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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.

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