Women & Gender Equality, Publication

Low pay is a major problem in certain parts of the public services - particularly those where women make up the majority of workers.

{EPSU Report, February 2016} {{{{{Executive summary}}}}} (3 March 2016) The current report is the third that EPSU has produced looking at how governments’ responses to the financial crisis have affected women working in the public sector. It examines the situation in eight countries, the Czech

The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action were adopted 20 years ago with high hopes for the future. The Platform for Action imagines a world where each woman and girl can exercise her freedoms and choices, and realize all her rights, such as to live free from violence, to go to school, to

Workprogramme for the mid-term period 2014-2016/7, adopted at the WGEC meeting 10-11 September 2014 Work Programme 2014-2016/7 WGEC

(September 2014) This report aims to identify areas of progress and remaining gaps in EPSU and its affiliates towards achieving gender parity since the last Congress. In 2009 EPSU, with the support of its Swedish affiliate Vision (then SKTF), carried out a survey of women’s representation in

The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action were adopted 20 years ago with high hopes for the future. The Platform for Action imagines a world where each woman and girl can exercise her freedoms and choices, and realize all her rights, such as to live free from violence, to go to school, to

A new transnational company agreement was signed between representatives of the European trade union federations and management of GdfSuez, the French multi-utility company, 5 June 2012, Paris. The agreement aims to define unjustified differences between men and women and remove these to achieve pay

(7 March 2013) Across Europe, governments have cut sector pay and jobs in the public sector in response to the financial crisis, which became evident in the autumn of 2008. Although the timing has varied – the Baltic states were among the first to reduce spending, while other countries like Spain

{{Trade Union Action is key to reduce gender pay inequality in Europe}} (5 March 2014) A new EPSU survey commissioned to the Labour Research Department that was recently published to get a better understanding of trade union action to narrow the gender pay gap in the public sector shows that trade

{[Report of EPSU Study on pay in the care sector in relation to overall pay levels and the gender pay gap in different countries in the European Union->art6271], by J. Pillinger, February 2010}

Presentation Gender mainstreaming audit 2010EPSU Gender mainstreaming audit 2010 report

{{ {Widening the gender gap : the impact of public sector pay and job cuts on the employment and working conditions of women in four countries} }} Report by {{Lionel Fulton}}, Labour Research Department {June 2011} Executive summary • Governments across Europe are cutting jobs in the public sector

(24 September 2009, Brussels) “EPSU agrees that the economic crisis is the main medium term challenge. It means first to monitor the possible differentiated impact on women and men on the labour market, including the public sector which employs 1 out of 3 women in the EU”. This was the headline

(November 2013) This report was commissioned by EPSU as part of a project financed under the European Commission's social dialogue. The final publication is attached below in English. Final drafts are also available in French, German, Polish, Spanish and Swedish. Gender Pay Gap final report - ENPay

{Report by SKTF for EPSU, October 2009} (see the 2014 update here http://www.epsu.org/article/epsus-representation-women-affiliates-structures) {{Executive summary}} The survey is based on 48 responses from EPSU’s affiliated unions, out of a total of 250 affiliates, representing 9.9 million