Ahead of #InternationalWomensDay 2023, a state-of-play on the implementation of the EU Gender Equality Strategy (2020-2025)
We've made lots of progress on EU legislation in the past year⤵️
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Justice/status/1633063244259631105
November 2022: EU adopted rules to improve #GenderBalance on corporate boards.
➡️https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_22_7074
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Justice/status/1633063246876798977
September 2022: we proposed #EUCareStrategy.
2 months later, EU ministers adopted new targets on early childhood education & care for 2030.
More and better childcare services will help women to return to paid work after a period of family leave.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Justice/status/1633063250995605511
December 2022: We reached political agreement on new EU rules for #PayTransparency.
Now we must finalise them to make the principle of equal pay for equal work a reality!
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Justice/status/1633063253407420420
In March 2022 we put forward a proposal for new EU rules to combat #ViolenceAgainstWomen and domestic violence.
➡️https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/e%20n/ip_22_1533
We now call on @EUCouncil and @europarl_en to adopt this proposal as soon as possible.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Justice/status/1633063256309809153
Coming up in 2023:
We plan to present a Recommendation on combating harmful practices in the EU, including female genital mutilation #EndFGM.
Watch this space!
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Justice/status/1633136135982530561
We also call for a swift finalisation of the EU’s accession to the #IstanbulConvention on #ViolenceAgainstWomen.
https://www.coe.int/web/istanbul-convention/home
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Justice/status/1633136132593442816