… Director Carlien Scheele presented the agency’s toolkit for gender sensitive parliaments to the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination at the Parliamentary Assembly … meeting to present my agency’s work including our focus on gender-sensitive parliaments – in a year that is set to shape …
… In an informal meeting with European GenderEquality Ministers on 27 February 2024 under the Belgian … Director Carlien Scheele presented a vision of what genderequality could look like in 2030 – if we already put …
… (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). EIGE’s GenderEquality Index shows that women are interested in working in … (32 %) of the workforce in the renewable energy sector. Gender definitely plays a role. All the barriers that women …
… participated at the Meeting of the High-Level Group on Gender Mainstreaming in Brussels on 29 January as part of the … to share with you emerging priority issues in the area of genderequality. We are at the beginning of an important year for …
… down on our New Year’s resolution: to build a green and gender-equal Europe. “With European Parliament elections and … coming up, 2024 is set to be a significant year for genderequality.” says EIGE Director Carlien Scheele. Amidst …
… surprise as the calls for action on climate change and genderequality grow ever more urgent. So, how can journalists cut … start a conversation that helps create a cleaner, greener, gender-equal world.” Ahead of this year’s UN Climate summit, …
… EIGE is attending COP28 to highlight the connection between genderequality and the environment. And to raise awareness about the need to incorporate a gender perspective into climate-related policies. Follow …
… bigger and bolder ideas about behaviour change. “In the GenderEquality Index , we see a shift in young women and young men … there are also big divisions amongst young people. And gender plays a role: the patriarchy is a structural issue.” …
… prospects of everyone in your area, while also boosting genderequality? The European Commission has a €19.2 billion fund to … EIGE Director said: The impacts of climate change are not gender neutral and neither should be the funds’ allocation. A …
… Setting the scene during the GenderEquality Index 2023 conference on 24 October 2023 at the … Carlien Scheele, on where the European Green Deal and GenderEquality meet and why it matters now more than ever. …
… While Europe is making progress towards genderequality, experts warned: “People will land on Mars before we reach full genderequality in the EU.” New data from EIGE shows we’re …
… Kicking off European Parliament’s GenderEquality week, EIGE’s Director, Carlien Scheele gave an address at the Joint exchange of views on Gender mainstreaming in the EU budget on 23 October 2023 …
… voices and perspectives from leaders promoting closing the gender gap in climate leadership. Carlien Scheele, EIGE Director says: “Existing gender imbalances in leadership roles expose Europe to the … crisis, every voice matters.” Achieving a minimum 40:60 gender balance is essential. Yet EIGE’s statistical note …
… to better understand the links between climate change and genderequality. Why? A sustainable future means that no one is left … transition can only hold its promise of becoming just and gender-equal if it takes existing gender gaps and …
… the Lithuanian Parliament, The Lithuanian CSO Center for Equality Advancement and The European Institute for GenderEquality. Dear honourable members of the Lithuanian … This was a key topic of concern and conversation in EIGE’s GenderEquality Forum last year – looking at where crisis and …
… Women’s Day. An occasion to celebrate the wins for genderequality so far. To reflect on the struggles. And a day to … also served as a catalyst to move towards a just, fair and gender-equal Europe. This year EIGE will focus its work on …
… many others… Women tend to have lower incomes due to gender pay and pension gaps. Energy poverty hits harder for … among the most vulnerable today, we need to adopt a gender lens to solving energy poverty to ensure the most … just transition in energy and other areas. EIGE’s GenderEquality Index makes it clear, where they exist. On that …