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Communication From The Commission To The European Parliament, The Council, The European Economic And Social Committee And The Committee Of The Regions Gender Balance In Business Leadership: A Contribution To Smart, Sustainable And Inclusive Growth
(European Commission, 2012-11-14)
The last decades have witnessed significant progress in women's educational attainment, labour market participation and position in the European society as a whole. Today, more women than men graduate from universities: ...
Explaining Women's Representation: The Role of Legislative Recruitment and Electoral Systems
(United Nations, 2005-12-12)
This paper focuses on two issues.1 First, we examine the principal steps involved in the process of recruiting individuals to countries’ legislatures. Second, we look at the effect of development, culture, and a country’s ...
Gender Mainstreaming
(United Nations, 2000)
Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures
(European Commission, 2012-11-14)
Company boards in the EU are characterised by persistent gender imbalances, as evidenced by the fact that only 13.7% of corporate seats in the largest listed companies are currently held by women (15% among non-executive ...
Impact of electoral systems on women’s representation in politics
(Parliamentary Union, 2009-09-08)
Equal participation of women and men in political life is one of the foundations of democracy and one of the goals of the Council of Europe, reaffirmed by the organisation’s Committee of Ministers as recently as last May1. ...
Gender equality law in Europe: How are EU rules transposed into national law in 2015?
(European Commission, 2016)
This report provides a general overview of the transposition of EU gender equality law in the 28 Member States of the European Union, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (the EEA countries) and four candidate ...
Measures to address the challenges of work-life balance in the EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway
(European Commission, 2015)
The purpose of this report is to provide a comparative analysis of the extent to which 31 European states (the 28 Member States and the 3 EEA countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) have adopted measures which promote ...
Beijing+20: The Platform for Action (BPfA) and the European Union Area G: Women in Power and Decision-Making
(European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), 2010)
Health covers physical, mental and social well-being as well as the absence of sickness and infirmity, and is determined by the social, political and economic context of people’s lives, as well as by biology (World Health ...
CoE Report On Increasing Women's Representation in Politics Through The Electoral System
(Council of Europe, 2010)
Increasing Women's Representation in Politics Through The Electoral System, Pace Recommendation 1899
(Parliamentary Assembly, 2010)