The Employment Equality Directive (Directive 2000/78) requires all EU Member States to provide for protection against discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in employment and occupation. The present report describes the scope of protection provided by the Directive and its normative...

Published on International Women's Day 2013, this survey presents the views of European citizens on gender equality and the empowerment of women in developing countries. It also tests how people believe to what extent certain problems affect men and women in these countries.

This report provides a general overview of the ways in which EU gender equality law has been implemented in the domestic laws of the 28 Member States of the European Union, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (the EEA countries) and four candidate countries (the Former Yugoslav Republic...

On 12 April 2012, a conference on 'Quality of work and Employment: A policy tool towards inclusive and sustainable growth' was jointly organised by the European Parliament and Eurofound, with the participation of Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament and with the support of the...

Multilokale Wohnformen gab es schon immer, aber ihre Ausprägungen haben sich über die Zeiten hinweg verändert. Multilokales Wohnen (MW) entsteht aus Triebkräften, von denen manche raum- und epochenübergreifend wirk(t)en, wie die finanzielle Leistungsfähigkeit der Eliten, andere sich jedoch...

Ein umfangreiches empirisches Forschungsprojekt zur Multilokalität des Flugpersonals und zur Lebensführung speziell von Pilotinnen und Piloten zeigt verschiedene Formen des multilokalen Wohnens und unterschiedliche Bewältigungsstrategien, deren Vielfalt es - trotz unterschiedlicher Vor- und...