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"I endorsed the report on modernising Europe’s higher education systems. I would like to draw attention to the need to improve the correlation between education and the needs of the labour market in accordance with the objectives set in the Europe 2020 strategy, amongst other things, by creating new fields of study which reflect the needs of the labour market, by increasing the range of educational and occupational advice being offered and by promoting internships and traineeships. In order to increase women’s employability in technical and scientific positions, non-traditional jobs and the low-carbon and high-tech sectors of the economy, it is necessary to create new opportunities for women to train in the fields of science, mathematics and technology. I support increasing the proportion of women on decision-making boards relating to research, in order to encourage greater numbers of women to work in higher education. Only 30% of the people working in research in Europe are women. Even more worrying is the proportion of women holding positions on decision-making boards related to research. The overall average for the Union is 27%. In Poland, only 7% of the people holding positions on decision-making boards in research are women, which puts the country in second-to-last place out of the EU’s 27 Member States. Women pursuing an academic career still also have to face the glass ceiling. The proportion of women who obtain a professorship amounts to 15%. I appeal to the Commission and the Member States to set up programmes which support young female scientists in relation to participation in research programmes and the submission of grant applications, in order to help them to stay in academia."@en1

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