✔️ The EU just made its biggest progress on gender equality in the past 10 years!

The Gender Equality Index tracks how we’re closing the gender gap, and since 2010, our score has improved by 7.9 points.

Key highlights:
✔️ Employment gap is shrinking
⚠️ Women still do most housework & care
📊 Economic decision-making is more balanced
🏅 Gender parity in sport? Still a challenge

Progress is real—but there’s more to do.

Find out how your country scored➡ http://europa.eu/!ffcGQm

#UnionOfEquality

Gender Equality Index | 2024 | European Institute for Gender Equality

The Gender Equality Index is a composite indicator that measures the complex concept of gender equality and assists in monitoring progress of gender equality across the EU over time.

European Institute for Gender Equality

@EUCommission
How to make equality in sport? Supplement testosteron is a way to make woman sport more 'action' and attractive. But is it still woman then?

I miss equality index in the army.

@michal the sad thing is, when you think about it, that only real equality in sport can be achieved by having only one category. Everyone competes with everyone. And I think no one wants that. So what do you do? If you create any numbers of categories there will always be someone who'd feel like they pulled out the short straw.

@michal @EUCommission testosterone in woman varies just like any other metric e. g. height varies.
That's very normal and that's a pretty basic thing in every sport since invention of sport.

Are you saying there is testosterone supplement doping in sport? So overall you want to talk about doping and all forms of doping?
Yesterday I learned one can dope by inhaling controlled amounts of carbon monoxide which is similar to altitude training. What anti-doping strategy do you want?

@saxnot @EUCommission

I was asking how to make a sport equal.

Also I was asking for equality index in the army

@michal @EUCommission i don't know anything about army

Sports have never been equal because the scores have never been equal. If all the scores are the same and all the bikers drive the same and all the f1 drivers have the same reflexes then sport would be brutally boring.

As I said testosterone in woman varies by individual and thus the question what is a woman does not apply to this situation.
Quite honestly the gender is pretty irrelevant in this regard and there are guidelines for entry

@saxnot @EUCommission man have 15 more T than woman. No, there can't be equality without supplements.

In one hand EU wants equality and in another hand wants diversity. I even can't imagine the boring repressive results.

@michal @EUCommission Well what do you suggest to combat this form of doping?

What about other natural variations e. g. arm length in wrestling?

@michal @EUCommission right now you sound like an transphobe and surely you're better than that. What do you suggest for your sport quality / military equality topic?

because IMO sport is arbitrary and championships can be held with any arbitrary rules or subgroup (e. g. only 20-30 year olds never before a championship won). That's the sport spirit.
The only conflict I see is sponsorships. That's where winner takes it all and which warrant equality and doping control

@saxnot @EUCommission

I think rules are done by the nature. So we should not go against nature.

Just be empathic and polite. That's enough 🙂

Stronger wins. Don't try to make a strong existence weaker just because some another is weaker.

@michal @EUCommission yeah makes sense

testo varies by nature and thus is part of nature and no further rules are applied. One such policy might read like this https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Beyond-the-Games/Human-Rights/IOC-Framework-Fairness-Inclusion-Non-discrimination-2021.pdf

(I do not consider Olympia to be especially fair but this is a guideline that might be intersting to you)

@michal @EUCommission there are many gender and sex variations recognized by biology and medicine. It makes sense to recognize this, kick in the teeth of transphobes and apply fair rules which include all people as the gender they identify with.  🌈
@EUCommission A graph should always start with zero. Now it it looks like it doubled when in reality it’s only 7% 😉

@sorenladegaard @EUCommission

A graph should not necessarily start with the value 0 at first index.

If you take a graph about how many people lives on Earth between 2010 and 2025, we all know human didn't appears from 2010 and there was people before that date 😉

For me, it doesn't look like it doubled as there's no scale.

@sorenladegaard @EUCommission

Or at least label the axes. This "graph" is just a pretty swoosh of colour.

@sorenladegaard @EUCommission

That's not even a graph, it's a picture, the information it contains is "+7.9%, between 2010 and 2024". They wrote it: 7.9%
There is also a link to an EIGE website where the full report can be downloaded: it's 122 pages (in pdf), filled with graphs. Not all of them start at 0 to be fair, but they are scaled, which is what counts when reading graphs.
Also the whole data can be downloaded.

@EUCommission This got to take the cake for worst visualization I have ever seen.

7,9 % what? some sort of score related to gender pay apparently?
From where to who? Have we been previously at 10 % or 0 % or 92 %?

Only two dates are shown and those are 14 years apart.

Let's end on a positive note: I like the colour gradient and the colours chosen.

@saxnot @EUCommission
The post links to a webpage where the whole report can be downloaded. It answers almost all your questions:
how the index is calculated, based on a, rather wide, range of indicators (pay is included, of course). The report also shows the index varying in time, the time "scale" being the past report editions.
As per the two dates, I assume that 2010 is the year when all the indicators started being measured, although few of them have figures dating back to 2005 or 2007.

@Eh__tweet @EUCommission yeah I've seen and read it

It didn't make the visualization less gruesome

@EUCommission

It's wonderful you track this and fantastic you're making progress. But these levels are still bad (esp on violence) and the progress is way too slow.

This is 1/2% improvement a year. Do better.

@EUCommission We need equal opportunity, not equality. People should work where they want to, not where they fit some quota. You are basically saying there is not enough doctors in banks and put up measures to make sure banks have equal number of doctors and bankers.
@EUCommission
Real change must come from within. Change dictated by policy will be tolerated at best. Those who have been historically in a position of privilege, for example us white men, must advocate for those who are not in such a position. Which means start sharing house chores and child care, and advocate for women and other ethnic groups in the workplace, to begin with.
We need a real shift in mentality from those who have been benefiting from disparity.
@EUCommission
If the rivers of gold spent on distant debates had been poured into the empty hands of the forgotten, no soul in these lands would know hunger today.