Sexual Equality Conceived

Abstract

Within the EU,¹ sexual (in)equality has been conceived within the parameters of economic considerations because the unification of Europe is foremost an economically inspired plan, one designed by men who believed that a single, cohesive economic region could engender prosperity so as to diminish dissension among once warring states. For these architects of integration, stemming the economic disparities and tensions among states was, thus, their chief concern. Curtailing gender inequality within them was much less important, if important at all.