The European Project« Gender Balance Power Map » offers new opportunities and a new tool so that companies could fight the gap between men and women at decision-making level. The objective of this unique European textbook dedicated to gender equality in SMB (small and medium sized bus...
This report consists of a review of international literature on the subject of migrant deskilling and underemployment from a gender perspective, and three empirical case studies from Switzerland, Canada and the United Kingdom. It explores the difficulties skilled migrant women can face in transfe...
This report focuses on the particularities of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, with regard to the situation of women and gender equality in the world of business. It casts light on the main barriers to women´s employment and leadership in the region, such as: family responsib...
This report provides a picture of where women stand today in the world of work and how they have progressed over the past 20 years. It examines the global and regional labour market trends and gaps, including in labour force participation rates, employment-to-population rates and unemployment rat...
Women in the EU continue to be underrepresented in all economic and political decision making bodies at all levels.This article presents views by 8 women from different backgrounds like management, research and politics, on the means to encourage women’s empowerment and participation in dec...
This report examines gender parity on company boards in 11 European countries: Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the United Kingdom, Iceland and Latvia. It analyses data from October 2011 until April 2014 and tracks developments, progress and stagnation reg...
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 paper seeks to present the specific features of the Swedish model for gender promotion, which is both complete and progressive. It reviews the gender equality policy of the Swedish government made in the 1970s and shows how it was developed and adapted in several fields of political intervent...
This report explains the issue of gender pay gap, which varies across the countries of the European Union. It identifies the main causes of the gender pay gap and the elements that contribute to increase it.This report provides a map of the gender pay gap in the 28 member countries, whi...
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 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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