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"I would like to thank Mrs Záborská for her report on the current situation in the European Union regarding the relationship between women and poverty. I am convinced that poverty has the face of a woman: a mother who wants with love to bring up her children; an old woman who has laboured for a society that has failed to appreciate it; and a young woman facing a crossroads in today’s world – family or equality. As night turns into day, we are witnessing tremendous opportunities that give women free access to education and work. Past fighters for women’s rights might envy the women of today their opportunities and the laws designed to protect them. Who then, or to put it better, what then causes poverty to have a woman’s face? Perhaps, contrary to expectations – I will not blame this time, gentlemen – I could link poverty with our desire to fulfil the role that you can only silently envy us, the role of a mother. Our situation is not due to an inability to keep pace with you at work, since many great and important men have risen in the world only thanks to the hard work of the self-effacing women around them. Society stresses the gift of life that women provide; in some countries, the law does not even give them the choice to do otherwise. But, as soon as a woman becomes a mother, society shifts its worries about the future of the nation onto her. Laws do not take proper account of her work, the work of a mother and a housewife, neither do they make it easier. What will the future be like? The media, as an example ..."@en1
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