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FOREWORD
SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
PES Women represents women’s organisations from national parties belonging to the Party of European Socialists (PES). ‘Social democratic’ here encompasses all branches of the PES family’s progressive ideology, including those embraced by socialist and labour parties. For simplicity we refer only to social democracy in this publication.
WOMEN IN ALL THEIR DIVERSITY PES Women aims to represent women ‘in all their diversity’, which means improving all rights for all women regardless of their social and economic background, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, health status etc. We embrace an intersectional approach which recognises the intersection between sex and gender with other personal characteristics and identities and how these contribute to unique experiences of discrimination.1 Our aim is to develop a feminist economy which benefits everyone who is marginalised by the patriarchy.
