Declaration of principles for a gender-equal society

Question for oral answer O-000024/2025

to the Commission

Rule 142

Lina Gálvez on behalf of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

Subject: Declaration of principles for a gender-equal society

On 8 March 2025, the Commission published its Roadmap for Women’s Rights, which provides its political long-term vision to advance on women’s rights. Annexed to it was the Declaration of principles for a gender-equal society. In the roadmap, the Commission invites all interested parties, especially Parliament and the Council, social partners, civil society actors and other relevant organisations, to endorse the principles included in the declaration on women’s rights annexed to this roadmap in the course of 2025.

In the past five years, the EU has made historic progress with the adoption of a number of very significant legislative acts on pay transparency, gender balance on company boards, and on combating violence against women. Nevertheless, progress towards gender equality remains slow. Much more needs to be done and the roadmap should provide guidance for the future measures in the next gender equality strategy. Parliament is looking forward to this strategy and is in the process of preparing its input with an own initiative report on the gender equality strategy 2025.

1.How will the Commission ensure that Parliament’s positions regarding women’s rights and gender equality will be translated into the post-2025 gender equality strategy?

2.Parliament has several times made concrete calls for new legislative proposals in the field of women’s rights and gender equality: what can we expect from the Commission in the upcoming gender equality strategy in this regard?

Submitted: 16.7.2025

Lapses: 17.10.2025