Translation of "intégration de la problématique hommes-femmes " (French → English) :

Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women

gender-sensitive analysis

Gender in Development Programme | GIDP [Abbr.]

11. Emphasizes the importance of the Institute's activities on gender approach and wider involvement of women in leadership positions as required by the recent Commission documents on gender equality such as the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures (COM(2012)0614) and the Communication entitled" Gender balance in business leadership: a contribution to smart, sustainable and inclusive growth" (COM(2012)0615);

Support the development and promote the use of adapted gender mainstreaming tools such as gender budgeting and gender impact assessments and consider implementing these instruments in the framework of Erasmus+ and other EU funding instruments, where appropriate.

83. Calls on the Member States to ensure that negative effects of fiscal consolidation on gender equality, female employment and poverty are reversed by adopting a gender mainstreaming approach in national budgets, addressing stronger gender-specific recommendations to Member States, and disaggregating the Europe 2020 headline targets and the corresponding national targets by gender;

Calls on the High Representative to ensure gender balance in the establishment of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and to draw up an action plan with a view to pursuing gender balance in the EU delegations, including at the highest level; calls on the Council and the Commission to open a post for a European women’s envoy, as already demanded by the European Parliament in March 2008, in order to focus specifically on the position of women in the context of the EU’s external policies, and calls for gender mainstreaming to be structurally embedded in the EEAS; calls on the Commission, the Council and the Member States actively ...[+++]to promote and support the empowerment of women to participate in their bilateral and multilateral relations with states and organisations outside the Union;