Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-27-Speech-4-042"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-09-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Equality between women and men in the EU (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070927.4.4-042"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-09-27-Speech-4-0432
lpv:speaker	lp:Amalia Sartori2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-03-22)3 unknown; Forza Italia (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2007-03-26--2009-07-13)3 member; ENVI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CULT (2007-02-01--2009-07-13)3 member; FEMM (2007-01-31--2008-06-17)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2007-06-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should also like to congratulate Mrs Kauppi for this report, which offers a snapshot of the current situation in the world of work in Europe. While we have had various opportunities to look at this issue in the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, Mrs Kauppi has helped to pinpoint, and to shed light on, a problem, and that problem is that in Europe there is once again a wage gap in the world of women, a difference in pay for equal work which cannot be tolerated. This is the case even though school attendance rates among women are high, women now account for 59% of European graduates, women’s participation in the working world has increased significantly, and women are now gaining a great deal of recognition for the results that they are obtaining. What I believe is more important, however, is that the report highlights some of the features which continue to make women’s participation in the working world difficult, with the result that this is happening in practice without any justification – and runs counter to European laws and the laws of the Member States, which prohibit different wages in the working world. This is not just happening in the south of Europe, as is usually said, but throughout Europe, even in the Nordic countries, even in those countries in which tradition leads us to accept that women’s participation in the working world and the institutions is nowadays better consolidated and better recognised. I believe, therefore, focusing on one of the questions raised by Mrs Kauppi, whether full mutualisation of the costs of maternity benefits and parental leave should be general practice in the Member States, that those costs, while they are still partly borne by firms, encourage employers to recruit smaller numbers of female staff, which, in turn, has an impact on their careers."@en1

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