Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap
2025/2039(INI) · Own-initiative procedure
Procedure 2025/2039(INI) (own-initiative procedure) concerns “Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap”; the committee responsible is EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs). Concluded in Parliament: Last voted on 21 May 2026: adopted. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 21 May 2026 (final vote): adopted with 263 votes in favour, 83 against and 154 abstentions.
- Reference
- 2025/2039(INI)
- Type
- Own-initiative procedure
- Status
- Concluded in Parliament
- Lead
- EMPL Employment and Social Affairs
FEMM Women’s Rights and Gender Equality - Rapporteurs
- Eleonora Meleti (EPP, Greece), Rosa Estaràs Ferragut (EPP, Spain)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Estrella Galán (The Left, Spain), Kathleen Funchion (The Left, Ireland), Benedetta Scuderi (Greens/EFA, Italy), Katrin Langensiepen (Greens/EFA, Germany), Emma Rafowicz (S&D, France), Vilija Blinkevičiūtė (S&D, Lithuania), Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle (Renew, Netherlands), Valérie Devaux (Renew, France), Chiara Gemma (ECR, Italy), Margarita de la Pisa Carrión (PfE, Spain), Pál Szekeres (PfE, Hungary), Irmhild Boßdorf (ESN, Germany)
Roll-call votes in Parliament
- Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap (A10-0083/2026), 21 May 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0083/2026 – Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut – Motion for a resolution (as a whole), adopted, 263 for, 83 against, 154 abstentions; plus 30 more roll-call votes
Timeline
- 13 Feb 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
- 19 Feb 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
- 1 Sep 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
- 24 Mar 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
- 8 Apr 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
- 20 May 2026: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0, prepared by OpenRCV. Procedure file in the Legislative Observatory (OEIL)
Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0. Names of steps, roles and procedure types from the European Parliament’s vocabulary.