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"Mr President, in the report regarding EU funds for gender equality there is a call for more EU funding. Whilst I fully support tackling violence against women and discrimination, and agree that Member States should do more, an increase in the EU budget is utterly against UKIP principles. Taxpayers’ money should not be spent by unaccountable EU bureaucrats.
Another report reviewing equal treatment in the access to, and supply of, goods and services welcomes the ECJ Test Achats ruling. This removed Article 5(2), which meant that insurance premiums could not be calculated differently between men and women. I find it extremely hypocritical that the EU wants gender quotas in boardrooms, but that you are more than happy to take away one of the few advantages that women could have had and that was justifiable so long as it was proven by credible data. What was once a transparent way of calculating premiums has now led to insurance companies finding hidden alternatives, for example, basing premiums on employment sectors which have a higher percentage of males and females. The final report on gender equality calls for gender quotas on boards of listed companies and encourages Member States to dissolve companies that do not tick those boxes. It goes on to call for gender quotas for elections and in the explanatory statement it talks about the division of household responsibilities. How couples choose to divide household chores between them in the privacy of their own home is not an area for the EU to dictate.
I would just like to remind everyone that the United Kingdom passed the Equal Pay Act in 1970, pre-dating our entry into the European Union in 1973. The UK does not need to rely on the EU for women’s rights. We will continue to fight for equal treatment long after we have gone."@en1
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