Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-07-05-Speech-2-819-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-07-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Women and business leadership (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110705.43.2-819-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-07-05-Speech-2-820-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Marije Cornelissen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; FEMM (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; EMPL (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 vice-chair; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2012-01-31)3 unknown; GroenLinks (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2011-03-23--2013-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, the idea that more women are needed in top positions in business is something that unites Left and Right. For years and years now, everything has been tried to get businesses to look after this themselves, but all these efforts, sadly, have amounted to very little. At the moment, the increase is just half of one per cent per annum, at which rate it will take at least another 50 years before 40% of board seats are occupied by women. In my own home country of the Netherlands, last year the increase in the number of women heading up all the listed companies in the country together amounted to exactly one woman. Commissioner Reding has noted this problem and resolved last March to take firmer action. If businesses do not produce credible plans to have 30% female board membership by 2015 and 40% by 2020, binding measures will follow. I have a great amount of respect for her for that. It is our responsibility to give Commissioner Reding our full support in this area. We now have the opportunity to demonstrate that we mean business. I would find it a terrible pity if parts of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe were to vote against the core of this report. In that case, it might have been better for the whole report not to have been produced, as it will ruin the credibility of the Commissioner, specifically, instead of supporting it. At this point, we all need to grab this opportunity with both hands. Imagine if I give birth to a daughter in August, then I will be counting on the fact that you will all ensure, with me, that she grows up in a world where there is no glass ceiling preventing her from reaching the top in business. Of course, she may always want to become an MEP!"@en1
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