… Femicide, commonly understood as the killing of a woman or girl because of her gender, is the most extreme form of gender-based … femicide. The information was collected through desk research, a literature review and a comparative analysis of …
… Carlien Scheele delivered this speech at the opening of EIGE's Gender Equality Index 2020 conference on 29 October … the first time, we find ourselves presenting the results of the Gender Equality Index in a completely virtual set-up, … in an audit carried out by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. I am also pleased to see that our Index …
… widespread around the globe. In 2020 the global estimation of femicide shows that 47 000 women were killed by intimate … worldwide and around 2 600 in Europe. However, the number of victims is in fact much higher. Orphaned children, … (family members of murdered women) feeling neglected. This research provides a comprehensive analysis of legal responses …
… While women and men make up an equal share of those infected with Covid-19, men are more likely to die … Due to a higher life expectancy and higher likelihood of facing health problems (see graph below), women are more … vaccine might affect women and men differently. Medical research has historically shown limited gender sensitivity …