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What role women play in our today societies? How do they contribute to the societies? How are they affected by the economic downturns, the political or social situations they live in their countries? This section explores the big picture of diversity and gender issues.
In companies around the world executives are putting the capacity for innovation top of their strategic agenda. In this research we take a closer look at the role - if any - that gender plays in innov...
The EQUAL Initiative is implemented in the framework of the Structural Funds regulations and, more specifically, through the European Social Fund. The Commission guidelines are the main official docum...
The International Women's Day website provides a free service to women around the world wanting to share and promote their IWD activity, videos, opinions and ideas.
While all staff in the ILO are responsible for promoting gender equality in their work, the Bureau for Gender Equality supports and advises constituents and Office staff at headquarters and in the fie...
This resource guide provides gender equality information via links to both ILO and other publications, statistics, ILO labour standards, as well as to other resources around the world.
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The White House Project, a national, nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization, 501(c)(3), aims to advance women’s leadership in all communities and sectors, up to the U.S. presidency. By filling...
Equal treatment for women and men was a founding principle of the EU in 1957, when the Treaty of Rome laid down the principle of equal pay. Since the 1970s, European and national laws have expanded wo...
The European Commission's annual report on equality between women and men shows that despite a generally positive trend towards a more equal society and labour market in the EU, progress in eliminatin...
The Gender Equity Index 2009 computed by Social Watch shows that the gender gap is not narrowing in most countries and a majority of the countries that show progress are those that were already compar...
As Europe collectively strives to recover from the recent recession and build a platform for future growth and stability, this report serves as a reminder of why gender equality issues should be kept ...
To gain a better understanding of the factors that infl uence women’s economic opportunity—and how countries have addressed them—the Economist Intelligence Unit constructed a pilot W...
The lives of girls and women have changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The pace of change has been astonishing in some areas, but in others, progress toward gender equality has been lim...
The countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia have a long history of striving for gender equality, especially in the public sphere. Not only was this an important goal during the social...
There is a crisis of representation in the media. We live in a racially and ethnically diverse nation that is 51% female, but the news media itself remains staggeringly limited to a single demographic...