{"id":19655,"date":"2026-03-06T16:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=19655"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:57:22","slug":"efn-celebrates-international-womens-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=19655","title":{"rendered":"EFN Celebrates International Women’s Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

According to the EU Gender Equality Index 2025<\/a>, gender equality in the EU remains at least another 50 years out of reach! This has significant implications for our societies at large, and especially for female dominated professional sectors, like nursing, with women making up 90% of the EU nursing workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Women\u2019s Day 2026 acts therefore as a indispensable reminder that resilient healthcare systems are firmly reliant on gender-balanced leadership. Women and nurses bring essential expertise and experience to health and social policies, yet they remain underrepresented where key decisions are made. This must change!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With ongoing workforce challenges, more women and nurses are leaving the profession. EFN therefore urges the EU to address gender inequality in healthcare by improving working conditions, leadership opportunities, and political representation for women. In this regard, EFN welcomes the ongoing work in the European Parliament SANT-EMPL Own-Initiative Report (INI) on the Health Workforce<\/a>, which is addressing these challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and nurses are agents of change. Empowering women and nurses strengthens democracy, governance, and public health outcomes. As such, on International Women\u2019s Day 2026, EFN is calling for stronger recognition of women\u2019s leadership in healthcare and beyond, and for effective policy measures to support women and nurses to take up leadership positions at all levels of healthcare systems and policymaking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the EU Gender Equality Index 2025, gender equality…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8508,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=8508","url_meta":{"origin":19655,"position":0},"title":"International Women’s Day – “Gender Equality in Health Workforce”","author":"efn efn","date":"March 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Equitable wise labour law reforms will be a first step in building a more social inclusive Europe. 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