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.
… Videos & Webinars Tools & Resources Efforts to promote gender balance in leadership and decision-making have been … Association members were women in 2019. Improving gender balance in leadership and decision-making is therefore … Ensuring gender balance through the introduction of genderquotas. The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) …
… PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY IN RESEARCH Legal framework The Federal Law … are covered by the Equal Treatment Act, which foresees gender equality rather than affirmative action. Between the … and restructuring hierarchical structures, introducing quotas) and a discursive level (e.g. eliminating stereotypes, …
… PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY IN RESEARCH Legal framework The main gender equality laws that apply to higher education … ministries, including research. It also introduced a 40 % gender quota for the composition of juries for acceding to …
… of GRPP criteria, tender documents may influence the gender outcomes of a tender in other ways. For example, the use of gender-sensitive language to refer to bidders and staff … The criteria also include the application of women’s quotas or a gender equality quota during the performance of …
… remains the only EU country to have at least 40 % of each gender on the boards of the largest companies, with women … the largest companies in the EU have at least 40 % of each gender on their boards. However, nearly one in five still … (supervisory boards or boards of directors) and binding quotas, by EU Member State (%, April 2021) NB: National …
… several Member States have taken action to promote more gender-balanced representation in corporate leadership. The … which include the application of legally binding quotas for the minimum representation of each gender, in some cases with sanctions for non-compliance. To …
… Finland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and Austria have reached gender balance; that is, they comprise at least 40 % of each gender. The parliaments of Croatia, Malta and Hungary have … and speed up the rate of change. Legislative candidate quotas are currently in place in 10 Member States: Belgium, …
… Progress towards gender equality in the EU remains slow. The Gender Equality Index score in 2018 was 67.9 points, just … can be attributed to the implementation of genderquotas, both binding and voluntary. Gender parity is …
… Main findings The overall Gender Equality Index score for the EU in 2018 is … every 2 years – it will take more than 60 years to achieve gender equality in the EU. The gender balance in … Many Member States have instituted legislative candidate quotas to increase gender balance in national parliaments, …
… Main findings The EU keeps moving towards gender equality at a snail’s pace. While the Gender Equality Index score for the EU rose from 66.2 points … largest publicly quoted companies. The impact of genderquotas has had a relevant impact. In Member States that have …
… Member States. Footnotes [1] Refers to EIGE’s Gender statistics database, WMID data from the first … 152 parties across the 28 EU Member States. [4] EIGE’s Gender statistics database, WMID, November 2018. [5] The … and Portugal have not been included under the binding quotas group despite the fact that both have been enforcing …