This EU-wide campaign tackles gender stereotypes affecting both men and women in different spheres of life, including career choices, sharing care responsibilities and decision-making. The European Commission launched a campaign to challenge gender stereotypes, on 8 March 2023.
After 10 years of negotiations, the Directive has been finally adopted on 22 November 2022. On 8 March 2022, the European Commission adopted a new EU-wide proposal for a directive to combat violence against women and domestic violence. The proposal seeks to introduce targeted minimum rules on the rights of this group of crime victims, and to criminalise the most severe forms of violence against women and of cyber violence.Ī milestone achievement is the Directive on gender balance in corporate boards, which seeks to improve the gender balance in corporate decision-making positions in the EU largest listed companies. While the Strategy focuses on actions within the EU, it is coherent with the EU’s external policy on gender equality and women’s empowerment.Īs one of the first deliverables of the Strategy, the Commission proposed binding pay transparency measures on 4 March 2021. The Strategy pursues a dual approach of gender mainstreaming combined with targeted actions, and intersectionality is a horizontal principle for its implementation. The key objectives are ending gender-based violence challenging gender stereotypes closing gender gaps in the labour market achieving equal participation across different sectors of the economy addressing the gender pay and pension gaps closing the gender care gap and achieving gender balance in decision-making and in politics. The goal is a Union where women and men, girls and boys, in all their diversity, are free to pursue their chosen path in life, have equal opportunities to thrive, and can equally participate in and lead our European society.
The Strategy presents policy objectives and actions to make significant progress by 2025 towards a gender-equal Europe. The EU Gender Equality Strategy delivers on the von der Leyen Commission’s commitment to achieving a Union of Equality.
However, gender gaps remain and in the labour market women are still over-represented in lower paid sectors and under-represented in decision-making positions.
gender mainstreaming, integration of the gender perspective into all other policies.Although inequalities still exist, the EU has made significant progress in gender equality over the last decades.
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