Equal opportunities women-men: integration into Community policies (mainstreaming). Progress report

The Committee unanimously adopted a report on the Commission's first progress report on the follow-up to its 1996 paper on "mainstreaming" (incorporating equal opportunities for women and men into all Community policies and activities). The committee regretted that measures taken so far had not influenced mainstream Community policies to any great extent outside those policy areas with a longer tradition and expertise in promoting mainstreaming, such as employment and the Structural Funds. The rapporteur, Marianne ERIKSSON (EUL/NGL, S), also called on the Commission to give priority over the coming year to three topics: statistics, increasing the number of women in management positions and differences in income and work. Lastly, the committee called for an interinstitutional working party to be set up to ensure that the issue of equal opportunities is taken into account in all Community activities.�