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"The annual report on equality between men and women is an opportunity to highlight the challenges which we face in these times of economic and social crisis. This report, which has been adopted on International Women’s Day, should be seen together with Mrs Plumb’s report on female poverty in the European Union. Indeed, women are among the categories of people said to be vulnerable and who suffered the full impact of the crisis. Since they more often work part-time than men, because they carry out what can be casual work in the tertiary sector, because they have fragmented careers, because, even today, they are less well paid than men for the same kinds of jobs, and because their pensions are lower as a result, we need to make sure that women are constantly the focus of our attention.
The most sensitive issue in this report concerned quotas for women on the boards of large companies, both private and public. Of course, quotas are not a panacea, and in an ideal society, we would like to do without them. In order to change people’s mentalities, however, there is no doubt that quotas are necessary."@en1
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