Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-04-24-Speech-3-117"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-04-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Gender equality2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020424.6.3-117"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-04-24-Speech-3-1182
lpv:speaker	lp:Lone Dybkjær2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Det Radikale Venstre (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, these are two very different reports we are debating here today but, where both reports are concerned, the fact is that, if no really major changes are made – in relation both to the developing countries and to the position of women in the countries of the western world, including the EU – then we can forget all about equality. The methods required are, of course, completely different, however, and I should like to thank the two rapporteurs, precisely because it is clear from the reports that it is different initiatives that are required. In connection with the developing countries, I would highlight paragraphs 10, 11, 12 and 14 of the report which indicate, for example, the need to look more closely at religious, cultural and socio-economic traditions and the role they play in relation to women in the developing countries. It is all very well talking about ‘mainstreaming’, but this must not cause us to forget practical action programmes. When it comes to the EU, I think that an article in today’s ‘ ’ has a headline that is very much to the point: ‘Women can have it all – with a little bit of help’. The background to the article is research in the United States showing that 42% of high-salaried women are childless. They simply start too late and are under the illusion that women can have it all. They cannot. That is something we cause them to believe. They cannot have both careers and family lives with children. The next headline therefore says: ‘A female-friendly state can make a significant investment in the future’. I believe it has to be said that, in a number of Western countries, we are labouring under an illusion concerning equality. Illusion it is, however, and illusion it remains, and we must not therefore imagine that we have obtained equality until men too begin to make demands about wanting to have it all. It is the subject of men’s demands that it is necessary to bring up now."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Guardian"1

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