… a work–life balance project, the Frauen Mint awards for women and girls studying ICT, and the former JUMP in MINT, a … programme for Year 10 girls that promotes increased representation of women in the ICT industry. What proved to … a nationwide mentoring network that promotes women’s participation in STEM, Komm mach MINT — and at regional and …
… around 17 % of the almost 8 million ICT specialists are women, and the number of women graduating from ICT studies … has been decreasing over the last decade. The vast under-representation of women in ICT shows a waste of highly … for the wider economy. In particular, it threatens the EU’s innovative and economic potential in the future and …
… basic (although not itself sufficient) element assuring women and men equal influence on the parliament’s work is their numeric balance. To be able to influence the … European Parliament after the 2014 elections, the overall representation was accompanied by low levels of women in …
… the implementation of rules to assure a gender-balanced representation in the party. Data from the EU Member States show that women are under-represented as leaders and deputy leaders of major political parties . Visit EIGE’s database on ‘ Women and Men in Decision-Making ’ (WMID) to …
… The existence of a legal framework that supports equal representation of women and men and an electoral system that facilitates equal … assuring women and men equal influence on the parliament’s work is their numeric balance. Numbers of women in …
… Area 4 deals with the parliament’s output, the distinct product of which is legislation. A … produces gender-sensitive legislation that benefits women and men and integrates their concerns into the … policy sectors. Area 4 addresses elements of substantive representation and assesses the extent to which the …
… Area 3 includes elements of substantive representation and concerns both elected members and … the table topics and issues that acknowledge and promote women’s interests and concerns. In order to do so, a …
… and includes both descriptive and substantive elements of representation. It concerns both elected members and parliamentary employees. Once in the parliament, women and men should have equal opportunity to retain their … few decades ago, the core issue concerns how a parliament’s procedures and organisation allow women to be effective and …
… is one that assures equal opportunities for both women and men to enter the institution. Area 1 focuses on descriptive representation and includes both inward-oriented (parliaments … is assessed to determine the extent to which a country’s constitution guarantees equal opportunities for women’s …
… ‘gender-sensitive parliaments’ and the key dimensions for women’s full participation in the political sphere, as well as a … full participation in the political sphere: Descriptive representation is ‘the extent to which a representative …
… www.policyexchange.org You could be the first – Italy: the Women’s Room in the Chamber of Deputies The President of the … the pictures of the first women to be active in political representation in Italy at national, regional and local …
… – France: Constitutional law on equality between women and men The constitutional law of 8 July 1999 on … increase in the number of women elected. Source : EIGE’s collection of good practices on gender mainstreaming … (Nisa Laburisti): A strategy to increase women’s political representation The Maltese Labour Party has been implementing …
… Agora (2014). Enhancing women’srepresentation in parliamentary institutions – The … Gaekwad-Babulal, N. and Malokele, N. (2018). The Effect of Women’sRepresentation in Parliament and the Passing of …
… frameworks and policy guidelines. Equality between women and men is a fundamental EU value, an EU objective and … individual potential – by contributing to their country’s economic and social development, and benefitting from their … in the national parliaments of the EU. Therefore, women’srepresentation and involvement in political settings should …
… to their work. Job Description Profile Violence against women is one of the critical areas of concern of the Beijing … one of the main areas addressed by the European Commission’s Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019. It is … EIGE’s Strategic Framework on Violence against Women 2016-2018 including strategic considerations that …
… moving forward but overall progress is very slow. The EU’s score is just four points higher than ten years ago, now … government policies are matching the specific needs of women and men and whether they are working or not’ said … has the lowest score. This largely reflects the uneven representation of women and men in politics and marks a …
… of the vast inequalities within a few selected groups of women and men based on age, disability, family status, … Joanna Maycock , Secretary General, European Women’s Lobby 11:00–11:30 Coffee break 11:30–13:00 PANEL DEBATE How … Ms Moozová joined the Commission in 2006 as Head of EU Representation in Prague. Between May 2010 and April 2017 she …
… Gender budgeting is a strategy to achieve equality between women and men by focusing on how public resources are … budget preparation; to advance gender equality and women’s rights. Read more about the purpose of gender budgeting … participatory budgeting actions often lead to the under-representation of women and possible gender biases in the …
… stakeholder consultation promotes the participation of women and men in the policymaking process to ensure that … the advancement of women’ as a basis for enhancing women’s equality. This includes the objective to: ‘promote and … attention to ensuring gender balance and an adequate representation of organisations with gender expertise. At …
… of agreed indicators that are relevant to the lives of women and men. In the EU, for example, they are used to … gaps. They help to identify data that is relevant to women’s and men’s lives and to key areas of policymaking. The UN … and procedures, and to measure the gender pay gap or the representation of women in decision-making positions in an …