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"I welcome the fact that, as part of the celebration of International Women’s Day, the European Parliament decided to hold a debate to mark the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and, in particular, to focus on domestic violence.
Given the worrying scale of this blight on society, I support the idea of 2006 being designated European Year against Violence against Women.
However, in addition to symbolic gestures, I also consider that the EU should play a leading role in taking practical steps to establish gender equality. I firmly believe that we should move on from mere political recognition to practical application in our day-to-day lives.
In the area that I follow most closely, social policy, there is a need to strengthen all those measures that help to combat all aspects of inequality between men and women in the workplace, be it wage levels, career progression or access to the labour market.
The Nordic countries have very low levels of unemployment, and one of the reasons for this is that they have encouraged greater employability amongst women.
By the same token, given that the labour market is becoming ever more demanding, it is important for flexible working conditions to take into account key values such as the balance between family and professional life …"@en1
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