Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-13-Speech-2-217"
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"Thank you, Commissioner. Unfortunately, we women come up against a glass ceiling within the EU’s institutions, too. I am grateful for, and pleased with, the action plan with practical objectives you have taken as your starting point, but a timetable also needs to be established. It is extremely gratifying that you should want to work to end discrimination but, since the Commission has now once again appointed a man to the post of Director-General – this time as the Development Directorate-General – I wonder if the Commission’s objectives were just so much rhetoric.
The eight men on the selection board had to choose between a woman with wide political and administrative experience at a high level and solid experience abroad, and a man with no political background, less administrative experience and no experience abroad. I can only draw the conclusion that the male candidate was appointed on a quota basis.
In Sweden, successful appeals are made to the Labour Market Court in cases involving considerably less flagrant discrimination than this one. Is the Commission prepared to tear up its decision and give this post to the most competent candidate, or must an appeal be made to the European Court of Justice in this case? Is the Commission prepared in future to have at least 50 per cent women on its selection boards and not 100 per cent men?"@en1
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