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...