reverse discrimination | positive discrimination

right of equal access to public service

The equality game: women in the federal public service (1908-1987) [ The equality game ]

gender equality [ equality between men and women | equal rights of men and women | gender disparity | gender equality index | gender equity | gender inequality | gender inequality index | GII | gender disparities | gender inequality | [http ...]

gender equality [ equality of men and women | equality of women and men | equality between men and women | equality between women and men | equality between the sexes | sexual equality ]

equal pay for work of equal value

Equal Treatment Commission | CGB [Abbr.]

equal pay for equal work principle | equal pay principle | principle of equal pay | principle of equal pay for equal work | principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value | principle of equal pay for male and female workers for equal work | principle of equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value | the principle that men and women should receive equal pay for equal work

not equal symbol | unequal symbol | unequal sign | not equal sign

level playing field

The United Nations' International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights requires countries to assume full responsibility for funding education, stipulating that ‘higher education shall be made equally accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education’.

Fourth plea in law, alleging (i) infringement of the requirement that pleadings are to be construed in accordance with their actual terms and of the principle that actions are to be assessed on the basis of the information existing at the time the contested measure was adopted, in that the CST took the view, in paragraph 77 of its order, that the appellant based his arguments, derived from the principle of equal treatment, on the consequences of the contested decision and rejected them in any event on the basis of those consequences; and (ii) infringement of the obligation to state reasons, the principle that the provisions of the Staff ...[+++] Regulations are to be interpreted in accordance with the principle of equality and the principle of equality itself, in that the CST, in paragraphs 77 and 78 to 80 of its order, failed to respond to the requisite legal standard to the appellant’s arguments.

Calls on the Member States to increase their efforts to prevent segregation of job markets by gender and to counter the trend for many women to work in worse-paid occupations, by interesting boys and girls at school in the whole spectrum of possible occupations, and broadening training opportunities for women so as to enable them to adapt to changes in the labour market during their careers; is deeply concerned at the unfair situation whereby, after more than half a century in which the Community treaties have included the principle of equal pay for equal work, a female citizen in the EU has on average to work 418 calendar ...[+++]days to earn what a man earns in a calendar year;

Calls for the European Institute for Gender Equality to become fully operational without delay and for all the necessary gender indicators to be devised so that equality issues can be kept under review whenever they arise; insists that these indicators be regularly updated so that the objectives set can be brought into line with the results actually obtained;