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Presentation of Gender4Growth at the Seminar: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion – the regional perspective
Wednesday 24 February 2010, by
Date: 10th March 2010 Venue: Room: JDE 51, Committee of the Regions Registration to: trainee@osloregion.org Women’s empowerment in economic participation, work, and education is vital to ensure gender equality and eliminate poverty and social exclusion. The keyword is women as economic independent subjects. The Seminar will contribute to de debate on reliving women of poverty, their full participation as economic subjects and to the issue of burden sharing in the family sphere and the (...) Read more »
Male-female equality: tackle violence and guarantee paternity leave, say MEPs
European Parliament : parliamentary week 8-11 February
Monday 15 February 2010, by
In its annual report on equality between men and women in the EU, Parliament called on Wednesday for greater efforts to tackle violence against women, for paternity leave to be addressed at EU level and for equal pay legislation to be revised. A majority of MEPs also say women must have control over their sexual and reproductive rights, through easy access to contraception and abortion.* Eradicating violence against women MEPs call on the Commission to draft a comprehensive directive on (...) Read more »
Strong focus on women’s entrepreneurship and women in technology during the Spanish EU Presidency
Monday 8 February 2010, by
The Women, Enterprise and Economics Observatory of the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce is organizing its second debate-conference to highlight the role and voice of women in the economic and business arena titled “New Values for a Viable Future: The Enterprise as an Engine for Economic and Social Growth”. In connection with the pre-launch of the event the President of the Barcelona Chamber of (...) Read more »
Special Report No 17/2009 concerning vocational training actions for women co-financed by the European Social Fund, published on 26 January 2010
Monday 1 February 2010, by
One of the objectives of the Structural Funds is to promote equal opportunities for men and women on the employment market. This report deals with vocational training actions for women co-financed by the ESF during the 2000-06 programme period. The Court examines whether these actions were selected according to a clear analysis of labour market priorities and whether monitoring information (...) Read more »
Spain seeks a common European strategy to deal with violence against women
Tuesday 26 January 2010, by
One of Spain’s main aims is to position the fight against the different types of violence suffered by women, among the political priorities of the EU, according to the Spanish Minister of Equality, Bibiana Aído, to the European Parliament’s (EP) Commission on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality. She announced that Spain will present a broad series of conclusions on "the eradication of violence (...) Read more »
Summary of hearing of Viviane Reding - Justice, fundamental rights and citizenship
Thursday 14 January 2010, by
In the last decade, justice has been neglected in favour of security, but the Lisbon Treaty now allows a balance to be struck, Commissioner-designate for Justice, Fundamental rights and Citizenship Viviane Reding told the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Legal affairs and Women’s committees. Ms Reding pledged to plug gaps in free movement of citizens, and said that fundamental rights (...) Read more »
European Institute for Gender Equality opens
Saturday 26 December 2009, by
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) opened its doors in Vilnius on 16 December 2009. The new Institutes premises in Vilnius were unveiled at a ceremony with: * The Presidents of Lithuania and Latvia, Dalia Grybauskaitė and Valdis Zatlers * European Commissioner Vladimír Špidla * The Institute’s Chair of the Management Board, Eva Welskop-Deffaa * The Director of (...) Read more »
Gender equality is part of the solution to exit the crisis – new report
Wednesday 23 December 2009, by
Both women and men have been hit by job losses in the downturn, says a new report adopted by the European Commission on 18 December 2009 However, women face a higher risk of not being re-employed and continue to be in a generally weaker position in the labour market. Beyond the current crisis, the Commission’s report to the Spring European Council on equality between women and men underlines (...) Read more »
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