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dcterms:Date	"2012-03-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Equality between women and men in the European Union - 2011 - Women in political decision-making (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120312.17.1-055-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-03-12-Speech-1-058-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Ulrike Lunacek2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; LIBE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2012-02-13--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Die Grünen - Die Grüne Alternative (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2013-02-04)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; FEMM (2012-01-19--2012-10-24)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, here in the plenary and in the gallery, how often do we hear, when talk turns to quotas, many women saying that they do not want to be ‘token women’ or many men saying, as indeed one Member did today, that this is clearly discrimination? When they say things like that, people are clearly overlooking the fact that a great many men already occupy top positions not because they are particularly well qualified or because the quality of their work is so outstanding, but solely because they are male. That is why quotas are so important and necessary, and I would like to offer special thanks to Ms Pietikäinen, who succeeded in getting a wording to that effect in her report, which I will briefly read out in English now. Today an informal system of quotas is de facto in play, where men are privileged over women and where men choose men for decision-making positions, which is not a formalised system but nevertheless a systematic and very real deep-rooted culture of positive treatment of men’. We need quotas in order to ensure equality, and I therefore want to thank both rapporteurs, Ms Pietikäinen and also Ms in ‘t Veld, for their excellent reports Ms Pietikäinen, a member of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), has, I hope, succeeded in convincing many members of her group, too, that they should vote in favour of her report tomorrow so that we can direct a really strong plea to the Commission and the Council to realise gender equality as, nearly forty years after the International Women’s Year of 1975, it really is high time that that was achieved."@en1
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