PES Women is the women’s organisation of the Party of European Socialists (PES), promoting gender equality and women’s rights both inside and outside the party. It is made up of representatives from all 32 PES member parties and has its own political structure and resources with an executive bureau, which is made up of its members, the President and four Vice-Presidents, each representing a different region in Europe.
PES Women is fighting for a gender just and feminist Europe by giving a voice, tools and platform for women, by putting forward specific women’s rights policies, through gender-mainstreaming the overall policy-making of the social-democratic family and by ensuring equal representation in the PES bodies, member parties and organisations.
Women’s rights and gender equality go beyond borders. While women around the world experience different challenges that are particular to their context, there are also common challenges of representation, participation and guaranteeing fundamental rights and freedoms for women. PES Women aims to show solidarity and cooperate closely with progressive advocates for women’s rights all over Europe and around the world, to put gender equality at the top of the political agenda and to strengthen the global feminist movement.