The concept of demographic resilience is equally relevant in low fertility regions such as Eastern Europe, and the high fertility countries of Central Asia. Solutions...
Tag - Gender Equality
Most countries in Central and Eastern Europe continue to trail the rest of the European Union on gender equality, with Covid-19 threatening to make the situation worse...
Bulgaria and Romania can boast some of Europe’s highest percentages of women working in the ICT sector. What lessons can be learnt by the rest of the emerging...
Increasing the participation of women in the workforce would go a considerable way toward solving CEE’s labour shortage, and boost profitability, claims a new...
Gender is a tricky subject in Central and Eastern Europe, even trickier when legislators get involved. Proposed changes to gendered language in Serbia and Czechia have...
While Serbia tends to rank well on intentional indexes of gender equality, violence against women, including sexual violence, remains a serious problem. Serbia has been...
Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia have a long way to go before they can claim to have closed the gender gap, according to a new report from the World Economic...
The CEE investment space does not lack talented women, but they find it much harder to raise capital. A lack of diversity among venture capital firms is one of many...
4PLUS, an Armenian collective of female photographers, is offering an intimate portrayal of daily life in the country, through beautifully curated images. Founded in...
With 2020 now begun, the world is more interconnected and, in many ways, closer than ever. The leap that my family made in the last century from India to Europe now...
Slovakia has again refused to ratify the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women. “Today’s decision by the Slovak Parliament, rejecting...
To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) launched a...
Women’s inclusion, justice, and security matter. They matter to women and to their families, communities, and economies and societies at large. The world is more secure...