Are You Ready for the European Parliament Elections 2024? Take the Gender Equality Quiz! From 6 to 9 June 2024, people in the EU will vote for the 720 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) representing 480 million Europeans. But before you vote, have you considered gender equality? Publication date 01 May 2024
Call for youth participation at the EIGE Gender Equality Forum 2024: Make your voice heard! The countdown is on for the second edition of the Gender Equality Forum! Join us online or on-site in Brussels on 10-11 December 2024 to engage in discussions on the future of gender equality in the EU until 2030. We want your voices and ideas to be heard, contributing to a call to action for equality 24/7. To ensure a...
Gender Equality Index 2023: Towards a green transition in transport and energy The Gender Equality Index 2023 presents the EU in relation to gender equality amid crises and uncertainties. In recent years, the world has been hit by repeated shocks and multiple crises. What remains constant is the fact that when crisis strikes, women and girls suffer disproportionally. The crises and shocks continuously threaten to create new challenges and reverse years of... Topics Culture Digital agenda Economic and financial affairs Education Employment Energy Entrepreneurship Environment and climate change Health Justice Migration Poverty Regional policy Transport Youth Violence Publication date 24 Oct 2023 Available in: EN
Gender-sensitive communication 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. Section Publications
What can parliaments do to advance gender equality? Discover our step-by-step toolkit Section Gender mainstreaming
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? Publication date 27 Feb 2023
Two years on: women fleeing Russia’s war in Ukraine need more support How can essential healthcare services be strengthened for victims of conflict-related sexual violence? Topics Health Migration Youth Violence Publication date 20 Feb 2024
EIGE stresses the need for gender dimension in DSA transparency reporting EIGE, in its contribution to a public consultation on the design of transparency reports under the Digital Services Act (DSA), has highlighted the need to include gender-based measurement instruments. Topics Digital agenda Violence Publication date 01 Feb 2024
Apply to become our Seconded National Expert: Gender-based Violence! The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) 1 invites applications with a view to establishing a reserve list for the post of Seconded National Expert (SNE) – Gender-Based Violence (GBV). The registration of applications will begin on 5 April 2024 and will close on 13 May 2024 at 13:30 Eastern European Time (EET). The Institute Based in Vilnius, Lithuania, EIGE... Type Seconded national experts Ref. number EIGE/2024/SNE/GBV Published date 03 Apr 2024 Closing date 13 May 2024, 13:30 Europe/Vilnius
How we can resolutely combat all forms of gender-based violence … legal and statistical definitions at Member State, EU and international levels. Where we see gaps and inconsistencies, … Type News article Topics Health Justice Violence
Two years on: women fleeing Russia’s war in Ukraine need more support Type News article Topics Health Migration Youth Violence
Challenges and Changes: promoting women in law enforcement … EIGE's Director, Carlien Scheele, addresses a High-level International Conference on Women in Law Enforcement … in leadership in law enforcement. The other week, it was International Day of Women in multilateralism – a day to … Type News article Topics Justice Migration Violence
#3StepsForward: Why the Green Deal needs a gender perspective Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs Energy Environment and climate change Transport
EU rights and equality agency heads: EU countries must work together to eradicate violence against women Type News article Topics Health Justice Violence
Energy poverty is not about households. It’s about who is in those households. … Ahead of International Women's Day, EIGE's Director Carlien Scheele … Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs Environment and climate change
We need to think about care differently. Right now, it’s not working for anyone. Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs Health
The economic tolls of gender-based violence Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs Health Violence
#SafeSpaces: EIGE highlights widespread forms of cyber violence against women and girls, proposes definitions Type News article Topics Digital agenda Youth Violence
GRPP: Four letters can unlock €2 trillion to accelerate our drive towards gender equality Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs
EIGE joins other EU Agencies in supporting Ukrainian victims in most vulnerable situations Type News article Topics Health Migration Violence
Guaranteeing gender equality in the domestic work sector … delivered this speech at the 10th anniversary event of the International Labor Organisation on 28 June 2021. Good … Type News article Topics Employment
Beyond the Beijing Declaration: Assessment and main challenges Type News article Topics Digital agenda Economic and financial affairs Employment Environment and climate change Justice Violence
Decision-making in environment and climate change: women woefully under-represented in the EU Member States … Source: EIGE, Gender Statistics Database EU delegations to international climate change discussions are well balanced … Type News article Topics Environment and climate change
FGM study: More girls at risk but community opposition growing … To mark the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital … Type News article Topics Health Justice Migration Youth Violence
Europe needs to fulfil its gender equality commitments … of the Beijing Platform for Action, published ahead of International Women’s Day, reinforces the Commission’s … Type News article
Female genital mutilation is illegal in Malta but girls are not safe Type News article Topics Health Youth Violence
Reported cases of violence against women reveal only the tip of the iceberg … conceal how widespread it really is. In the lead up to the international day for the elimination of violence against … Type News article
Gender equality boosts economic growth … for Gender Equality (EIGE), launched on the occasion of international women’s day on 8 March 2017. “Equality between … Type News article Topics Economic and financial affairs Education Employment