Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-10-13-Speech-4-154"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-10-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Explanations of vote2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051013.27.4-154"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-10-13-Speech-4-1552
lpv:speaker	lp:Andreas Mölzer2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; AFCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; NA (2004-07-20--2007-01-14)3 substitute; CULT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". 51% of the EU’s population is at risk of poverty, for they are female. One reason for this is certainly our inability, despite our many good intentions, to make much of an improvement to equal opportunities for women in the workplace. The members of the ‘weaker sex’ continue to earn, on average, between 20% and 30% less for the same work, and their chances of making a career are minimal. Another reason is, without a doubt, that they spend more time on bringing up children, running households and social work, so that they do not have the time to go into full-time employment – even on the assumption that the opportunity to do so is available to them. In practice, then, women often work only part-time, and consequently have only small old-age pensions to look forward to. The result of McJobs or 1-Euro-jobs or call them what you will remains the same: even two or three such jobs are not enough to feed a family. More generous family allowances alone will not solve this problem; on the contrary, what is needed is a comprehensive programme with good opportunities for training and earning, equal pay, more flexible childcare options and better provision for old age – a phase of life in which single women, whether with or without children, are particularly at risk of poverty. We must, overall, give more attention to pro-birth family policy and be more generous in funding it, in order to offer women better opportunities for earning a living and providing for themselves, so that they do not end up collectively opting not to have children, with the consequence that our European population slowly dies out."@en1

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