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Gender equality is a profitable investment!

Lithuania · National · See the Lithuania profile

Women's Employment Information Center is a public organization dedicated to promoting equal opportunities for women across various sectors of life, with a specific focus on employment, leadership, and political participation. For the past 29 years, the Center has actively support

Gender equality is a profitable investment!

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Moters užimtumo informacijos centras - Women's Employment Information Center
Power domain
Political Power
Methods / tools
Awareness-raising, Networking
Keywords
Gender equality, equal opportunities, women, politicians, leaders

Context

The Women's Employment Information Center (MUIC) is a Lithuanian public organisation that has spent 29 years supporting equal opportunities for women in employment, leadership and political participation, working within the framework of Lithuania's State Program for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men (2015-2021).

Objectives

The Center aims to prepare women for leadership positions, increase the number of women candidates standing in local elections, and influence policy so that laws favourable to gender equality are adopted, arguing that gender balance in decision-making bodies benefits both political life and the wider social well-being of society.

Activities

Its work is delivered through project-based initiatives covering support for women starting and growing businesses, training for women politicians and leaders, and advocacy work aligned with national gender-equality policy, using awareness-raising and networking methods in partnership with the Gaudete Foundation.

Conclusions

The Center presents itself as a transferable model embedded within a wider gender-mainstreaming strategy that has contributed to gender-equality outcomes in Lithuania, though the source material is self-reported promotional content and provides no independently verified impact data.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — No budget figures found in the source material; estimated low, consistent with a project-based national NGO/public-organisation scale.
Time to results
Long (> 3 years) — Political representation and leadership outcomes typically take multiple years to materialise; the Center's own activities span 29 years.
Staffing & skills
Women's Employment Information Center project staff, Partnership with the Gaudete Foundation

Conditions for success

  • Alignment with Lithuania's national State Program for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men (2015-2021)
  • Embedding activities within a wider gender-mainstreaming strategy
  • Sustained, project-based delivery over a long period (29 years)

Where it fits

Governance type
NGO / public organisation
Scale
national
Income level
high-income

Commonly funded by

ESF+ — European Social Fund Plus National / regional programmes

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