The FEMETRICS Lab is the final conference of the FEMETRICS: Visible Women: Gender | Data | Social Europe project. FEMETRICS addresses gender data gaps by assessing official statistics providers, highlighting the non-economic aspect of sex- and gender-data availability, capturing the broader wellbeing of women and girls, and analysing policy and legal frameworks.
The FEMETRICS Lab engages Early-Stage Researchers (ESR) from EUI Widening Europe programme countries and experts on gender data and studies. ESR will present their contributions to FEMETRICS on the state of sex- and gender-disaggregated data as well as on pathways to such data on the EU level and in EU Member States.
During the Lab, participants will discuss their research and collaborate to identify key policy lessons and potential solutions in the areas of
- Sex- and gender disaggregated data (S/GDD) in the social policy sphere, including but not limited to the impact of (missing) S/GDD on policy design and human wellbeing, and social data analysis under a S/GDD lens;
- Data pathways to GDD in the social policy sphere.
Input from regional and global experts in S/GDD and statistics for social policy will nurture the discussion during the Lab. The discussants will be EUI PhD researchers working on issues related to FEMETRICS.
The FEMETRICS lab will culminate in two outputs: (1) Concrete recommendations for improving the gender data infrastructure in the selected countries and beyond, and (2) identification of key future research areas in the field. The best Lab contributions will be invited for publication in a special journal issue on sex- and gender disaggregated data and data pathways.
The Lab is co-funded by the EUI Widening Europe Programme. The EUI Widening Europe Programme initiative, backed by contributions from the European Union and EUI Contracting States, is designed to strengthen internationalisation, competitiveness, and quality in research in Widening countries, and thus foster a more cohesive European Higher Education and Research area.