New project on assessing the gender-sensitive impact of legislation
The German government has set itself the goal of assessing the gender impact of legislation at the drafting stage. To this end, the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) published a guidance document in 2021 on how to assess the impact of legislation from a gender perspective. This provides federal ministries with a comprehensive checklist and detailed guidance on how to assess the impact of their regulations on gender equality.
The next stage of the project will be to examine how the implementation of the checklist can be further promoted and how the ministries can be better supported in the gender-specific impact assessment of legislation.
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In 2021, the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend - BMFSFJ) published a guidance document on the implementation of a gender-sensitive impact assessment of legislation. The guide offers direction throughout the legislative process as to whether and what gender equality-specific effects are to be expected, as well as how the gender equality impact of a regulation can be enhanced when the Federal Government is engaged in drafting a regulation. The objective of the study was twofold: firstly, to examine the prerequisites for incorporating an assessment requirement in government regulatory projects and secondly, to identify the conditions that must be met for the gender perspective to become a permanent feature of the Federal Government's decision-making process in the future.
