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"I should like to offer my sincere thanks to Mrs Breyer for her excellent report and for the fact that she has raised an incredibly important issue concerning trade and the ways in which WTO and GATS agreements, together with IMF decisions, affect people's lives and ability to provide for themselves. In the same way as the agreements are often beneficial to industrialised countries and harmful to developing countries, women and men are, in different ways, placed at, respectively, a disadvantage or advantage by trade agreements. By tradition, world trade is men’s arena. The board of the IMF consists entirely of men, and 91.7% of the World Bank’s board is male. Trade and gender are connected in a host of ways that we need to study if we are to understand how people in different places, of different genders and from different social classes are affected by trade agreements. Gender is relevant because gender relations affect the distribution of, and access to, resources, work, income and power. Gender affects our behaviour as economic actors. Men and women react differently to economic changes. Financial institutions are not only dominated by men. More importantly, they continue and maintain gender structures in the economy. Men’s and women’s work is valued differently. Women’s work in the reproductive sphere is unpaid and has been rendered invisible. These factors mean that women and men are affected differently, and a gender analysis is therefore incredibly important if we are to be able to design a trade policy that promotes equality and breaks down patriarchal structures. Women’s role in the economy must be made visible. Trade policy negotiations must take practical account of all the conventions, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women."@en1
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