Unequal treatment of men and women

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Even in the Netherlands it still occurs that women are paid less for the same job than men despite of the existence of the Dutch Law on Equal Treatment.

Women who are not "heads of the family" often have limited access to resources such as the granting of credits and mortgages and training facilities.

Women from Gelderland find that the government should make an effort to end the present inequality through:

• creating more part-time jobs (as the biggest employer in the Netherlands) for women and men and also for women and men in middle and top management positions. Moreover, the government can extend facilities to employers who create more part-time jobs and to employers who adjust working hours to school hours. In addition, the government should bring about equal rights for those who have a full-time job and those who work part-time;
• improving labour law of outworkers, of people who are called up when they are needed and of freelancers. A legal basis for this is indispensable. A limit should be set to the frequent "revolving-door" effect (women who enter once again in a temporary employment contract after having been unemployed for one month);
• creating extra resources for women when women and men are being treated unequally or hold unequal positions. Such resources are: good and affordable child care, second chance to occupational training, good public transport (also at the country) and scholarship. The present economies on these existing resources affect particularly women. This undesired effect needs to be ended;
• organizing quickly the equal rights of women to a pension;
• striving with more insistence than at the moment after a female presence of 50% in the people's representation at the national, regional and local level. This because the government is in fact also the employer of the people's representation.