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Ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November, the European Commission and the High Representative/Vice …

Ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November, the European Commission and the High Representative/Vice …

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[6]. The power subdomain [7] of the Gender Equality Index in decision-making in the private sector companies is the lowest score of Luxembourg with 32.1, ranking 17th among 28 states [8]. Luxembourg is only above the EU countries such as Estonia, Romania, Lithuania, Slovakia, Malta, Greece, Cyprus. Despite the effort the Grand Duchy is putting to eliminate the gender inequality on political decision-making, Luxembourg has fallen down 2 steps in the Gender Equality Index since 2005 [9] an...

On 6 April next, at 8:30 am (Lisbon time), a high-level conference will be held on the “10th anniversary of signing the Istanbul Convention. The state of play”, organised by the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union. This conference is aimed at reviewing the ten years of the Istanbul Convention, analysing the impacts of the pandemic and, in particular, reflecting on the measures and concrete actions needed to ensure that the standards of the Convention are met, in accor...

On 6 April next, at 8:30 am (Lisbon time), a high-level conference will be held on the “10th anniversary of signing the Istanbul Convention. The state of play”, organised by the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union. This conference is aimed at reviewing the ten years of the Istanbul Convention, analysing the impacts of the pandemic and, in particular, reflecting on the measures and concrete actions needed to ensure that the standards of the Convention are met, in accor...

Women on boards: a long way to go | Renée Laiviera Research shows that when women have less decision-making power either in households, in the boardroom or in government, then women’s needs are less likely to be understood or met 10 March 2021, 7:05am Gender imbalance in decision-making positions is a reality in various domains including politics, science, research, and financial sectors. While a leap forward has been made with the published bill proposing legal amendments to ensure gender b...

This International Women’s Day takes place roughly one year after the start of the coronavirus pandemic. On 5 March last year we adopted the EU’s Gender Equality Strategy for this mandate with a number of measures aimed at ensuring that women are free, can lead and thrive on an equal basis to men, writes Helena Dalli. Helena Dalli is a Maltese labour politician serving as European Commissioner for Equality. When the virus hit us shortly after that, it did not take long before its dispropor...

This year’s theme to mark International Women’s Day on 8 March is Choose to Challenge (or #ChooseToChallenge, if you prefer). The idea is to highlight that ‘from challenge comes change’ and that ‘we can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality’.[1]

Gender equality is one of the key drivers of effective management, regardless of industry. While there are fields like social entrepreneurship and