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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9115

24 January 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/women's rights/lisbon
Further concrete actions to fight against sex inequality on employment market

Strasbourg, 23/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 19 January, as part of the mid-term review of the Lisbon strategy, the European Parliament adopted the own-initiative report by Edite Estrela (PES, Portugal). The March 2000 summit in Lisbon set the objective of attaining an unemployment rate of 60% for women by 2010, but "the road to achieve this is still very long", Ms Estrela pointed out during the debate. "It is still very hard for women to reconcile family life with professional life (...),...

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