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The European Union promotes equality between women and men, since five decades. With the help of focused policies at EU level, in the form of legislation, recommendations, cofunding and awareness-raising activities, major progress has been achieved in the following areas.

The purpose of the present publication is to provide a general overview of the transposition of EU gender equality law in the 28 Member States of the European Union, as well as in Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (the EEA countries to which most of the EU equality law applies) and two candidate countries: the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey.1 This summary of the report offers a comparative analysis of the transposition of EU gender equality rules into national law. This publication is complementary to the publication EU Gender Equality Law, which provides an overview of relevant directives and case law of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in this field and which was last updated in 2013.2 These publications are aimed at a broad – and not necessarily legal – public and explain the most important issues of the EU gender equality acquis and its implementation. The term ‘EU gender equality acquis’ refers to all the relevant Treaty and Charter provisions, legislation and the case law of the CJEU in relation to gender equality. Another frequently used term is ‘sex equality’. Both terms are used in the present publication, more or less interchangeably. However, it should be noted that while the term ‘sex’ refers primarily to the biological condition and therefore also the difference between women and men, the term ‘gender’ is broader in that it also comprises social differences between women and men, such as certain ideas about their respective roles within the family and in society

The European Gender Equality Law Review is a biannual publication which details the national legislative, policy, case-law, and other developments in EU gender equality issues from the 33 countries participating in the EU Network of Legal Experts in the Field of Gender Equality. Each edition of the Law Review includes at least two academic articles on EU gender equality issues, an editorial, the relevant developments in European policy and legislation, and the most recent case-law updates from the European Courts and the UN CEDAW Committee. This final edition of the European Gender Equality Law Review includes two articles on surrogacy and discrimination in advertising respectively

The overall purpose of the study is to undertake a literature review for informing new policies and actions in the promotion of women’s innovators/inventors’ entrepreneurship, with a sub-section in the field of science and technology. In addition, the study provides policy recommendations with a view to informing a new Best Project for the promotion of women innovators/inventors entrepreneurship as a way to reach the goals of the Lisbon Agenda