Roadmap to advance gender equality in rural areas
This roadmap outlines a set of recommended actions to be implemented across short, medium and long-term horizons, aligned with the key milestones of 2025, 2030 and 2035. The actions are organised into seven interconnected focus areas: legal and policy frameworks, financial support, data and monitoring, innovation, knowledge exchange, governance, and cultural change.
Include rural women in EU EGS
Commissioners report gender impact annually
Integrate gender variables in EU observatories
Promote gender evaluation practices
Dedicated funding for rural women
Gender consultation for CAP planning
Inclusive Monitoring Committees required
Redefine innovation concept with gender lens
Gender in climate transition plans
Articulate Start-up & Scale-up Strategy for rural
Targets for EIP-AGRI gender groups
Women-led Innovation Focus Groups
Union of Skills & Quality Jobs for rural women
Establish Women in Agriculture Platform
Utilise CAP simplification for gender
Align CAP and Gender Strategy
Gender mainstreaming in European Pillar of Social Rights Social Pillar
Articulate Women's Rights Action Plan
Gender in Generational Renewal Strategy
Challenge gender stereotypes media
Gender-sensitive education in different curricula
Awareness campaigns for equality
Build gender-disaggregated data systems
Integrate gender variables into major EU monitoring systems
Comprehensive EU gender monitoring
Use gender tracking in post-2027 National Single Plans
Gender impact assessments
Mandate gender budgeting and targets
Develop gender-sensitive finance tools
Design rural-focused financial tools
Gender equality in public contracts
Support young rural women
Inclusive EU fund governance
Enforce gender quotas in governance
Expand rural women pension options
Improve rural women social protection
Support Rural Innovation Labs
Gender in Smart Specialisation Strategies
Women in Agriculture Platform for capacity building
Train institutions and civil servants on gender
Design AKIS inclusive and with gender balance
Mentor women in agriculture and entrepreneurship
Promote agriculture equally with STEM fields
Strengthen CAP guidance and oversight
Integrated entrepreneurship support programmes
Extend social conditionality rights
Adapt Care Strategy for Rural
Map rural essential services
Mandatory parental leave and childcare services
Guarantee equal land access and ownership
Adopt shared farm ownership laws
Enforce legal gender targets
Gender in post-2027 EU programming
Gender-responsiveness CAP
Mandatory gender certification for services
Foresight tools with gender view
Benchmark gender equality regularly
Data on underrepresented rural groups
Rural proofing with gender lens
Multifunctional rural service centres
Bridge rural digital divide
Gender-responsiveness public & private funding
Invest in rural social infrastructure
Tailored family support services
Cross-directorate policy coordination
Develop Rural Democracy Index
Document socio-ecological innovations
Support peer-led innovation models
Institutionalise rural Living Labs
Revise extension services and training systems
Promote women in innovation
Operationalise Rural Vision gender flagship
Develop Rural Women Statutes
Train land officials, promote rights
Integrate gender in demographic policies
Gender in housing strategies