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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
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
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120312.17.1-058-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-03-12-Speech-1-059-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Inês Cristina Zuber2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries (2012-03-05--2014-06-30)3 substitute; CULT (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ITRE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2012-02-02--2012-03-18)3 vice-chair; EMPL (2012-01-25--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partido Comunista Português (2012-01-18--2014-06-30)3 member; FEMM (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; EUL/NGL (2012-01-18--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, in our opinion, the Pietikäinen report advocates, first and foremost, the introduction of quota systems to promote parity in political decision-making positions as a means of resolving women’s underrepresentation in such posts. We believe the question is being cast in the wrong way and aims to resolve the problem of insufficient women’s participation in politics in an illusory and unreal way. Women’s political participation is not just about senior positions. It is about the various areas of women’s lives: their participation in organisations, trades unions and culture, and in their daily lives. Women have greater difficulties participating in these areas owing to difficulties accessing education and culture, but also owing to the economic difficulties that are the immediate result of the wage inequalities of which they are victims. Moreover, precarious jobs means they have little time for social, political and cultural participation. The lack of public childcare services is another factor contributing to the overburdening of women. It is these structural inequalities that should be combated and there should be no attempt to establish artificial equality, whilst keeping the real problems of the majority of women off limits. We believe the report by Ms in ’t Veld highlights some of the main reasons for discrimination between men and women that are directly related to their economic and work situation. Unfortunately, if the so-called austerity measures advocated by the European institutions – specifically, the majority in this Parliament – are continued, they will lead to enormous steps backwards in the level of equality between men and women; to the further weakening of labour relations, with the weakening of the principle of collective bargaining; to higher rates of unemployment; to increasingly precarious jobs, which already particularly affect women; and to cuts in the public child care system, which is essential to reducing the excessive burden of work that falls on women. The firm rejection of austerity measures, which are a declaration of war on women and on workers, is a precondition for advocating equality between men and women."@en1
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