Thank you.
First of all, thanks very much for your presentations this morning. They have certainly been very interesting and enlightening.
Ms. Ievers, one of the things you said during your presentation that I found to be an extremely good statement was that gender equality is everyone's business. I sometimes think we do ourselves and the Status of Women a disservice by having this committee, actually. We do great work, and this committee is very important, but I think we make it easier for other areas to say they don't need to be involved, and they don't need to carry forth with so much of the equality issues because they're being looked after here.
Perhaps if more emphasis were put on having to handle equality at every step and stage in every committee as it goes along, it might get more attention than it does--and rightly so. It needs to have more attention than it's getting. So that's my first comment, and I don't know if you want to respond to that.
Secondly, I was extremely interested in Ms. Mathyssen's questions about the consultation process. In the different areas that I've been involved in over the years, I've found that consultation is one of the most difficult areas in which to get the correct and most meaningful information. I've often found that those who respond in the consultative process are the ones we're least looking for to respond. We always get responses from a certain segment of society, but to get the responses from those we want to help the most and get the message to the most is sometimes the most challenging.
I was very interested to hear what you had to say regarding the online survey and how it went much further than we would be led to believe in reading about it. So I think that part of it's good.
I'm not sure that I caught the answer--and maybe the question wasn't actually asked--about the different type of response you got from those who were professionals working on gender equality, as opposed to those who were non-organizational or non-governmental. Maybe you could respond a bit more to that, please.