New EIGE research on cyber violence against teenage girls exposes a pattern of online harm that policymakers can no longer treat as exceptional. She checks her phone before getting out of bed. Not that she wants to, but she has to know what’s been said about her overnight before facing it at school. New research from EIGE reveals that this...
One in three women in the EU experience gender-based violence, while full equality remains more than fifty years away. EIGE Director Carlien Scheele on why the new Gender Equality Strategy 2026–2030 must be our turning point. “Millions of women on a daily basis, wake up afraid of what the day might look like. And that’s horrible,” says EIGE Director Carlien...
As EU Member States put the Directive on Violence Against Women into practice, they are asked to do something many have never done before: build coordinated, multi-layered prevention strategies that tackle violence before it reaches the criminal justice system.
From principle to practice: the European Commission and EIGE launch the updated EU-wide guidelines on gender-neutral job evaluation and classification to help organisations ensure equal pay for work of equal value between women and men. This ultimately supports talent attraction and retention and boosts competitiveness.
Across Europe, a wide range of service providers are working to strengthen protection for women facing violence. But the latest EU Gender-Based Violence Survey shows how far we must go: only 21% of women who experienced violence contacted healthcare or social services, just 14% reported it to the police, and only 6% reached out to a helpline. Many stay silent...
Across the EU, women continue to experience sexual violence that is invisible in law. Many perpetrators evade justice because, in several Member States rape is still defined through a narrow lens of force, injury or physical resistance. There, women who have been coerced into sex, manipulated, too frightened to resist, or been so shocked that they didn’t physically fight, have...
New findings from the EU gender-based violence survey reveal a stark reality – violence against women is widespread, increasingly digital and overlooked by the institutions meant to address and prevent it.
Informal carers provide a vital service to society. Yet their work remains unevenly shared and often invisible. EIGE’s latest survey shows how this limits careers, widens gender employment gaps and ultimately drains overall productivity.
EIGE is launching a new phase of cooperation with EU candidate countries and potential candidates in the Western Balkans and Türkiye. Marking a renewed commitment to advance gender equality across the region, the agency is starting a new four-year action.
Despite progress across Europe, full gender equality remains at least 50 years away, according to EIGE’s 2025 Gender Equality Index which introduces new indicators and a renewed pace of change.
