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The European Commission’s proposed 2020-2025 Gender Equality Strategy aims at “achieving a gender equal Europe where gender-based violence, sex discrimination and structural inequality between women and men are a thing of the past.

It aims to uphold and advance women’s rights and to address new gender equality challenges, such as technology-facilitated bias, discrimination, and violence. The Roadmap sets an EU political framework for women’s rights that will guide our ac

Promoting equal economic independence for women and men, closing the gender pay gap, advancing gender balance in decision making, ending gender based violence and promoting gender equality beyond the EU.

This article examines the evolution of gender equality within the European Union (EU) over the past decade, drawing on Eurostat data to highlight key trends and progress.

Although inequalities persist, over recent decades, substantial progress has been made towards achieving gender equality. In the EU this progress is due to legislation, the integration of gender perspectives across all policies, and targeted measures for

To secure this progress, the EU has enabled Member States to implement positive action measures in favour of women and has adopted ground-breaking legislative and non-legislative measures, such as its recent legislation on gender-based violence.