Search

News

Antonia Tsirigoti

Exchange of good practices in handling domestic violence cases and protecting abused women and their children between Greece and Iceland

Created by Antonia Tsirigoti 1393 days ago

...organized this two-day Working Group with the participation of representatives of...ches were addressed by the Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Ms. Mari...rently a member of the newly established task force that addresses domestic violence duri...

Foundation's Team

Meeting with the EIB on how to integrate a gender lens in its investments

Created by Foundation's Team 2488 days ago

...t take into account gender, otherwise they will create and reinforce gender inequalities (in the la...identify investment opportunities that increase women’s participation in the labour force.  The EIB’s willingness t...

Shared practices

Foundation's Team

Soap making to support unemployed women in Lebanon

Created by Foundation's Team 1839 days ago

Women make up only 28% of the total labour force in Lebanon According to the World Economic Forum’s...er Gap Index 2018, many studies attribute this huge gap in economic participation to domestic burdens and respo...

Resources

Foundation's Team

World Bank – DataBank

Created by Foundation's Team 3488 days ago

On this website, gender disparities are measured using a compilation of data on key issues: education, health, participation of labour force, and political participation. This data is also listed under four main tabs: by country, by topic, indicators, data catalogue and microdata.

Documents

Foundation's Team

Gaps in the EU Labour Market Participation Rates: an intersectional assessment of the role of gender and migrant status

Created by Foundation's Team 1462 days ago

...secting social statuses shape labour market participation. The report focuses o...determinants of labour market participation, interact with gender and mig...lex mechanisms that may shape labour market participation of women. In particular, in l...

Foundation's Team

Feminist Perspectives on Care Work in the MENA Region

Created by Foundation's Team 1680 days ago

...nd institutional arrangements that encourage women to do so. As such, it is no surprise that Arab states have the lowest rates of female labour force participation globally. Progress at this le...

Foundation's Team

Global Report on Women in Tourism 2010

Created by Foundation's Team 2282 days ago

This reports represents a first attempt to map the participation of women in tourism worldwide...in most parts of the world, women are the majority of the touristic labour force and that they perform a significant n...

Tags

Foundation's Team

Part-time employment, the gender wage gap and the role of wage-setting institutions / Travail à temps partiel et écart de salaires entre hommes et femmes en Europe: le rôle des institutions / العمالة بدوام جزئي، والفجوة في الأجور بين الجنسين ودور مؤسسات تحديد الأجور

Created by Foundation's Team 2517 days ago

This article examines the extent to which the overrepresentation of women in part-time jobs can explain the gender gap in hourly earnings in eleven European countries. It also investigates the extent to which some wage-setting institutions are correlated with the overall gender wage gap...