The EU's Trade Policy: from gender-blind to gender-sensitive
Abstract
The European Commission services are currently reflecting on the follow-up to the Strategy for equality between women and men 2010-2015 (COM (2010) 491 final). The current strategy barely integrates gender equality into trade policy, thus providing an opportunity for the INTA committee to consider whether and how gender issues should be dealt with in the context of the EU's trade policies.
This paper begins with a short overview of the current understanding of the gender and trade policies nexus, describes how gender aspects are treated by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), then assesses how the Commission handles gender in regard to trade policy and concludes with some possible policy options.
Added by
CAWTAR
| 2019-02-10 15:25:22
Document Type
Papers
Source
the European Parliament
Keywords :
/Gender equality and trade//Trade liberalization//Gender equality in EU Trade Policy// Human rights//Women's economic empowerment//Employment//MDGs //Trade agreements//Gender equality on the WTO /Developing countries// North Africa//Jordan//Latin America//Canada/ /India//China/