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DRAFT REPORT (2024/2125(INI))

On the gender Equality Strategy 2025

FEMM-PR-770090

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

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This draft report calls on the Commission to present an ambitious Gender Equality Strategy 2026-2030 with concrete measures in key areas, including combating gender-based violence, ensuring healthcare access, and promoting equality in work, education, and decision-making. It urges action on femicide, consent-based rape legislation, gender-responsive healthcare, equal pay, care services, gender quotas, feminist foreign policy, and countering anti-gender movements, with intersectionality and gender mainstreaming as cross-cutting principles.

Committee position. The rapporteur proposes that Parliament adopt a resolution calling on the Commission to present an ambitious Gender Equality Strategy 2026-2030 with concrete measures in areas such as gender-based violence, healthcare, work, education, care, representation, and foreign policy.

Key points

  1. Calls on the Commission to present an ambitious Gender Equality Strategy 2026-2030 with concrete legislative and non-legislative measures.
  2. Calls for identifying gender-based violence as a new area of crime under Article 83(1) TFEU and for recognising femicide as a distinct crime.
  3. Urges monitoring of Directive (EU) 2024/1385 transposition and EU legislation criminalising rape based on absence of consent.
  4. Urges universal access to gender-responsive healthcare and full access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, including safe and legal abortion.
  5. Calls for monitoring transposition of directives on minimum wages, pay transparency, and women on boards, and for guidelines on 'value of work' and gender-neutral job evaluation.
  6. Urges gender-inclusive education and zero tolerance for gender-based violence in the digital environment.
  7. Calls for a European Care Deal with binding tools, aiming for an 'equal earner – equal carer' model and revising Barcelona targets.
  8. Urges legislative gender quotas and zipping-based lists for all elections and institutional gender parity.
  9. Calls for a feminist foreign, security, trade and development policy following the three 'R's principle.
  10. Urges a tool to monitor and counter backsliding in women's rights and democracy.
  11. Reiterates the need for intersectionality and gender mainstreaming in all efforts, including in Commission structures and budgetary procedures.

Who is affected

  • Women and girls in the EU, including those facing intersecting inequalities such as migrants, LGBTIQ+ persons, and women with disabilities.
  • The European Commission, which is called on to propose and implement the new strategy and related measures.
  • Member states, which are expected to transpose directives and implement measures on violence, pay, and care.

Figures and deadlines

  • 31 % of women in the EU have experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15.
  • One in three women in the EU does not have a paid job.
  • 7,7 million women in the EU are kept from the labour market by unpaid care responsibilities, compared to 450.000 men.
  • Only 17 % of ICT specialists in the EU are women; globally, only 22 % of AI professionals are women.

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