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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to thank Mrs Sartori for the excellent work she has done. By a happy coincidence, we find that we are about to approve the roadmap within a few days of 8 March, as Mrs Záborská has said. International Women’s Day on 8 March is celebrated in many countries around the world, though not all. Last year we had news of police baton charges in Turkey; this year we have heard that young women about to celebrate 8 March in Teheran have been arrested.
Like Labour Day, International Women’s Day arose out of the Socialist Movement and was international from the start. The eighth of March 1908 was bread and roses day. Fifteen thousand women marched through New York demanding bread, symbolising a wage and work, and also roses, meaning the right to vote, free time, children’s rights, dignity and respect. Two years later in Copenhagen, the Socialist International proposed marking a definite international women’s day in the calendar, in memory of New York.
A hundred years on, if we look closely at the six priority action areas in the roadmap, we find a remarkable similarity between them and the demands of the women who marched under the banner of ‘bread and roses’. They were demanding bread, meaning work and a wage, while we are demanding equal economic independence; they were demanding the right to vote, while we are demanding balanced participation in representative bodies; they were demanding respect for children, while we are demanding childcare services; they were demanding roses, meaning quality of life, while we are demanding the eradication of all forms of violence in order to improve the quality and dignity of life.
In those days, however, nobody spoke about eliminating sexist stereotypes. Today I think that one of the reasons why we still need to demand ‘bread and roses’ is that sexist stereotypes still exist in everyday life. I believe priority should be given to fighting stereotypes. Achieving this objective will make it easier, or perhaps just less difficult, to promote equality between men and women in every area."@en1
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