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"Mr President, in the third millennium, a woman has to have the opportunity to decide whether she wants to work or stay at home. If she chooses to work, she has to be judged according to her performance, not according to her sex.
Women hold the key to achieving the Lisbon Strategy’s overarching goal of creating more growth and jobs in the European Union. Increasing the participation of women in the labour market must be a top priority for the EU. Higher participation rates for women will help tackle Europe’s demographic challenges, as well as increasing growth and productivity. However, these advances must go hand-in-hand with greater gender equality in the labour market.
Discrimination against women, occupational segregation and pregnancy discrimination exists on a large scale. Moreover, the gender pay gap persists across Europe. It currently stands at 15% for full-time jobs, but is as high as 40% for part-time jobs. The PSE Group believes in targeted actions to help promote the employment of the most vulnerable groups of our societies, namely older women, those belonging to ethnic minorities and women with disabilities.
The development of a knowledge-based society makes high demands on the educational level of the labour force. Girls are outperforming boys at school and more women than men participate in adult education and training. We must make better use of this potential and there must be a lifelong approach to ensuring gender equality from education through to career development and adequate pensions for women.
We need to fight for a gender-equal society which is fit for the 21st century and forms an integral part of our European social model. Some progress has been made in recent years, but there is still so much to do. The onus for achieving the overarching goals of the Lisbon Strategy ultimately lies with Member States, which must urgently take up their responsibilities to ensure these ambitious goals are made a reality."@en1
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