The Annual Lasok Lecture 2025 - Karen Vandekerckhove
Gender Equality in a brave new world? The EU’s policy on gender equality – past, present, and future
European Union devotes part of its justice and fundamental rights policy to combating gender inequality. Due to targeted legislation, gender mainstreaming, which is the integration of the gender perspective into all other policies, and further due to specific measures taken for empowerment of women, significant progress has been made in securing better education, training and job opportunities for women. Despite these measures, women remain over-represented in lower paid sectors and under-represented in decision-making positions in the European labour market (see further here: Gender equality strategy - European Commission). If you would like to hear more about the past, present and future of gender equality in the EU, join Lasok Lecture 2025 given by Ms Karen Vandekerckhove on the topic of: Gender Equality in a brave new world? The EU’s policy on gender equality – past, present, and future.
| A Law School lecture | |
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| Date | 26 March 2025 |
| Time | 17:00 to 18:00 |
| Place | Queens Building LT1 |
| Provider | Law School |
| Speaker(s) | Karen Vandekerckhove |
| Registration information | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1273791547809?aff=oddtdtcreator |
| Organizer | Joasia Luzak |
Event details
Ms Karen Vandekerckhove is the Head of the Gender Equality Unit and Deputy Director Equality and Non-Discrimination within the European Commission's Directorate General Justice and Consumers. Ms Vandekerckhove will be speaking about the EU’s gender equality policy, especially the achievements under the Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025, the Roadmap for Women’s Rights adopted on 7 March 2025, and the outlook for the future Strategy post-2025, taking into account an increasingly challenging political context as regards equality and non-discrimination policies.
Please note that this will be a hybrid event. If you intend to attend online, please indicate as much by selecting the appropriate ticket when registering your attendance.
There will be a drinks reception preceding the lecture, in Queen's Cafe, from 4:30pm.
Location:
Queens Building LT1
