Implementing Gender Equality and Mainstreaming in an Enlarged European Union – Some Thoughts on Prospects and Challenges for Central Eastern Europe

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Notes

1. There are ten EU equality directives: equal pay (75/117/EEC); equal treatment as regards access to employment (76/207/EEC as amended by directive 2002/73/EC); equal treatment with regard to statutory social security schemes (79/7/EEC); equal treatment with regard to occupational social security schemes (86/378/EEC); equal treatment for the self‐employed and their assisting spouses (86/613/EEC); pregnancy directive (92/85/EEC); working time directive (93/104/EC as amended by directive 2004/34/EC); parental leave (96/34/EC); burden on proof in sex discrimination (97/80/EC); part‐time work (97/81/EC).

2. Detailed information about the Community acquis in the social field is available online, <www.europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/enlargement/acquis_front_en.htm> and www.europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/enlargement/negotiations_13_en.htm