Europol sees this 102 nd International Women’s Day with the theme The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum as the ideal opportunity to recognise the achievements of all women working within the organisation. Today more than 200 women from all over the European Union and beyond are working at Europol’s headquarters in The Hague. They represent a variety of disciplines, backgrounds and...
On 5 March EIGE's Director Virginija Langbakk met Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council. Virginija Langbakk and Herman Van Rompuy - (C) European Union The President and the Director exchanged views on gender equality issues and the efforts of EIGE in supporting EU and Member State policies. The President was particularly interested in the Gender Equality Index and...
Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, European Commission Vice-President Viviane Reding and Commissioner Cecilia Malmström have today joined human rights campaigners to call for zero tolerance for female genital mutilation (FGM). The Commission organised a high-level roundtable event to discuss how the European Union can help Member States to eradicate the practice – thought to have affected several...
A delegation of 13 members of the Committee of the Labour Market of the Swedish Parliament headed by Ms. Ylva Johansson (former Minister) visited EIGE. The Institute presented its work to the Committee and had a discussion on the current challenges on gender equality. EIGE's Director Virginija Langbakk (left) with Ylva Johansson, Head of delegation of the Committee on the...
International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation 6 February 2013 The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) and Vice-President of the European Commission Viviane Reding will launch and present a new EU-wide study on female genital mutilation (FGM) on 6 March in Brussels. The study will provide an overview of the situation concerning female genital mutilation in the...
Across Europe, women are more likely not to be equally represented in media top management and editorial board. Even women have managerial and decision making roles, still this doesn’t guarantee gender equality balanced news. Women are also more likely not to be used as experts in media. These are just a few findings discussed during EIGEs consultation meeting “ From...
Mapping the current status and potential of administrative sources of data on gender-based violence in the EU and Croatia” EIGE has recently launched a study on “Mapping the current status and potential of administrative sources of data on gender-based violence in the EU and Croatia”. The final results of the study will be available in August 2013. Why do we...
Equality between women and men is a fundamental value of the European Union and is recognised as vital to economic growth, prosperity and competitiveness. The effectiveness of the policies developed to achieve this needs to be evaluated. The development and dissemination of EU-wide, comparable and reliable gender statistics and indicators have greatly contributed to this better monitoring and assessment of...
Today the European Business Schools Women on Boards Initiative is migrating their 'Global Board Ready Women' list of 8000 women into an online database. The women on this list all fulfil stringent criteria for Corporate Governance as defined by publicly listed companies and are well qualified and ready to go on boards as of today. This ever growing list of...
On 6 December 2012 the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) adopted Conclusions on “ Combating violence against women, and the provision of support services for victims of domestic violence” (.pdf) , prepared by the Cyprus Presidency on the basis of EIGE's report “ Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the EU...
“Across Europe, around 1 in 5 women have suffered physical violence at least once in their lives and 1 in 10 have suffered forced sexual violence. Violence against women is the most brutal manifestation of gender inequality and is a violation of human rights that Europe must not and cannot ignore”, say Vice-President Reding, the EU's Justice Commissioner. Access the...
Download the press release in .pdf format: es, de, el , en, fr, it, lt, pl New report: In connection to The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 November) and the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign (25 November-10 December –Human Rights Day) R esearch recently conducted by the European Institute for Gender Equality...