Translation of "Genderation " (English → French) :

Calls on the Member States, with a view to achieving gender equality in the information society and ICTs, to establish multiannual action plans aimed at: increasing women’s access to the information society, improving and increasing women’s use of ICT, giving women a more significant role in ICT sectors, fostering women’s ICT knowledge through education and training, promoting employment and entrepreneurial spirit among women through regular use of the internet and digital services, developing online content that promotes gender equality, fostering the continuous exchange, dissemination and communication of equality values, promoting acc ...[+++]ess to and use of ICTs as tools against gender discrimination in areas such as gender violence, promoting international cooperation, establishing a work-life balance, and the design, implementation, dissemination and evaluation of equality policies and plans.

In its conclusions on the role of sport as a source of and a driver for active social inclusion (7), the Council invited the Member States and the Commission to promote actions related to mainstreaming gender equality into sport-related activities, especially as regards decision making positions, and to address sport in connection with gender roles as set out in the EU gender strategy. In addition, gender based violence should be combatted in order to ensure the full enjoyment by women and men of their human rights and to achieve gender equality.

Consider developing policies and programmes for eliminating gender stereotypes and promoting gender equality in education curricula and practices from an early age, including research, studies, statistics and analysis of the effect that gender stereotypes have on efforts to achieve real gender equality in sport.

The Hellenic Presidency seminar on ‘Gender Based Violence in Sport: Protection of Minors’ of 20 March 2014 in Athens, called for the addressing and regular monitoring of gender equality in sport at all levels and fields of sport, including gender based violence in sports, and for the assessment of the nature and extent of gender based violence in sport, focusing in particular on elite sport, the coach-athlete relationship, the entourage of the sport-athlete relationship and the peer athlete-athlete relationship.

Regrets that the Commission does not put enough emphasis on the gender dimension of poverty; believes the EU must invest in the specific needs of women and design social protection packages that address the challenges faced by women; emphasises that gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) are essential to the attainment of international development goals; highlights the fact that the economic and political empowerment of women is not only a driving force for gender equality but is also fundamental to achieving overall economic growth in developing countries and reducing poverty; urges the Commission to ensure that gender equal ...[+++]ity and the empowerment of women will be mainstreamed in all EU development policies and programmes through its 2010 Gender Action Plan;

Violence that is directed against a person because of that person's gender, gender identity or gender expression or that affects persons of a particular gender disproportionately, is understood as gender-based violence.