This publication summarises the interim findings of the two-year study on ‘Gender training in the European Union: Mapping, research and stakeholders’ engagement (2012-2013)‘. It maps the policies and practices of gender training in the European Union. Country fact sheets Belgium Greece Lithuania Portugal Bulgaria Spain Luxembourg Romania Czech Republic France Hungary Slovenia Denmark Croatia Malta Slovakia Germany Italy Netherlands Finland...
This is a summary of the conceptual and methodological issues of the ‘ Study for the development of the basic structure of a Gender Equality Index for the European Union’ produced by Janneke Plantenga, Colette Fagan, Friederike Maier and Chantal Remery (2010), commissioned by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). The theoretical and empirical findings of the study will...
Mainstreaming Gender into the Policies and the Programmes of the Institutions of European Union and EU Member States This publication intends to present the EIGE’s approach to collecting, processing and disseminating good practices in gender mainstreaming.This publication is the result of contributions made by the EIGE’s Thematic Network on Gender Mainstreaming, Expert’s Forum members, EIGE staff and the findings of...
Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action: Women and the Economy Women still remain the main carers of children and the elderly today. In Europe, women between the ages of 25 to 44 spend three times longer than men in childcare per day. The main findings of the first EIGE Report specifically focus on the topic of...
The publication ‘Country profiles’ is a complementary publication to the main report on the Gender Equality Index. The country profiles offer a snapshot of national contexts, enhancing the usefulness of the Gender Equality Index scores and supporting their interpretation as a tool for pol icy-makers and other users. In addition, this publication contains other contextual variables that are relevant to...
The publication includes the Gender Equality Index scores for 2005, 2010 and 2012, allowing for an assessment of the progress made in the pursuit of gender equality in the EU and individual Member States over time. Moreover, the present update makes a first attempt at populating the satellite domain of violence.
Gender-based violence is one of the most severe forms of gender inequality. This issue affects women disproportionally as it is directly connected to the unequal distribution of power between women and men. The elimination of gender-based violence and the protection of victims is a goal of the European Union and one of the most important areas of work for the...
EIGE plays a leading role in providing information and research on prevalence of female genital mutilation in the European Union and supports Member States to prevent and combat this harmful practice. EIGE has carried out four main studies on the subject: The first study Female genital mutilation in the European Union (2012) mapped out the situation of female genital mutilation...