… Thank you for inviting EIGE- the European Institute for Gender Equality – to this timely discussion. This year we … Platform for Action [BPfA] and sent a strong message that gender equality is a cross-cutting issue in all policy areas … about women making their own decisions and holding the power; about them being able to stand for their rights and …
… EIGE regularly monitors the share of women in positions of power in the environment and climate change arena within the … covered. The latest available data highlight where the gender balance is good, and where we still need to make … 73.2 % are men. Although this represents a significant gender imbalance, the proportion of women is the highest …
… Relevance of gender in the policy area Environment is a cross-cutting … in all the different areas of environment policy. Genderrelations between women and men, and girls and boys, play a … vulnerability and the fact that they generally hold less power and are, therefore, less able to mitigate and cope with …