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  • Gender mainstreaming: gender audit

    A gender audit is a tool to assess and check the institutionalisation of gender equality into organisations, including in their policies, programmes, projects and/or provision of services, structures, proceedings and budgets. Gender audits allow organisations ‘to set their own houses in order, and change aspects of the organisational culture which discriminate against women staff and women “beneficiaries”’. As a method...

  • Gender mainstreaming: gender statistics and indicators

    This briefing introduces gender statistics and indicators and explains why they are important tools to promote gender equality and implement a gender mainstreaming approach. Put simply, gender statistics and indicators integrate a gender perspective in the collection, analysis and presentation of statistical data. Gender statistics play a key role in measuring gender gaps on the basis of agreed indicators that...

  • Tackling the gender pay gap: not without a better work-life balance

    This research note provides an overview of the gender pay gap across the EU, with insights on how it relates to the gender gap in overall earnings and, consequently, the gender pension gap. Moreover, it explores the links between the gender pay gap and emerging policies aimed at improving work-life balance, with a focus on the role of measures put...

  • Gender budgeting. Mainstreaming gender into the EU budget and macroeconomic policy framework

    This report presents the main research results of the gender budgeting (GB) projects implemented by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) in 2016, 2017 and 2018. The projects supported European Union (EU) and EU Member State policy makers and practitioners to take a consistent and systematic approach to implementing gender budgeting as the main gender mainstreaming tool within EU...

  • EU Justice and Home Affairs agencies' cooperation in 2018: Final report

    The Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) agencies' network is made up of nine EU agencies working on a range of justice and security issues, such as migration and border management, combatting drug trafficking and organised crime, human trafficking, human and fundamental rights, and gender equality. This makes them more effective and better able to serve the public. The JHA agencies...

  • Gender equality and youth: opportunities and risks of digitalisation – Main report

    EIGE’s research shows the many ways digital technologies are benefiting young people in access to learning, friendship, information and actions for social change. It also shows that aggressive behaviour online is anticipated and normalised. For the EU to harness the potential of digital technologies for youth mobilisation, diminishing the power of gender stereotypes online and promoting the diversity of voices...

  • Intersecting inequalities: Gender Equality Index

    “United in diversity” has been the motto of the European Union (EU) since the new millennium. Since its inception, the Gender Equality Index has strived to reflect this diversity. Intersecting inequalities capture how gender is manifested when combined with other characteristics such as age, dis/ability, migrant background, ethnicity, sexual orientation or socioeconomic background. An intersectional perspective highlights the complexity of...

  • Knowledge Management and Communications Strategy 2019 – 2021

    EIGE is an Agency of the European Union, which started its operation in June 2010. EIGE’s Knowledge Management and Communications (KMC) strategy outlines EIGE’s approach to achieve its two strategic objectives through knowledge management, stakeholder relations and communications activities. The strategy describes the objectives, working methods and tools for knowledge management, stakeholder relations and communications.

  • Maximising opportunities, minimising risks: meeting the digital challenge for girls and boys - joint paper by the JHA agencies

    Digitalisation is rapidly changing our world and young people are on the frontline and technology is transforming the way we work, socialise, and engage with politics. In order to ensure Europe reaps the benefits of the digital revolution while protecting citizens, it is necessary to identify trends and risks. As the 2018 Chair of the JHA agencies' network, the European...

  • Toolkit on gender-sensitive communication

    A resource for policymakers, legislators, media and anyone else with an interest in making their communication more inclusive Language is a reflection of the attitudes, behaviours and norms within a society. It also shapes people’s attitudes as to what is ‘normal’ and acceptable. Women play an active role in society, yet – all too often – we use language that...

  • Estimation of girls at risk of female genital mutilation in the European Union: Step-by-step guide (2nd edition)

    In 2015, European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) developed and published the first step-by-step guide to estimate the number of girls at risk of female genital mutilation in the European Union. The methodology extrapolates prevalence data from countries where FGM is practiced to migrant girls living in the European Union, through a mixed-method approach. In 2017, a new study was...

  • Gender mainstreaming: gender analysis

    Gender analysis provides the necessary data and information to integrate a gender perspective into policies, programmes and projects. As a starting point for gender mainstreaming, gender analysis identifies the differences between and among women and men in terms of their relative position in society and the distribution of resources, opportunities, constraints and power in a given context. In this way...