Positive measurement instrument aimed at accelerating the achievement of gender-balanced participation and representation by establishing a defined proportion (percentage) or number of places or seats to be filled by, or allocated to, women and/or men, generally under certain rules or criteria.
… work is a continuation of our ongoing commitment for gender equality, focusing on the thematic and political … discussions which took place at EIGE’s first ever Gender Equality Forum, last October in Brussels. We covered … decision-making after the introduction of legislated quotas in a handful of EU Member States. This key milestone …
… Union has not yet reached the halfway mark to full gender equality. With the domain of power holding the lowest score in our Gender Equality Index, women remain under-represented in the … Out of the nine EU member states that have introduced quotas, eight have seen an increase in the share of women in …