The EWL 50/50 Campaign continues!
More Women in the European Parliament - What about EU Top Jobs?
On the eve of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) General Assembly, the EWL held a very successful public Conference “No Modern European Democracy without Gender Equality” on 26 June 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. The Conference analyzed the results of the recent European Parliamentary Elections from a gender equality perspective and discussed the EU “top jobs”, the representation of women in the future European Commission, the perspectives for women chairing the European Parliament and its Committees and experiences of the 50/50 Campaign.
The recent European elections led to a slight progress in the representation of women in the European Parliament (EP), which now reaches about 35% (compared to about 30% at the beginning of the 1999-2004 term) but still doesn’t attain parity or even the 40% of women threshold agreed by Member States of the Council of Europe.
Margot Wallström, Vice-President of the European Commission and strong supporter of the 50/50 Campaign was a speaker during the Conference on 26.06 and stated: “The European parliament elections are now behind us, but the work is not yet over. I know some people think quotas should only be applied on fishing and whales, but I don't agree. I think the only way to restore what is today a de facto discrimination against women, is by introducing gender quotas across Europe.
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