{"id":4681,"date":"2025-03-07T16:44:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/lawbulletin\/?p=4681"},"modified":"2025-03-11T15:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T15:19:52","slug":"come-along-to-the-2025-lasok-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/lawbulletin\/2025\/03\/07\/come-along-to-the-2025-lasok-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Come along to the 2025 Lasok Lecture with Karen Vandekerckhove"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wednesday 26 March<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">16:30-18:00, Queens LT1(Drinks reception in Queen&#8217;s Caf\u00e9 16:30-17:00)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Organised by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exeter.ac.uk\/research\/centres\/cels\/\">Centre for European Legal Studies<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/the-annual-lasok-lecture-2025-karen-vandekerckhove-tickets-1273791547809?aff=oddtdtcreator\">Please book your place<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The European Union devotes part of its justice and fundamental rights policy to combating gender inequality. Due to targeted legislation, gender mainstreaming (which is the integration of the gender perspective into all other policies), and due to specific measures taken for empowerment of women, significant progress has been made in securing better education, training and job opportunities for women. Despite these measures, women remain over-represented in lower paid sectors and under-represented in decision-making positions in the European labour market (see further here: <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommission.europa.eu%2Fstrategy-and-policy%2Fpolicies%2Fjustice-and-fundamental-rights%2Fgender-equality%2Fgender-equality-strategy_en&amp;data=05%7C02%7CS.Miller%40exeter.ac.uk%7C2e97d38a482d436e88e808dd5d6748c7%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C638769420353052774%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=FaF7GKIlBWZ%2B%2BSQ4tuzxoqFUNsvw3r2HWVypuNxnIRQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Gender equality strategy &#8211; European Commission<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to hear more about the past, present and future of gender equality in the EU, join<strong> <\/strong>the annual <strong>Lasok Lecture 2025<\/strong> given by <strong>Ms Karen Vandekerckhove<\/strong>. The lecture title is <strong>Gender Equality in a brave new world? The EU\u2019s policy on gender equality \u2013 past, present, and future.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Karen Vandekerckhove is the Head of the Gender Equality Unit and Deputy Director Equality and Non-Discrimination within the European Commission&#8217;s Directorate General Justice and Consumers. Ms Vandekerckhove will be speaking about the EU\u2019s gender equality policy (especially the achievements under the Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025), the Roadmap for Women\u2019s Rights adopted on 7 March 2025, and the outlook for the future Strategy post-2025, taking into account an increasingly challenging political context as regards equality and non-discrimination policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/the-annual-lasok-lecture-2025-karen-vandekerckhove-tickets-1273791547809?aff=oddtdtcreator\">Booking your place helps us plan the event. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual Lasok Lecture, held since 1977, attracts eminent speakers including EU commissioners, politicians and judges to deliver a paper on an aspect of European Union law of current and significant interest to a wide public audience. 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