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    • Join us for the second  Gender Equality Forum 10-11 December 2024!

      The countdown is on for the second edition of the Gender Equality Forum! As EU’s gender equality agency, we are looking forward to working with the current and future leaders of Europe. Together, backed by our strong evidence, we will explore new ways to make gender equality a reality - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. At work...

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    • Celebrate men and boys as allies for gender equality!

      Today is International Men’s Day, raising awareness of often-overlooked issues. It's a call for action to address the unique gender equality challenges men and boys face worldwide. And this year the focus is on men’s health. It coincides with Movember. This month of moustache growing raises cash and awareness for prostate and testicular cancers, and male suicide. Beyond this, International...

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      Publication date
      19 Nov 2024
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    • Gender balance in business and finance

      A decade after it was first proposed, the EU’s directive on improving gender balance among directors of listed companies and related measures was adopted by EU co-legislators in November 2022, coming into force in December 2022. The directive requires at least 40 % of the non-executive members of the boards of listed companies, or at least 33 % of all...

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      30 Jul 2024
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    • Financial Independence and Gender Equality: Joining the dots between income, wealth, and power

      This report presents evidence on gender inequalities in financial independence in the EU, with a particular focus on how financial independence has been defined and measured. It also presents evidence on the impact of tax–benefit systems in EU Member States on gender inequalities in financial independence and explores consequences associated with financial dependence, including economic violence. The report finds that...

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      Publication date
      06 May 2024
      Financial Independence and Gender Equality: Joining the dots between income, wealth, and power
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    • Good practices on gender mainstreaming in the European Green Deal: Towards a more gender-equal and greener Europe

      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...

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      Publication date
      18 Oct 2024
      Good practices on gender mainstreaming in the European Green Deal: Towards a more gender-equal and greener Europe

    • Gender-responsive evaluation for a sustainable future for all

      The 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 the European Green Deal policies with a gender perspective, given its relevance as a current EU priority and the urgency to ensure a gender-responsive green transition.

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    • Two years on: women fleeing Russia’s war in Ukraine need more support

      How can essential healthcare services be strengthened for victims of conflict-related sexual violence?

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      Publication date
      20 Feb 2024
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    • EIGE stresses the need for gender dimension in DSA transparency reporting

      EIGE, in its contribution to a public consultation on the design of transparency reports under the Digital Services Act (DSA), has highlighted the need to include gender-based measurement instruments.

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      Publication date
      01 Feb 2024
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      • care workRelated Term
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