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One hundred years after women won the vote or were first elected to parliament in some EU countries, the data show that women continue to be under-represented in politics and public life, in the European Parliament, but also in national parliaments, governments and local assemblies. The arguments for gender balance in politics are numerous. It benefits not only women and female politicians, but also political parties themselves and the rest of society. After all, women form half the population and ...

This study was commissioned by the European Parliament's Committee on Women’s rights and Gender Equality (FEMM). It provides an overview of gender equality policies in Croatia. Apart from providing the history of institutional and political development in Croatia in this area, it illustrates in particular issues related to gender equality in the labour market and employment, women entrepreneurs, women in decision-making positions, policies against violence against women, reconciliation of private ...

Labour Market Supports are government interventions that provide financial assistance to individuals in difficult labour market circumstances: to compensate them for loss of wage or salary and to support them during job search, or to facilitate early retirement. Long-term unemployed are those who were registered as unemployed throughout the last 12 months.

Upon request of the FEMM committee, this note provides an overview of the existing gender-equality legislation and policies in Italy, focussing on their recent developments and achievements in the last decades. It discusses gender equality in employment, reconciliation of work and family life, presence of women in decision-making positions, recent measures to fight violence against women, and health and reproductive rights. Italy is still far from reaching satisfactory results, in spite of relevant ...

This note reviews gender equality data, legislation and policies in Portugal in the six priority areas outlined in the European Roadmap for Equality between Women and Men (2006-2010). It demonstrates that significant progress has been made in the development of legislation and programmes promoting gender equality within the Roadmap period, but there continue to exist several obstacles to full gender equality and some of this progress has stalled or even reversed in the context of the current financial ...

Proceedings of the workshop on "The Advantages of a Gender-Sensitive Approach to Tackle Youth Unemployment", held on 23 April 2013 in Brussels.

Whilst contracting output in male-dominated sectors prompted some analysts to talk of a "he-cession", others argue that the effects on women remain to be revealed as the crisis unfolds further.

Labour markets across the European Union (EU) were severely impacted by the recession with a record high average unemployment rate of 10.7%. Nevertheless, effects of the crisis differ across Member States (MS) and also present different pictures for men and women. The crisis has been repeatedly considered "male-dominated" as men's unemployment figures rose more dramatically in the recession's early stages. Yet, economists fear the effect of the crisis on women will soon start to reveal itself. They ...

For the enclosed five briefing notes, a gender budgeting methodology has been developed on purpose to analyze in a gender perspective the MFF proposal for 2014-2020. The MFF 2014-2020 assumes a very high relevance in the context of the financial and economic crisis as the EU Budget will finance the EU 2020 Strategy that is conceived as a pivotal tool for recovery. Despite the official declarations according to which:  the EU 2020 Strategy was conceived as an opportunity to reform the economy ...

This study sets out a detailed analysis of the specific weaknesses typical of women's working lives in Europe, taking eight countries (Germany, Sweden, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland and Hungary) as examples.