Entrepreneurship is more and more presented as a relevant way to fight unemployment and the worsening condition of salaried employment. Women who are affected by underemployment (part-time jobs) and are paid less than salaried men, only represent 30% of company creators. The objective to reach th...
This study of experience capitalisation and best practices on accompanying single mothers in the Maghreb was carried out under the project "For a better social and professional integration of single mothers in the Maghreb", funded by the EU and implemented in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. It is b...
Since the Euro-Mediterranean Women’s Foundation has been launched, It is committed to monitoring progress in achieving commitments of the Union for the Mediterranean States on strengthening the role of women in the society. In 2014, the Foundation has selected to work with 12 Eu...
This report presents the results from a cross-Nordic mapping of existing research and literature on gender, education and population flows in the peripheral areas of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and the autonomous territories of Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Åland. It aims t...
Part time work isone important challenge to Gender equality in the labour market—a key topic in the Nordic cooperation on gender equality 2011-2014. It is more common among women than men and affects their economic opportunities at the individual level and the gender equality in the labour ...
This is a training handbook, a guide for newly elected female parliamentarians in Algeria. The main objectives of this guide are to: enhance the capacity of women in the Parliament to promote gender equality in the political sphere and in the development of non-discriminatory laws; provide them w...
This paper examines Arab women‘s economic participation, in the transition period in the MENA region, following the Arab uprisings. It aims to assist policy makers and civil society, in shaping a gender responsive inclusive economy. This paper argues that while social values in the Arab cou...
During the last decade, countries in the MENA region have made a progress in gender equality and women´s rights, still, these achievement haven´t ensured an equal role for women on a political and economic level, and women´s participation outside the home is still considered lim...
This report aims at examining the gender dimension in the Egyptian labour market. It is an update of the Egypt gender assessment report which was made in 2003 and looked at gender gaps in social and economic areas such as: legal framework, political participation, health, labour, poverty&he...
This report explains the reality of refugee women who head their household alone, and who fled Syria to Jordan, Lebanon or Egypt. It casts light on the traumatic experience of women who escaped war, and found themselves in new changed roles, responsible for their families. The report is based on ...
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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