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"Mr President, I want simply to draw attention to Simone de Beauvoir’s remark that ‘woman is not born, but made’, an allusion to women as the social sex. Man is still the norm, meaning that women treat men in the way that men treat other men; and that many women treat other women in the way that men treat women. That is why the gender mainstreaming methodology is important in supporting a kind of gender-based structural transformation that is vital.
Sweden is usually singled out as the country with the greatest equality, but the fact is that men and women are not equal in Sweden. We are emphatically far from being so. No doubt that says a lot about the situation in the rest of the world. Following the most recent election in Sweden in September 2002, our national parliament consists of 47% women, that is to say even more than the 44.3% mentioned by Mrs Dybkjær. What has enabled this to come about are the parties’ own changes and commitments, as well as what is called the voluntary contract with the electorate who have also actively voted in women.
In 1998, I was responsible for gender mainstreaming, which I defended in this Chamber. I cannot see that very much in particular, or even anything at all, has happened in the five years since then. Many have taught themselves to use the term ‘gender mainstreaming’
but just learning to use a new term does not bring about any changes. Rather, we must all learn to put it into practice. We can begin by adopting and implementing Mrs Gröner’s proposal which, in spite of everything, is quite modest and self-explanatory."@en1
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