Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-03-08-Speech-2-030"
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"It is true that, in historical terms, not much time has passed since the first country legislated on women’s equal right to vote, which according to the history books was New Zealand in 1893, and within Europe Finland in 1906. From a historical perspective it is not long either since universities first opened to women. On the other hand, if anyone looks impartially at the proposed introduction to the text of the resolution, they can verify that while mountains of paper have been consumed, and earnest bodies have filled weeks and months formulating dozens of documents, in practice little progress has been made.
Today’s proposed text could be a cry of despair, for times have speeded up tremendously and unfortunately there is a cynical attitude around that we do not need to change the world because it is good for at least half of society the way it is. The principle of equal work for equal pay, which in 1975 became a part of European law, is a good example of how a statute can be in force for 30 years, but life still goes its own way, and today again we can establish that the differences between women’s and men’s pay have not diminished. Indeed, in several countries this difference rather shows a tendency to increase, what the legal experts call a difference between the
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However, there is also a much more disturbing form of tolerating this situation, violence committed against women. It is true that in Europe
rarely happen, but they do happen. In the countries of Central-Eastern Europe a woman dies every week as a victim of violence within the family. We cannot always be effective against such practices and customs, which have no place among human dignity or laws. Recent events in Istanbul show that institutionalised violence against women is part of life today, right on the doorstep of the European Union. From the resolution what emerges is that we should solve what can be solved and talk about what cannot yet be solved."@en1
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