Gender
Equality - Children's Drawing Competition - Role of Women in EU
Women
make up roughly half the human population but are relatively marginalised
compared with their male counterparts. In the developing world, they tend to
earn far less than men and suffer disproportionately from poverty and its
related ills, such as malnutrition, poor health and illiteracy. This makes
gender equality a vital component of development policy.
For the seven
years between 2007 and 2013, EuropeAid’s actions in the field of gender
equality will be channelled through the ‘Investing in people’ thematic
programme which has an explicit gender pillar in all its areas of activity.
The aim of
this pillar is to emancipate and empower women. Example activities include
literacy campaigns for adult women.
‘Investing
in people’ does not seek to empower women through a top-down prescriptive
approach. Instead, it promotes the participation of people active in the gender
field in the design, implementation and budget formulation of the programme.
Story from the field
On
March 8 2007, on the occasion of women's international day, the European
Commission launched a drawing competition on the theme of gender equality. With
this competition,, the European Commission wanted to promote gender equality
among children by participating in an awareness exercise of the role of woman
in society. Read the leaflet containing the results [7 MB] , and the competition website.