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III DEVELOPMENT OF INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS IN THE MEMBER STATES (H) 3.1 The strategic objectives from the Platform for Action Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women were defined as the critical area of concern “H” in the UN Beijing Platform for Action of 1995 (PfA), and three strategic objectives were put forward in this area: • H1 – Create or strengthen national machineries and other governmental bodies • H2 – Integrate gender perspectives in legislation, public policies, programmes and projects • H3 – Generate and disseminate gender-disaggregated data and information for planning and evaluation. 3.2 Availability and relevance of EU-wide indicators In June 2005, the Council invited the Member States and the Commission to strengthen institutional mechanisms for promoting gender equality and to create a framework to asses the implementation of the PfA in order to create a more consistent and systematic monitoring of progress. The Council also invited the Commission to include the assessment of relevant indicators, developed for the follow-up of the implementation of the PfA, in its annual report to the Spring European Council. A national structure for the advancement of women is regarded as the central policy-coordinating unit inside government and its main task is to support government-wide mainstreaming of a gender- equality perspective in all policy areas. The necessary conditions for an effective functioning of such national structures include: - location at the highest possible level in the government, - institutional mechanisms or processes that facilitate the involvement of non-governmental organisations from the grass roots upwards, - sufficient resources in terms of budget and professional capacity, - the possibility of influencing the development of all governmental policies. In 2006, the Finnish EU Presidency undertook a study on the institutional mechanisms in the Member States. The Council decided in December 2006 on three indicators concerning this area of concern: 14508/09 ADD 1 PL/vk 34 ANNEX DG G EN
• Indicator 1. Status of governmental responsibility in promoting gender equality • Indicator 2. Personnel resources of the governmental gender equality body and personnel resources of the designated body or bodies for the promotion of equal treatment of women and men. • Indicator 3. Gender mainstreaming. It was the aim of the Finnish Presidency that the proposed indicators would measure the attainment of some of the key objectives of PfA critical area H, and at the same time focus on relevant political targets of the EU and the Member States. The indicators are useful elaborations of both the first and the second objectives concerning the institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women that are put forward in the PfA. The indicators cover both quantitative and qualitative aspects of the institutional mechanisms, which is necessary in order to evaluate to what extent the two objectives have been met. What is still lacking for a more comprehensive evaluation of strategic objectives one and two is an indicator that is related to strategic objective H 3 - generating and disseminating data and information disaggregated by sex. In the report from the Finnish Presidency it is stated that the task of developing a set of three indicators did not leave room for an indicator on statistics. To develop a fourth indicator that assesses the third strategic objective is both necessary as a tool for evaluation of the two other objectives and as a tool for a more general evaluation of all parts of the PfA. However, in the questionnaire sent out to the Member States by the Finnish Presidency one question asking for a general evaluation of the gender specificity of the national and regional statistical services was included. An evaluation of the indicators requires both qualitative and quantitative information, and the quantitative parts should preferably be gathered from European Union statistics. At present there is no statistical overview on gender equality machineries at European Union level. Comprehensive statistical information would greatly facilitate the evaluation of the indicators. Regarding the more qualitative aspects of the indicators, there is still a need for regular surveys among the Member States. 14508/09 ADD 1 PL/vk 35 ANNEX DG G EN
Page 1 and 2: COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION Bruss
Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents Table of Contents
Page 5 and 6: 5.8. Institutional Mechanisms for t
Page 7 and 8: The present report Beijing + 15: Th
Page 9 and 10: 2.1.2. Structures for Gender Equali
Page 11 and 12: The Regulation establishing a Europ
Page 13 and 14: The proposal to amend the Directive
Page 15 and 16: 2.2.3. Financial resources for gend
Page 17 and 18: Integration of gender issues in the
Page 19 and 20: - Childcare facilities: possibility
Page 21 and 22: Key findings from the second report
Page 23 and 24: Gender equality issues are cross-cu
Page 25 and 26: Guidelines for the improvement of w
Page 27 and 28: With regard to financing, in additi
Page 29 and 30: High Level Group on Gender Equality
Page 31 and 32: 2.5.1. EWL activities related to th
Page 33: Women and the media In 2006, the EW
Page 37 and 38: Indicator 2: Adequate resources are
Page 39 and 40: All Member States also have some fo
Page 41 and 42: 3.3.3. Gender mainstreaming The leg
Page 43 and 44: There are different methods or tech
Page 45 and 46: violence (for example trafficking f
Page 47 and 48: IV IMPLEMENTATIONS OF ACTIONS IN TH
Page 49 and 50: The strategic objectives are expres
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Page 53 and 54: have not made payments to pension s
Page 55 and 56: In most EU countries the retirement
Page 57 and 58: 4.2 Education and Training of Women
Page 59 and 60: All EU MS show a pattern in which m
Page 61 and 62: Some women with low education may f
Page 63 and 64: overall. Today girls and women have
Page 65 and 66: Indicator1: measures the number of
Page 67 and 68: Latvia had the greatest proportion
Page 69 and 70: 4.4 Violence against women (D) 4.4.
Page 71 and 72: This was one of the conclusions dra
Page 73 and 74: Some of the measures that have been
Page 75 and 76: The reporting to the UNECE shows th
Page 77 and 78: 4. 5. Women and armed conflict (E)
Page 79 and 80: 4.5.3. Trends emerging from EU-wide
Page 81 and 82: men. As a result this ‘new’ ins
Page 83 and 84: To date, 10 of the 27 MS have devel
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• Indicator 4. Comprehensive and
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The data is uncertain and, at least
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It should be emphasised that the hi
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In most countries single mothers' t
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Unemployment has been falling in mo
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The main political measures taken c
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• Indicator 7. Proportion of the
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Indicator 1: Women's access to poli
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parliaments (76 % men, 24 % women).
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Indicator 12: Out of 108 senior eco
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The Member States advance various r
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The Belgian quota law adopted in 20
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References Council Conclusions Nove
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4.9.3. The CEDAW The Convention on
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Member States report on increased p
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4.10.3. EU policy on eliminating ge
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In Spain, a specific institute (Obs
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Women remain absent from leadership
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Some MS report on actions that have
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• L.1. Eliminate all forms of dis
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The most recent information availab
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highest in Estonia with 90 %. The m
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In relation to the indicators adopt
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When the Council of the European Un
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EU commitments to achieve the objec
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5.5. Women and Armed Conflict (E) W
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Although it can be noted that the E
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5.8. Institutional Mechanisms for t
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5.10. Women and the Media (J) The m
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Two issues clearly placed on the MS
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Although gender mainstreaming is ar
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6.3. Challenges for the future Euro
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The main challenges in the area of
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Annex I Indicators developed at EU
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IT Italy LV Latvia LT Lithuania LU
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Annex III Table 3.1 Personnel resou
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Table 3.3 Structure and content of
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Figure 4.1.2 At risk of poverty rat
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Figure 4.2.1 Employment gap between
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Figure 4.2.5 Proportion of female a
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Figure 4.3.1 Number of years with g
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Figure 4.3.3 Proportion of persons
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Figure 4.3.5 Proportion of persons
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Figure 4.3.7 Proportions of women a
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Figure 4.6.1 Employed women and men
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Figure 4.6.5 Proportion of children
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Figure 4.6.9 Time spent on domestic
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Figure 4.6.13 Time spent on domesti
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Table 4.7.1 The cluster of Member S
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Figure 4.12.1 Difference between pr
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Figure 4.12.3 Difference between pr
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Table 4.12.2 Difference between 15-
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