Lisa Pelling
Impacts of crises are never gender-neutral, and the pandemic is no exception. Women are over-represented in the sectors hardest hit by the spread of the coronavirus, such as food service, retail and entertainment, and many have been forced to leave their paid jobs due to the increased pressure of unpaid care work. Unpaid care is notoriously unequally shared between men and women and, particularly where schools and preschools have been closed, many women have had to give up their paid occupation to fulfil the care needs of their families.
Measures to prevent the spread of the virus have thus disproportionately affected women’s employment opportunities and incomes. The general economic downturn caused by the pandemic, whose effects we are only beginning to feel, will also have more dire consequences for women than for men, as women already earned less and had fewer savings.
Europees Parlement (EP)
Het Europees Parlement (EP) vertegenwoordigt ruim 450 miljoen Europeanen en bestaat momenteel uit 705 afgevaardigden (inclusief voorzitter). Nederland heeft 29 zetels in het Europees Parlement. Het Europees Parlement wordt geacht een stem te geven aan de volkeren van de 27 landen die aan de Unie deelnemen, en vooral te letten op het belang van de Unie in zijn geheel.
De leden van het Europees Parlement worden om de vijf jaar rechtstreeks gekozen door de burgers van de Europese Unie. De volgende verkiezingen zijn in 2024. Het Parlement debatteert op basis van voorstellen van de Europese Commissie en kan daarbij wijzigingen voorstellen, waarna het Parlement samen met de Raad van de Europese Unie een beslissing over deze voorstellen neemt.
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[6]. The power subdomain [7] of the Gender Equality Index in decision-making in the private sector companies is the lowest score of Luxembourg with 32.1,
ranking 17th among 28 states [8].
Luxembourg is only above the EU countries such as Estonia, Romania, Lithuania, Slovakia, Malta, Greece, Cyprus.
Despite the effort the Grand Duchy is putting to eliminate the gender inequality on political decision-making, Luxembourg has fallen down 2 steps in the
Gender Equality Index since 2005 [9] and its progress could be defined as snail’s pace compared to the other European states.
Luxembourg’s overall score has improved with an increase of 1.1 point from 69.2 in 2019 to 70.3 in 2020 and is 2.4 points above the EU score of 67.9. However, it should be reminded that this is due to Luxembourg ranking 1st (with a score of 91.8) in the core domain titled “money” of the index as a prosperous country, which increases its overall score.
On 6 April next, at 8:30 am (Lisbon time), a high-level conference will be held on the “10th anniversary of signing the Istanbul Convention. The state of play”, organised by the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
This conference is aimed at reviewing the ten years of the Istanbul Convention, analysing the impacts of the pandemic and, in particular, reflecting on the measures and concrete actions needed to ensure that the standards of the Convention are met, in accordance with the EU s fundamental priority of putting an end to all kinds of violence against women and girls and the new EU Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025.