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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, with today’s vote, Parliament is sending out its message once again: we are still very far from achieving equal opportunities at work. For consistency’s sake, I obviously voted against the final text of this report because a number of amendments on maternity leave and quotas for women were rejected.
A few days ahead of International Women’s Day, fine words remain just that; there is no use talking about equal opportunities if women are not then given the tools to achieve it. What sort of policy on work-life balance can achieve positive results if many businesses confine employees returning from maternity leave to increasingly marginal roles in order to encourage them to resign?
Advancing the cause of women means supporting change; enhancing their status is not only important in economic terms but is, above all, socially valuable. Today, this House calls on all women: we must fearlessly report all infringements and re-double our efforts in our everyday lives. That is the only way to successfully eradicate a backward mentality which, unfortunately, still holds sway in many places and is shared, regrettably, by many of my fellow Members, as I have seen today."@en1
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