European statistics hit the headlines this week with news that MEPs had blocked an attempt by the Commission to quiz women on their sex lives. Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) was discussing COM (2007) 69 - ‘Proposal for a Regulation ... on population and housing censuses’. The draft recommended - amongst many other things - that women be asked the dates on which their first and current “consensual union(s)” began. Lithuanian MEP Ona Juknevičienė in her report, said “The question is too intrusive and concerns only women, which is not legitimate.”
Source: MEPs hit back at 'intimate' Brussels census (EUobserver.com)
Proposal text
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs - documents for meeting 20.11.2007
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