UWE c. Europe: for she is a good fellow!

Abstract

The registration in 2016 of 15 collective complaints by UWE against various European states had not gone unnoticed. In the decisions made public on June 29, 2020, the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) offers an organized and coherent reading key, clearly indicating the stages of reasoning in the field of professional equality. For the first time, the ECSR systematizes a list of the obligations on the state both in terms of remuneration and women's access to decision-making positions. However, the notion of "measurable progress", which is essential to the reasoning on social rights, has a heterogeneous weight depending on the aspect analyzed. If it is not rigorously applied, the ECSR risks giving a wide berth to those who still defend the unjusticiability of social rights as an intrinsic characteristic.