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      In October EIGE releases its annual Gender Equality Index updating on the progress of gender equality in the EU. In this year’s Index edition, EIGE also makes links between gender equality and the European Green Deal exploring how the progress in gender equality can support the green transition. This year the Index conference is extended with two webinars taking a...

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    • Sharing the load: who invests more time and energy in childcare?

      Between women and men in the EU, there’s a greater balance of childcare. But there isn’t when it comes to the type of task according to EIGE’s latest evidence. The distribution of unpaid childcare between women and men is moving in the right direction. EIGE’s evidence from a 2022 survey on gender gaps in unpaid care, individual and social activities...

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      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.

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      The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has published a handbook to help stop sexism in the workplace. From recruitment to performance evaluation, EIGE’s handbook shows how organisations can ensure women and men employees feel safe, respected and fulfilled.

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    • 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?

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      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.

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    • Closing the gaps: How data accelerates progress on gender equality  

      EIGE’s new report for the Western Balkans and Türkiye provides guidance for combatting violence against women.

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  • Mini-grants for academic teachers, “Ensuring equal opportunities for male and female researchers who combine work and childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic” – Jagiellonian University in Kraków (JU) (PL)

    … who have combined research and teaching work with parental care for children under the age of 15 during the COVID-19 … University who (1) are parents and carers of a child/children under the age of 15 and (2) are planning to …

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    Poland
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    • Education
    • Energy
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  • Step 6: Setting gender equality objectives

    … Women and men share equally in household work and family care, child education and care while maintaining their independent living. Women and …

  • Budapest Conference on Demographic Change

    … formation. Family support in the form of appropriate child care, flexible working arrangements, cash and tax benefits … more, they are likely to enhance the involvement of men in care responsibilities to a larger degree as well as improving …

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    28 Mar 2011, 13:00 EEST - 29 Mar 2011, 16:00 EEST Europe/Athens
  • EIGE meets with MEP Ms Liisa Jaakonsaari and Social Democratic Women of Finland

    … the public sector and benefit from social services such as child and elderly care". …

  • Czech Republic - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

    … commits an act given in paragraph (1) and (2) d. against a child, or e. at least with two persons. 4. An offender shall … d. he/she commits an act given in paragraph (1) against a child under the age of fifteen years, or e. he/she causes … person 1. Whoever abuses a person who is in his/her care or upbringing shall be sentenced to a term of …

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    Czechia
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    • Violence
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  • Step 4. Following up through the use of indicators within M&E systems

    … better work- life balance for parents and people with care responsibilities Please note that these indicators [2] … provision of flexible, affordable and high-quality care for older people, including digital technologies, shared … to fathers or any person who has adopted or fostered a child of up to 7 years of age. By combining resources from …

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    • Economic and financial affairs
  • What does gender budgeting have to do with women’s and men’s lived realities?

    … than women? In EU Member States, both paid work and unpaid care work exists. These different kinds of work are performed … Public financial allowances, such as paid parental leave, child benefit, carers’ allowances, agricultural subsidies and … you stay at home to care for others – an older relative, a child, a sick person, etc. – you are very often not paid for …

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    • Economic and financial affairs
  • A multi-pronged national campaign on the father’s role

    … Research and data show that the unequal division of care responsibilities is a key issue for reconciliation of … a database of examples of good practice, the ‘Day with a Child at Work’ campaign, a competition on employers’ good … for parents of young children; The campaign ‘Day with a Child at Work’ (Dzień z Dzieckiem w Pracy); Discount cards …

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  • 2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender Studies and the Status of Women

    … legitimisation of) sexual violence and misogyny, cuts in child-care and services for disabled people, lack of access to paid …

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    08 Mar 2020, 15:00 GMT - 11 Mar 2020, 15:00 GMT Europe/London
  • Health Database on FGM

    … health institutions, covering all the Portuguese primary care services and all the public hospitals and has more than … professionals, especially those who work at maternal and child health, must be able to identify and guide a child, a youth or a woman who has suffered from FGM, as well …

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    Portugal
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  • Area 2: Women and men have equal opportunities to INFLUENCE the parliament’s working procedures

  • Motherhood, low education and migration are particular barriers to work for women

    … living in couples, they also show that the arrival of a child has the greatest negative impact on the mothers living in couples. The disproportionate weight of care duties on mothers limits their participation in or … with the peak times for family formation and increasing care duties — be it for children, grandchildren or those who …

  • Hands-on fathers make better employees

    … parental leave, in addition to two weeks leave after a child is born, brought home from hospital, or adopted. One of … leave with full pay following the birth or adoption of a child. "We believe that an employee who has taken up the … men) taking longer than two weeks in connection with a child being born or brought into the home (up to nine weeks …

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    Denmark
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  • International Women's Day - Building societies where everyone has equal rights and opportunities

    … and at a ministerial conference looking at the European child guarantee, hosted by the French presidency of the EU. And we have pointed out the implications of care and unpaid work on women’s and men’s lives at …

  • Nordiskt Forum Malmö 2014 – New Action on Women’s Rights

    … program. The City of Malmo have also introduced child care in the evenings and nights and extensive efforts against …

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    12 Jun 2014, 9:00 CEST - 15 Jun 2014, 18:00 CEST Europe/Stockholm
  • Pay transparency: The next step to end the gender pay gap

    … Europe is an ageing continent and women are often taking care of their parents, as well as children. Our data shows … pay gap actually widens the older women get, with having a child and getting married both having a negative impact on … where women are concentrated in poorly paid fields like care work, while men dominate highly paid fields like ICT, is …

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  • Gender budgeting as a way of increasing women’s and men’s participation in budget processes

    … participating organisations included the Kinderfreunde (child care organisation), Landesfrauenbeauftragte (women's affairs …

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    • Economic and financial affairs
  • Example 6: Setting gender equality objectives

    … market. Women and men share equitably in family- and care-related work involving household chores, child rearing, and looking after other family members, while … learn and teach in a gender-equitable way in schools, day care centers, and all other educational facilities. Women and …

  • How to attract women to the workplace and keep them there?

    … between parents. During parental leave and until their child’s seventh birthday, parents have the right to work … have the right to work part-time simultaneously to raise a child. Since 2014, employees have enjoyed the right to take an unpaid leave or work part-time in order to care for a disabled or elderly relative or a child with a …

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    Austria
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    • Digital agenda
    • Employment
  • Steps 2 and 3. Identifying and developing possible work-life balance interventions

    … balance by enhancing the quality and accessibility of care provision; supporting active ageing; strengthening integrated health care communication; advancing the integration of shared … ERDF and ESF+ Improve cross-programme actions on expanding child and social care infrastructure and the related care …

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    • Economic and financial affairs

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