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Gender issues are not the sole responsibility of women. The title of your

Gender equality has been talked about for decades, so why is there still a pay-gap? Gender equality has been part of the European project from the start: an equal pay clause...

Virginija Langbakk talks about the challenges of opening the EU's gender-equality institute. At first, the prospect of becoming the first head of the European Institute for...

The EU's latest effort to improve the plight of women in the developing world is welcome, but its Gender Action Plan is unconvincing. Launched without fanfare on...

Organisers put forward names of alternative, female-only Commission. An online petition calling for an improved gender balance in the next European Commission was launched...

Jennifer Rankin considers a study of gender politics in the EU's new member states. Equality between men and women was part of the European project from the beginning, with...

European employers are hoping that the European Commission will refrain from damning companies for discriminatory pay practices in a report to be published next week (18...

Employment and social affairs ministers agreed (1 December) to set up the European Institute for Gender Equality in Vilnius, Lithuania, next year. The institute, which will...

Finland hopes to set the agenda for future EU presidencies by fighting for men's rights this week. Conclusions on ‘men and gender equality', due to be adopted at a meeting...

Two MEPs discuss the future of European women's policy Women are defeated by the very rules and regulation designed to protect their interests in the workplace, says

The low representation of women in science was for a long time a matter of anecdotal rather then scientific evidence. But data collection and monitoring improved after the...

The number of women in the EU labour markets rose in 2005 but entrenched imbalances remain and there is no sign of the pay gap narrowing, the European Commission's equality...

The European Commission has launched an investigation into whether anti-discrimination laws are being correctly implemented in the EU's 25 member states. Letters seeking...

A British transsexual fighting for the right to a pension before she is 65 will have her case heard at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Thursday (20 October). The ECJ...

The proposal that the European Commission approved this week for a European Institute for Gender Equality is a triumph of Bureaucratic Creep. The establishment of this...

THE incoming environment commissioner, Stavros Dimas, says that the Commission should pay more attention to women's concerns about the environment. Criticized after his...

GÜNTER Verheugen, the EU enlargement commissioner, has come under fire for allegedly understating the extent of discrimination against homosexuals in some applicant states....

GENDER equality was the main subject discussed during the two-day meeting held in Vienna, at which the importance of 'mainstreaming' gender equality into all areas of EU...

AT LAST, a book that tells it like it is, in all of Europe's working languages. In a useful move to foster increased understanding, the European Commission has produced a...

THE legacy of religion and gender is undermining the development of a common European identity, according to a Norwegian professor who is seeking EU funding for her...