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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 accordance with the EU's fundamental priority of putting an end to all kinds of violence against women an...

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 balance in the Maltese Parliament, we still have a long way to go when it comes to the participation ...

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 disproportionate consequences for women were brought to light. Women were at the frontline in hospitals and c...

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