… started with venture capital were run by women. Three factors may explain these differences: women own fewer … mirror segregation patterns in the labour market. These factors can then translate into lower levels of labour … aim at increasing the share of women-led companies collect sex-disaggregated data and produce annual updates on the …
… monitoring and evaluation of their effectiveness. Accurate sex-disaggregated and gender-sensitive data can help us … The Database primarily aims to gather statistics that are: sex-disaggregated and/or directly reflect gender issues (such … using methods that account for social and cultural factors that may induce gender biases in the data.” What is …
… or local authorities) must contain at least 33% of each sex, and that for the Portuguese and European parliaments the … lists should not include more than two persons of the same sex successively. If lists do not comply with these …
… have been legally obliged to include at last 40% of each sex in their electoral lists – but this quota is widely … subsidy for each representative of the underrepresented sex – i.e. each woman – elected. Finally in 2008 40% gender … parties are obliged to include at least 40% of each sex in their candidate lists, subject to a transitional …
… fewer than 40% and no more than 60% of candidates of each sex. This proportion has to be respected within each list … with the 40% of mandatory quota. As shown above, two key factors enabled the measure to achieve its target: credible … representation: Electoral systems, political parties, and sex quotas, 2012, pp. 129-139; Verge, Tània, …
… the 2001 law that established a quota of one third of each sex in the candidate lists in local elections, very few have … their special interest in sessions B, C, and D. Success factors The success of the training may be put down to several factors: The idea of using the European Charter for Equality …
… 2008, which found that 4.9% of employees had experienced sex-based discrimination. Legislation on non-discrimination … with other councils could be considered as a solution. Two factors are needed for the success of such an initiative. …
… Mentees are matched with an experienced mentor of either sex, who spends six hours with them over a six-month period. … strategy that takes into consideration the main factors that marginalise women in the industry and then …
… in homelessness from a gender perspective. Enabling factors Effective implementation of GRPP requires political … civil society awareness and involvement; availability of sex-disaggregated data to measure the impact of public … GRPP as a tool for gender mainstreaming. Availability of sex-disaggregated data is an enabling factor in conducting …
… in agriculture. Looking at part-time employment by sex, the percentage of women in part-time work is around 33% … technical progress and ensuring the optimum use of the factors of production, in particular labour to ensure a fair … methodologies that allow the particularities of each sex and the needs of rural women to be taken into account in …
… life as a male domain and even seemingly insignificant factors may contribute to strengthening or perpetuating … by men. A further form of occupational segregation by sex can be observed in the cultural industries. Men tend to … for Gender Equality (EIGE). This implies the use of sex-disaggregated culture statistics, and the focus of …
… Bulgaria. Even though these data are not disaggregated by sex, studies suggest that access to the Internet is probably … As suggested by the European Parliament , the following factors contribute to the leaky pipeline in the career steps: … policies and programmes, to collect and analyse sex-disaggregated data and to develop gender-sensitive …
… and training continues to be affected by a number of factors: gender-based different choices across study fields … to enact a series of norms or behaviours based on their sex. Gender stereotypes refer to a cultural and socially … by education ministries and authorities are broken down by sex, and published regularly. 30. Encouraging teachers to …
… occupational segregation is linked to a number of factors, such as differences in knowledge, skills and … Directive with an objective of 4% of the under-represented sex among non-executive directors by 2020, and the European … or preferences made on various grounds, including sex, that have the effect of impairing equality of …
… and recovery. This is due to the interrelations between sex-related biological differences and socio-economic and cultural factors that affect the behaviour of women and men and their … to bear in mind the distinction between the concepts of ‘sex’ and ‘gender’. Health research and health policy need to …
… in the case of women victims of domestic violence or sex workers who face sexual or domestic violence. Women may … represent a vulnerable group in prisons. Some of the main factors explaining this vulnerability are the following: the … harassment are deemed to be discrimination on grounds of sex. This Directive enables European Union (EU) countries to …
… in the fisheries sector is influenced by a set of factors, which are as follows: participation of women and men … and women, as well as to combat discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, …