Résumé
Although the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) was established 25 years ago, many of the challenges identified in 1995 remain relevant today (such as the gender pay gap, unequal distribution of unpaid work or experiences of gender-based violence, to name just a few). This report both tracks progress against these long-standing challenges and goes beyond them to assess new challenges that have emerged in recent years, including those brought by digitalisation, recent migration flows and a mounting backlash against gender equality. The report is the fifth review of the overall developments at EU level related to the 12 BPfA areas of concern. The report focuses particularly on trends and developments observed since 2013, picking up where the last such review (Beijing + 20, review period 2007-2012) left off. The report covers research and policy developments only up to March 2019, with a few exceptions in cases where important EU-level developments have happened more recently (such as the coming into force of the WorkLife Balance Directive or the recent elections to the European Parliament).