Diversity, Gender Equality

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.


Innovative Potential: Men and Women in Teams

Centre for Women in Business - London Business School
Academics
Studies / Surveys
2007

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...

EQUAL Initiative – Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities

European Commission
Governments & Institutions
Projects (incl. Awards), Programs
2009

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...

International Women’s Day

International Women's Day
Web 2.0 (web, blogs, communities)
Communities & Networks
2009

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.

ILO Bureau for Gender Equality

International Labor Organization (ILO)
Governments & Institutions
Source of information
2009

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...

ILO INFORM

International Labor Organization (ILO)
Governments & Institutions
Source of information
2009

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.

Femmes Universelles

Femmes Universelles
Media (press, TV, radio)
Press review
2009

The magazine of a new world, to be purchased on the web.

Here is a new magazine inviting to the discovery of a feminine world yet underestimated in its richness and potentials, even though these asset...

The White House Project

The White House Project
Foundations, Non profit organizations & NGOs
Communities & Networks
2009

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...

Europe for Women

European Union
Governments & Institutions
Studies / Surveys
2009

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...

Equality between women and men

European Commission
Governments & Institutions
Reports
2010

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...

Gender Equity Index 2009

Social Watch
Foundations, Non profit organizations & NGOs
Reports
2010

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...

More women in senior positions - key to economic stability and growth

European Commission
Governments & Institutions
Reports
2010

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 ...

Women’s Economic Opportunity

Economist Intelligence Unit
Media (press, TV, radio)
Reports
2010

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...

2012 World Development Report: Gender Equality and Development

The World Bank
Governments & Institutions
Reports
2012

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...

Opportunities for Men and Women: Emerging Europe and Central Asia

The World Bank
Governments & Institutions
Reports
2012

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...

The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2012

Women's Media Center
Foundations, Non profit organizations & NGOs
Reports
2012

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...