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REPORT (2024/2125(INI))

On the Gender Equality Strategy 2025

A-10-2025-0210

Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality · Rapporteur: Marko Vešligaj

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This resolution calls on the Commission to present an ambitious Gender Equality Strategy 2026-2030 with concrete measures. It demands action on gender-based violence, healthcare, work, poverty, education, care, representation, climate, foreign policy, and civil society.

Key points

  1. Calls on the Commission to include gender-based violence as a new area of crime under Article 83(1) TFEU and to publish a recommendation on preventing harmful practices against women and girls.
  2. Urges the Commission to recognise femicide as a distinct crime and to criminalise rape based on absence of consent across the EU.
  3. Calls for swift transposition of the directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence, and for guidelines on its implementation, including consent education.
  4. Demands universal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, including safe and legal abortion, and calls for sanctions against regressions in women's rights.
  5. Urges the Commission to address the gender health gap, develop a strategy for women's health, and ensure gender-sensitive healthcare, including for mental health and chronic diseases.
  6. Calls for measures to reduce the gender pay and pension gaps, including binding measures for equal pay for work of equal value and support for women's labour market participation.
  7. Urges the Commission to make the anti-poverty strategy gender-responsive, address female poverty, and ensure access to affordable housing and menstrual products.
  8. Calls for gender-inclusive education, consent-based sexuality education, and measures to close the gender gap in STEM and digital sectors.
  9. Urges the Commission to develop a European Care Deal with binding targets, including at least 2% of EU GDP for care services by 2030, and to strengthen the Work-Life Balance Directive.
  10. Calls for measures to achieve 50:50 gender parity in political decision-making and for the EU institutions to serve as role models ahead of the 2029 European elections.
  11. Urges the Commission to promote a feminist foreign policy, implement the Women, Peace and Security agenda, and ensure gender equality in external actions, including 85% of ODA mainstreaming gender.
  12. Calls for protection and funding of women's rights organisations, countering anti-gender movements, and ensuring that EU funds do not support anti-democratic objectives.

Who is affected

  • Women and girls in the EU, particularly those facing intersectional discrimination, will be affected by calls for stronger protections and services.
  • Member States are urged to ratify the Istanbul Convention, transpose directives, and implement measures on gender equality and violence.
  • The Commission is tasked with proposing legislation, guidelines, and strategies, and with monitoring implementation.
  • Employers and businesses would face sanctions for discrimination and must comply with labour legislation.
  • Civil society organisations, especially women's rights groups, are to be supported and funded.

Figures and deadlines

  • At least 2% of EU GDP to care services by 2030.
  • 85% of all EU official development assistance mainstreaming gender and 20% dedicated to gender-targeted projects.
  • 50:50 gender parity in political decision-making.

Legal basis: Articles 2 and 3 of the Treaty on European Union and Articles 8, 10, 19, 79, 83, 151, 153 and 157 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.