Protection and Promotion of Women’s Rights in the European Legal Order: from Gender Equality to Active Participation in the Democratic Life of the European Union

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"The main ""EU-Pro Women"" Jean Monnet Module's aim will be to explore and contribute to disseminate the topic of the “Protection and Promotion of Women’s Rights in the European Legal Order: from Gender Equality to Active Participation in the Democratic Life of the European Union”. In our opinion, this is an underexplored subject in the context of the EU’s action in the field of women’s protection and empowerment. The idea behind this project is the need to facilitate women’ participation in the public and democratic life of the European Union by granting them a ‘positive and safe environment’ in which their skills and ambitions could be promoted and developed. In fact, gender equality and women’s public life participation could be negative affected by everyday obstacles and uncertainties suffered by women. Furthermore, women suffering exposure to discrimination and/or domestic violence could never be granted the possibility to actively take part in the democratic life of EU institutions, directly or through their participation on civil society’s activities. Dialogue and participation in the governance of the European Union need active and successfully participation of European women and, to this end, all the necessary steps and actions must be taken at EU and national level in order to eliminate hurdles and to promote protection and empowerment."