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"Equality of rights and opportunities is a central issue, including women’s participation in the labour market and companies’ management positions. It is well known that there is still significant wage discrimination, especially in the private sector and, above all, in industry. There is a difference of around 18% between men’s and women’s wages in the European Union.
This report gives particular emphasis to the issue of women in business leadership, on the basis of positive examples in some countries, specifically France, the Netherlands, and Spain, which have tended towards setting a threshold for female membership of management bodies, which must be respected by companies. It also covers the debates on the same issue in countries like Belgium, Germany and Italy, and welcomes Finland’s Corporate Governance Code, under which firms’ decision-taking bodies must contain both male and female representatives; the proportion of women on Finnish firms’ decision-taking bodies is now 25%. We consider all the steps taken towards equality between men and women positive, but we cannot separate the issue of inequality from the reality of the labour market, especially given the current economic and social crisis, whose impact is particularly felt in the lives of working women and men, thereby exacerbating differences which already exist."@en1
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