Gender Balance in Economic Decision-making – Legal Backgrounds in Europe and in Hungary

Abstract

This paper aims to give an introduction to the topic of gender equality, starting with lightning the interdisciplinary of the topic of gender equality, continuing with the argument what is the correlation between the women’s equality and the science of law. The paper can not be complete without framing the legal background of women’s equality, and one has to consider that Hungarian legislation also can not be evaluated apart from the legal provisions of the European Union. The last chapters of the paper ont he one hand map the gap between legal theory and law practice, and ont he other hand mention the most significant activity of the civil sector. Lastly, the study evaluates elements of recent research results from the European-level EWSDGE (European Women Shareholders Demand Gender Equality) project.