Gender Equality Action Plans for Parliaments: Step-by-step tool

• As gender mainstreaming tools, gender treaties, in the gender mainstreaming reso- equality action plans are embedded within lutions of the European Parliament (7), and the EU’s commitment to gender equality the EU’s Gender Equality Strategy (2020– and gender mainstreaming. [...] Why are gender equality action plans important for parliaments? The European Parliament’s gender mainstreaming resolutions and gender equality action plan Since 1997, the European Parliament has adopted seven resolutions on gender mainstreaming that describe the commitments of the European Parliament to integrate a gender perspective into all areas and activities of the institution (10) and to dev. [...] The Gender Equality Working Group included a representative from the Board of the Parliament of Catalonia, representatives from all parliamentary groups and subgroups, representatives from the Parliament’s Staff Council, General Secretary (in the development phase), the Office of the Presidency, and legal services (in the implementation phase). [...] The group collected qualitative and quantitative data on the state of gender equality within the parliament under the supervision of a newly established Gender Equality Working Group comprising representatives from the Board of the Parliament, all parliamentary groups and subgroups, the Staff Council, the General Secretary, and the Office of the Presidency. [...] S tep 2: Develop and adopt a The findings of the assessment can guide da- gender equality action plan ta-driven decisions on the main aims of the gender equality action plan, and the specific After assessing the level of gender-sensitivity gender inequalities the plan will address.