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"The figures are quite clear: Europe has the highest percentage of elderly women in the world, and this figure continues to rise year after year. The gradual ageing of the European population is a challenge we must overcome at all costs, for the sake of our pension systems. We all need to take greater care of these people, who are subject to twofold discrimination in the labour market based on gender and age. Even though the Member States recognise their need for specific safeguards, too often the measures put in place are not oriented to gender mainstreaming. Immediate, specific decisions must therefore be taken to put elderly working women back at the heart of society so as to draw the utmost benefit from their inestimable cultural, social and professional abilities. These political decisions must be oriented towards gender mainstreaming, taking into consideration, above all, the specific difficulties faced by women: repeated career breaks, part-time work and the gender pay gap, which, in old age, can even cause serious poverty."@en1
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