… Relevance of gender in the policy area Poverty is both a cause and an effect of social discrimination and exclusion; it is … Gender differences and inequalities between women andmen are a major feature of social exclusion and poverty . …
… Since 2005 the EU is still only half way towards genderequality, as shown by the GenderEquality Index 2015 … has built a time series of the Index covering 2005, 2010 and 2012. The total score of the Index for the EU rose … 31.4 out of 100 in 2005 to 39.7 in 2012. Despite this, men’s over-representation in decision-making positions …
… Equality between women andmen is a fundamental value of the European Union and is … and dissemination of EU-wide, comparable and reliable gender statistics and indicators have greatly contributed to …
… half of us are being held back? The European Institute for GenderEquality (EIGE) is launching the first GenderEquality … Equality Index shows differences in outcomes between women andmen at the individual level in EU Member States,’ says …
… of several online discussion held in September and October 2013 via the EuroGender online platform ( … discussions covered a broad range of topics related to genderequality: GenderEquality Index, MenandGenderEquality, Female Genital Mutilation, Benefits …