… groups face different kinds of discriminations in Europe. The intersection between belonging to a minority group and … 2016). Older women are disproportionately exposed to the risk of abuse, compared with older men (Saripapa, 2019). … elderly survivors of violence. Later life stages reflect the accumulation of a lifetime of inequality, economic …
… Across the three levels that comprise the domain of violence’s measurement framework, recent data … of femicide as a criminal offence, either at EU or Member State level (Schröttle and Meshkova, 2018). This implies that …
… The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged health systems and affected the health and lives of innumerable people, both directly and … (BMJ Global Health, 2020). A similar trend was seen in the SARS outbreak in 2003 (Jin et al., 2020). Gender …
… Examination of the Gender Equality Index confirms that good health and … all intersect with gender to some extent and impact one of the main indicators of self-perceived health (Figure 23). … (FRA, 2020). People with disabilities are clearly among the most disadvantaged groups. While only 20 % of women with …
… The 2020 Gender Equality Index still reflects the pre-COVID-19 period. Although its score of 88 points sees the domain of health [1] ranked the highest of all six …
… In 2012, the European Commission proposed legislative action to … % to 29 % ) (Figure 20). France remains the only Member State to have surpassed the 40 % threshold. The number of … or board of directors) and binding quotas, by EU Member State, 2020 The presence of women in executive hierarchies is …
… The presence of women in EU national parliaments (both … that is, they comprise at least 40 % of each gender. The parliaments of Croatia, Malta and Hungary have less than … made in Belgium, Greece and Spain (+ 3 p.p. each) since the beginning of 2019. There has been little change in Poland …
… The EU score in the domain of power [1] has increased by … the subdomain of social power (– 3.5 points). The Member State with the biggest increase since 2010 was France, with … in other subdomains. Slovenia was the only EU Member State that showed a significant decrease (– 5.7 points) in …
… The availability of high-quality, affordable care services … (EIGE, 2019b). While most EU Member States have achieved the Barcelona target of 90 % of children between the age of 3 and compulsory school age attending formal …
… The engagement of women and men (aged 15 or older) in formal or non-formal education and training remains low in the EU (17 %) [1] . Nordic countries are clear leaders, with … rates higher than 30 % , while Bulgaria and Romania have the lowest participation rates (both 9 % ). Several EU …
… Over the past decade, the shares of women and men graduating from university have increased steadily in Europe, with the gender gap slowly reversing to favour women. In 2010, 20 …
… With an overall EU score of 63.6 points, the domain of knowledge [1] has remained stagnant since the previous edition of the Gender Equality Index, improving by only 1.8 points since …
… In 2010, the Europe 2020 strategy established a 10-year EU target to lift at least 20 million people out of the risk of poverty or social exclusion. Since then, the total number of women and men at risk of poverty or …
… inequalities persist in pay, monthly earnings and income. The EU focuses primarily on the gender pay gap, standing at 16 %, and the gender pension gap, reaching 37 %, both to the …
… financial resources. With a score of 80.6 points, the domain of money [1] shows very minor improvement … of only 2.2 points since 2010 (Figure 8). This domain has the second highest score, after the domain of health. Figure 8. Scores for the domain of …
… The Europe 2020 strategy set an overall EU employment rate … targets at national level. Initially gender blind, the targets were later accompanied by other indicators from the Social Scoreboard and the SDGs, notably on the gender …
… Despite being the lowest scoring, the domain of power continues to drive the increase in the … in the Gender Equality Index and domain scores by Member State, long term (2010–2018) and short term (2017–2018), in …
… The Gender Equality Index score is 67.9 points, showing the urgent need for progress in all Member States. It has … consequence of the different pace of change in each Member State in the short term (2017–2018) and in the long term …