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Definition of gender power relations

Ways in which gender shapes the distributions of power at all levels of society.

 

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  • Today’s choices are tomorrow’s consequences

    … In an informal meeting with European Gender Equality Ministers on 27 February 2024 under the … Director Carlien Scheele presented a vision of what gender equality could look like in 2030 – if we already put … and neither should the allocation of funding and power.    A green, fair and inclusive transition must start …

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  • Challenges and Changes: promoting women in law enforcement

    … social media commentary by bringing in EIGE’s evidence on gender and security , launched in June last year, ahead of … was a very timely moment to look down the corridors of power and get a sense of the state gender equality. The findings probably won’t take you by …

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  • Looking to the future of gender equality: emerging priorities issues

    … 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 gender equality. We are at the beginning of an important year … forward-focused knowledge is because the future of gender equality could be at risk. Even though our 2023 Gender …

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    • Digital agenda
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    • Environment and climate change
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  • Gender Equality Index 2024

    … The Gender Equality Index 2024 gives an overview of the state of gender equality in the EU. The EU and the Member States will … in six core domains: work, money, knowledge, time, power and health, and their sub-domains. The Index also has …

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  • Administrative Assistant - Outreach & Engagement Unit (one year contract)

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  • Economic Benefits of Gender Equality in the European Union

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  • Gender Equality Index 2023 – a focus on the European Green Deal

    … The Gender Equality Index 2023 gave an overview of the state of gender equality in the EU. The EU and the Member States were … in six core domains: work, money, knowledge, time, power and health, and their sub-domains. The Index also had …

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  • Administrative Agent - Finance

    … The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) [1] is organising a call for … to contribute to, and strengthen the promotion of gender equality. The Institute collects and analyses … office tools (e.g. word processing, spreadsheets, power point, e-mail, internet); the mind-set to see through …

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  • #3StepsForward: Why the Green Deal needs a gender perspective

    … Women’s Day. An occasion to celebrate the wins for gender equality so far. To reflect on the struggles. And a … also served as a catalyst to move towards a just, fair and gender-equal Europe. This year EIGE will focus its work on … in mobility and travel behaviour. And policy also has the power to help overcome gender segregation in the transport …

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  • The economic tolls of gender-based violence

    … in Stockholm, providing an economic perspective on gender-based violence to pave paths to prevention. Video … me here today to provide an economic perspective on gender-based violence. This is an area EIGE has been well … this phenomenon. And that is women’s lack of economic power. There is a direct relation between women's access to …

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  • The power of women participating in conflict prevention and peace talks

    … knowledge. EIGE is the EU’s knowledge base on gender equality, providing fertile ground for policy making. … We provide consistent, comparable and reliable data on gender equality for decision-makers across the Member States … to Kosovo on taking concrete steps towards developing a Gender Equality Index with EIGE’s support - and funded by the …

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  • Presenting EIGE’s 2023 Work Programme: Ongoing conversations with bold and new commitments

    … 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 … us from going backwards was an increase in the area of power. We owe this progress to more women participating in …

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  • The Gender Equality Index 2022 reveals slow progress. How can we turn threats into opportunities right now?

    … Carlien Scheele presented the 2022 results from the Gender Equality Index during Gender Equality Week at European Parliament in Brussels on 25 … domains of work, knowledge, and health.  In the area of power, however, there was progress. Without this increase, it …

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  • Gender Equality Index 2022: Gender Equality under Threat, Specific Groups Hardest Hit

    … 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 … access to healthcare services. Progress in the domain of power Had it not been for the progress in the domain of …

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  • Women at the forefront of decision-making in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic

    … Monitoring progress in gender equality is key to support better informed … and accountability. The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) monitors the distribution of power in the European Union (EU) through regular collection …

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  • Happening now: Gender Equality Index: the way forward- online discussion

    … discussion: On 13 June 2013, the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) launched the first ever comprehensive index for measuring gender equality across Europe specifically within the main … The Index consists of six core domains: work, money, power, knowledge, time and health and two satellite domains: …

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  • Annual Conference of the Leibniz Graduate School for Cultures of Knowledge in Central European Transnational Contexts in cooperation with the Professorship for Contemporary European History since 1945 at the University Siegen

    … Gender history, as well as history of knowledge and science, … and gender, their performative aspects, as well as the relations between them. One must bear in mind that the … of gender must always be seen as an interplay between power and knowledge, and at the same time the category of …

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  • Regional Conference on Gender Mainstreaming in Migration

    … At first glance, gender and migration are viewed as two separate topics with … look far to see that these two topics are interlinked. The gender concept is still associated with many prejudices and … groups. The roles, expectations, relationships, and power dynamics associated with being a man, woman, boy or …

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  • Call for Applications: Online Certificate Course on Gender Mainstreaming (GM)

    … Course Description Gender mainstreaming is a strategy to achieve gender … norms, values and ideologies are defined by a complex of power relations which tend to accord to women lesser political …

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  • Workshop "Digital Diaspora: Gender, Identity, Belonging"

    … The Center for Gender Studies at the University of Latvia is pleased to open … The aim of the two-day workshop is to investigate the relations between transnational networks, diasporic … New Media Technologies, 22 (2 ) (2016); Dialogic control: Power in media evolution. International Journal of Cultural …

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