Key findings at a glance: Women are more likely than men to be intensively involved in childcare, while men are slightly more involved in intensive long‑term care. Women receive less external support for long-term care than men. Housework remains unevenly distributed, with women engaging more frequently in daily domestic tasks. Women report less leisure time, while men are slightly more...
Key findings at a glance: Women are more likely than men to be intensively involved in both childcare and long-term care. Women receive less external support for long-term care, despite providing more of it. Housework remains unevenly distributed, with women engaging more frequently in daily domestic tasks. Men report fewer struggles balancing responsibilities and more leisure time.
Key findings at a glance: Women are more likely than men to be intensively involved in both childcare and long-term care. Women receive less external support despite providing more care. Housework remains unevenly distributed, with women engaging more frequently in daily domestic tasks. Women report less leisure time, while men are slightly more likely to struggle with balancing paid work...
Key findings at a glance: Women are more likely than men to be intensively involved in both childcare and long-term care. Women receive less external support for childcare despite providing more of it. Housework remains unevenly distributed, with women engaging more frequently in daily domestic tasks. Women and men report similar levels of difficulty balancing responsibilities, although women have less...
This policy brief highlights the key benefits of implementing gender-neutral job evaluation and classification for employers and provides additional insights for workers and social partners, who can likewise apply these methods in their collective agreements. The policy brief also introduces the step-by-step toolkit on gender-neutral job evaluation and classification, developed by EIGE and the European Commission to support the implementation...
This toolkit helps organisations across the EU carry out gender-neutral job evaluation and classification. It is the update of the EU guidelines on gender-neutral job evaluation and classification. It sets out practical steps to ensure jobs are assessed using objective, gender-neutral criteria. These criteria – known as ‘factors’ – include skills, responsibility, effort and working conditions. Designed for all employers...
Gender-neutral job evaluation and classification is a helpful tool for employers to uphold the principle of equal pay for the same work or work of equal value between women and men. In cooperation with the European Commission, the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has developed a practical toolkit with clear steps, templates and examples to help organisations (and others)...
Institutional mechanisms for gender equality and gender mainstreaming are bodies and processes that promote, advocate and support gender equality and the mainstreaming of gender issues across all policy areas. The underlying premise of calls for stronger institutional mechanisms is that the existing gender inequalities in all areas of life need to be better recognised and understood and then systematically addressed...
This report details the approach and methodology used in the 2024 data collection on institutional mechanisms for the promotion of gender equality and gender mainstreaming conducted by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). Institutional mechanisms for gender equality and gender mainstreaming are bodies and processes that serve to promote, advocate and support gender equality and the mainstreaming of gender...
Climate change is one of the greatest environmental and development challenges facing the world today, and it has critical impacts on human rights and inequalities, including gender equality. To overcome these challenges, in 2019 the EU launched the European Green Deal (EGD) strategy, which sets out targets of no net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 and economic growth decoupled...
This report describes the methodological approach adopted by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) in its 2023 data collection for the assessment of the gender sensitivity of the European Parliament and national parliaments in the EU.
The gender-responsive evaluation for an environmental and sustainable future for all (GREENA) step-by-step toolkit provides practical know-how to assess gender impacts and the implementation of gender-responsive evaluation of EU policies and programmes. The toolkit has been contextualised to support the evaluation of European Green Deal policies with a gender perspective, given its relevance as a current EU priority and the...
