Specific subset of social relations uniting women and men as social groups in a particular community, including how power – and access to/control over resources – is distributed between the sexes.
… All regulations, policies and programmes relevant to gender affect the living conditions and access to resources for women and men. This effect is known as ‘gender impact’. An assessment of the gender impact of any initiative involves a process of …
… how the policy or legislative measure will contribute to gender-equality , as well as to assess the foreseen impact in genderrelations . Once the effects of the proposed policy …
… proposals should be put forward that will promote gender equality in response to the existing situation. To do this, one should identify how gender equality could be strengthened in the different parts … initiative, taking into account the conclusions reached: Gender equality should be mentioned in the preamble of the …
… 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 … system . Indeed, the Commission does not perform gender impact assessments as a separate, standalone exercise. …
… Actors involved Guidelines Strenghts and weaknesses Model Gender impact assessment is a relatively common instrument to support gender-mainstreaming implementation in Sweden. It appears to … to the national level. At the level of government offices, gender impact assessments are most regularly performed when …
… Actors involved Guidelines Strenghts and weaknesses Model Gender impact assessment is legislated in Catalonia and the law requires that a gender perspective must be included in every law approved by … projects of ordinances and decrees shall incorporate a gender impact assessment of the measures included in the …
… Actors involved Guidelines Strenghts and weaknesses Model Gender impact assessment was established in Lower Saxony in 2004, in the framework of gender-mainstreaming work. As a consequence, draft cabinet … and other legal acts and regulations have to perform a gender impact assessment, as set out in the Joint Rules of …
… Violence against women is rooted in the unequal power relations between women and men and is one of the strongest expressions of gender inequality. “ The elimination of violence against … Director. In this context, the European Institute for Gender Equality has been strongly supporting the EU and the …
… main conclusions of a study by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) „ Administrative data sources on gender-based violence against women in the EU: current status … Commission, and other key personnel working in the area of gender-based violence gather at the Council of the European …
… Relevance of gender in the policy area The relevance of gender in the justice policy area should be considered in … portraying it not as a private issue of interpersonal relations, but as a structural form of violence that affects …