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"Madam President, in paragraph 64 this report calls for compliance with gender equality to be considered a criterion for all EU-funded culture, education and research programmes and asks the Commission to include a specific area of gender research within the Horizon 2020 programme. We know that women are severely under-represented in science, technology, research and the digital sector. For example, and I quote, ‘often there are more iPADs in the room than there are women’. It is shameful. In the UK women make up under 30% of the information and communications technology workforce, comprising around 20% of computing graduates and 10% of app developers. There is forecast to be a labour shortage of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) jobs of around 7 million by 2025, and women only make up 24% of science and engineering professionals.
We know this is because women drop out of STEM and IT subjects very early in the education process. Female participation in IT apprenticeship programmes and computer science degrees is only 21% and 19% respectively. In secondary education, where girls choose their own subjects, only 8% of girls in the UK choose computer studies. So the EU has a social, moral and economic duty to ensure a gender focus and equal gender participation in STEM sectors. More women in science and technology is good for the economy. It is good for society and, above all, it is the right thing to do because it gives women and girls a choice about how they want to lead their lives. The EU can help to achieve this in this report today by voting for it and ensuring gender issues are mainstreamed in the Horizon 2020 programme."@en1
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