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June 2013, Year V, n. 6

Maria Arnholm

Stability? Enforcing equal rights is the safest way to achieve it.

Telos: Reducing the gender pay gap has been recognised by the European Commission as one of its top priorities. Besides that, a serious gap in labour market participation still persists throughout the EU. As a Minister of Gender Equality, how do you plan to take action to close the gender gap and which hurdles do you regard as the most challenging ones in the implementation of such a strategy?

Maria Arnholm: Today, the lifetime income of a man and the life income of a woman differs with on average €360,000. Imagine all the things you can buy and invest in with €360,000 – a new house, your children’s education fees, financing your retirement. And this is of course related to how much you work ... more

Editorial

What is equal opportunity? Finding a shared answer would finally place under a sound perspective all the discussions on individual merit and responsibility, which for so many years have muddied the public debate without giving any contribution to improving social cohesion and development policies. So: is equal opportunity a principle genuinely underpinning the vision of those who talk about it? ... more