The adoption of substantial measures by the Commission, which will give women equal treatment, equal pay, equal access to education and health care, called for the MEP of the Democratic Alliance and the European People's Party, Mr. Luke Fourlas.
Speaking before the plenary of the European Parliament in Strasbourg during a debate on women's poverty in Europe, Mr. Fourlas said that during the pandemic, in the critical health sectors 3 out of 4 workers were women, women committed to their work.
At the same time, he said, figures showed that women were paid on average 14% less than men. So it is not difficult to see, he noted, the great inequality and great injustice they suffer. He stressed that all this is unacceptable and called on the Commission "to take measures, substantial measures, to give women what they deserve. Equal treatment, equal pay, equal access to education and healthcare." Until we achieve this, we still have many miles to go, he said.
He added that poverty is a result of discrimination so as long as there is poverty that particularly affects women none of us can talk about a Europe of equality.
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