PES Women priorities

Priorities from 2006 onwards

In December 2006, PES Women agreed on the following priorities for the next 2,5 years:

Equal Pay
Reconciliation of professional, private and family life
Migration
Women and decision-making

Priorities 2004-2006

At the end of 2004, PES Women had decided unanimously on four equally important priorites that provided the guidelines until the end of 2006:

International

(1)Beijing +10 - preparation and follow-up of the meeting to be held under the Luxembourg presidency (early February in Luxembourg) and the UN meeting in New York (late February - early March). To consider in particular the objective of the empowerment of women.

The European Union

(2)Mid-term review of the Lisbon strategy due in March 2005 - the preparatory work for and follow-up work of the mid-term review.

(3)A campaign on gender equality in the workplace throughout the year, in particular on the persistent pay gap between men & women and the need to increase the provision of accessible and affordable childcare.

Within the PES and its member parties

(4)PES Women will continue to pursue the goal of gender equality within the PES and its member parties. Increasing the empowerment and visibility of women within our own political family is linked to the broader objective of the empowerment of women in society at large.

PES Women pledge card

On international women’s day (8 March 2005), PES Women launched their first pledge card . It serves as a communication tool to raise awareness of the work of PES Women and to convey its priorities.