Some keys to understand the current legal configuration of equality plans: scope and content

Abstract

Abstract. This paper analyses the scope, meaning and content of equality plans. It analyses equality as an essential value in a social state and the developments in the legal protection of equality between women and men in the field of work. The meaning of equality plans is then analyzed as an integral element for achieving effective equality between women and men in the workplace. Some key features of equality plans are then explored, especially after the latest regulatory changes such as the expansion of their scope to more companies, the importance of diagnosis as an essential element in delimiting the measures to be incorporated into the equality plan, the negotiated nature of the plan and its dynamism that leads to its temporality and the need to follow-up through indicators and, where appropriate, the corresponding rethinking of the measures integrated into the plan taking into account the evolving situation of effective equality between women and men in the company.