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As far as the ΕU is concerned, unemployment and poverty among women are not caused by capitalist exploitation; they are caused by women being less qualified and having greater family responsibilities and by reactionary perceptions that foster gender discrimination. Instead of providing full-time, stable employment, it proposes to extend part-time employment and anti-educational, quick-fix specialisation programmes, turning women into cheap, flexible labour.
Not only does the third CSF fail to empower women; it subsidises employers so that they can undermine employment rights, with most of the funding going to infrastructure works which empower big business.
Mainstreaming the gender dimension in various policies in the name of equality has swept away positive arrangements in favour of women as part of the harsh, anti-grass roots economic policy, with the result that they are now even worse off. Proposals include further cuts to the state family benefit system and using private-sector programmes and structures to cover social services such as health, education and welfare.
We are in favour of positive arrangements for working women, provided they are free of charge. We are not in favour of promoting flexible working hours on the pretext of reconciling working and family life. We are in favour of full-time, stable employment and of extending and strengthening employment and social rights."@en1
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