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"In the area of equal opportunities for women and men, we must acknowledge that the EU has not fully achieved its objectives. Guaranteeing decent working conditions for women, including not only health standards, and access to social security, but also the opportunity for further training, remain issues in respect of which we are trying to find effective solutions.
In my personal view, we need more effective policies promoting the balance between work and family life, especially as the overwhelming majority of parents who apply for parental leave are women, an inequality which is also being felt by children.
One effective solution is to encourage female entrepreneurship, together with devising training programmes involving new technologies, an area where surveys indicate a gender gap. This restricts the opportunities women have to gain access to higher qualified jobs and receive higher salaries and, in the long term, it deprives them of the chance to develop their career. I am also concerned about the situation of undeclared female workers, a large proportion of whom are immigrants, employed in private households. They endure insecure working conditions and low salaries, deprived of any social rights. Unfortunately, this facilitates the vicious circle of poverty."@en1
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