Ways in which the situation and needs of, and challenges facing, women and men (and girls and boys) differ, with a view to eliminating inequalities and avoiding their perpetuation, as well as to promoting gender equality within a particular policy, programme or procedure.
… paid work with other life duties and needs. Traditional gender roles assigning women to care work, paid or unpaid, … accessibility should take into account the differences in gender needs. Due to the scope of this analysis, and given … highly relevant to the analysis of work—life balance and gender equality. The existing literature provides much …
… Equally shared or not, childcare is a key dimension of gender equality Family structures have changed … Understanding how social policies and structures affect gender roles, particularly in the division of care work at …
… composite measure does not affect the final score of the Gender Equality Index. However, violence against women must … EU had a score of 27.5 (EIGE, 2017b). A high score in the Gender Equality Index means that a country is close to achieving a gender-equal society. However, in the domain of violence, the …
… You will have to decide whether to include gender explicitly on a case-by-case basis. Guiding questions for choosing between gender-neutral language and gender-sensitive language: Will … be obvious, but there is almost always an important genderdimension to public policy. Do not automatically assume …
… words for general references can reflect assumptions about gender roles and influence readers [ source ]. This toolkit is an easy-to-use guide on how to use more gender-sensitive language. This toolkit is one of a series … this particular toolkit focusses on the genderdimension of language. …
… Gender Equality Strategies including a balance of staff For … of the Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) on gender balance of staff: “We also undertake to accelerate our … mainstreaming – but not all organisations focus on this dimension. Why is the example suitable for promoting …
… Challenges Previous efforts Commitment to mainstreaming gender in the EU Gender mainstreaming has been adopted as a strategy by EU … stressing the need to effectively mainstream the genderdimension in the work of national administrations, in 2009 …
… to keep in mind when considering the implementation of gender impact assessment. Policital commitment The gender impact assessment is an instrument for the … the existing situation, as it also includes a prospective dimension . This means that the exercise implies an …
… Commission deploys a variety of methods in its approach to gender mainstreaming. These methods span the whole policy … monitoring and evaluation. In the policy-definition phase, gender impact assessment is integrated within the European … and within the system Risk of overlooking the genderdimension The Commission’s impact assessment should take …
… up to parliament. As part of this procedure, the dimension of gender equality has to be addressed with respect to benefits, … of application of impact assessment and therefore also of gender impact assessment affects all laws, ordinances, other …
… and academics. Institutional transformation and gender: Key points Gender organizations Types of institutions Gender mainstreaming and institutional transformation …
… The goal of implementing gender mainstreaming is to ensure an output and outcome that contributes to gender equality. To achieve this, the internal mechanisms of … development. This means there is an internal dimension of gender mainstreaming (organisational and …
… The benefits of following a gender equality policy and, in accordance with this policy, implementing gender mainstreaming are manifold. There is an extrinsic as … in regard to the internal (equal opportunities of staff) dimension. There are so called soft and hard incentives to …
… way for that particular organisation to implement gender mainstreaming. The expected results are: an overview … organisation’s strengthens and weaknesses in mainstreaming gender equality the information needed to identify the most promising strategy for introducing or advancing gender mainstreaming This evaluation forms the basis for …
… Gender equality action plans describe the specialist … health care. For each field, they describe which gender equality goals are to be pursued using which measures … Gender equality action plans address the output-dimension of an organisation (according to the SPO-model), …
… The gender mainstreaming strategy aims to change an … the organisation’s activities support the advancement of gender equality in all of an organisation’s fields of intervention (output dimension as per the SPO model). However, promoting equal …
… Gender Strategies of the GTZ (now: GIZ) GIZ is a company … organisation has published several company strategies to gender mainstreaming from the 1990ies on. The strategies each … there are two dimensions in gender equality: one internal dimension Why is the example suitable for promoting …