At its meeting on 9 December, the Council of Ministers approved the III Plan for Gender Equality in the General Administration of the State and in the Public Bodies linked or dependent on it.
The Organic Law 3/2007 for the Effective Equality of Women and Men provides for the approval by the Government of a Plan for Equality in the General Administration of the State (AGE) and in its Public Bodies. In compliance with this forecast, the Council of Ministers adopted the agreements of 28 January 2011, which approved the I Plan, and of 20 November 2015, which approved the II Plan.
With this III Plan, the real needs of AGE staff will be addressed with a global and comprehensive scope and their measures will serve as a reference for the design and implementation of equality plans in all organizations.
As in previous plans, this III Plan is part of the legal framework of the United Nations, in compliance with the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda on gender equality, decent work and ensuring equal opportunities.
Its measures are aligned with the goals of the Strategic Plan for Equal Opportunities, set out in article 17 of the Organic Law and the Pact against Gender Violence, approved by Congress and the Senate in 2017.
Its objectives are: to measure for improvement, cultural change, gender mainstreaming and early detection and comprehensive approach to especially vulnerable situations.
Unlike the previous plans, it only includes measures of a cross-cutting nature, so that the different ministerial departments and dependent bodies can develop specific measures based on their common criteria and actions.
The III Plan is composed of 6 Action Axes, which develop 68 measures. The axes are as follows:
- Axis 1: Instrumental measures for organizational transformation
- Axis 2: Awareness, Training and Training
- Axis 3: Working conditions and personal development
- Axis 4: Co-responsibility and Reconciliation of work, personal and family life
- Axis 5: Violence against women
- Axis 6: Intersectionality and situations of special protection
This Plan incorporates actions against different forms of inequality or discrimination by prohibiting the innovative and advanced character of this Plan, including comparative diagnoses and also measures related to disability, all kinds of discrimination and attention to sexual diversity.
This Plan, in accordance with the provisions of the Organic Law, has been the subject of negotiation within the Technical Commission and Equal Opportunities and Treatment of Women and Men.
On 26 November 2020, the Commission agreed to raise its final text to the General Negotiating Bureau of the State Administration, and was formally approved by the General Negotiating Bureau at its meeting on 30 November 2020.