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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I welcome the report by Mr Romeva i Rueda, which highlights an aspect of the crisis which is too often forgotten, that of the repercussions on women.
Right at the start of this crisis, we in the European Parliament were among the first to sound the alarm of the damaging consequences that the crisis might have on women unless adequate measures were taken. We also pointed out that this crisis represented a chance to make the European Union a society that takes greater account of equality between men and women if adequate policies and measures were adopted.
We must believe that our advice was ignored, given that the various austerity plans do not provide a differentiated response to the crisis. The first to be hit by the crisis were manufacturers and the building industry, which are primarily sectors of male activity. Since then, most sectors have been affected and the first victims are at the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid, where women are in the majority.
We therefore urgently need to take account of this problem and to conjugate the various austerity plans adopted by the European Union and its Member States in the feminine too. I do not want to see us go back thirty years. The very independence of women is at stake."@en1
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