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"Madam President, thank you ladies and gentlemen, because I have received the message loud and clear. I can sum it up in one sentence: the majority of you no longer accept the 90% quota of men running our companies and think that this should change.
Let us work together to bring about that change.
When, after having heard your rapporteur and all the interventions, I analyse what has been said, I think we agree that women do reasonably well in politics. There is still a long way to go, but we are on the right track.
Unfortunately, we do not do reasonably well in the economy. We are absent in decision making and I got your message that we must change that. We are present in low income jobs, when 60% of university graduates are female. They get lost on the way to where we need them in times of crisis, in order to improve things economically.
We have no choice. How are we to reach the 75% employability, if not by using the untapped potential of these well-trained women? We really need to change the way in which we tackle employment, by giving women a chance and bringing in the talent which we have trained and educated, and which is available for employment.
I have taken note of the interventions about the victims. It is true that not all victims are female or children. They can also be men – but victims are mainly female, including small girls. That is why, in the victims’ package, which I will present in May, this fact will be taken into consideration.
Shortly after this, we will be celebrating one hundred years of International Women’s Day. We should not forget that we are also celebrating one hundred years since Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize. I would like to say to all the women in this room that we should be proud to be women."@en1
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