European Institute for Gender Equality

Only 24% of places are occupied by women in National Parliaments of the 27 EU Member States. Sweden is the only Member State where places are shared nearly equally between women and men. Check the new EIGE’s database: Women and men in the EU: Facts and Figures [Read more]

Contributing to the awareness raising on gender equality in Europe, EIGE in close cooperation with the Ministry of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania is launching its website in Lithuanian. This initiative will offer the interested stakeholders and individual citizens of Lithuania access to information on gender equality in Europe in their own language as from 8 May.

The new EIGE report shows that gender approach must be integrated into climate change policies and actions to respond to climate change efficiently. EIGE introduces the first EU indicators on gender and climate to support the policy makers in enhancing equality and improving the climate change policies.

On this occasion of International Women’s Day - 8 March - the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) presents a few facts and figures within art, culture and education putting gender equality on the agenda, demonstrating that inequalities still exist. [read more]

On 8 March 2012, EIGE launches a new call for nominations to the Women of Europe resource pool and EIGE’s "Women Inspiring Europe" Calendar 2013 [read more].