Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-03-12-Speech-1-088-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-03-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Equality between women and men in the European Union - 2011 - Women in political decision-making (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120312.17.1-088-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Barbara Matera2
lpv:spokenAs	member; BUDG (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; REGI (2012-01-19--2012-03-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Il Popolo della Libertà (2009-07-14--2013-12-05)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; FEMM (2012-01-25--2014-06-30)3 member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	". Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the participation of women in political decision-making at all levels is crucial, as it enables us to take practical steps to facilitate the lot of women in their difficult task of reconciling their private and working lives. Without the participation of women, political decision-making lacks the sensitivity needed to deal with the specific problems of women and there is little attention to discrimination against them – concerning access to employment as well as child care facilities for their children. In order to address this serious imbalance in the participation of women in politics, I support the introduction of quotas for electoral lists. I do not like them, but I like the result that quotas can bring and have brought in recent years: just a few days ago, to mark International Women’s Day, a draft bill was approved by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the Italian Chamber of Deputies which requires electoral lists to have at least 30% of women in towns with more than 5,000 inhabitants. This is therefore a great step forward and I hope that it can be accepted by other Member States as a best practice. We need to achieve greater participation by women in positions of business leadership, especially on the boards of directors and supervisory bodies of enterprises. Indeed, several studies have shown that having more women in these positions contributes significantly to business competitiveness and a growth in profits. This appears to be in tune with the Kratsa report we approved a few months ago right here in this Parliament. I agree with the European Commission and I am pleased. Indeed, my compliments go to Commissioner Reding for launching a public consultation to assess the possibility of proposing legislation on gender quotas in enterprises. I hope that the European Parliament will be a model in this sense, that the participation of women may increase in the upcoming 2014-2019 term, and I hope in particular to change the minds of those colleagues like Mr Nuttall, who is currently not present here in the Chamber, who think that in this Parliament only three women deserve to be Vice-Presidents; I do not think so and indeed I wanted to ask him what strange country he has been living in. Thank you"@en1
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