GENDER FIVE PLUS
G5+
G5+ promotes equality between women and men in order to help bring about gender justice in the European Union and beyond.
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Lobbying Activity
Response to Gender Equality Strategy 2026-2030
27 Jul 2025
Gender Five Plus contribution to the consultation on the EU gender equality strategy 2025-30 A bold EU gender equality strategy has never been more necessary to defend womens rights , to boost the economy and to ensure a smooth digital and green transitions (see G5+ policy papers attached) The strategy 2020-25 has allowed significant progress in legislation, opening rights which are not all transcribed and implemented. While all the eight principles (and their objectives) of the declaration for a gender equal society annexed to the Roadmap published in March 2025 should be operationalized in the new strategy 2025-30, we wish to underline the structural importance of principle 8 on the institutionalization of Gender equality: To ensure a proper implementation and prevent a backlash, gender equality should be secured by strong institutional anchors both in EU institutions and in member states. In this spirit, a communication or directive on gender mainstreaming should be proposed to the European Parliament and the Council, with a common definition of GM and implementation methodologies in different policy areas , together with compulsory training and monitoring systems. The Commission should lead the way by making gender mainstreaming mandatory in all its policies and formalizing the standing and resourcing of the equality task force created informally in 2020. A formation of the council of ministers dedicated to gender equality should be proposed as a necessary cog in the machinery. In this context, priority fields for mainstreaming gender equality include : the EU budget: Building on the excellent work done on the ex post assessment, the next critical step it to develop and integrate ex ante tools to introduce gender conditionality in the allocation of resources. Economic governance : integrating gender equality in the European economic governance instruments starting with the European semester process Climate and digital transitions: Ensuring these transformative processes are gender responsive (see the 2 G5+ policy papers on ( https://genderfiveplus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Gender-equality-and-the-European-Green-Deal-2.pdf) and https://genderfiveplus.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Report-Victoire-AI-1.pdf ) Gender mainstreaming must be treated as a legal and institutional obligation. As emphasized in the European Court of Auditors 2021 Special Report, core components such as gender impact assessments, sex-disaggregated data, and gender-related objectives are still missing from most EU budget instruments. Embedding these tools across the new Multiannual Financial Framework is crucial for achieving long-lasting change. Considering the backlash against gender equality that we are witnessing in the last years in some member states, the EU should take a step forward to defend its citizens rights. The access to safe and voluntary termination of pregnancy is a basic and fundamental right that the EU is still failing to protect in its territory. Measures and policy actions on sexual, reproductive and health rights should be prioritized. The EU should not accept backlash on the rights of LGBTI community, especially of lesbian women (i.e. adoption rights in Italy have been restricted). Violence against women is still a serious matter that affects women in all stages of their lives, and it takes several forms. Digital or cyberviolence is for example a new space where violence against women takes place, and strong measures on that regard should be put forward by the EU. The internet should be a safe space for all. An intersectional approach to actions on gender equality should enhanced, it is important to consider how gender interacts with other discriminatory categories such as age, class, disability, race, migrant/national. in all EU actions.The EU has several instruments to advance on gender equality but it needs the courage to put them forward and implement them rigorously and with accountability.
Read full responseMeeting with Alexandra Geese (Member of the European Parliament)
12 Dec 2024 · Event: Push*Back*Lash Conference on Anti-Gender Backlash & Democratic Pushback
Response to Preventing and combatting gender-based violence
23 Dec 2020
Le think tank feministe européen Gender Five Plus que j'ai l'honneur de presider , apporte tout son soutien a la commission pour cette initiative que nous attendions depuis longtemps . Le choix de l'option 3 s'impose . Elle correspond a l'analyse que nous avions faite dans le document "ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN THE ISTANBUL CONVENTION AND BEYOND" publié sur notre site web a l'adress ciu jointe https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/530efa_315962b25b7647798eb0bc259f25f5b5.pdf
3) A holistic legislative initiative on preventing and combatting gender-based violence and domestic
violence:
Under option 3, the Commission would complement the measures of option 2 by proposing a legislative initiative
on preventing and combatting gender-based violence and domestic violence. The proposal would aim at a
comprehensive sectoral directive to prevent such violence, strengthen the protection of victims and witnesses and
punish offenders. The new EU instrument would establish binding minimum standards in the areas under EU
competence and enable EU level enforcement of those minimum rules. It would extend the prevention and
support mechanisms currently in place for certain forms of gender-based and domestic violence to all forms. It
would bring together the relevant provisions of EU law into one instrument and strengthen them. On gender-based
online violence, it would complement the existing EU measures and be applied jointly with the general EU
framework on online content regulation
Read full responseMeeting with Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President) and Friends of Europe and
7 Mar 2018 · Discussion of gender equality and the Future of Europe