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Violence directed against a woman because she is a woman, or that affects women disproportionately ('gender-based violence against women') is a violation of fundamental rights, and a major obstacle to gender equality in all EU Member States. Despite increased attention, national legislation does not offer equal protection for women against all forms of gender-based violence across the EU, and there are significant gaps in the measures adopted at EU level. On 8 March 2022, the European Commission ...

One hundred years after women won the vote or were first elected to parliament in some EU countries, the data show that women continue to be under-represented in politics and public life, in the European Parliament, but also in national parliaments, governments and local assemblies. The arguments for gender balance in politics are numerous. It benefits not only women and female politicians, but also political parties themselves and the rest of society. After all, women form half the population and ...

Cette étude, commandée par le Département thématique des droits des citoyens et des affaires constitutionnelles du Parlement européen à la demande de la commission FEMM, propose un aperçu et procède à une évaluation de l’incidence des médias sociaux sur les femmes et sur les filles, sur l’égalité des genres, ainsi que sur la démocratie et la participation civique de manière plus globale. Elle analyse si les médias sociaux donnent un biais au traitement des femmes et des hommes, et formule des recommandations ...

This Briefing, written by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the FEMM Committee, provides background information for the FEMM Delegation to New York and Washington, D.C. scheduled from 5 to 11 March 2023. It includes information on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), a functional commission of the United Nation’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated ...

Care work provided in homes and institutions is a public good that is under-valued by society. Care workers are more likely to have low earnings and precarious working conditions. About 9 in 10 care workers are women. Most unpaid care work within households is carried out by women. The 'unpaid care penalty' for women in the EU, which is equivalent to the earnings they lost because of this unbalanced distribution of care responsibilities, is estimated to reach €242 billion per year. EU action in the ...

This briefing provides an initial analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Commission's impact assessment (IA) accompanying the above-mentioned proposal, submitted on 8 March 2022 and referred to the European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM). European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced in her political guidelines for the Commission's 2019-2024 term that the EU accession to the Council of Europe's Istanbul Convention on preventing ...

Cette étude, commandée par le département thématique des droits des citoyens et des affaires constitutionnelles à la demande de la commission FEMM, présente un résumé des réalisations obtenues dans le domaine des femmes et des transports au sein de l’Union européenne, en ce qui concerne les connaissances et les mesures en vertu desquelles les femmes sont considérées comme des usagères des transports et des travailleuses du secteur des transports. Elle présente les données et les concepts les plus ...

Cette étude, commandée par le département thématique des droits des citoyens et des affaires constitutionnelles du Parlement européen à la demande de la commission JURI, donne une vue d’ensemble des politiques en faveur de la présence des femmes dans les conseils des entreprises dans les différents États membres. Elle analyse plus particulièrement les politiques, les pratiques et leur incidence sur la présence effective de femmes dans les conseils en Espagne, en France, en Italie, aux Pays-Bas et ...

Violence against women is a violation of human rights and a form of gender-based discrimination. Rooted in inequalities between men and women, it takes many forms. Estimates of the scale of the problem are alarming. Such violence has a major impact on victims and imposes a significant cost burden on society. The instruments put in place by the United Nations and Council of Europe, including the latter's 'Istanbul Convention', to which the EU plans to accede, are benchmarks in efforts to combat violence ...