Skip to main content
European Institute for Gender Equality

Main menu

  • Newsroom
    • Newsroom
    • Newsroom
      • News
      • Events
      • Director's corner
      • Subscribe to our updates
      • Frequently asked questions
    • In focus
      • EU Gender-based Violence Survey
      • Beijing Platform for Action
      • The Green Deal
      • Economic benefits of gender equality
      • View all campaigns
    • Unpaid care keeps Europe’s economies running, so let’s invest in it

      Type
      News article
      Icons representing a wheelchair, baby bottle, planner and other objects related to unpaid care
    • New EU data shows women need to work 15½ months to earn what men make in a year

      Type
      News article
      Gender Equality Index 2025 written on a white background with purple elements on it
  • Publications and resources
    • Publications and resources
    • Publications
      • Search all publications
      • All on gender and climate
      • All on gender-based violence
    • Resources
      • Toolkits and guides
      • Videos
      • Glossary and thesaurus
    • Sharing care, closing gender gaps: CARE Survey 2024

      Type
      Publication
      Sharing care, closing gender gaps: CARE Survey 2024
    • Gender Equality Index 2025: Sharper data for a changing world

      Type
      Publication
      Gender Equality Index 2025: Sharper data for a changing world
  • Gender mainstreaming
    • Gender mainstreaming
    • Gender mainstreaming in the EU
      • What is gender mainstreaming
      • Institutions and structures
      • Policy areas
      • Country information
    • Resources
      • Step-by-step toolkits
      • More methods and tools
      • Good practices
      • Publications
      • Gender mainstreaming glossary
    • From reckoning to reform: gender mainstreaming in the EU

      Type
      News article
      EIGE Director Carlien Scheele
    • Institutional mechanisms for gender equality in the EU: Present realities, future priorities

      Type
      Publication
      Institutional mechanisms for gender equality in the EU present realities, future priorities
  • Gender-based violence
    • Gender-based violence
    • Gender-based violence in the EU
      • What is gender-based violence
      • Regulatory and legal framework
      • Costs of gender-based violence
      • How we support the Istanbul Convention
      • Publications
    • In focus
      • Gender-based violence in migration and conflict
      • Female genital mutilation
      • Cyber violence against women
      • Femicide
      • Administrative data collection
      • Risk assessment and risk management
      • Intimate partner violence and witness intervention
      • View all Focus areas
    • Improving the collection of national administrative data on femicide in the EU

      Type
      Publication
      Improving the collection of national administrative data on femicide in the EU
    • Putting gender-based violence at the centre of crisis response strategies

      Type
      Page
  • Gender Equality Index
  • Gender Statistics Database
    • Gender Statistics Database
    • Browse Gender Statistics
    • Data talks
    • Latest updates
    • FAQs
    • About
    • Search
  • About us
    • About us
    • Who we are
      • Our Work
      • Organisation
      • Contact us
    • How we work
      • Our partners
      • EU candidate countries and potential candidates
      • Projects
      • Consultations
      • Planning and reporting
      • Documents registry
      • Strategic foresight
      • Communications Lab 
    • Work with us
      • Recruitment
      • Procurement
    • How far have we come 30 years on? A comprehensive gender equality review

      Type
      Page
      Illustration of men and women, boys and girls in the various stages of life

Breadcrumb

  1. Home

Search

Filters

please type a term
Type
Topics
Country

203 items / 11 pages

Pagination

  • First page « First
  • Previous page ‹‹
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • Page 6
  • Current page 7
  • Page 8
  • Page 9
  • Page 10
  • Page 11
  • Next page ››
  • Last page Last »
  • More gender equality on corporate boards — but only in a few Member States

    … companies in the EU‑28 more than doubled between 2010 and 2018 (from 12 % to 26 %), after the European Commission … and virtual stagnation on gender equality in economic power and decision-making. A recent slowdown in progress is likely to …

    Type
    Toolkit page
  • More women in decision-making but still a long way to go

    … The EU score for the power domain (51.9) remains the lowest of all domains. … it has steadily increased: by 3.4 points since 2015 and by 13 points since 2005. Figure 23: Scores for the domain … of men in political, economic and social decision-making. Figure 25: Average increase/decrease …

    Type
    Toolkit page
  • More women in decision-making drives progress

    … The power domain has seen the biggest advances in gender equality … for this domain rose from 48.5 to 51.9 points between 2015 and 2017, an average increase of 1.7 points per year. In … (2015-2017, 2005-2012, 2005-2017) The rise of women in decision-making became a key driver of gender equality in …

    Type
    Toolkit page
  • Snail’s-pace progress on gender equality in the EU continues

    … in line with the sluggish improvement seen between 2005 and 2015, averaging around 0.4 points per year. Nearly all … largely due to dramatic advances in political and economic decision-making. In Estonia, progress was attributable to higher scores in the power, knowledge and money domains (see Table 1 and …

    Type
    Toolkit page
  • Still far from the finish line

    … States need to make considerable advances to ensure women and men enjoy equal levels of well-being in all domains of … the composite indicator of the Gender Equality Index, the power domain score of 51.9 points of the EU reveals that gender inequalities in decision-making remain the biggest hurdles to overcome. The …

    Type
    Toolkit page
  • Foreword

    … With a freshly elected European Parliament and a new term for the European Commission, the time is ripe … direction. There are big improvements in the domain of power, as more women are taking on decision-making positions, especially in com­pany boardrooms …

    Type
    Toolkit page
  • 10. Conclusions

    … challenges that remain. In particular, the segregation and quality of work sub-domain, with a score as low as … in the subsequent chapter on work—life balance. Domain of power While the domain of power has the lowest score in the … notable improvements in gender balance in political decision-making since 2005 can be attributed to the …

    Type
    Toolkit page
  • 6. Domain of power

    … the EU made historic gains — they won the right to vote and to be elected, and they held pioneering positions in national decision-making bodies (European Parliament, 2019). A century … action plan to tackle the gender pay gap. The domain of power measures gender equality in decision-making positions …

    Type
    Toolkit page
  • Gender Equality Index 2019: Still far from the finish line

    … with 83.6 points, followed by Denmark with 77.5. Greece and Hungary have the most ground to make up, with both … for Gender Equality (EIGE). The lowest scoring domain is power, which looks at equality in decision-making. Yet, it is the area with the biggest …

    Type
    News article
  • Gender Equality Index 2019. Work-life balance

    … direction. There are big improvements in the domain of power, as more women are taking on decision-making positions, especially in company boardrooms … across Europe. Each year we score EU Member States and the EU as a whole to see how far they are from reaching …

    Type
    Publication
  • Women in decision-making: why it matters

    … When it comes to power, the European Union has not yet reached the halfway … Index, women remain under-represented in the kinds of decision-making positions that shape politics, economics and society.  Yet gender equality is a founding value of the …

    Type
    News article
    Topics
    • Digital agenda
    • Economic and financial affairs
    • Employment
  • Gender equality in power and decision-making

    … looks at how Member States fared on gender equality in power and decision-making positions within bodies of public, eco­nomic …

    Type
    Project
  • Step 3: Gender-sensitive analysis

    … All regulations, policies and programmes relevant to gender affect the living … between women and men in access to resources (work, money, power, health, well-being, security, knowledge-education, … norms and values which regulate the process of control and decision- making. It is about the opportunities to …

    Type
    Toolkit page
    Topics
    • Economic and financial affairs
    • Employment
    • Justice
  • Step 4: Weighing gender impact

    … gender impact of any initiative: 1. Participation of women and men The impact will be considered positive when a … as education, employment, careers, health, time, money, power, information, new technologies, etc. The impact will be … important to analyse the participation of women and men in decision-making in the field of the project, as outlined …

    Type
    Toolkit page
    Topics
    • Economic and financial affairs
    • Employment
    • Justice
  • Finland

    … Model Actors involved Guidelines Strenghts and weaknesses Model There is no legal obligation to conduct … well-being, health, public services, leisure and decision-making. Finally, it is important to highlight that specific …

    Type
    Toolkit page
    Country
    Finland
    Topics
    • Economic and financial affairs
    • Employment
    • Justice
  • Step 5: Establishing a gender mainstreaming support structure

    … discrimination amongst the employees of an organisation and for promoting equal opportunities for the organisation’s … mainstreaming support structure into the organisation’s decision-making processes is also a key aspect for creating …

    Type
    Toolkit page
  • Step 8: Introducing gender mainstreaming

    … aspects Select methods that suit the specific procedures and working routines of a particular organisation Develop … access to resources and development, control of assets, decision making powers, etc. between women and men and their assigned …

    Type
    Toolkit page
  • Swedish municipalities (SALAR)

    … Context Model Actors involved Guidelines Strenghts and weaknesses Context SALAR is the Swedish Association of … experts but for those actors normally involved in the decision-making process. A necessary condition for this … on treatment, service, representation and distribution of power and resources. Resources can be funds, time, space, …

    Type
    Toolkit page
    Topics
    • Economic and financial affairs
    • Employment
    • Justice
  • Gender Statistics Database

    … equality under several monitoring frameworks (EU policies and strategies, Gender Equality Index and Beijing platform … topics (Thematic areas) Gender equality in decision-making (women and men in decision-making) and … Women and armed conflict Women and the economy Women in power and decision-making Institutional mechanisms for the …

    Type
    Page
  • Is your parliament doing enough to advance gender equality?

    … where parliaments stand on their way to gender equality and proposes steps for every parliament to improve. We call … parliaments tool. “Democracy works best when decision-making power is equally shared by women and men. An active inclusion …

    Type
    News article
    Topics
    • Employment

203 items / 11 pages

Pagination

  • First page « First
  • Previous page ‹‹
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • Page 6
  • Current page 7
  • Page 8
  • Page 9
  • Page 10
  • Page 11
  • Next page ››
  • Last page Last »

Share:

Cookie Preferences

Subscribe to email alerts

Get notifications about news alerts, publications and more

Contact us

Do you have feedback or media enquiries for us? You can leave them here.

Useful links

  • Who we are
  • Recruitment
  • News
  • Events

Popular pages

  • What is gender mainstreaming?
  • What is gender-based violence?
  • Forms of gender-based violence
  • Gender Equality Index
  • Glossary and Thesaurus

EIGE in social media

  • Linkedin
  • YouTube
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

Help us improve

European Institute for Gender Equality

© 2026 European Institute for Gender Equality

An EU Agency

Disclaimers

  • Web Accessibility
  • Legal notices
  • Data Protection
  • Cookies Policy
  • Login

To top