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dcterms:Date	"2000-02-03"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000203.2.4-051"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-02-03-Speech-4-0522
lpv:speaker	lp:Gérard Caudron2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (1999-07-20--2002-07-09)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (1999-07-20--2002-01-16)3
lpv:translated text	"I am pleased to see the excellent report on the communication from the Commission entitled ‘Women and Science’. In this document, the Commission proposes to stimulate debate with a view to promoting the increased participation of women in research in Europe. This objective deserves our total support. Expenditure on research and technology actually forms a sizeable part of the budget of the European Union, after agriculture and the Structural Funds. The various framework programmes have enabled not only high quality scientific work to take place but also innovative cooperation between researchers in various Member States. Relatively few women, however, are active in scientific disciplines despite the excellent results they achieve in their studies. It is unacceptable for women to continue to be underrepresented. I am therefore delighted to see the proposals of the European Commission. The Commission document sets out to focus on the initiatives to be taken at Community level, especially through the fifth framework programme for research and technical development, which is quite obviously something I approve of. The goal for the years to come is to increase women’s participation to achieve a rate of 40% female participation in the Marie Curie grants, in consultative assemblies and in evaluation panels for the whole of the fifth framework programme for research and technical development. In order to do so, it will be necessary to improve discussion and the sharing of experience among the various Member States, to set up a coordinating body to implement a ‘Women and Science’ monitoring system within the fifth framework programme for research and technical development, specially responsible for gathering and disseminating statistics collected in the implementation of the framework programme for research and technical development regarding the rate of women’s participation in research activities. Furthermore, like the rapporteur, I think that studies must be undertaken to analyse the reasons for the gap between the number of women with science degrees and the number of women who manage to have a career in these fields. Improved analysis of the obstacles facing women will make it possible to develop a strategy to eliminate those obstacles. We will have to enlist the support of the many existing networks of women scientists and to obtain their assistance in framing a joint research policy. The European Parliament will continue to carefully monitor the implementation of the fifth framework programme for research and technical development as regards the promotion of women and to come up with ideas for the course of the fifth framework programme for research and technical development. We must incorporate the gender factor in science, research and all other European Union policies, in order to put an end to the structural discrimination which prevents women competing on equal terms in the labour market."@en1

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