Equality between Women and Men on the Labour Market of the European Union

The bachelor's thesis deals with the topic of achieving the equality between women and men in the labour market of the European Union and the related European Union's policies. The main aim of the work is to describe and evaluate developments in various areas of this subject, which are the economic independence of women, the (un)equal pay and representation of women in decision making. The research is based on selected indicators and available statistical data. The secondary objective is to introduce the Strategy for equality between women and men, which the European Commission issued for the period 2010 to 2015, to evaluate its contribution and to assess the fulfilment of the objectives that the Commission defined in the Strategy. The bachelor's thesis uses mainly the methods of analysis, comparison and induction. The data is processed and analysed from the perspective of the European Union, focusing on the Czech Republic