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"Mr President, it is fortunate that a broad consensus was reached in the debate with the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy on Mrs McNally’s report, which particularly aims to increase and facilitate the participation of women in research work. In order to avoid any confusion, the concept of equal opportunities must be looked into in greater depth, since it does not seem to mean the same thing to everybody. In fact, the initial version of this opinion adopted a definition that was compatible not only with the legitimate aspirations of women to be given equal access to scientific study and to have accompanying measures established quickly, allowing them to obtain positions of responsibility commensurate with their results, but also with the concept of complementarity, which is the only one capable of justifying a proactive policy in this regard.
Parliament’s discussions must be based on the values inherent in the concept of complementarity, respecting gender differences, and not on an assumption of equality between the sexes, a concept that has its own intrinsic contradictions. If men and women were indeed strictly equivalent, if a woman were, after all, just like any other man, there would be no reason to wish to impose parity between men and women, and only the criteria of competence would have to be taken into consideration in allocating jobs. Balance can be restored better, on the contrary, by acknowledging gender differences and adopting the principle of complementarity. These will support a proactive, realistic and pragmatic policy, particularly aimed at removing tangible obstacles, specific obstacles that are essentially due to their condition as mothers, with which women and only women are faced. An arbitrary quantitative policy based on the practice of quotas will not contribute to solving the fundamental problems.
It would be good if Parliament could express its commitment regarding women’s access to certain professions, particularly research, where women are still too widely under-represented, in terms that omit, for good, the rhetoric of claiming rights."@en1
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