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"Mr President, on reading this report one might be tempted to say ‘All quiet on the western front’: nothing new, in other words.
The panorama is always the same: the persistence of stereotypes in the choice of educational and professional guidelines, over-representation of women in certain sectors such as the textile industry, the pay gap, working conditions and career prospects. The recommendations never change, however: promoting equality between men and women in professional spheres in terms of pay, their presence on company boards, or developing structures for child care and employment flexibility.
This is fine, but what then? What exactly is this umpteenth report on women’s rights going to change, within or outside the industrial sector? Despite coercive policies based on ‘positive action’ – a misleading formulation, since what it really means is compulsory quotas – gender mindsets have great difficulty moving forward.
It is not by imposing structures that may occasionally be unnatural, in the name of the principles of equality and non-discrimination, that women will more naturally take up their role within companies, whatever they may be. Women do not have such a severe handicap that they must be systematically imposed to be accepted. Incentive measures must not be coercion measures.
Moreover, when applying the Charter of Fundamental Rights we should not forget that we must also leave all entrepreneurs free to hire whomever they choose, as long as all employees are treated in the same manner, regardless of their sex."@en1
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