Femmes en Méditerranée. Premier Rapport de Suivi de la Fondation des Femmes de l’Euro-Méditerranée des Conférences Ministérielles

Beyond the progress achieved, Euro-Mediterranean societies have not yet granted women their rightful place.

Both in the North and South, they are underrepresented in economic and political powers and overrepresented in precarious, unstable, low paid, poorly regarded and insecure jobs. In the current framework of economic, institutional and social crisis in Europe and the Mediterranean, we are witnessing a flagrant regression of women’s rights, an increase of inequality and the mass feminisation of poverty.

We are aware that political action, strategic mobilisation and feminist solidarity, including between the different regions and generations, are responses to the questioning of women’s gains and rights and the achievement of their freedom and physical integrity...