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"Mr President, it is just under 100 years since all women were given the right to vote in the United Kingdom. Fighting for women’s rights is not a new phenomenon, and I want to pay tribute to all the women’s organisations round the world that are still fighting for equality between men and women.
Women want to be able to make independent choices about their careers or their family aspirations: the choice to work in a traditionally male occupation or, equally, the choice to look after children and work in the home. What we really need to do is empower women. We as Conservatives believe in choice and, with choice, flexibility for women and subsequently equality.
Are we unintentionally making women less employable by demanding that businesses offer rights that they cannot deliver in today’s economic climate? Equally, do we put women off staying at home with children because we as a society value this less than the workplace?
The Commissioner rightly said that we need to get women out of the recession and back working. I say we also need to secure jobs in small businesses, and this will help us achieve this goal. Through over-legislation, we are risking the demise of small businesses, thus, in turn, limiting the very choices we are fighting to give women and, consequently, the equality they deserve."@en1
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