WOMEN IN EUROPE

The European Union

Equal Opportunities in the European Union

The Council of Europe

Equality between women and men

RoSa - Alert

Quite regularly information that matters to women is published on the websites  of the European Union and the Council of Europe. Only, this relevant information is a little hard to find. That is why RoSa helps you with its selection of must-read messages, reports, decisions and regulations concerning gender equality. RoSa browses, you get informed at just one mouse click.

European Union Directives on equal opportunities for women and men

1975 - Equal pay for men and women
Directive 75/117 of 10 February 1975.

1976 - Equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions.
Directive 76/207 of 9 February 1976.

1978 - Equal treatment of men and women in matters of social security.
Directive 79/7 of 19 December 1978.

1986 - Equal treatment for men and women in occupational social security schemes.
Directive 86/378/EEC of 24 July 1986

1986 - Equal treatment between men and women engaged in an activity, including agriculture, in a self-employed capacity, and on the protection of self-employed women during pregnancy and motherhood.
Directive 86/613 of 11 December 1986

1992 - Improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding.
Directive 92/85 of 19 October 1992.

1996 - Framework agreement on parental leave concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC.
Directive 96/34 of 3 June 1996.

1997 - Burden of proof in cases of discrimination based on sex.
Directive 97/80 of 15 December 1997.

1998 - Framework agreement on part-time working concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC.
Directive 97/81 of 15 December 1997.

2000 - Equal treatment in employment and occupation.
Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000.

2002 - Amendment of the 1976 Directive on access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions.
Directive 2002/73/EC of 23rd September 2002

2004 - Equal treatment between men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services
Directive 2004/113/EC of 13 December 2004

2006 - Equal opportunities and equal treatment of men andwomen in matters of employment and occupation (recast)
Directive 206/54/EC of 5 July 2006