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The OMC was extended to the field of pensions in 2001 and to the field of healthcare and long-term care in 2004, in both of which equality between women and men was then promoted from the start. In order to create a stronger, more visible OMC in the social area, the European Commission set forth detailed proposals in 2005 10 for simplified and synchronised reporting in the fields of social inclusion, pensions, health and long-term care. The aim was to create a heightened focus on policy implementation and closer interaction with the revised Lisbon Strategy. In particular, the Commission asked the Member States to provide forward-looking National Strategy Reports on Social Protection and Social Inclusion, which address the specific challenges of each of these policy fields, based on common objectives adopted by the European Council in March 2006 11 . The promotion of equality between women and men was identified by the European Council as an overarching common objective of this process. The first reports by the Member States in this cycle were submitted in the autumn of 2006 (covering 2006-2008) and the second reporting cycle took place in the autumn of 2008 (covering 2008-2010). The evaluation of the Member States’ strategies has been published in the annual Joint Reports on Social Protection and Social Inclusion 12 . Findings from the first reporting cycle showed that overall, the Member States are incorporating some gender concerns in their policies and that data are broken down by sex more often than in the past, but there is still considerable room for improvement in ensuring that policy measures are better informed by gender considerations across all three strands of cooperation. In particular, many Member States see the main route out of poverty and exclusion by eliminating obstacles to parents', especially mothers', labour market participation. Measures to facilitate reconciliation of work and family life were thus often highlighted in Member States' National Strategy Reports, including improved access to quality childcare. However, broader gender equality issues, such as the need to promote a more equal sharing of domestic work and of care responsibilities, received attention only in a few reports, as did the potential role of ICT to facilitate reconciliation. 10 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2005:0706:FIN:EN:PDF 11 http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/spsi/common_objectives_en.htm 12 http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/spsi/joint_reports_en.htm 14508/09 ADD 1 PL/vk 20 ANNEX DG G EN
Key findings from the second reporting cycle indicated that gender considerations featured more than in the past but could be mainstreamed more consistently. In particular: • for social inclusion, a number of measures tackled gender-specific problems (such as labour market integration, child poverty, lone parenthood, and flexible forms of work) which were likely to benefit women, but a general tendency was that these problems had not always been analysed from a gender perspective, nor were the measures necessarily • aimed at increasing gender equality. Nevertheless, almost half of the Member States acknowledged the specific problems faced by women, and proposed measures aimed at directly helping them. Some have also designed specific measures to help immigrant women and one Member State proposed improving the specific situation of Roma women. • for pensions, many Member States reported significant wage gaps between employed men and women. The Joint Report underlined that though substantially reduced, the resulting gender gaps in retirement income are set to persist. It underlined that a proposed solution to the problem was the equalisation of the pension eligibility ages for men and women, but that constant efforts would be needed to achieve gender equality on the labour market and in the distribution of care burdens. It would also be important to monitor the effects of policies whereby replacement incomes and pension entitlements were given for care-related absences from the labour market in order to prevent such forms of protection from becoming new dependency traps. • for healthcare and long-term care, gender mainstreaming was applied only in rare cases. In addition, several activities/initiatives of the Commission in the social inclusion/social protection domain promoted gender equality in 2005-2009. These include the following: peer review seminars on minimum incomes and older women's poverty 13 and on the return of women to the labour market; a manual on gender mainstreaming employment, social inclusion and social protection 13 http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/spsi/docs/spsi_gpa/spsi_gpa_7_minimum_incomes.pdf 14508/09 ADD 1 PL/vk 21 ANNEX DG G EN
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Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents Table of Contents
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4. 5. Women and armed conflict (E)
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men. As a result this ‘new’ ins
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To date, 10 of the 27 MS have devel
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• Indicator 4. Comprehensive and
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The data is uncertain and, at least
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Unemployment has been falling in mo
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The main political measures taken c
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• Indicator 7. Proportion of the
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Indicator 1: Women's access to poli
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parliaments (76 % men, 24 % women).
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Indicator 12: Out of 108 senior eco
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The Member States advance various r
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The Belgian quota law adopted in 20
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References Council Conclusions Nove
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4.9.3. The CEDAW The Convention on
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Member States report on increased p
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In Spain, a specific institute (Obs
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Women remain absent from leadership
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Some MS report on actions that have
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• L.1. Eliminate all forms of dis
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highest in Estonia with 90 %. The m
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EU commitments to achieve the objec
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6.3. Challenges for the future Euro
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The main challenges in the area of
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Annex I Indicators developed at EU
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Figure 4.3.1 Number of years with g
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Figure 4.3.3 Proportion of persons
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Figure 4.6.1 Employed women and men
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Figure 4.6.5 Proportion of children
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Figure 4.6.9 Time spent on domestic
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Figure 4.6.13 Time spent on domesti
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Table 4.7.1 The cluster of Member S
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Table 4.12.2 Difference between 15-
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