result of projects coordinated by the Gender Mainstreaming Team of the European Institute for Gender Equality. The work published here represents a joint effort of the EIGE Gender Mainstreaming Team and various experts and contractors who contributed in varying degrees to different sections of the Platform: Catarina Arnaut, Davide Barbieri, Daria Broglio, Irene Dankelman, Marianne Dauvellier, Jane Dennehy, Aleksandra Duda, Lucy Ferguson, Elena Ferrari, Maxime Forest, Katia Frangoudes, Regina Frey, Pat Irving, Manuela Samek Lodovici, Daniela Loi, Lin McDevitt-Pugh, Katerina Mantouvalou, Lut Mergaert, Siobán O’Brien Green, Nicola Orlando, Thera van Osch, Flavia Pesce, Irene Pimminger, Sheila Quinn, Cristina Radoi, Alide Roerink, Lenka Simerska, Cristina Vasilescu, Nathalie Wuiame and Margherita Sofia Zambelli.

EIGE would also like to thank its Experts’ Forum Members, Members from the Gender Mainstreaming Thematic Network and the European Commission who have contributed to a large extent with their expertise, ideas and feedback.