EMILY’s List members are dedicated to building a progressive America by electing pro-choice Democratic women to office. The organisation invests in women as candidates, as contributors, as campaign professionals, and as voters in order to bring about great change in the EMILY is an acronym that stands for “Early Money Is Like Yeast” Table of […]

The potential implications of gender differences in financial literacy are far-reaching. On 1 March 2012, the OECD published a Working Paper on “Empowering Women Through Financial Awareness and Education“. Overview This working paper describes the findings of a review of the literature on gender differences in financial literacy with the aim to better understand their […]

The European Commission is an Institution independent of national governments. Its job is to represent and uphold the interests of the EU as a whole. It drafts proposals for new European laws, which it presents to the and the Council. It is also the EU’s executive arm – in other words, it is responsible for […]

Table of Contents 1 European Union 1.1 European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) 1.2 What’s the Gender Gap in the EU Institutions 2 References 3 See also 4 External links European Union The European Union (EU) is a politico-economic union of 28 member states that are primarily located in Europe. European Institute for Gender Equality […]

Founded in 1990, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL)is an NGO and the largest umbrella organisation of women’s associations in the European Union (EU), working to promote women’s rights and equality between women and men. As of November 2009, EWL membership extends to organisations in all 27 EU member states and the three candidate countries, as […]

Table of Contents 1 Overview 2 Girl Geek Dinners 3 Geek Girl Camps 4 References 5 See Also 6 External Links Overview In today’s technology driven era, it is common to be surrounded by laptops, iPods, stereos, video games, and TV. It is also the norm to communicate and share information through social networking sites […]

Feministiskt Perspektiv is a swedish feminist online magazine that started in january 2011. Feministiskt Perspektiv is funded by subscribers and public press subsidies. Feministiskt Perspektiv is mainly a newsmagazine with regular editorial departments such as domestic and international news, culture, economics, sports and feminism. Feministiskt Perspektiv website Beside the strict newscoverage Feministiskt Perspektiv also works […]

Table of Contents 1 What is the Feminization of poverty? 2 The Feminization of Poverty and Women’s Human Rights 3 What Causes the Feminization of Poverty? 4 The Role of the State 5 References 6 Group 12 What is the Feminization of poverty? The feminization of poverty is the increasing female proportion of the population […]

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (born 30 July 1947) is a French virologist and director of the Unité de Régulation des Infections Rétrovirales at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. In 2008, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with Luc Montagnier, for their discovery of HIV. On 24 February 2009, she became the […]

The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is a measure of inequalities between men’s and women’s opportunities in a country. It combines inequalities in three areas: political participation and decision making, economic participation and decision making, and power over economic resources. It is one of the five indicators used by the United Nations Development Programme in its […]