With EUR 2.5 millions, this EMFAF call for proposals aims to increase the participation of women in the different sectors of the blue economy and contribute to a more gender equal society.

Highlights Labor patterns are changing in rural areas; women are more visible in agriculture. Many women are active participants in these changes...

About us The mission of the Competence Centre on Behavioural Insights is to support EU policymaking with evidence about human behaviour. Our objectives are to use behavioural...

What are behavioural insights? Behavioural insights concern how people perceive things, how they decide, and how they behave. Behavioural insights are...

This introduction to a special section describes how a recently developed measure, the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) can be used to assess empowerment impacts...

The forestry and agriculture sectors are important parts of the Nordic bioeconomy, but are two of the Nordic region’s most gender-segregated sectors. Digitalisation and increased automation of heavy work...

This KCMD study uses data from the EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) to analyse how intersecting social statuses shape labour market participation. The report focuses...

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Inequality wideningSource: World Inequality Report 2018Potential inequality evolution scenariosSource: World Inequality Report 2018Market valuations of online platforms, billion $US (March 2019)Source...

Worldwide, labour force participation rate for women is only 49%, compared to 76% for men and no much improvements are foreseen for the near future..