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"Mr President, we will vote in favour of this report, because it contains a number of good intentions regarding equality between men and women, and it proposes that Parliament should put its own house in order. Not only are there half as many women as men in Parliament, but in the managing bodies of Parliament – the Bureau, the Conference of Presidents, and so on – women are outrageously under-represented.
However, I must stress that acting only at that level would only be scratching the surface. There is still a considerable difference between salaries for men and women in companies. Why are the European institutions, which are capable of proposing restrictive directives when it comes to facilitating trade and business, not doing the same to ensure true equality of salaries? Why are they not imposing on all the Member States, including the most backward ones, women's fundamental right to be in charge of their own bodies? That would not be enough to halt the progress of misogyny and violence against women, which is growing in the poverty and ghettos of working-class areas, but it would curb the deterioration of women’s standard of living."@en1
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