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"Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, there is undoubtedly a gender aspect to the economic slowdown and the financial crisis. There is a risk that the inequalities we are wrestling with will grow deeper. Pay differences, pressure on labour law, maternity-related social protection and conditions on the labour market are just a few examples.
The crisis-related budget cuts in various States are an unavoidable reality. They affect mainly public services and the availability of these services. Cost-cutting measures do not greatly affect most of the powerful departments of state. Savings therefore focus on those areas where the least resistance is expected from the parties affected by the cuts, relying on the fact that people will cope, because there is simply no alternative. Caring for children and elderly parents remains a duty under all circumstances. It is overwhelmingly women who have to take on this role.
Reductions in funding for social services, which mainly employ women, also come top of the list of cost-cutting measures. It is the responsibility of individual governments also to look at the matter from this perspective when planning cost-cutting budget measures and their impacts, and to select a carefully balanced approach when placing burdens on the population at large."@en1
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