The study aims to explore the role customary institutions play in maintaining gender inequality and how changes in individual perceptions and attitudes on gender equality can lead to further changes in the social and political spheres. The study was done using a qualitative approach, th...
Despite the many efforts toward achieving gender equality, the MENA region continues to rank the lowest worldwide in women’s economic participation and opportunity. This article discusses the several obstacles on the sociocultural, structural, institutional and legal levels that must be con...
Despite the progress made in women’s education in Jordan and the decrease of the gender gap in education, women´s labour force participation rate is still very low. Indeed, a big gender gap in labour force still persists and women´s skills and qualifications are not utilised to ...
The gender equality index provides comprehensive measures of gender equality, tailored to fit the EU policy context, as well as cores and indicators. It measures the gaps, levels of achievement and trends for the time period 2005-2015 and seizes also violence against women within its framework. T...
This report proposes an agenda for key policy actors, in order to make human rights for women a lived reality. It focuses on the economic and social dimensions of gender equality, such as the right of all women to a good job, adequate pension in older age, health care and safe water without any k...
On 17 January 2007 the European Economic and Social Committee drew up an own-initiative opinion on "Promotion of Women' s Entrepreneurship in the EUROMED Region", which was adopted in the 12 July 2007 session. The opinion provides an overall view of the status of women in the Euro-Mediterranean r...
This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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