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resolution of the state Women's Council of Baden-Württemberg:

A decade of women's policy for Baden-Württemberg aims of the Women's Land Baden-Württemberg (SAR) at its delegates' meeting on 08.05.2010 in Stuttgart . Gender equality policies are a long-term investment and essential for sustainable growth, employment, competitiveness and social cohesion. This confirms the delegates' meeting of the LFR core statements of the EU Commission in its recent report on equality between women and men, and calls for the state of Baden-Württemberg the following concrete measures:

• Strengthen the gender dimension, including a better use of gender mainstreaming and specific measures and targets for equality between women and men in the context of an employment strategy for the state of Baden-Württemberg;

• ensuring the integration of gender perspective in efforts to combat the recession, supported by consistent gender budgeting;

• reduce the pay gap between men and women, including through the living wage for full-time employment, legal Minimum wage and an appreciation of social services;

• Promote a balanced and long-term development-oriented decision-making environment of diversity on the boards of listed companies by means of a quota for supervisory boards.

• Improved access of women in decision-making policies and land management through a quota for the state government bodies.

As a precondition for the expansion of early childhood care and education and care services for vulnerable older people, more flexible working hours and the facilitation of full-time employment of women and men are called. Support required by qualification offers also women in especially difficult circumstances - such as women in precarious jobs, older workers, lone parents, disabled women, migrant women and women belonging to ethnic minorities, but also more women who are victims of violence.

was adopted by the Assembly of Delegates also filed applications, reductions in the language and integration courses for women to take back (LFR-board) to adopt an equal opportunities law for the private sector (Dt. engineers Confederation), the country's participation in the development of early childhood care and education to increase (DGB-female) and to ensure parity between men and women in the parliament of Baden-Württemberg by amending the state election law. An initiative petition to reform the law on maintenance payments, grant no longer on maintenance payments, if received by lone parents is a non-marital partners, was also adopted. achieve

Esther Peylo, commissioner for public relations of the country's Council for Women

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