EU to improve women’s lives or wasted words – McGuinness

Fine Gael's Mairead McGuinness has welcomed a new EU plan to boost the role of women. 

The so-called Gender Equality Strategy aims to build on what the European Union believes it has achieved over the last five years.

It points to the success of equal treatment laws and policies to support women in the workplace. The aim is to achieve a “gender-equal Europe” by 2025. The Midlands North-West MEP, Mairead McGuinness, says these objectives must be more than the piece of paper they are written on.

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