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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-09-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Equal pay for work of equal value2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010919.10.3-146"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-09-19-Speech-3-1472
lpv:speaker	lp:Geneviève Fraisse2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 unknown; Indépendant (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"I thank Mrs Smet for having taken the initiative to draft this report. I would like to point to three difficulties but first of all I want to make one thing clear: when we refer to a 25% wage gap, this covers all occupations taken together. In general the figure is 15% in the case of equal work. The reason I want to remind you of these two figures and these two concepts is because it is most important to highlight the difficulties we find ourselves in today, as my colleagues have done. The situation is extremely difficult and the solutions are not very visible or effective. Let me draw attention to three points. Firstly, in France, for example, women only occupy 10% of all jobs. Of every 300 jobs, only 30 are filled by women. Women therefore have access to 10% of all the jobs on offer. So there certainly is a need for a change of approach. Secondly, in this report we refer to atypical work. It is also known as part-time work. Some countries think it is good for women. Personally, I do not think so at all. That is not the way to achieve equal pay and economic equality. For there cannot be equal pay without economic equality. Thirdly, we need equal representation in the social partners' decision-making bodies. I would certainly be the first to fight for parity between men and women in the social partners' decision-making. But there are many jobs where no social partners exist, that is, all service jobs. So what can we do there? We have laid down a law on night work in France, which says that the social partners must address the matter. But there are no social partners in the case of these jobs, which poses serious problems. I would just like to ask the Commissioner for one thing in face of all these immense difficulties: that we lay emphasis on the question of equal pay at the second reading of the 1976 directive we are currently revising together with you and with the Council. This issue does not seem to be welcome in the discussions with the Council. I think it is quite essential if there is to be any point to this revision of the 1976 directive."@en1

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