According to the 2024 Gender Equality Index, , under the responsibility of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), Portugal obtains a score of 68.6 out of 100, 1.2 points higher than last year , “which represents the 8th largest improvement among member states”.

With this 15th place, Portugal is four places and 2.4 points below the European average, says EIGE, which attributes this recent progress to “improvements in the areas of power (3.9 points) and knowledge (one point)”.

The 2024 index uses data from 2022 for the most part and charts progress in both a short-term (2021-2022) and long-term (2010-2022) perspective.

Regarding developments since 2010, the European institute points out that “Portugal's score increased significantly, by 14.9 points, largely due to improvements in the domains of time (29.1 points) and power (26.4 points )”.

According to the 2024 index, Portugal's best performance is in the area of ​​time sharing between men and women, in which it obtains 67.8 points and ranks 11th among the 27 countries of the European Union.

“Since 2016, Portugal's score in this domain has increased by 20.3 points, which resulted in an increase of 13 places in the classification”, reads the report.

Regarding the category of positions of power, “Portugal has recorded significant improvements” since 2021, with EIGE explaining that “the main driver of this change was an increase of 11.7 points in the subdomain of economic power”, in addition to the improvement in level of political power.

On the other hand, the lowest ranking is in the health category, in which it ranks 23rd, and where “progress has stagnated since 2010 (+0.3 points), which has resulted in a drop in ranking from 20th”.

EIGE also points out that between 2021 and 2022, the at-risk-of-poverty rate decreased for both women and men.

It also states that since 2016 the percentage of women caring for children, grandchildren or people with disabilities has increased by six percentage points, reaching 43% in 2022.

It also highlights that abuse against journalists is common, but with gender differences, since, and based on a national study, men are mainly criticized for their professional abilities, while the abuse suffered by women is “normally more cruel, more personal and often sexual in nature.”