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dcterms:Date	"2012-05-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120524.5.4-013-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Britta Thomsen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; FEMM (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; ITRE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Socialdemokratiet (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; SEDE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today we are going to vote on a very important report that could be of decisive significance for one of the major equality problems in the EU, namely the lack of equal pay between men and women. Equal pay for equal work or for work of the same value has been an abiding principle of the EU’s values since the Treaty of Rome in 1957. Despite this, there still exists a pay gap of nearly 17% between men and women. By and large, there has been no progress in this area – and in some countries it is even getting worse. That is why today we are strongly urging the Commission to revise the 2006 equality directive. We are doing so because it is clear that it is not working. There are a number of reasons for the lack of equal pay. Historically speaking, jobs typically performed by women have not been as well paid as traditionally male jobs. We also see a sharp drop in pay in professions where more than 30% of workers are women. It is as if being a woman is in itself a disqualification in the labour market. In Portugal a survey was recently carried out in a supermarket which showed that the men in the butchery section were being paid more than the women in the fish section. The tasks that they performed were assessed as being of equal value, since the skills required to do the two types of jobs were the same. The pay gap was due entirely to the difference in gender. The solution was to give the women a pay rise and to end the sex segregation between the sections, so that now both men and women work in both sections. This example shows why it is so important that we get a definition of what work of equal value is if we are to do anything about unequal pay. However, this requires all parties to be committed to this – commitment on the part of the EU, but also on the part of national governments, trade unions and employers. It cannot be a one-off problem when there are such clear pay gaps. It is a social problem that is down to structural and historical causes, and stereotypical ideas of men’s and women’s roles in the labour market. Let us break down this barrier, so that the EU can genuinely live up to the provisions of the Treaty concerning equal pay for equal work or for work of the same value – provisions that have now been in existence for more than 40 years."@en1
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