women and men working in partnership

The Gender Divide in the EU (Statistics)

provided by the European Women's Lobby

Employment & at Home

EU, employment rate (1999) Women 52.6% Men 71.6%
Unemployment (1999) Women 10.9% Men 7.9%
Long-term unemployment rate (1999) Women 5.0% Men 3.5%
Wage gap for the same job women are paid on average 83% of men’s hourly wages
Household tasks Women perform more than 80% of them

EU Political Institutions

Women represent an average of 18.06% of decision-makers in the EU institutions
European Parliament 26,8%
European Commission 25,0%
Economic and social Committee 17,1%
Committee of Regions 14,9%
European Council 6,5%

Violence, Trafficking & Harassment

1 in 5 women in the EU experience some form of violence by their intimate male partner.

95% of all acts of violence take place within the home.

Approximately 30% to 50% of women have experienced some form of sexual harassment at the workplace, whereas 10% of men have experienced it.

The International Organisation for Migration estimates that there are about 500,000 women victims of trafficking in the EU, of whom about 300,000 come from the Balkans.

Poverty

Throughout the European Union, poverty is more prevalent among women than among men with an average of 19% of women compared to 17% of men

Single women have higher poverty rates than single men: 25% against 19%.

On the occasion of the International Women's Day 2001, the European Women's Lobby denounced the persistence of inequalities between women and men:

'Keeping in mind that the battles for women's rights in Europe and globally are part of the same movement towards a more just society, the EWL calls on political leaders to state publicly their positive contributions to the eradication of inequalities between women and men.'

Shevolution supports these aims.

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