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)...
In January 2017, EIGE took over the database on women and men in decision-making (WMID), which was previously managed by the European Commission. The WMID entry point had been launched in 2003 to monitor the numbers of men and women in key decision-making positions to provide reliable statistics that can be used to draw comparisons between European countries and analyse...
This study is one of EIGE’s several initiatives to improve the current situation of administrative data collection on violence against women in the EU. This report provides the results of EIGE’s second data collection exercise, which ran between 2023 and 2024, covers the period 2014-2022 and analyses the current state of data collection in the police and justice sectors on...
This technical report details the methodology of the second wave of the Survey on Gender Gaps in Unpaid Care, Individual and Social Activities (the CARE Survey). It builds on the first wave conducted in 2022. The CARE Survey aims to address gender inequalities in care, enhancing the Gender Equality Index’s ability to monitor changes over of time more effectively and...
Violence against women – as shown by the results of the European Union gender-based violence (EU-GBV) survey conducted by Eurostat, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) – is widespread and takes many forms. The results presented in this report represent the experiences of women in the 27 Member States with...
The second wave of EIGE’s EU-wide survey on gender gaps in unpaid care and individual and social activities (CARE Survey) provides updated and comparable data on how women and men across the EU organise and experience unpaid care, housework, the use of informal and formal care services, and their leisure time. Conducted in 2024 across all 27 EU Member States...
The Gender Equality Index is a composite indicator that was developed to measure the relative position of women and men across the EU. It enables comparisons between EU Member States and tracks progress in gender equality over time. The Index was first released in 2013, followed by reviews in 2017 and 2025. As policy priorities shift, societies evolve and data...
Despite progress across Europe, full gender equality remains at least 50 years away, according to EIGE’s 2025 Gender Equality Index which introduces new indicators and a renewed pace of change. The revised Index for 2025 opens a new chapter, setting a new baseline for gender equality that is no longer comparable with the previous Index scores. With a refreshed structure...
Europe has evolved since the Gender Equality Index launched in 2013. So have the jobs we do, the care we give, and the ways we learn, work and live online. Now, in response to this progress, the Index has been carefully reviewed and refreshed. Its purpose remains the same, but the way we measure certain areas has been updated to...
The Communications Lab (Comms Lab) is EIGE’s approach to advancing gender equality through effective communication. The Lab helps us to respond to a rapidly evolving communication landscape — one marked by both progress and backlash, including anti-gender disinformation. Between 2023 and 2025, the Comms Lab tackled one of the most urgent challenges in gender equality: how to communicate effectively about...
