Gender inequalities are often compounded by other forms of discrimination according to EU Agency for Fundamental Rights
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) identified how the rights of women are violated in a way that is often exacerbated by other forms of discrimination. It has released some reports and fact sheets on the occasion of International Women's Day, as well as the launching by the European Institute for Gender Equality of the call for nominations to the "Women Inspiring Europe" Calendar 2013.
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) conducted an independent research into many areas of fundamental rights. The results show that the rights of women are violated in a way that is often exacerbated by other forms of discrimination. The Agency looked at a number of factors that impact on people's lives and their enjoyment of rights. Rather than look at gender in isolation, the Agency looked at gender alongside factors such as ethnicity and age.
Among the findings reported, women with disabilities can experience unequal access to reproductive healthcare. The FRA stressed that there is evidence of women with intellectual disabilities and women with mental health problems as being victims of forced sterilisation in some EU Member States. In addition, migrant women often face considerable discrimination and are over-represented in poorly regulated and poorly paid sectors of employment, such as domestic work. With regard to violence against women, this continues to be a problem and policy makers lack comparable cross-national data to help tackle the issue. Recently, Eurostat published also figures which showed that in 2011 the proportion of women at risk of poverty or social exclusion was higher than for men.
On the other hand, on 8 of March 2012, EIGE, the European Institute for Gender Equality has launched a new call for nominations to the Women of Europe resource pool and EIGE’s "Women Inspiring Europe" Calendar 2013. Since 2010, the Institute is collecting nominations for the Women of Europe resource pool that is used to highlight women’s achievements and success stories as well the annual calendar published by EIGE.