#gender discrimination

As Cyprus heads toward the May 24 parliamentary elections, the number of women on the ballot has reached its highest level to date, with 224 women out of 753 candidates, part of a ...

The European Commission has moved forward with the second stage of the infringement procedure against Cyprus due to delays in the implementation of the EU directive 2022/2381 on gender quotas in ...

The European Union’s top court ruled on Thursday that national legislation barring gender information changes was incompatible with EU law, citing the challenges faced when a person’s lived ...

A bill to integrate gender equality into the executive, legislative and judicial elements in the public and broader public sector was discussed at the House legal affairs committee on Wednesday. “...

A little over five years ago, Antonina Zinovenko, now manager of art department at Wargaming, stepped away from media and advertising and into IT, carrying no technical background whatsoever, only ...

By Marilena Paraskeva Marilena Paraskeva is Head of Funding Programmes at the Research & Innovation Foundation Cyprus is steadily strengthening its position as a regional hub for research and innovation. ...

Approximately 40 actions have been completed or are in progress within the framework of the National Strategy for Gender Equality 2024-2026, which includes approximately 60 actions, Gender Equality Commissioner Josie Christodoulou said ...

Her path was shaped less by long term plans and more by a curiosity that carried her across industries, until TechIsland offered a mission that immediately resonated with her. As ...

Eurostat data shows Cyprus has seen rapid growth in ICT employment over the past decade, with the strongest gains among women. A Cyprus Mail report, citing Eurostat, puts average annual ...

Tanya Romanyukha, General Manager of TechIsland and Leader of the Women in Tech Cyprus chapter, has spent the past decade building and connecting tech communities across Ukraine, the US, Europe ...

Liudmila Marochkina did not come into technology through engineering. She now leads SPORTSOFT, the Cyprus-based IT company working with organisations navigating rapid digital change. As CEO, she focuses less on ...

For Josie Christodoulou, gender equality is not a single policy challenge to be solved in isolation, nor a slogan to be repeated. It is a question of how societies are ...

It is simply the natural expression of a society whose talent has always extended far beyond the narrow boundaries it was historically allowed to occupy. If anything still appears “exceptional” ...

At just 47.6 out of 100 points in the Gender Equality Index, Cyprus ranks last among EU member states, according to the latest report from the European Institute for Gender Equality. Although ...

The historically unequal power relations between men and women not only continue to exist, but any attempt to dismantle them is met with resistance from “leadership interests”, human rights commissioner ...

Gender equality is an essential pillar of peace, sustainable development, and democracy and has advanced across several institutional levels in recent years, gender equality commissioner Josie Christodoulou said on Friday ...

Both the first and second prizes of the gender equality journalism competition have been awarded to articles first published in the Cyprus Mail the office of gender equality commissioner Josie ...

In Cyprus, over one in three women and one in five children have experienced physical or sexual violence, placing the country above the EU average for gender-based violence. According to ...

Cyprus’ gender pay gap stands at 10 per cent, gender equality commissioner Josie Christodoulou said on Thursday. Speaking at an awards ceremony, she said that “gender discrimination remains in the workplace ...

More than one third of women from Cyprus who took part in a European survey said they had experienced physical violence, sexual violence or the threat of it during their ...

The House plenum on Thursday passed a law introducing stiffer penalties on anyone found guilty in a court of law of inciting violence or hatred against persons for their sexual ...

Cooperation between Cyprus and Greece in preventing and combatting domestic and gender violence was levelled up on Tuesday with the signing of a memorandum of understanding. The MoU was signed ...

Gender Equality Commissioner Josie Christodoulou said on Thursday that gender equality is not a problem to be solved but rather the solution to the problem of existing inequality. She emphasised ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said his government has the highest percentage of women in the country’s history. Speaking at an event for International Women’s Day at the ...