LAMAS Working Group 20-21 January 2016 Agenda Item 6.1 Gender statistics State of play Piotr.Ronkowski@ec.europa.eu

An overview of the presentation The main milestones in terms of gender statistics New Eurostat's webpage and datasets on "Equality (age and gender)"

The main milestones in 2015 6 March: Press release for International Women's Day published by Eurostat 25 June: 2015 Gender Equality Index launched by the European Institute for Gender Equality. 9 October: Eurostat Regional Yearbook with the chapter on gender statistics 2 November: European Equal Pay Day organised by the European Commission (DG Justice) 3 December: Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019 adopted by the European Commission

New webpage on Equality

New datasets on Equality

New predefined table "Gender overall earnings gap" The name of this indicator, initially labelled "Total earnings gap", was changed GOEG measures the impact of the three combined factors, (1) the average hourly earnings, (2) the monthly average of the number of hours paid (3) the employment rate, on the average earnings of all women of working age - whether employed or not employed - compared to men

Gender overall earnings gap (%), 2010 Map from Eurostat's database

The milestones for 2016 March: Press release for International Women's Day published by Eurostat May: UNECE Work Session on gender statistics November: European Equal Pay Day organised by the European Commission (DG Justice)

LAMAS delegates are invited to: Take note of the new webpage and datasets on equality Take note of the main events to take place in 2016

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