• Fact sheet: Gender equality and Institutional Mechanisms

    EU Indicators for the Beijing Platform for Action area H. Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women

  • EIGE launches Gender Equality Index 2015: Marginal improvements in gender equality

    Since 2005 the EU is still only half way towards gender equality, as shown by the Gender Equality Index 2015 of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). Two years on from the launch in 2013, EIGE has built a time series of the Index covering 2005, 2010 and 2012. The total score of the Index for the EU rose...

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  • Cost of Violence against Women largely underestimated

    The estimated personal and societal cost of Violence against Women is alarmingly high. Direct and indirect costs of violence against women and intimate partner violence affect the victim, their immediate family, society and economy to the extent of slowing down their normal functioning. These are the sad results of the “Study on estimating the costs of gender-based violence in the...

  • First Gender Equality Index Reveals - the EU is only halfway towards gender equality

    How can we move forward when half of us are being held back? The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is launching the first Gender Equality Index for the European Union. ‘ The Gender Equality Index shows differences in outcomes between women and men at the individual level in EU Member States,’ says Virginija Langbakk, the Director of EIGE. ‘This...

  • EIGE will launch a Gender Equality Index for Europe in June 2013

    Equality between women and men is a fundamental value of the European Union and is recognised as vital to economic growth, prosperity and competitiveness. The effectiveness of the policies developed to achieve this needs to be evaluated. The development and dissemination of EU-wide, comparable and reliable gender statistics and indicators have greatly contributed to this better monitoring and assessment of...

  • Meet Ms. Lena Olving

    The Women Inspiring Europe 2011 Calendar features Ms.Lena Olvingin the month of February. In 2010, Lena Olving was named the most powerful woman in Swedish business. As chief operating officer for the defence and security group Saab AB and sales of SEK 25 billion, she topped the list of the 125 most powerful women in Swedish business published annually by...

  • Meet Ms. Stanimira Hadjimitova

    The Women Inspiring Europe 2011 Calendar features Ms. Stanimira Hadjimitova in the month of May. With her smart haircut, tailored dark suit and crisp white shirt, Stanimira Hadjimitova is every inch the tough businesswoman. One of only a few women to graduate in a technical field from the University of Sofia, she could have stayed on the same path, climbing...

  • Developing the EU Gender Equality Index

    Experts from across Europe have visited EIGE for the first International Organisations' Experts' Meeting on the new EU Gender Equality Index. Christopher Garroway (OECD), Andres Vikat (UNECE) and Ligia Nobrega (EIGE) The European Commission has started a concrete process toward the construction of a European Union Gender Equality Index. EIGE is leading the process by carrying out research on the...

  • Promoting women’s economic independence and entrepreneurship - Good Practices

    This report was prepared for the European Institute for Gender Equality by by IRS as part of the study on ‘Women and economy — Collection of good practices in the area of female entrepreneurship’. It has identified effective gender mainstreaming tools to support and promote women’s economic independence through entrepreneurship. It has focused on training, funding and networking. Read more...