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"en.20000302.4.4-062"2
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"Women suffer increasingly from inequality since they are the victims of the sexist discrimination which can take an overt form (violence, rape, sexual harassment, domestic violence, etc.) but also a more insidious one. This oppression is based upon a sexual and social division of labour which values men’s work more than women’s. Wages are not equal, women’s work is still perceived as ‘stop-gap’ work and, more generally, female employees do not have access to the same positions of responsibility as men. What is more, women bear the main responsibility for family matters.
Women must be entitled to full time employment on an equal footing with men. Mandatory legislation must be adopted in order to encourage equality in the workplace. States must develop a public service offering childcare for working mothers. Finally, in order to enable everyone, men and women, to become involved in public life, working hours must be drastically reduced.
We need real equality between men and women in political, economic and social life. We are opposed to the idea that the biological differences between men and women should give rise to two different world views and two different value systems. Women have the right to be involved in the decision-making process as ‘individuals’ and not as token females."@en1
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