Lithuania has made progress towards gender equality, but still lags behind the EU average, according to a report by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). Lithuania ranks 17th in the EU on EIGE’s Gender Equality Index 2023 with 64.1 points out of 100, a score that is still 6.1 points below the EU average, the agency said in its report.
Lithuania’s score has increased by 9.2 points since 2010, mainly due to improvements in the domain of power, it noted. Since 2020, the country’s score has risen by 3.5 points, the fifth-largest increase among the bloc’s member states during the period. “Due to its faster progress compared with the other EU countries, Lithuania’s ranking has moved up three places since last year’s edition of the Index,” EIGE said.
Lithuania’s highest ranking is in the domain of work, in which it scores 75.7 points, 1.8 points higher than in 2020. However, the country’s ranking according to this measure has dropped by five places due to its slower progress compared to other EU nations.
The gap between Lithuanian men and women is most pronounced in the domain of power, where the country scored 48.6 points, dropping from 14th to 18th place. However, the agency noted that the country’s score has improved by 3.2 points since 2020.
Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark maintain the top positions in the Gender Equality Index, while this year’s lowest-ranking countries are the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania.
The index measures EU member countries’ gender equality progress in six domains: work, money, knowledge, time, power, and health.
