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"I voted in favour of the resolution on women and business leadership. As a member of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, I would like to draw your attention to two matters in particular. The first of these is the significant imbalance between the number of women and men in decision-making bodies. Men account for 89% of the members of management and supervisory boards in Europe. According to Eurostat research, in the third quarter of 2010 women made up barely 37% of all managers and higher-ranking officials in Poland. The boards of public limited companies and supervisory boards have an even lower female representation (around 12% in 2009).
In view of these sad statistics, I would call on companies and the Member States (in line with paragraph 1 of the resolution) to act quickly on a voluntary basis to increase the proportion of women in the highest ranks. Otherwise, I support the Commission’s suggestion to put forward a proposal for EU legislative acts on this matter. The second matter concerns the differences in pay for men and women in managerial positions. According to the Polish Salary Survey, in Poland, men’s average pay was over 33% higher than women’s, while the difference was around 25% in managerial positions. The resolution we have voted on today calls on the Member States to adopt regulations on this issue as a matter of urgency. We are adopting this report during the Polish Presidency, and I hope that it will take measures to resolve this extremely important issue."@en1
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