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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9863

18 March 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/women
Is Europe moving forward with women's rights?

Brussels, 17/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - In the context of the world day for women's rights and at a time when, in 2007, the female rate of employment in Europe was 14.2% below that of men and their hourly rate of pay was 17.4% less, the European Parliament Bureau devoted a “midday meeting of the European Parliament” in Marseilles, on Thursday 12 March, to the question: “Is Europe taking women's rights forward?” The session was on the stakes of European elections on 7 June when it...

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