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  • Women on Boards: Commission proposes 40% objective

    The European Commission has taken action to break the glass ceiling that continues to bar female talent from top positions in Europe’s biggest companies. The Commission has proposed legislation with the aim of attaining a 40% objective of the under-represented sex in non-executive board-member positions in publicly listed companies, with the exception of small and medium enterprises. Currently, boards are...

  • European gender-based violence contained: The European Institute for Gender Equality launches its European ‘Resources on Gender-based violence’

    The European Institute for Gender Equality cooperated with 5 national gender equality documentation centres and libraries in Europe to build the best available European on-line resources on gender-based violence. These resources on gender-based violence are accessible via a portal on the Institute’s website which is being officially launched and made available today, 6 November 2012. The online resources are part...

  • Gender Training in the European Union: Mapping, research and stakeholders' engagement (2012-2013)

    In 2012-2013, the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is implementing a project on gender training in the European Union and Croatia. Gender mainstreaming is not a goal in itself but a political strategy, which requires that gender concerns are integrated into all policy decisions, legal frameworks, activities and programmes. In the context of EU policy-making,gender mainstreaming has been a...

  • Experts and policy makers to meet on FGM

    EIGE is bringing experts and policy makers from the EU Member States together in London to discuss Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). In June 2012 EIGE completed the first phase of the “Study to map the current situation and trends of female genital mutilation in 27 EU Member States (MS) and Croatia”. The participants will contribute to the ongoing discussion on...

  • Women must be involved in shaping the future and tackling the (climate) change

    Written by Shila Meyer-Behjat Many acknowledge the brunt women bear when it comes to the effects of global warming. However, less focus is still given to their capacity to be drivers of change in the fight against climate change. A new report by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) highlights just how little women have been involved: On average...

  • Gender Training conference in Vilnius 13-14 November, 2012

    Gender Training conference in Vilnius 13-14 November, 2012 On 13-14 November 2012, EIGE is holding a European conference ‘ Advancing Gender Training to Support Effective Gender Mainstreaming’ in Vilnius, Lithuania. The conference will bring together: the representatives of institutions that commission gender training, gender trainers, researchers and gender equality experts. It will provide an opportunity to exchange practices on gender...

  • Gender equality and climate change - we need equal participation, nothing less

    Shila Meyer-Behjat and climate expert Annika Carlsson-Kanyama talk about the female face of climate change, why women drive smaller cars and the way to solve the climate crisis Ms Carlsson-Kanyama, can women solve the climate crisis? Oh, I would like to say yes, but I as a scientist I must say ‘I don’t know’ because this of course hasn’t been...

  • EIGE’s study on female genital mutilation yields the first EU-wide map on the situation of FGM

    updated on 07 November 2012 Female genital mutilation (FGM) continues to be one of the most brutal and at the same time most tabooed forms of gender-based violence. During recent years FGM has gained considerable attention in the EU. In June 2012, the European Parliament adopted the Resolution on ending female genital mutilation. EIGE launched a “S tudy to map...

  • A portal with gender-based violence resources, collected in Europe in the last twenty years – a pilot project

    Five documentation centres and libraries specialising in women and gender issues are joining efforts with the European Institute for Gender Equality, EIGE, to enable access to gender-based violence resources in EIGE’s Resource and Documentation Centre (RDC). The project will put together and make available resources, collected for more than twenty years by the project partners in several languages. It will...

  • Climate needs more women in decision making!

    Research conducted by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) shows that more women are needed in climate change decision making to respond to climate change efficiently. EIGE’s report introduces the first EU indicators in the area of women and environment. On 21 June, the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) is expected to adopt conclusions on...

  • EIGE is launching the “Gender equality and climate change” report!

    On the World Environment Day EIGE launched the full version of the “ Review of the Implementation in the EU of area K of the Beijing Platform for Action: Women and the Environment. Gender Equality and Climate Change” report. The report was developed in close cooperation with the Danish Government, the European Commission and the High Level Group on Gender...