Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-10-12-Speech-3-244"
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"Mr President, we in Sweden’s Left Party believe that women should have equal and fair access to all health care and medical treatment. We cannot accept that women should only have access to certain forms of health care and medical treatment. We believe in equal access to all such care and treatment.
Poverty obviously affects people’s whole life situation and has bearing upon education, health, housing and social exclusion, but I particularly wish to emphasise the significance of women’s ability to provide for themselves. Work is the most important route of escape from poverty, and it is therefore particularly worrying that the 1975 directive on equal pay for male and female employees has still not been implemented. Women’s salaries in the EU are on average still only 85% of men’s. In certain countries, the difference is even greater.
Over and above these unjustified salary differences, women are directed to low-paid jobs, part-time work, poorer conditions of employment etc. Moreover, this discrimination follows women throughout their lives, right up to retirement age with pensions systems that also discriminate against women. Women are not weak, but they are made weak."@en1
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