The General Secretariat for Family Policy and Gender Equality, i.e. the governmental organization in charge of equality between women and men in Greece, has already uploaded both on the Greek and the English pages of its website on the internet the two recent publications by the World Bank entitled “The Little Data Book on Gender 2019” and […]
Part A The Little Data Book on Gender 2019 illustrates the progress towards gender equality for 217 economies around the world. It provides comparable statistics for women and men for the years 2000 and 2017 across a range of indicators covering education, health and related services, economic structure, participation and access to resources, public life […]
Data on number of women and men elected for municipal councils and regional councils in Greece. First Part The Observatory on Gender Equality: http://www.isotita.gr/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Observatory-21st-e-bulletin-The-gender-aspect-of-the-results-of-the-Municipal-Regional-and-European-Elections-in-Greece-in-2019.pdf . It is underlined that the project of our Observatory has been recognized by the European Commission as a good practice at the Annual Report on Equality between Women and Men in the European […]
In accordance with our previous on-line contribution on 29-7-2019 entitled “Recent developments on the institutional mechanism of gender equality in Greece after the national elections on 7-7-2019 (Athens, July 2019)”, please find attached the English version of the new logo of the governmental organization in charge of gender equality in Greece, that is the “General Secretariat for Family Policy […]
The national elections for the Hellenic Parliament (300 seats) and the Government of Greece took place on Sunday 7th of July, 2019. The gender aspect of the results which led the right political party “New Democracy” in power, are the following: A. Hellenic Parliament Men MPs: 238 (percentage 79.33%) Women MPs: 62 (percentage: 20.67%). […]
The Observatory of the General Secretariat for Gender Equality, i.e. the governmental organization in charge of equality between women and men, has dedicated its 21st e-bulletin to the gender aspect of the results of the municipal, regional and European elections in Greece (26th of May and 2nd of June, 2019): http://www.isotita.gr/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Observatory-21st-e-bulletin-The-gender-aspect-of-the-results-of-the-Municipal-Regional-and-European-Elections-in-Greece-in-2019.pdf . The main characteristics of its content are the […]
Here is a comprehensive information note on the most recent legislative and political developments in favour of equality between women and men in Greece. The detailed contribution is composed of three distinctive parts. Part One “A new legislation by the Greek Government on substantive gender equality and SGBV (Athens, March 2019)” On 26-3-2019 the […]
In the framework of the BPfA Priority Area “Women in Decision-Making”, the leadership of the Directorate for “Planning, Standardization and Policy Monitoring on Gender Equality” at the General Secretariat for Gender Equality uploaded on 1-4-2019 and 14-5-2019 a comprehensive contribution on the gender aspect of the elections in Greece on May 2019: a)“A new legislation […]
Here is the gender aspect of the candidates for the 21 seats for Greece at the European Parliament in the framework of the European Elections, which will take place on the 26th of May, 2019. According to the Decision 65/2019 by the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece (Areios Pagos: http://www.areiospagos.gr/ ), forty (40) political parties and coalitions of […]
On 26-3-2019 the new law number 4604 initiated by the Ministry of Interior was published in the Official Journal of the Hellenic Republic. Its first part (articles 1-30) is dedicated to the issues of substantive gender equality and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV): http://www.isotita.gr/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Ν.4604-για-την-Ουσιαστική-Ισότητα-των-Φύλων.pdf . Its basic characteristics are summarized as following: 1) The specific law constitutes […]
The General Secretariat for Gender Equality (GSGE), i.e. the governmental organization in charge of equality between women and men in Greece, has widely promoted the 2019 Report on Equality between Women and Men in the European Union (Brussels, March 2019) on a national and international level: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/aid_development_cooperation_fundamental_rights/annual_report_ge_2019_en.pdf . First of all, a very comprehensive article in Greek and a concrete summary in […]
Ahead of International Women’s Day, taking place each year on 8 March, the Commission is speaking up for women’s rights in Europe and abroad, by issuing the following statement: “Europe ranks among the safest and most equal places for girls and women in the world. […] But […] Also in Europe women are still facing challenges, […]
In the framework of the project R&I PEERS – Piloting experiences for improving gender equality in research organisations (GA n. 788171), financed by the European Commission under Horizon 2020 programme (Call: Science with and for Society, H2020-SwafS-2017-1)[2], the General Secretariat for Gender Equality has set-up a Gender Equality Plan (GEP). The GEP is a fundamental […]
