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"Mr President, first I should like to congratulate the European Commission on the initiative which it has taken to mobilise women, increase the participation of women in science and enrich European research.
It is a fact that the degree to which women are represented in the field of scientific research and technology is extremely low and in complete disproportion to the progress which they have made in other fields, thanks to European policy, especially education, where we really can speak of a triumph by women now that they outnumber men at nearly all the European universities. Mrs
Gröner has already given us a great deal of interesting information on this.
Of course, the position of women generally in career posts in scientific research depends to a great extent on the choices which they make while they are in the educational system and on their position in the family. The various directions which the two sexes follow in their studies affect their future development, which is why we need to intervene early, during careers advice at school and explain to young women the consequences which their choices will have on their career.
On the other hand, the preservation of traditional roles and the division of labour by sex have a negative effect on women’s career prospects, which is why, of course, we still need measures to reconcile professional and family life. However, I would like to say that this should apply in particular to men. Men need to combine their career with their family and personal life. Women make up fifty per cent of human resources, half the source of talent, skills and creativity in the world. Maintaining the present imbalance in the crucial field of research is tantamount to a loss of precious resources and impacts directly on the development and the future of the EU. None of the present-day challenges can be met without the input, ideas, imagination and skills of women.
However, over and above the question of equality of the sexes, there is the development dimension of the issue, i.e. the need to support the competitiveness and the innovation of the Union. The fifth framework programme aims to incorporate political equality of the sexes. We support the initiatives to mobilise the numerous scientific networks run by women and safeguard a balance between the sexes in science and we support the institutions which are shaping policies, selecting and evaluating plans and deciding how resources should be allocated.
We call on the European Commission and the Member States to consider if women are adequately represented in the common agricultural policy, in the Structural Funds, in the fifth framework programme, in the numerous scientific and technical committees and in key positions.
I should like to close, Mr President, by asking the European Commission to use the pre-accession aid programmes to candidate Member States and Turkey in order to target the scientific skills of women and give them a better chance to contribute to scientific and technical research and development."@en1
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