A Gendered Law to Face the Crisis

Starting from the consideration that the crisis has affected both women and men in Europe, but it has affected them differently, emphasizing differences and exacerbating weaknesses, the essay put its attention on this phenomenon studying the important role of decision-making and legislation in this context. The legislator, on the one hand, is called to understand how a gender perspective should intersect economic policies and policies for development and growth, and, on the other hand, act in order to protect and guarantee the fundamental rights that the crisis is jeopardizing. Gender equality and equal opportunities have been studied within a context of economic and social crisis, in order to debunk the false perception that gender equality may be an important aim to achieve, but not in times of crisis, when societies and governments should concentrate on creating economic growth.