Source: CNN
The European Parliament has launched a hate speech investigation into a Polish politician after he stated that “women must earn less than men, because they are weaker, they are smaller, they are less intelligent” during a debate this week on the gender pay gap.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke is an independent member of the European Parliament who founded a right-wing political party, the Coalition for the Renewal of the Republic — Freedom and Hope, in 2015. He has previously said that women should not be allowed to vote and was investigated for incitement to rape in 2014 over remarks he made to the European Parliament.
Outraged by his comments Wednesday, another parliamentary member, Iratxe Garcia Perez of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, launched a forceful counterattack.
“I know it hurts and worries you that today women can sit in this house and represent European citizens with the same rights as you,” she said. “I am here to defend all European women from men like you.”
The president of the Socialists and Democrats Group also responded, urging European Parliament President Antonio Tajani on Twitter to “sanction Mr. Korwin-Mikke for his shameful statements.”
Categories: Europe, Europe and Australia, European Union, Poland, Women Rights, Women's right
It seems I am the only person old enough (or read history?) that remembers WHY women earned less than men. It was simply that even in the ‘West’ men used to be responsible for feeding the family. When women joined the workforce it was to add something to the basic family earning of the men. This was not meant to be in any way showing less ‘worth’. These days of course with many single mothers thing have changed and, yes, women should earn the same as men (at least the single mothers).- According to Islamic law the ladies are totally in advantage, because the men are supposed to be responsigle 100% for the family and the ladies earnings are at their own discretion. – Do you agree with the above statement? or am I right?