SECTORAL POLICY / (ae) women

Ways to remedy women being hit doubly hard by crisis

Brussels, 20/02/2013 (Agence Europe) - Several proposals for correcting the impact of the crisis on gender equality have been adopted by the European Parliament's women's rights and gender equality committee (FEMM). MEPs adopted a resolution on the impact of the crisis on women on Tuesday 19 January.

MEPs from the FEMM committee underline that women have been punished twice since the beginning of the crisis - by losing their jobs and by working part-time. The rapporteur, Elisabeth...