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Pictured from left: S&D MEP Robert Biedroń, FEMM Committee Chair; S&D MEP Carina Ohlsson; S&D MEP Evelyn Regner, Vice President of the European Parliament; Zita Gurmai, PES Women President; S&D MEP Marc Angel, Vice President of the European Parliament; S&D MEP Marek Balt.
Gender Equality, Feminism, Diversity

PES European elections candidates pledge to protect women’s rights

PES Women at CSW: eradicate poverty of women and girls to strengthen global gender equality
Gender Equality, Feminism, Diversity

PES Women at CSW: eradicate poverty of women and girls to strengthen global gender equality

PES Women publishes progressive blueprint to build a feminist economy for Europe
November 19, 2020

PES Women publishes progressive blueprint to build a feminist economy for Europe

Building on the long-standing commitment of the PES family to close gender gaps in the labour market, PES Women has put forward detailed proposals for an economic system of equality that works for both women and men.

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PES ministers for gender equality stand together against gender-based violence
November 5, 2020

PES ministers for gender equality stand together against gender-based violence

Gender-based violence is intolerable and a human rights violation which has no place in a Union of Equality, progressive ministers stated today as they adopted a declaration calling for urgent action to step up efforts to fight gender-based violence, including ratifying the Istanbul Convention.

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PES Women: Not all tasks can be shared. But most of them can. Let’s close the gender pay gap now, together!
November 4, 2020

PES Women: Not all tasks can be shared. But most of them can. Let’s close the gender pay gap now, together!

Today – European Unequal Pay Day – PES Women launches its annual campaign in cooperation with the Belgian socialist women’s organisation Zij-kant and the creative agency Mortierbrigade to raise awareness of the gender pay gap in Europe.

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PES Women: Gender equality policies cannot be put on hold amid COVID-19 pandemic
October 23, 2020

PES Women: Gender equality policies cannot be put on hold amid COVID-19 pandemic

Meeting by videoconference, PES Women convened to discuss key issues to advance the gender equality agenda at European level and in Member States. PES Women representatives expressed their concerns not only about the growing backlash against women’s rights but also the lack of focus on the topic in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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PES condemns stealthy abortion restriction in Poland
October 22, 2020

PES condemns stealthy abortion restriction in Poland

The Party of European Socialists deplores the ruling by the Polish Constitutional Court that abortion due to foetal defects is unconstitutional. This decision radically limits the rights of Polish women.

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PES Women: Angela Merkel must unblock ’Women on Boards’ Directive
October 6, 2020

PES Women: Angela Merkel must unblock ’Women on Boards’ Directive

Women make up less than 30% of board members and only 8% of CEOs of the largest listed companies in the EU. This gender inequality in economic decision-making is not only unfair, it is a waste of human resources, talent and innovative potential, PES Women said today as it called for the EU’s Women on Boards Directive to be implemented.

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