La igualdad de genero en el Tratado Constitucional de la Unión Europea

The article analyses the treatment of gender equality in the 2004 European Constitutional Treaty, with particular reference to the incorporation of a gender perspective in the process. The assessment includes positive results, that are related to the maintenance of the acquis commmunautaire on equality, the inclusion of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and the mobilisation in favour of equality within and outside the body of the Convention. It also considers the negative results that have to do with the limited capacity to incorporate a gender perspective into the process and the text of the Constitution. This limits are attributed to the narrow concept of gender equality adopted in the document, the resistance to incorporate a gender perspective into ah policy areas, the low representation of women in the Convention, and the absence of a gender perspective in the institutional and administrative process. The conclusions discuss a number of hypotheses that explain these limitations.