Social Partners in the European Union and the Test of Gender and Intersectionality

Faced with increasing feminisation and with the concerns of their members and social movements, and having to deal with injunctions from national governments or European actors, the national and European social partners have over the last thirty years been preoccupied with gender and its articulation with other dimensions of social life, which are sources of inequality and discrimination. This text looks at how the social partners have been put to the test by gender and intersectionality, and it presents the main contributions of the literature which investigates the structuring of the relationship between social partners, gender and intersectionality.