Contact

E-mail: [email protected] 
tasa-arvotieto(at)thl.fi

Reetta Siukola
Chief Specialist
tel. +358 29 524 6523

Mia Teräsaho
Development Manager
tel. +358 29 524 7864

Anni Hyvärinen
Senior Planning Officer
tel. +358 29 524 7013

Emmi Rantanen
Planning Officer

Postal address 

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Centre for Gender Equality Information
P.O. Box 30, FI-00271 Helsinki

Centre for Gender Equality Information

Centre for Gender Equality Information, operating under the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), is a national information service that offers updated, research-based information on gender equality.

The centre compiles and distributes information related to gender equality and gender studies, acts as an expert on gender equality information, responds to information requests concerning equality and gender, cooperates with domestic and international gender equality actors and provides the gender equality website.

The gender equality website

The gender equality website offers updated, research-based information on gender and gender equality in Finland. The principal themes on the website are: violence, working life, family, education, health and wellbeing and decision-making. These themes are explored from the perspectives of gender equality policy, research and practical work towards gender equality. 

The website contains:

• information on gender, the promotion of gender equality and discrimination
• gender-oriented information on variety of topics
• studies, reports, statistics, guides, instructions and legislation 
• monitoring of gender equality news
• an events calendar
• a database of published doctoral dissertations.