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"Mr President, I am here on behalf of, I suppose, the ‘bean-counting’ committee but, given what was said in this Chamber in the last month, I have got to say this: less than a generation ago in my country young, unmarried, pregnant women were treated as lesser beings, their babies consigned to institutions run by so-called religious orders where some were starved to death, others were sold to be experimented on by big pharma less than 50 years ago. The young mothers themselves were often consigned to a life of slavery and abuse in the Magdalene laundries.
Things have moved on but we still have a long way to go. We do not have to go back decades to find unequal treatment of women. We do not have to go back to Ireland, why we do not even have to go outside this Chamber. Just this month in the mini plenary in Brussels, one of our supposed colleagues made the statement that because women are smaller, weaker, less intelligent they should be paid less than men. I have news for that MEP: there are women in this Chamber who are bigger, stronger and more intelligent than many men. That does not make them superior to any man. It makes them equal to all. I hope we can go some way to changing what we need to change even further and shutting people like that up."@en1
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