European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has this week launched a report on Violence against women in the EU as a part of the Gender Equality Index. The new measurement framework sheds light on the spectrum of violence against women that ranges from harassment to death. The findings analyses women’s experiences of violence in all the EU Member States including...
Since the 1990s, gender equality advocates have increasingly urged humanitarian and development organisations to engage men and boys as a complement to empowering women and girls. This e-learning course introduces participants to principles, strategies, normative frameworks and policy approaches that have emerged from this work. Examining critical concepts such as masculinity, patriarchy and intersectionality, the course discusses why a holistic...
Gender mainstreaming is a strategy to achieve gender equality. It is shorthand for saying that the impact of all policies and programmes on women and men should be considered at every stage of the policy or programme cycle — from planning to implementation and evaluation. This advanced e-learning course aims to provide participants with comprehensive knowledge of gender mainstreaming and...
The concept of the conference is based on the understanding that development of human resources is the main component in the science producing process. Among all ERA priorities the most closely related to this issue is gender equality in research, concerned with improvement of work and life conditions for researchers of genders and leading to more gender balanced, productive and...
The European Anti-Violence Network and “The Smile of the Child” would like to invite you to the event “The GEAR against IPV approach - Gender Equality Awareness Raising against Intimate Partner Violence: Empowering new generations to build healthy intimate relationships” which will take place at the premises of the European Parliament in Brussels from 10.00am to 12.00am on 21 November...
The Learning Seminar organised by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) aims to share knowledge on its recent work on education and skills. EIGE will present key findings from its recent projects on education, focusing on data, conclusions, recommendations and resources of the studies. The seminar will give the participants the opportunity to learn about gaps and challenges in...
In February 2016, EIGE published its Gender Statistics Database on its website. It is one of EIGE's flagship projects that has been developed with the continuous support of a community of experts. In order to further improve EIGE’s Gender Statistics Database (in terms of both content, i.e. new data and indicators, and the interface), keep it up to date and...
Have something to say on Games & Gender? Want to talk about it? Apply here! https://goo.gl/forms/ CXggO7EROfa6ebWl1 Gender problems in video games remain among the most fiercely discussed topics in contemporary cultural studies. This subject is important mainly because both games and gender theory, in fact, haven't been acknowledged for quite a while. This is a story of three denials...
Budget expenditures and investments need to follow gender equality priorities. This integrated approach, called gender budgeting, is the subject of EIGE' s two-day meeting in Bonn. The meeting gathers gender experts & specialists in structural funds from several Member States, to assess together how efficiently gender budgeting is used. Find out more in the Agenda of the event, under RESOURCES...
On 25 - 26 October, EIGE met with gender equality stakeholders in the Hague. EIGE, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands, invited representatives of research institutions, academia, civil society organisations and experts to a joint event, organised on 26 October 2017, and hosted by the Ministry. EIGE presented its methods and tools that...
On 19 October, EIGE met with gender equality stakeholders in Bucharest. EIGE presented its methods and tools that Romanian colleagues could use to monitor & progress gender equality, such as the Gender Equality Index, Gender Statistics Database and Gender Mainstreaming Platform as well as its recent work in the area of Gender-based Violence. The Agenda of the event is enclosed...
October 12 is an important day, for it marks the 20th meeting of the Experts' Forum! Many exciting discussions and group work will take place at the meeting - we will look at the Gender Equality Index results and plan for the activities in the Member States, we will discuss about gender equality and education, as well as what are...