This week you can meet Zita Gurmai, President of PES Women, on Yourspace! She will be commenting on selected posts from Yourspace users. Here are some of the postcards from the PES Women President:

Women and men are equal - also when it's pay day

Thanks to PES activist Martina Preuss for her interesting post about Equal Pay Day in Germany. I am very glad to know that German colleagues also have a day of action for equal pay.

The Treaty of Rome from 1957 clearly states equal pay for equal work. 50 years later we still have the problem: there is 15 percent difference in the wages of European women and men. It is a very huge gap; it means that women have to work 54 days extra to earn the same wage as a male colleague.

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Gender equality is a core issue for Europe's socialists

I completely agree with PES activist Natalia Reyes when she writes that gender equality should be one of the top priorities of the PES manifesto - as it is a priority for the Spanish government. Having Zapatero and PSOE in government in Spain has demonstrated that when women vote for a socialist party their lives really improve. In many ways we are experiencing the New Social Europe in Spain: Equal pay, childcare and attention to violence against women.

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Read all postcards from Zita Gurmai here