1. LAMAS Working Group 20-21 January 2016
Agenda Item 6.1 Gender statistics State of play

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

3. 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 adopted by the European Commission

4. New webpage on Equality

5. New datasets on Equality

6. 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

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

8. 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)

9. 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

10. Thank you for your attention!