Presentation of Gender equality index of the Republic of Serbia, 2016 was organized on February 2nd, 2016, in the Club of Deputies. 

Opening remarks were made byProf. Zorana Mihajlović PhD, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, Minister of Construction,Transport and Infrastructure and President of Coordination body for Gender Equality, Ms Virginija Langbakk, Director of the European Institute for Gender Equality, H.E. Michael Davenport, EU Ambassador and Head of EU Delegation in Serbia and Dr MiladinKovacević, Director of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. 

By applying the EU-28 methodology, calculated is National Gender Equality Index in the Republic of Serbia, as the first of the non-EU counties.  

The Gender Equality Index represents the mechanism for measuring the gender equality through six domains: knowledge, work, money, health, time, power, and two satellite domains: violence and intersecting inequalities. Gender equality can be measured on a scale of 1, complete inequality, to 100, complete equality. According to the First Report on the Index of Gender Equality, the Gender Equality Index in the Republic of Serbia is 40.6%, while the index of the EU Member States is 52.9%. 

These results are provided thanks to the cooperation of Coordination Body for Gender Equality of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, European Institute for Gender Equality, Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction  Unit and the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. 

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