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...
EIGE Director Carlien Scheele calls for greater gender equality in access to the labour market In a High-Level Conference on a future oriented European Pillar of Social Rights on 15 April 2024 in Brussels, Director Carlien Scheele gave a key note address on access to the labour market from a gender equal and intersectional approach. Publication date 15 Apr 2024
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 does it take to achieve gender equality? – 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
GRPP: Four letters can unlock €2 trillion to accelerate our drive towards gender equality Each year the EU spends 14% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on public works, from building projects to social infrastructure. Smart targeting of that €2 trillion in public funds and considering how it impacts the lives of both women and men is the essence of Gender-responsive public procurement, or GRPP. Topics Economic and financial affairs Publication date 18 Oct 2022
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
The Gender Equality Index 2022 reveals slow progress. How can we turn threats into opportunities right now? … to be put in place so women do not continue to take on the lion share of intense unpaid care. The second step is on the … Type News article
Aggeliki Kornelatou … obtaining numerous important awards including a Gold Glass Lion: The Lion for Change and a Silver Lion in the Cannes Lions Festival, a Graphite pencil in D&AD, … Type Speaker
Equality bodies: How do they strengthen gender equality? … of gender norms result in situations where women take the lion’s share of parental leave. Not sharing the parental … Type News article
The economy of the future: How can the EU ensure gender equality? … were affected by these decisions, it was those who do the lion’s share of childcare that were the most affected. Our … Type News article Topics Digital agenda Economic and financial affairs Employment Health
More equal sharing of care would reduce workplace gender inequality … Currently, women make up 37 million of the 49 million care workers in the EU. Many find themselves in low … Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs Employment
Sexism at work … EU out of the labour market [21] . Women still take on the lion’s share of caring responsibilities and tend to use … Type Toolkit page
Highlights of the Gender Equality Index 2020 … in particular, since women usually undertake the lion’s share of unpaid care. However, such opportunities do … Type Toolkit page
Parental-leave policies … available information does, however, indicate that the lion’s share is taken up by women in all Member States. For … Type Toolkit page
Power Up conference 2019 … Mr Kemppinen is Knight, First Class, of the Order of the Lion of Finland and has published several books about the … Type Page
Time to get more women in tech … This can be difficult for women, who still tend to take a lion’s share of household and care responsibilities and … Type News article Topics Employment Digital agenda Education
Modernising an old-fashioned media … leului in politica romaneasca (Gender and power, the lion’s share in Romanian politics). Collection: Studii de … Type Good practice Country Romania Topics Culture