With a view to ensuring full equality in practice between women and men in working life, the principle of equal treatment shall not prevent any Member State from maintaining or adopting measures providing for specific advantages in order to make it easier for the under-represented sex to pursue a vocational activity, or to prevent or compensate for disadvantages in professional careers.
D'fhonn comhionannas iomlán iarbhír idir mná agus fir a áirithiú i saol na hoibre, ní chuirfidh prionsabal na córa comhionainne cosc ar aon Bhallstát bearta a choimeád ar bun nó a ghlacadh lena ndéanfar foráil maidir le buntáistí sonracha chun gur fusa don ghnéas tearcionadaithe gabháil le gairm bheatha nó chun míbhuntáistí i slite beatha gairmiúla a chosc nó a chúiteamh.