The gender equality has been revealed as the commitment in public in Netherland for more than 25 years. The policy in the context of emancipation has been striving to gain employment equality, wages, education, and also the personal life of the citizens as well. On the other hand, the Netherlands was getting critics from Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women or CEDAW regarding the continuing discrimination in the country that has been experienced by the minority women, the immigrants, and also the expatriates, in the context of education accessibility, health, employment, and also the violence prevention as well. Netherland still needs to face severe issues in domestic violence, women trafficking, and prostitution in the country (hollandalumni.nl, 2019). According to the indices of 2017 related to the gender equality the progress and challenges has observed for gender equality in 2005 to 2015 by using the averages of European Union. In 2017, the gender equality in Netherland were obtained as 72.9 and this were representing that the progress is occurring because at that time European Union score was 66.2 and it was referred as the slightly fasters according to the EU Union averages.   Netherlands ranked on the forth numbers on list of the index of European Union ranking (Leach, 2015).  

Position Options of Gender Equality in the Netherlands

Ever since 1960, the government of Netherland has turned out to take a progressively liberal position, fundamentally mentioning that the country should encourage and assist for the free option of every single person. Both men and women should be allowed to organize their own lives as they want and desire. Plus, this must not be disadvantaged by the gender issue, in which the cultural perceptions along with the practices which inspire the action of man or woman should perform.  The government of Netherland feels concerned around the issue of sex discrimination which appears in the education field, where boys and girls diverge in the subjects that they select; boys tend to select more technical subjects rather than girls who select more in social sciences (Karen Ross, 2016).

Furthermore, since 1974, the government of Netherland has also aggressively pursued equal rights along with equal opportunities for both men and women in the country (hollandalumni.nl, 2019). A score of gender equality in the health domain in the Netherlands, which is very high, and it is also presenting the good gender of balance, which is also access for the services. Between the EU 28, the Netherlands holds a great score. In the domain of power, the biggest improvement has taken place, which remains as the Netherlands, and it has the lowest score. For the progress of the women representation, the improvement in the domain of the Netherlands’ is large in the decision making of the economic sector positions (Solanki, 2017).

Now in the Money domain, the situations have to be improved by the signs which are greater in the gender equality of the distribution of the resecures of the economics among the men as well as women. Now the situation is different in the work domain which is also slightly improved, but it is also continued for the gender segregation which is impeded for the progress as well as participations for the labour market, and it is ranked as the 20^th in an EU. In the Netherland, the situations of the Knowledge domain and the Netherlands improved the education attainments as well as participation, along with the segregations of the different study of the fields across the traditional of the gender lines. In the domain of the time, the Netherlands has the greatest challenges plus the 11 others member of the states for gender equality in the domain has the experiences for the setback. The women are the still doing the bulk of the caring, cooking, as well as cleaning along with the situations which are remained for the stagnate (Vleuten, 2016).

References of Executive Summary of Gender Equality in the Netherlands

hollandalumni.nl, 2019. Gender equality in the Netherlands. [Online]
Available at: https://www.hollandalumni.nl/medias/editor/files/gender-equality-in-the-netherlands.pdf

Karen Ross, C. P., 2016. Gender Equality and the Media: A Challenge for Europe. s.l.:Routledge, .

Leach, M., 2015. Gender Equality and Sustainable Development. s.l.:Routledge, .

Solanki, M., 2017. The Netherlands drops significantly in global gender equality ranking. [Online]
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