EIGE's publications
EmploymentGender budgeting is a strategy and a process with the long-term aim of achieving gender equality goals. This step-by-step toolkit aims to assist managing authorities in the European Union to apply gender budgeting tools in the processes of the EU Funds under shared management.
13 May 2020
EmploymentEIGE has developed an online toolkit to apply gender budgeting as a gender mainstreaming tool in EU Funds processes. The first three sections introduce the concept of gender budgeting and examine its relevance for the EU Funds. Section 4 offers 11 practical tools on gender budgeting, related to: the EU regulatory framework; national/sub-national programming and project-level support;
13 May 2020
With 51.2 out of 100 points, Greece ranks last in the EU on the Gender Equality Index. Its score has increased by only 4.4 points from 2005 to 2017 (+ 1.2 points compared to 2015). Despite this minor progress towards gender equality, Greece’s score places it one position lower than in 2005.
07 October 2019
With 56.3 out of 100 points, Cyprus ranks 20th in the EU on the Gender Equality Index. Its score is 11.1 points lower than the EU’s score. Between 2005 and 2017, Cyprus’s score increased by 10.4 points (+ 1.2 points since 2015). With faster progress towards gender equality than other Member States, Cyprus improved its position by eight places.
07 October 2019
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is an autonomous body of the European Union established to strengthen gender equality across the EU. Equality between women and men is a fundamental value of the EU and EIGE’s task is to make this a reality in Europe and beyond.
17 September 2019
This factsheet presents the results of the study ‘Estimation of girls at risk of female genital mutilation in the European Union — Belgium, Greece, France, Italy, Cyprus and Malta’ for Greece.
09 November 2018
This factsheet presents the results of the study ‘Estimation of girls at risk of female genital mutilation in the European Union — Belgium, Greece, France, Italy, Cyprus and Malta’ for Cyprus.
09 November 2018
The Gender Equality Index 2017 examines the progress and challenges in achieving gender equality across the European Union from 2005 to 2015. Using a scale from 1 (full inequality) to 100 (full equality), it measures the differences between women and men in key domains of the EU policy framework (work, money, knowledge, time, power and health).
26 September 2018
The Gender Equality Index 2017 examines the progress and challenges in achieving gender equality across the European Union from 2005 to 2015. Using a scale from 1 (full inequality) to 100 (full equality), it measures the differences between women and men in key domains of the EU policy framework (work, money, knowledge, time, power and health).
26 September 2018
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is the only European Union agency focusing solely on gender equality. With substantial resources already collected and developed, EIGE is becoming the EU knowledge centre for gender equality.
26 September 2018
Justice, ViolenceSeveral international and EU commitments emphasise the need to tackle violence against women in general, and intimate partner violence in particular.
24 July 2018
ViolenceThis thematic newsletter highlights some of EIGE’s recent work on violence against women, from insights on the emerging trend of cyber violence, to looking at how far EU laws protect victims of trafficking.
20 December 2017