Evidence to Action: Gender equality and gender mainstreaming in the COVID-19 recovery

The gender equality provisions of the RRF framework fall short in comparison with the legal and policy commitments to gender Key findings equality by the EU and the Member States • Tackling the adverse impacts of the crisis The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted on women is a general objective of the RRF. [...] 8 European Institute for Gender Equality Executive summary • The RRF regulation does not follow the EU’s Overall, ministries of finance shaped the selec- dual approach to gender equality (2) or the EU tion of measures on the basis of pre-existing Gender Equality Strategy to set the gender economic priorities, and the focus on large equality objectives of the RRF and the RRPs. [...] The the EU; core element of the NGEU fund is the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), which aims to miti- • provide a general gender assessment of the gate the economic and social impacts of the pan- RRF framework and identify opportunities and demic while making European economies and challenges for gender equality and gender societies more sustainable and prepared for the mainstreaming; green. [...] impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on gender gaps in employment and incomes in the EU; This study was carried out in support of the Swed- ish Presidency of the Council of the European • Chapter 3 assesses the RRF regulation from Union to ensure ongoing follow-up on the imple- a gender equality and gender mainstreaming mentation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the perspective; EU. [...] Cross-country analysis of the impact of COVID-19-related tax–benefit policies on gender inequality in earnings and disposable incomes average probability in the EU of moving from informing the gendered assessment of the distri- employment to non-employment due to the butional impact of the COVID-19 crisis and policy COVID-19 shock was higher for younger workers response in the EU is provided in An.