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"I am deeply disappointed to find this item on our agenda anno 2015. More than one year ago, this Parliament called loud and clear for legislation on transparent recruitment procedures, so that by 2020 at least 40% of non-executive directors of EU companies would be women. Yet this seems to have fallen on deaf ears in the Council. As a result, the average proportion of women on EU company boards is not even one in five.
Meanwhile, the UK Government is quoting high national percentages of women on boards, but fails to mention that the number of women executives in the top 100 companies on the London Stock Exchange is at a meagre 6.9%. Women in the UK still earn just 80 pence for every pound a man earns. House of Commons data shows that, under the current UK Government, the gap has closed at a snail’s pace of just 0.3% per year between 2010 and 2013. At this rate, it could take over 60 years to deliver equal pay. The status quo is unacceptable, and I hope that under the Latvian Presidency, the Council will finally break with its tradition of inaction on this crucial issue."@en1
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