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"Mr President, I say to the House: the Members all seem in a pretty confused state to me. You do not really know what it is you want. You have now started to contradict yourselves completely – which I know is absolutely nothing new for this place, but now it is so blatant.
In paragraph 34, you call for EU gender-neutral job classifications and evaluation systems, yet, in paragraph 13, you demand the introduction of binding gender quotas. So what is it? Jobs based on the gender of a person, or jobs irrespective of the gender? Do you want to fight discrimination or don’t you?
In paragraph 37, you call for EU mandatory pay audits for listed companies in order to obtain gender data. You call for the introduction of sanctions at EU level that would exclude companies from procurement of goods and services financed with public subsidies. So are you saying that you want the EU to block companies from using public goods, services and money if there is not an appropriate gender balance?
In paragraph 41, you call for a reversal in the burden of proof between employer and employee. Are you aware that this would require a complete alteration in the UK judicial system? Shall we just throw away the concept of innocent until proven guilty? Finally, in paragraph 50, you want the EU to conduct a study on the situations of working mothers, mothers who choose to stay at home and women without children who have made the choice to work. And why? To find out how each affects the labour market. It is almost as if you want to belittle those who do not conform to your view of what the role of a woman should be.
Please do something useful. Let us talk about female genital mutilation; let us talk about forced marriage; let us speak out about abuses of women across the world. But, please, stop wasting all of our time."@en1
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