Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-13-Speech-2-020"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, inequality between men and women is very prevalent in the research world. It prevents the Lisbon objectives from being achieved, and it is a barrier to European competitiveness. The very fact that European women are still underrepresented in the research world shows that Europe has huge potential that is not being exploited. It is a fact that women find it difficult to obtain research posts, simply because they are women. Even though the number of female candidates is now larger than the number of male candidates in almost all European countries, women come up against major obstacles in the male-dominated market for jobs in science. That is a state of affairs we must do something about. It is therefore important that, in implementing the Seventh Framework Programme, the Commission take account of the gender issue and help bring about a situation in which young female candidates have the same opportunities as men in competing for research funds.
The composition of the new European Research Council is quite simply nothing less than a scandal. Of the 22 researchers that have been appointed, only four are women. The EU has a list of general rules governing equality, and these should, of course, also apply to the European Research Council. We in the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality have proposed that there be a balance of genders in the Research Council, which should always consist of no less than 40% of each gender. Commissioner, I do hope you will consider what kind of a signal we are sending out to the European research world by having so unequal a representation of women and men. It does not, in any case, help put an end to the gender-divided labour market in the research world."@en1
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