European Institute for Gender Equality
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is an autonomous body of the European Union, established to contribute to and strengthen the promotion of gender equality, including gender mainstreaming in all EU policies and the resulting national policies, and the fight against discrimination based on sex, as well as to raise EU citizens’ awareness of gender equality.
As an autonomous body, EIGE operates within the framework of European Union policies and initiatives. The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union defined the grounds for the Institute’s objectives and tasks in its Founding Regulation and assigned it the central role of addressing the challenges of and promoting equality between women and men across the European Union.
Gender Statistics
EIGE assists EU institutions and the Member States in the collection, analysis and dissemination of objective, reliable and comparable information and data on equality between women and men.
› eige.europa.eu/gender-statistics/dgs
An essential guide to gender mainstreaming
Gender gaps and inequalities between women and men exist across all areas of society and impact on our daily lives. To help policy makers identify what these inequalities are, and more importantly how they can be addressed, EIGE has developed the Gender Mainstreaming Platform: eige.europa.eu/gender-mainstreaming
GEAR – Making a gender equality plan for academia and research