Law on gender equality.

This Law regulates the way of securing and exercising the rights on the basis of gender equality, in accordance with international acts and general accepted rules of international law, as well as measures for elimination of discrimination based on gender and creating equal opportunities for participation of women and men in all areas of social life. Gender equality implies equal participation of women and men in all areas of the public and private sector, equal position and equal opportunities for the exercise of all rights and freedoms and the use of personal knowledge and abilities for the development of society, as well as achieving equal benefits from of work results. State bodies, bodies of state administration and local self-government, public institutions, public companies and other legal entities exercising public powers are obliged to, in order to achieve gender equality, at all stages of planning, making and implementing decisions, as well as undertaking activities within their jurisdiction, to evaluate and assess the impact of decisions and activities on the position of women and men. Discrimination based on gender is any legal or factual, direct or indirect discrimination, privileging, exclusion or a gender-based restriction that makes it difficult for a person or denies the recognition, enjoyment or realization of human rights and freedoms in political, educational, economic, social, cultural, sports, civil and other areas of public life. Discrimination is also considered as harassment, incitement of another person to discrimination, as well as use of words in the masculine gender as generically neutral forms for the masculine and feminine genders.
The text is divided into seven main thematic Chapters and a total of 36 articles. Titles of these Chapters are as follows: I. General provisions; II. General and special measures; III. Competences; IV. Proceeding on submissions; V. Supervision; VI. Penalty measures; and VIII. Transitional and final provisions.
Gender equality is ensured by general and special measures. General measures are measures that prescribe sanctions for violation of prescribed prohibitions or orders. General measures also include measures determined by other acts (declarations, resolutions, by-laws, etc.), the goal of which is to achieve gender equality. Special measures should remove the existing restrictions that objectively lead or may lead to unequal representation of women and of men, i.e. unequal position of one gender in relation to other sex. Special measures are, in particular: 1. positive measures that, under equal conditions, give priority to individuals the less represented sex, i.e. persons who are in a distinctly unequal position on the basis of gender, until equality is achieved representation, i.e. established goals for the introduction of these measures; 2. incentive measures that provide special benefits or introduce special incentives aimed at abolishing the unequal representation of women or men, i.e. unequal treatment based on gender; 3. program measures that include educational activities that is, on encouraging and establishing gender equality.