The three teams met in Rome for a Final Conference, held at the Italian Parliament, on Nov 29

On 16 Nov the Polish team presented the research findings of the project at the University of Silesia with a Final national conference.

The Close the Deal, Fill the Gap project comes to an end with three national conferences in London (11 Nov), Katowice (16 Nov) and Rome (29 Nov), and a EU conference in Brussels (3 Nov).

The project is in its dissemination phase: a final European-level conference was held in Brussels at the EESC on 3 November 2016

The EU GPG in 2014: new statistics by Eurostat. For the economy as a whole, in 2014, women's gross hourly earnings were on average 16.1 % below those of men in the European Union (EU-28) and 16.5% in the euro area (EA-18). Across Member States, the gender pay gap varied by 25.4 percentage points, ranging from 2.9 % in Slovenia to 28.3 % in Estonia.

In Italy, an amendment to the draft of the 2016 Stability Law presented by the vice-presidents of the two Parliament Chambers (Valeria Fedeli and Titti Di Salvo) aims at introducing a 15-day mandatory paternity paid leave to be used by fathers within a month after the birth of their child.

25 Nov. 2016: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

There is a gender pay gap of 16.3% in the EU: from 2 Nov 2015 on, women symbolically stop earning for the rest of the year.

The gender pay gap: what do employees really think?

13th Congress for the ETUC in Paris

European Commission: a new framework for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment

The newly elected UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn wants all companies to publish details of their equal pay arrangements