Presentation given at the OECD Gender Budgeting Experts Meeting, Vienna, Austria. 18-19 June 2018 For more information see http://www.oecd.org/gov/budgeting/gender-budgeting-experts-meeting-2018.htm

1. Panel on
Government decision-making
for a more inclusive society
2nd OECD Roundtable on Better Governance for Gender Equality
19-20 June 2018 - Vienna, Austria
Teresa Fragoso – President of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality

2. Nationalstrategyfor equalityand non-
discrimination2018-2030
• Public policies for non-discrimination on grounds of sex
and promotion of equality between women and men
have been consolidated at national level in recent
decades in various national plans.
• The new national strategy for equality and non-
discrimination measures up to 2030, aligned with the UN
2030 Agenda (SDG’s). Intends to start a new cycle based
on a more strategic and comprehensive approach.
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3. Nationalstrategyfor equalityand non-
discrimination2018-2030
It encompasses 3 pillars with more operational 4 year
Plans to help monitoring along the implementation
period:
• public policy in the field of equality between women
and men
• preventing and combating violence against women,
domestic violence and gender based violence
• discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation,
gender identity and sexual characteristics.
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4. Nationalstrategyfor equalityand non-
discrimination2018-2030
It has a tridimensional approach:
- Good Governance through Gender Mainstreaming in
Public Administration – including Gender Budgeting
- Intersectional perspective reflecting the multidimensional
nature of gender as the basis of the other discriminations
such as race, ethnicity, nationality, age, disability and
religion.
- It focus on the territorialization of public policies to
promote gender equality by collaborating closely with local
municipalities.
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5. Nationalstrategyfor equalityand non-
discrimination2018-2030
• The implementation of the strategy and its plans will
be coordinated and monitored by CIG in close
collaboration with line ministries that have
contributed to the design of the Strategy committing
to policy measures in their areas.
• The 4 year Plans have clear objectives with assigned
responsible entities for its implementation and
associated budget, measured through results
indicators.
• The long term goals have impact indicators
associated which brings the challenge of reliable
measurement.
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6. Project:National StatisticsSystemon
GenderEquality(EEA Grants)
• Statistics Portugal website provides since 2004 a
Gender Database (GDB) with sex-disaggregated data in
ten statistical domains not all updated on a regular
basis due to a lack of Human Resources and Gender
Expertise
• However, to have a more comprehensive picture of
women’s and men’s economic, political and social
situation in Portugal, notably for informed public
policies implementation, there is need to further
develop it. 6
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–NationalStatisticsSystem

7. Resident Population in Portugal (2015)
In the year 2015
the resident
population in
Portugal was
10,341,000
individuals, with
women being
the majority of
the population.
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8. Education
Women are the majority in two groups: in the group that has none
complete educational level, which may reflect the lack of schooling of
the older female population; and in the group with complete higher
education, which represents the youngest female population.
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9. Employment
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10. Employment
The wage gap between women and men is closely related
to qualification levels: as the level of qualification
increases, the higher the wage gap between men and
women, and this is particularly evident among top
positions. At this level the gap is 26.4%
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11. Work-life balance: the use of time by
men and women (2015)
On average,
women work at
home 1 hour and
45 minutes more,
per day, than men.
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- Men spent, on
average, more 27
minutes per day
than women in paid
work;
- Women continue to
spend more time in
household chores
and care work
• Adding paid and unpaid work, women
continue to work an additional 1 hour
and 13 minutes a day than men.

12. Power and decision-making in Politics
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Somefacts&figuresaboutPortugal

13. Powerand decision-makingin the Economy
Proportionofwomenandmenon theboardofthe
largestlistedcompanies(%) (April 2016)
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14. Gender-based violence
• The main identified victims of domestic violence are women,
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15. Project:National StatisticsSystemon
GenderEquality(EEA Grants)
The project financed by EEA Grants secured 900.000
euros for a 5 year project to be led by Statistics Portugal
aiming to:
1. Improve the current GDB so a more comprehensive
system of gender statistics and information on various
dimensions of (in)equality between women and men
would be available for policy users and for the whole
society – following the SDG’s indicators
2. Start to collect data at a local level to support
territorialized efforts of the Nat’l Strategy
3. Start to prepare a national Time Use Survey
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16. Project:NationalStatisticsSystemon Gender
Equality(EEA Grants)
The project partners:
1. Statistics Norway
2. EIGE – European Institute for Gender Equality
3. (OECD)
To ensure international comparability and to benefit
from existing good practice/data.
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17. Thank you!
Tel.: (00 351) 217 983 071 Website: www.cig.gov.pt
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