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"I endorsed the report on female poverty in the European Union. Over the past 10 years, the number of women living in poverty has increased disproportionately in relation to men. Over 84 million EU citizens live in poverty, and women account for over half of this figure. This is a result both of the economic crisis and of the differences which exist between women’s and men’s pay, difficulties in reconciling family life with a career, a longer average lifespan and various types of gender-based discrimination, the victims of which are mainly women. I would call for decisive measures to be taken at the level of both the EU and all the Member States to combat pay-related discrimination and to ensure access to attractive job offers. I would stress the need to strengthen legal instruments aimed at eliminating pay differences between women and men. Marked discrepancies continue to exist in this regard, with men earning 20% to 25% more than women on average, and this results in high levels of poverty among single women, retired women and widows. It is essential that EU programmes be adopted within the framework of the Europe 2020 strategy in the field of lifelong learning and professional training for women, with the aim of increasing employment levels among women. These programmes should concentrate, to a large extent, on occupations which will be important in the future and eliminate the stereotypes which exist in terms of areas of education dominated by women or men, as well as eliminating traditional models in teaching programmes."@en1
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