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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to thank Heidi Hautala for the time that she has devoted to this directive and for her work, which shows that she has been equal to this task and has merited the trust placed in her by the members of her committee. I also wanted to say how glad we are to be taking part in a codecision procedure on equal treatment and women’s rights, which does not happen so very often.
I should like to say that this directive seems to me to mark progress on two extremely important fronts. The first is that its scope has finally been extended. All family-related issues, such as maternity leave, adoption and also adoption leave – and God knows how important these are for us – have been recognised. The presence of the father and the need for the father not to be penalised if he takes leave are recognised. This is what I would call an extension in favour of family life. I am very happy that all of this now comes under this directive.
In the same way, all harassment-related matters now enter into the scope of application of this directive. Here harassment is considered to be discrimination. We tend to deal with the issue of violence against women from the point of view of moral standards. Here we deal with it from the point of view of discrimination, so from the point of view of the fight for equality between men and women. I particularly welcome this and I believe that the efforts we made to draw a distinction between the two definitions of harassment were extremely worthwhile. I myself had recourse to this new standpoint last week in France, where although our law dates from 1992 it does not really include a definition. This new definition will therefore be very useful in all of our Member States. That is why I consider this to be so important.
In addition, there is also the whole dimension of obligation. If all of these things that we are asking for are to become a reality, we need obligations and not just wishes and desires. This would appear to me to be fundamental and, since I still have a few seconds left, I will take the liberty of sharing with you a discovery I made today. If you cross the footbridge and go upstairs, you will find a door with a sign indicating the room set aside for this Parliament’s cleaning staff: the sign shows a woman holding a brush. I think that we still have a great deal more work to do, because I want there to be equal treatment in domestic services as well as within the large professions that we are trying to represent here."@en1
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