Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-11-04-Speech-4-017"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Employment2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991104.2.4-017"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-04-Speech-4-0182
lpv:speaker	lp:Maj Britt Theorin2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Socialdemokratiska arbetarepartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; AGRI (1999-07-21--2000-02-17)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with South Africa (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, the employment guidelines for 1999 emphasise that a concern with equality must permeate all action plans and measures which are proposed under all four pillars of the EU’s employment strategy. So far, the results have been meagre. A very limited number of measures concerning equality have been introduced. Few (albeit some) budget resources have been made use of, and few quantitative objectives have been established. European women earn, on average, 76 per cent of men’s hourly wages, and their employment rate is approximately 20 per cent lower than men’s. It is not enough to make sweeping commitments concerning equality under the fourth pillar in the employment guidelines. What, instead, is required are clear references under all four pillars. The opinion I have formulated on the report will ensure that a concern with equality permeates the employment guidelines for the year 2000. Most of the proposals which I and the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities have submitted have already been adopted by the Committee, but a small number of central proposals were not adopted, namely Amendment Nos 37, 38 and 39. These are now being submitted by a number of groups. These proposals require the Member States to undertake to achieve a balance between women and men in any decision making, to ensure that there are as many female as male candidates for committees and working parties within the EU, to improve labour market legislation so that it reflects women’s needs and problems, and to ensure – not least – that those who draw up the guidelines for national employment policies are trained in such a way that they might more effectively integrate a concern with equality into their work. Finally, annual quantifiable objectives are to be introduced in the Member States. My opinion is entirely in line with the Amsterdam Treaty which attaches much more importance to equality than did the Treaty of Maastricht and the Treaty of Rome. Above all, the Amsterdam Treaty describes the achievement of equality between women and men as one of the EU’s central tasks. Discrimination against women in the labour market is not only non-productive but prevents the development of women as individuals, of women as a group and of society as a whole."@en1

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