The Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers recently published a report about the Forum on the Future of Gender Equality in the European Union, which took place in April this year. 308 participants discussed about opportunities and concrete strategies for promoting Gender Equality in the EU and identified key priorities in 10 different policy areas. We […]
A new level of non-discrimination provisions have come into force in Finland. The new law includes the obligation to promote equality (!) and prevent discrimination not only in the public but also within all areas of the private sector, including the provision of services. Non-discrimination legislation now covers educational institutions, schools and employers, with specific […]
A current study of companies owned or operated by the Czech State reveals lower numbers of women in top management and on boards compared to the country’s average. Even worse, the researcher from the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences found a negative trend over the past trend years in the Public Sector in […]
Ideologically motivated murders, heated campaigns for and against same-sex marriage and a plan to establish separate bus lines for Jews and Palestinians in the West Bank. Does it need to get any more obvious that some key Diversity topics have been neglected for too many years and now surface forcefully? We are paying a high […]
With networks for gay and lesbian employees having become a standard practice, the absence of LGBTI integration in many aspects of work life is often overlooked: transgender persons, gay employees in organisations belonging to the Catholic church, gays or lesbians in top management, homosexual images in advertisement. In two areas, we have seen surprisingly strong […]
A few weeks ago, the Directorate General for Internal Policies published the study „Reasonable Accommodation and Sheltered Workshops for People with Disabilities: Costs and Returns of Investments“. It investigates different policy measures across six EU countries, which aim at supporting the employment of people with disabilities. Results suggest that not only the business but also […]
How much progress can be expected within a space of four years? The European Commission has published their first evaluation of the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which they had ratified in December 2010. It comes as no surprise that different stakeholders present different interpretations of what success […]
What has snow removal, ambulance transport or school performance got to do with Gender Equality? More than it appears atfirst glance, as a short movie named “Sustainable Gender Equality – a film about gender mainstreaming in practice” shows.
In the European Union a constantly growing group of 80 million people is handicapped, just the same number of people that is living in the most populated EU country, Germany. More than 50% of the disabled Europeans are female, representing 16% of the overall female population in the EU. A report on women with disabilities, […]
Just recently ago, the French President François Hollande as well as his prime minister Manuel Valls expressed their deep indignation and condemnation facing the cruel kidnapping and abuse of a young Roma in a Parisian suburb. Roma in France and other European countries are especially vulnerable to all forms of discrimination (à Diversity Dimensions: ENAR-report); […]
