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.
… 2023 EIGE’s Director, Carlien Scheele, delivered the Gender Equality Index 2023 results to the FEMM Committee in … you for having me here to share the European Institute for Gender Equality’s 2023 Index results. Let me start off on a … States have so far adopted mandatory national genderquotas for listed companies. Ten other countries have taken a …
… The freshly launched Gender Equality Index 2022 reveals that progress continues at … only 5.5 points higher than in 2010. Given that the Gender Equality Index 2022 focuses for the first time mainly … which in turn is linked to the introduction of legislated quotas in a handful of EU Member States. This underlines the …
… future for Europe's women after COVID-19: mental load, gender equality in teleworking and unpaid care work after the … three steps forward? Well, over recent years we have seen gender equality take one step forward, only to be followed by … to take three steps forward, in order to finally achieve gender equality. We hope you will join us. Thank you. Read …
… Scheele delivered this speech for the press at EIGE's Gender Equality Index 2020 conference on 29 October 2020. … I’d like to start by saying a few words about EIGE’s Gender Equality Index, which we publish annually. The Index … did not come without effort: several countries introduced quotas to bring in more women, and this clearly had an …
… Scheele delivered this keynote speech at the event "Gender diversity & leadership in the Nordics-Baltics", … balance in boardrooms, with the representation of either gender no lower than 40 %. But EU countries aren’t keen and … Because taking action works. Countries that have adopted quotas for gender balance on company boards have tripled the …
… Commission has proposed a European law for boosting gender balance in company board rooms," said Vice-President … the European Commission proposed legislation to improve gender balance on company boards based on merit and … the European Parliament has called for legally binding quotas at EU level in several Resolutions. A report by the …
… half of us are being held back? The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is launching the first Gender Equality Index for the European Union. ‘ The Gender Equality Index shows differences in outcomes between …