• 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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  • Radio plays out-of-tune when it comes to gender equality

    When it comes to gender equality, EIGE’s study shows that radio is not yet a fully gender-equal environment. The radio plays out-of-tune when it comes to the representation of women at decision-making level. There are only 34 % of women among the top level decision-makers in the 10 radio stations that were included in EIGE’s study. Only 16% of the...

  • Women under-represented in decision-making in media organisations

    Women hold only 22% of strategic decision-making posts in the public media and only 12% in the private media organisations in the EU-27 – as the research of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) shows. ‘Increased number of women in the decision-making structures of media organisations would bring social justice, better use of talents and innovative decisions. It would...

  • 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...

  • Shattering myths and glass ceilings: launch of database of 'Global Board Ready Women'

    Today the European Business Schools Women on Boards Initiative is migrating their 'Global Board Ready Women' list of 8000 women into an online database. The women on this list all fulfil stringent criteria for Corporate Governance as defined by publicly listed companies and are well qualified and ready to go on boards as of today. This ever growing list of...

  • Women on Boards: Commission proposes 40% objective

    The European Commission has taken action to break the glass ceiling that continues to bar female talent from top positions in Europe’s biggest companies. The Commission has proposed legislation with the aim of attaining a 40% objective of the under-represented sex in non-executive board-member positions in publicly listed companies, with the exception of small and medium enterprises. Currently, boards are...

  • EIGE presents the results of the report on reconciliation of work, private and family life

    Over the course of two days (20-21 October 2011) EIGE participated in the Polish EU Presidency's expert conference “Mechanisms for reconciling professional and family roles for women and men as a chance to actively participate in the labour market” which took place in Cracow, Poland. The Institute presented the results of the report " Review of the Implementation of the...

  • Work-life balance for men and women remains unequal

    Current research by EIGE suggests that, despite improvements in policy, the work-life balance for men and women remains unequal in Europe. The research indicates that women remain the main carers of children and the elderly, in the majority of the Member States of the European Union. Thus women, more than men, face the difficulty of reconciling the role of the...

  • 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...