Are You Ready for the European Parliament Elections 2024? Take the Gender Equality Quiz! From 6 to 9 June 2024, people in the EU will vote for the 720 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) representing 480 million Europeans. But before you vote, have you considered gender equality? Publication date 01 May 2024
Call for youth participation at the EIGE Gender Equality Forum 2024: Make your voice heard! The countdown is on for the second edition of the Gender Equality Forum! Join us online or on-site in Brussels on 10-11 December 2024 to engage in discussions on the future of gender equality in the EU until 2030. We want your voices and ideas to be heard, contributing to a call to action for equality 24/7. To ensure a...
Gender Equality Index 2023: Towards a green transition in transport and energy The Gender Equality Index 2023 presents the EU in relation to gender equality amid crises and uncertainties. In recent years, the world has been hit by repeated shocks and multiple crises. What remains constant is the fact that when crisis strikes, women and girls suffer disproportionally. The crises and shocks continuously threaten to create new challenges and reverse years of... Topics Culture Digital agenda Economic and financial affairs Education Employment Energy Entrepreneurship Environment and climate change Health Justice Migration Poverty Regional policy Transport Youth Violence Publication date 24 Oct 2023 Available in: EN
Gender-sensitive communication This toolkit provides guidelines for the use of gender-sensitive language in writing. Gender-sensitive communication ensures that women and men – and those who do not conform to the binary gender system – are treated as persons of equal importance and dignity. Section Publications
What can parliaments do to advance gender equality? Discover our step-by-step toolkit Section Gender mainstreaming
Resources and structures key for women's empowerment With International Women’s Day just around the corner, progress towards gender equality is high on the agenda. But what does it take to really pave the way for gender equality? Publication date 27 Feb 2023
Two years on: women fleeing Russia’s war in Ukraine need more support How can essential healthcare services be strengthened for victims of conflict-related sexual violence? Topics Health Migration Youth Violence Publication date 20 Feb 2024
EIGE stresses the need for gender dimension in DSA transparency reporting EIGE, in its contribution to a public consultation on the design of transparency reports under the Digital Services Act (DSA), has highlighted the need to include gender-based measurement instruments. Topics Digital agenda Violence Publication date 01 Feb 2024
Apply to become our Seconded National Expert: Gender-based Violence! The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) 1 invites applications with a view to establishing a reserve list for the post of Seconded National Expert (SNE) – Gender-Based Violence (GBV). The registration of applications will begin on 5 April 2024 and will close on 13 May 2024 at 13:30 Eastern European Time (EET). The Institute Based in Vilnius, Lithuania, EIGE... Type Seconded national experts Ref. number EIGE/2024/SNE/GBV Published date 03 Apr 2024 Closing date 13 May 2024, 13:30 Europe/Vilnius
EIGE welcomes the election of Esther Van Dijk as the Chair of EIGE’s 6th Management Board Type News article
Women platform workers face challenges balancing unpaid care with work, despite so-called flexibility Type News article Topics Digital agenda Employment
Women at the forefront of decision-making in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic Type News article Topics Health
Decision-making in environment and climate change: women woefully under-represented in the EU Member States … but women outnumber men among cabinet members (58.3 % vs. 41.7 %). Senior administrators include two women and two men … women and 57.1 % men at director level. Women account for 41.1 % of members of the three environment related committees … Type News article Topics Environment and climate change
Women and power in the Western Balkans and Turkey … some way behind the EU in the power domain (28.0 vs. 41.9, 2013 Index). Encouragingly, however, the 2016 results … Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs
Quotas can turbocharge progress on gender balance in politics and business … while the number of women CEOs has tripled (from 12 to 41). Share of women on boards lower in IPA beneficiaries than … Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs
How many women have top positions in the EU candidate countries and potential candidates? … Court judges across the 28 EU Member States included 41 % women compared to 25 % in the IPA beneficiaries. The … Type News article
Achieving gender-balance in national parliaments would take another 12 years Type News article Topics Regional policy
Gender equality needs to reach everyone … every day, compared to four in ten men with disabilities (41 %). Almost a third of women with disabilities (29 %) and a … Type News article
Almost 23 million children in the EU are poor: For every additional child, a woman’s risk of falling into poverty increases … a higher risk of poverty than the native-born population. 41 % of women and 39 % of men born in a non-EU country were … Type News article Topics Poverty Employment