Credit where it’s due for improving workers’ rights

‘The EU has been a crucible of innovation for gender equality policies, and indeed regulation, to encourage male involvement in the care of young children,’ writes Margaret O’Brien. Photograph: Oksana Kuzmina/AlamyLarry Elliott’s column (The EU is no defender of workers’ rights, 25 October) argues that social Europe “never delivered all that much”. Europe may not yet be the socialist paradise we want it to become, but dismissing all its achievements on w