ABSTRACT
Gender is not the only dimension of social relations that causes inequality. Moreover, because gender intersects with other inequality axes, various inequalities are often mutually constitutive. Therefore, the concept of equality is particularly exposed to processes of stretching that aim to extend the meaning of the concept, so as to encompass various dimensions that are seen to be responsible for inequality. Even if the political articulation of the concept may at times have privileged the treatment of some inequalities, it is nevertheless likely that the meaning of equality is stretched at some point to include other sources of inequality than the existing ones. In Europe, particularly since the postwar period’s development of a political machinery on gender equality policies, gender, while being to some extent privileged in terms of political attention, is still only one family member among the other equality goals.1
