Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-10-23-Speech-2-236"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-10-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Equal treatment for men and women in employment2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011023.11.2-236"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-23-Speech-2-2372
lpv:speaker	lp:Roberta Angelilli2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Gulf (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; UEN (1999-07-22--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Alleanza nazionale (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to start by thanking the rapporteur for her work. Parliament has stressed on many occasions that equal opportunities for men and women must be more than just a principle. Equal opportunities is a concept, a definition which must be translated into a genuine effort by the institutions to ensure, first and foremost, genuine equal treatment of men and women as regards access to work and professional training. What is more, working women must also be able to choose whether to take the opportunity to have a family and bring up children without this jeopardising their professional careers through no fault of their own. Indeed, society must be re-educated to see motherhood not just as a woman’s right but also as an opportunity for society as a whole, considering, not least, that one of the causes of the falling birth rate is precisely the fact that many women are discouraged from having children by the rigid mechanisms of the employment world. For precisely this reason, we need not just to ensure that a woman has the right to resume her job when maternity leave comes to an end but, in order to genuinely protect working mothers, we need to be able to provide them with more flexible legislation on parental leave, allowing fathers to benefit from paternity leave too so that they can attend to the child during its first few months of life. In conclusion, Mr President, the European Union should increasingly promote all such instruments – social, legal and economic – which can provide strong, practical – as opposed to theoretical – support for women, especially working women, and thus provide strong support for families."@en1

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