The Gender Equality Glossary and Thesaurus has been developed in cooperation with key stakeholders: European Commission, European Parliament and Council of Europe, as well as national machineries, academia and partners of EIGE’s Resource and Documentation Centre. The collection of terms was based on 92 sources from the European Union, Council of Europe and United Nations normative and policy documents, studies, reports and scientific articles.

The glossary contains over 400 terms in English with their definitions and sources. In the future, it will be linked with EuroVoc, the multi-lingual EU-wide thesaurus, and it will be available in all EU languages.

With EIGE’s Gender Equality Glossary and Thesaurus you can:

find comprehensive and detailed definitions of specific terms for your policy, advocacy or research work
find a detailed list of sources and links to the reference or background documents
compare similar or confusing terms and discover the differences between them
better understand new terminology in the area of gender equality
tag literary resources in indexing or cataloguing work
discover which gender equality terms are related (in a broad and narrow sense)
discover which terms are preferred or outdated and why
download the entire glossary as well as its parts − domains, sub-domains and even the specific concepts.
EIGE’s Gender Equality Glossary and Thesaurus is a specialised terminology tool focusing on the area of gender equality. It aims to foster a common understanding of gender equality terms across the EU and promote gender-fair and inclusive language to improve equality between women and men.

More glossaries, thesauri and taxonomies ( search in Internet)

Gender equality glossary by the Council of Europe
Women's thesaurus by Atria
Gender and science taxonomy by GenPORT
The EU's multilingual thesaurus by EuroVoc
Subject headings by KvinnSam, Gothenburg University
Collection of gender-related glossaries in EIGE's Resource & Documentation Centre catalogue