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Europe's women, as much as Asia's and Africa's, may become the best and most determined ‘agents of change'. Are women in Europe on the verge of becoming an engine for...

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...

Commission wants more women back into work and close the pay gap. Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, will on Tuesday...

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...

Calls for decision-makers to take violence against women more seriously are beginning to be heard across Europe. According to the best-available figures, as many as one in...

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...

The new European Parliament can make women in Europe safer, wealthier and healthier. The European Parliament's new members will soon be in place, some of them without a...

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...

It is International Women's Day today (8 March), traditionally a time of positive stock-taking on the situation of women, with a mild admonition occasionally thrown in –...

Figures from the European Commission's annual equality review in February will have made uncomfortable reading for those who think that women are getting an equal deal in the...

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...

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 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...

Progress on Turkey's EU accession talks is seen as vital if there is to be an improvement in women's rights in the country. That is the message from a group of Turkish...

SOCIALIST MEPs this week unveiled an action plan to bridge “appalling pay gaps” between men and women. The move comes as research shows that women in one EU member...

THE human rights crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to exact a heavy toll from the civilian population, particularly women and children. As a global...

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