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- Join us for the second Gender Equality Forum 10-11 December 2024!
  
  The countdown is on for the second edition of the Gender Equality Forum! As EU’s gender equality agency, we are looking forward to working with the current and future leaders of Europe. Together, backed by our strong evidence, we will explore new ways to make gender equality a reality - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. At work...
- Celebrate men and boys as allies for gender equality!
  
  Today is International Men’s Day, raising awareness of often-overlooked issues. It's a call for action to address the unique gender equality challenges men and boys face worldwide. And this year the focus is on men’s health. It coincides with Movember. This month of moustache growing raises cash and awareness for prostate and testicular cancers, and male suicide. Beyond this, International...
  
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  19 Nov 2024
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- Gender balance in business and finance
  
  A decade after it was first proposed, the EU’s directive on improving gender balance among directors of listed companies and related measures was adopted by EU co-legislators in November 2022, coming into force in December 2022. The directive requires at least 40 % of the non-executive members of the boards of listed companies, or at least 33 % of all...
  
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  Economic and financial affairs
  
  Publication date
  
  30 Jul 2024
- Financial Independence and Gender Equality: Joining the dots between income, wealth, and power
  
  This report presents evidence on gender inequalities in financial independence in the EU, with a particular focus on how financial independence has been defined and measured. It also presents evidence on the impact of tax–benefit systems in EU Member States on gender inequalities in financial independence and explores consequences associated with financial dependence, including economic violence. The report finds that...
  
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  Violence
  
  Publication date
  
  06 May 2024
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- Good practices on gender mainstreaming in the European Green Deal: Towards a more gender-equal and greener Europe
  
  Climate change is one of the greatest environmental and development challenges facing the world today, and it has critical impacts on human rights and inequalities, including gender equality. To overcome these challenges, in 2019 the EU launched the European Green Deal (EGD) strategy, which sets out targets of no net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 and economic growth decoupled...
  
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  Economic and financial affairs
  
  Employment
  
  Environment and climate change
  
  Regional policy
  
  Publication date
  
  18 Oct 2024
- Gender-responsive evaluation for a sustainable future for all
  
  The GREENA step-by-step toolkit provides practical know-how to assess gender impacts and the implementation of gender-responsive evaluation of EU policies and programmes. The toolkit has been contextualised to support the evaluation of the European Green Deal policies with a gender perspective, given its relevance as a current EU priority and the urgency to ensure a gender-responsive green transition.
  
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- Two years on: women fleeing Russia’s war in Ukraine need more support
  
  How can essential healthcare services be strengthened for victims of conflict-related sexual violence?
  
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  Youth
  
  Violence
  
  Publication date
  
  20 Feb 2024
- EIGE stresses the need for gender dimension in DSA transparency reporting
  
  EIGE, in its contribution to a public consultation on the design of transparency reports under the Digital Services Act (DSA), has highlighted the need to include gender-based measurement instruments.
  
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  Digital agenda
  
  Violence
  
  Publication date
  
  01 Feb 2024
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