equal treatment for men and women

It is currently preparing an action plan on equal treatment for men and women which should deal with this problem.

I have worked in the field of equal treatment for men and women for decades.

We are firmly committed to equal treatment for men and women in pensions.

Take, for example, an extremely important topic which a number of speakers referred to this morning: equal treatment for men and women.

First of all, my group fully supports all aspects of the report concerning equal treatment for men and women.

Paragraph 18 is particularly important when it comes to the burden of proof on equal pay and equal treatment for men and women.

The purpose of this proposal is to simplify, modernise and improve Community legislation on equal treatment for men and women in employment.

I believe that this comprehensive legislative text marks a small step which is, all the same, exceptionally important in terms of equal treatment for men and women.

And as Mrs Prets stated so well, equal treatment for men and women is obviously part of such a dialogue.

It is crucial that the Member States work together to ensure equal treatment for men and women so that more women can become self-employed.

Equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions (short presentation)

The new provisions on human rights, equal treatment for men and women, non-discrimination and wider powers for the Court of Justice are all significant improvements.

I voted in favour of Mrs Madurell's report on equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion.

In providing aid the Commission must work with NGOs which place human rights and equal treatment for men and women at the top of their agenda.

Occupational and personal pension schemes will have to guarantee a minimum pension before they can contract out, and guarantee equal treatment for men and women.

We are also positive about the improvements to the provisions on equal treatment for men and women, though we regret that they are not to have direct effect.

Article 119 on equal treatment for men and women, the Irish formula, equal pay for work of an equal value is, as we know, to be scrapped.

Mr President, the amendment to the 1976 directive is a very important move and illustrates the Commission's sensitivity on the question of equal treatment for men and women.

The Employment Summit has started the ball rolling, but the proposals in the national employment plans for ensuring equal treatment for men and women are completely inadequate.

Equal treatment for men and women is incorporated in the Treaty establishing the European Communities and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Updating this legislation enables us to guarantee equal treatment for men and women, with particular attention focused on the issue of social protection, especially protection for self-employed women.

Mr President, the fact that we need to address ourselves to the subject of equal treatment for men and women in occupational social security schemes is in itself extremely regrettable.

As a result of the EEC directive requiring equal treatment for men and women in member countries' social security schemes, the British system has had to be further modified.

Pension schemes are coming under pressure in various European countries, systems are being reorganized, and equal treatment for men and women is an extremely sensitive issue, especially for women.

The programmes are being simplified and the equal treatment aspects strengthened, both in terms of equal treatment for men and women and the inclusion of marginalised groups.