European Parliament · 16 September 2026

Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions

Adopted

390 in favour · 218 against · 29 abstained. 637 of 720 members voted; 83 did not.

What it asks for, in the Parliament's words

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote respectful maternity care and to establish complaint mechanisms, data collection and training for healthcare professionals, regarding obstetric violence
Regrets the fact that, despite a prevalence of adverse menopause symptoms among women, the menopause is still not routinely integrated into primary healthcare and remains shrouded in social stigma
Deplores the fact that since the inception of the EU’s Community Research and Development Information Service almost 40 years ago, only 10 of the 145 983 EU-funded projects have focused specifically on endometriosis16

Quoted from A10-0200/2026, which says more than these lines. Each is a whole paragraph; this site does not rewrite them.