The regional gender equality monitor
Measuring female disadvantage and achievement in EU regions
Gender equality is one of the fundamental values of the European Union and the European Pillar of Social Rights establishes it as one of its key principles.
While there are several measures of gender equality at country level there is none that capture regional differences in Europe.
This new regional gender equality monitor consists of two composite indices that address two specific and complementary aspects of this multifaceted phenomenon. The first index assesses the female disadvantage by measuring regional differences when females are doing worse than males. The second index measures the female level of achievement compared to the best regional performance. The indices are called the Female Disadvantage Index (FemDI) and the Female Achievement Index (FemAI).
Viewing together the two indices facilitates the understanding of where women are at disadvantage and where they are performing well across the different regions and between the Member States.
NORLEN Hedvig;
PAPADIMITRIOU Eleni;
DIJKSTRA Lewis;
2019-02-27
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC115814
978-92-76-00594-0 (online),
978-92-76-05481-8,
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 29679 EN,
OP KJ-NA-29679-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-NA-29679-EN-E,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC115814,
10.2760/472693 (online),
10.2760/15305,
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