eu gender equality strategy
On International Women’s Day, we call on EU Institutions to ensure the rights of women and girls with disabilities are considered in all policies regarding gender equality. 2020 must be the start of a new chapter for gender equality. The Strategy pursues a dual approach of gender mainstreaming combined with targeted actions, and intersectionality is a horizontal principle for its implementation. We welcome the good example established by the recently published EU Gender Equality Strategy. While the Strategy focuses on actions within the EU, it is coherent with the EU’s external policy on gender equality … The idea is to highlight that ‘from challenge comes change’ and that ‘we can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality’. To give a fresh impetus to gender equality and set out new political objectives, as outlined in President Ursula von der Leyen's political guidelines, the Commission presented today a new EU Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025. [1] Choosing to challenge – the EU Gender Equality Strategy one year in | Eurofound DefinitionThe gender equality strategy frames the European Commission’s work on gender equality. Today, the European Commission presented its Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025 for equality between women and men in Europe. It sets out the policy objectives and key actions for 2020–2025, following on from the Commission’s 2016–2019 strategic engagement for gender equality. During the last decade, the European Commission adopted a Strategy for equality between women and men 2010-2015 and a Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019. on the EU Strategy for Gender Equality (2019/2169(INI))The European Parliament, – having regard to Articles 2 and 3(3) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), and Articles 6, 8, 10, 83, 153, 157 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), – having regard to Articles 21 and 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, The new strategy aims to achieve a gender-equal Europe where gender-based violence, discrimination and structural inequality are European Parliament resolution of 21 January 2021 on the EU Strategy for Gender Equality (2019/2169(INI))The European Parliament, – having regard to Articles 2 and 3(3) of the Treaty on European Union, and Articles 6, 8, 10, 83, 153, 157 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union … While the EU is a global leader in gender equality and has made significant progress in the last decades, gender-based violence and stereotypes continue to persist: one in three women in the EU was subject to physical and/or sexual violence. The EU Gender Equality Strategy is a great start, and we look forward to the next steps. The EU’s much anticipated Gender Equality Strategy for 2020-2025, released on 5 March, is an important step up for the EU on gender equality.But without addressing parallel policy agendas that actively undermine migrants’ opportunities and safety, the strategy risks leaving out millions of people. On 5 March the European Commission unveiled the EU Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025 setting out actions across all policy areas aimed at achieving gender equality in the EU. welcomes the Communication A Union of Equality: Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025 and the views, political objectives and measures it sets out, believing it to be a very valuable basis for making tangible progress on equality in the European Union;