This article seeks to assess the impact of the Lisbon Strategy in implementing gender policies in six Italian regions. Reviewing the stages of community action, the research brings out the difficulties linked to putting into effect the Lisbon agenda, which has met with the marginalization of aspirations to social justice, as well as strong resistance, particularly in the South, linked to the impossibility of controlling measures autonomously due to a lack of fixed frameworks and more stringent binding mechanisms. only subscribers can see the full article