Women, response to the economic crisis

23^rd April 2012

On 16th April the Commission published a report in which greater gender equality appears as being one of the responses to the crisis. The reduction in wage differences between men and women and the increase in the number of women occupying positions of responsbility, amongst other things, foster economic growth. In spite of the progress observed in the report, major challenges remain for the Member States, who have to integrate more women into the labour market if they want to achieve a 75% employment rate for all adults - a goal that was set in the Europe 2020 strategy. Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission said that Europe "can only achieve its goals in terms of employment by using all of its human resources."

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