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"Mr President, I would like to express the point of view of working women not only because it is on them, of all women, that the burden of social organisation weighs most heavily, but also because the workers’ movement can take pride in having been the first to fight for the recognition of equality between men and women. Long before the ruling class gave women the right to vote, the workers’ movement had already, within its own organisation, given leading women the place they deserved. The fate of working women is linked to the status of the working class as a whole. It is women who are the main victims of insecure employment, enforced part-time work and the low salaries that are paid for such work. What is unacceptable is that insecure employment, enforced part-time work and low salaries are allowed to exist. Speeches about equality between men and women will continue to be just so much hot air as long as countless working families are deprived of adequate housing and as long as there are not enough public amenities, child care centres and nursery schools. In all areas, European institution policy is no more favourable to the interests of working women than Member State policy. Although I will vote in favour of the report because of the good intentions that are stated in it, they are still nothing more than good intentions."@en1

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