This report provides a general overview of the ways in which EU gender equality law has been implemented in the domestic laws of the 27 Member States of the European Union, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (the EEA countries), and the United Kingdom. The analysis thus covers 31...

2024 was an important year for gender equality in the EU. In May, the first-ever Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence as well as two Directives on strengthening the role of equality bodies were adopted. The former introduced inter alia EU-level definitions of a...

2024 was an important year for gender equality in the EU. In May, the first-ever Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence as well as two Directives on strengthening the role of equality bodies were adopted. The former introduced inter alia EU-level definitions of a...

This report details the approach and methodology used in the 2024 data collection on institutional mechanisms for the promotion of gender equality and gender mainstreaming conducted by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE).

The composition of political assemblies and executives at all territorial levels often fails to reflect the gender diversity of the population they represent. The European Parliament elections held in June 2024 were an opportunity for progress, but rather resulted in a decline in the...

At the fourteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, just weeks before the onset of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the region’s governments undertook to “implement gender-sensitive countercyclical policies, in order to mitigate the...

The European Commission's renewed commitment and long-term vision to advance gender equality, the 2025 roadmap for women's rights, considers that specialised institutional structures for gender equality and gender mainstreaming are crucial to address structural gender inequalities, advance on...

Achieving gender equality is an important EU objective. It is not just a matter of fundamental human rights, but also smart economics. As the European Union's investment arm, the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group aims to contribute to this goal. Its strategy, grounded in the EU policy...

Latvia is a parliamentary State, where Parliament is the only legislator. This legislator, however, has the right to delegate legislative functions to the Cabinet of Ministers and to municipalities. Delegated legislative powers always have to be made explicit in the laws adopted by Parliament....

Croatia is a unitary and indivisible democratic and welfare state (Article 1 of the Constitution). The Croatian legal system is a civil law system and the government is organised according to the principle of the separation of powers into legislative, executive and judicial branches, but is also...

The principle of equality is recognised by the Belgian Constitution in Articles 10 (equality of women and men), 11 (equality of Belgian citizens without discrimination) and 11bis (promotion of equal access to elective and public mandates). Under Belgium's federal structure, policy competences...

This study examines the influence of gender composition on corporate financial performance, measured by the Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio and Tobin's Q, considering both male and female directors. Using an econometric panel data analysis, a dual fixed effects model and the Generalized Method of...

This study examines the interplay of co-determination law and board gender quotas using novel board-director panel data for Norway. We present descriptive evidence suggesting that boards with employee representatives on boards of directors were more gender diverse before the gender quota....

This study examines the ClosinGap association as a business platform that promotes social change, particularly in advancing Spanish companies' commitment to gender equality within an institutional theory framework. Through a content analysis of 15 reports and interviews with ClosinGap's...

The primary aim of this guide is to support a diverse audience, including researchers, activists, policymakers and others working to advance gender equality. It seeks to connect the worlds of academic futures studies, corporate strategic foresight and a more critical tradition, feminist-informed...

This workshop was organised for the Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) on 25 June 2025. It focused on the implementation of the gender mainstreaming methodology in the EU budget, with an emphasis on budgetary control.

Important changes to the Law on Protection from Domestic Violence have been made to address the problem of domestic violence as gender-based violence as part of the policy on gender equality. Although adopted since August 2023, the main bulk of the amendments entered into force on 1 January...

This workshop was organised for the Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) on 25 June 2025. It focused on the implementation of the gender mainstreaming methodology in the EU budget, with an emphasis on budgetary control.

The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 received Royal Assent but did not include the provision, contained in the original draft of the Bill, which would have established a mechanism for review and...

Irish law consists of a written Constitution. The Government in Ireland is divided between a legislature, executive and judiciary. The national legislature (the Oireachtas) comprises the President of Ireland and two houses, namely the upper chamber, Seanad Éireann and the lower house, Dáil...