… Nations Agency for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (UN Women). In December 2015, the adoption of amendments to the … process has the potential to reduce inequalities between women and men and remove barriers to equal access to public …
… workplace. AON’s white paper, The Gender Gap: Why Men and Women Experience Work Differently is a research-based … inequality in expectations, experiences and outcomes among women and men. Information about Ireland — policy in … Despite Ireland’s robust legislation on gender equality, women remain the default carers in Irish society: family care …
… programmes. It aims to invest in STEM education for young women and generate a crop of future employees who are ready … in Croatia’s ICT sector, 12,803 of whom (37.2%) were women. The proportion of women has actually fallen compared … perceived differently in terms of their skills. While the executives perceived women as better skilled in areas such as …
… to, and progress in, addressing violence against women through legislation, policy and service development. … information on the prevalence of sexual violence for women and men in Ireland. It specifically highlighted that 42 per cent of women and 28 per cent of men disclosed to the researchers …
… Measures to improve the knowledge of violence against women (VAW) As referred in the most recent gender violence … Portugal (Lisboa et al., 2008), 38 per cent of Portuguese women have experienced physical, psychological and/or sexual … and according to the Portuguese observatory of murdered women, 43 women died and 49 were victims of murder attempts …
… Malta has one of the lowest levels of women’s political representation in the EU. Of the political … been the first to adopt measures for the advancement of women – since women‘s suffrage in 1947. Nevertheless formal and informal …
… – the over 11,000 municipalities and 295 districts – that women are most noticeable by their absence from political … in 2011, is to break this stalemate by getting more women into (local) politics, improving their political career … The Kolleg arose from the campaign Frauen Macht Kommune (‘Women Power Municipalities’) which was launched in 2008 by …
… based on its interpretation of the Bible, it prohibited women from standing for political office. The party regards women bearing government or legislative responsibility to be at odds with the biblical vocation of women. Despite condemnation from women’s organisations, the …
… Assembly and the Senate – have had a ‘Delegation for Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities for Women and Men’ since 1999, aiming at complementing each … bodies, and each has 36 members, among them both women and men. The Delegations can scrutinise proposed …
… models, diversity forums and leadership programmes for women. Think, Act , Report aims to drive greater transparency about women in the workplace. Countries that have limited options … of the Think, Act, Report initiative, in order to support women returners and promote gender equality more generally. …
… development and promotion. A specific emphasis is given to executives taking family-friendly working hours, so that they … men. However Bosch also promotes equal opportunities for women, and provides mentoring programmes, the Business Women's Programme (a programme for further training), a …
… Rundfunk (ORF), investigated the position of women in its organisation and found a widespread gender imbalance. While women make up 42% of its workforce, they are concentrated in … and development of gender equality expertise among executives, and the banning of all forms of harassment. In …
… Télévisions employs some 11,000 staff, of whom 43% are women. They are over-represented in areas like human … there has been a noticeable increase in the number of women appearing in expert roles in some programmes. In order … for cinema. It employs some 11,000 staff, of whom 43% are women. Women are over-represented in certain jobs (i.e. human …
… (€15m) fund which makes equity investments to help strong women’s businesses grow. It works on a co-investment basis in … expertise on finance measures to support SMEs. In the UK women are about half as likely as men to be entrepreneurs. … the expectation of 30% women) and role of senior womenexecutives in the investees will be monitored as part of the …