Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-01-18-Speech-4-026"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-01-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Balanced participation of women and men in the decision-making process2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010118.2.4-026"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-01-18-Speech-4-0272
lpv:speaker	lp:Marianne Eriksson2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3,3 member; CONT (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Vänsterpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 vice-chair; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in the Swedish the entry under the heading reads as follows: ‘A social system based on hierarchical relations between men, structured so that the decision-making processes are controlled from the top down and so that women as a sex are placed in a subordinate position. The ideological justification is provided by a system of values designed by male thinkers and founded on men’s perception of reality. The material basis of this system consists of a division of labour according to gender which, at all levels of the hierarchies, assigns to women the tasks which are either unpaid or more poorly paid. One of the prerequisites of this is control of women’s sexuality and fertility. This control in turn requires structural violence against women, on the one hand, and that women practise self-repression, on the other.’ I would like to come back briefly to the question of how we practise self-repression. After all, it is not just in this Chamber – it also happens throughout the various sectors of society – that representatives of the Group of the European People’s Party discuss the allocation of quotas and, for some reason I cannot fathom, have a terrible dread of allocating quotas according to gender. It is said that women must be appointed on merit, but I should like to ask the question which, more often than not, employers and leading male politicians apparently fail to ask: What merits are we actually looking for? After all, we know that, to a large extent, women and men are at present unequally represented in society as a whole. We in the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left have no problem whatsoever with backing Mrs Karamanou’s report one hundred per cent – on the contrary. We are waiting for what is called the ‘ketchup effect’. We have now been waiting for 150 years, so we do not want to wait even another two years for something to happen."@en1

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