This includes important data for all EU candidate countries and potential candidates. The main purpose of the Database is to build a broad overview of statistics on gender, highlighting differences and inequalities between women and men. The database on women and men in decision-making WMID covers positions of power and influence in different areas:. Very importantly, some of the indicators are also used for the development of Gender Equality Indices in the region.
Across the seven EU candidate countries and potential candidates, men still outnumber women by three to one among the members of national parliaments. At the current rate of change, it will take another 14 years to achieve gender balance in the combined parliaments of all seven countries.
This is four years behind the projected time to reach gender balance in national parliaments of EU Member States. Gender imbalance amongst key decision-makers in large corporations and financial institutions is a cause for concern. Although the proportion of women on the boards of the largest listed companies in EU candidate countries and potential candidates has increased since , it still lags behind the EU Member States. Since then, EIGE has updated the data on women and men in decision-making in all 7 EU candidate countries and potential candidates annually.
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Women and men in national politics and business Across the seven EU candidate countries and potential candidates, men still outnumber women by three to one among the members of national parliaments.
