Women in every community face diverse, different, and often more pressing challenges than men. They face higher levels of poverty, greater unemployment, multiple discrimination, different health consequences, gender discrimination within their own communities, with girls facing special education and health challenges of their own. Often, strategies and solutions built for a ‘general’ population fail to recognize and account for the specific problems they face, highlighting the focus on gender mainstreaming in recent years to draw attention to these specific needs.
This report finds that these three areas, gender in particular, deserve more thorough attention both in the EU framework and recommendation as well as in the national strategies of the countries. Finally, this report offers some methods for both the EU bodies and the member states to more adequately mainstream gender, as well as youth, and strengthens their approaches to anti-discrimination measures.
The report is available in PDF here.
