ABSTRACT
The focus of the present chapter is the conceptualisation of gender equality and non-discrimination in EU law.1 The central subject is how this ‘European conceptualisation’ influences the law of some of the Member States. The choice of the countries deliberately deviates from mainstream Anglo-American research. We concentrate on the Netherlands, France and the Czech Republic. This choice can, in part, be explained by the language knowledge of the authors. In addition, it arises as a matter of curiosity, since France and the Czech Republic are not well known for a strong stance or firm tradition in combating gender discrimination. Finally, the Netherlands can be situated somewhere between the rather developed non-discrimination discourse and practice of the UK/US tradition and the countries which are only just starting out.
