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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the rapporteur’s report highlights a worrying and, unfortunately, often overlooked fact: the inequality between women and men in research persists and is preventing compliance with the Lisbon objectives. In the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, we had hoped to obtain more resources for research in the new budget. More and better research and, therefore, more resources for research together constitute the most crucial weapon in the fight for competition and growth in Europe. Unfortunately, the budget negotiations recently struggled through resulted in insufficient priority being given to research. That is a great pity. The strategies in the Lisbon Agenda are the guarantee of Europe’s future. Even though the EU’s research programmes only constitute a small portion of total resources for research in Europe, we must think very carefully when we set our priorities. The very fact that European women are still under-represented in the research world, despite women now being better educated than men, signifies that Europe has huge potential that is not being exploited. That is something that, emphatically, we must do something about.
Few high-ranking female academics have spouses and children, while their male counterparts, more often than not, do. Young female candidates have difficulty obtaining research posts. Throughout Europe, most newly qualified candidates are, in actual fact, women but, higher up the career ladder, men are still firmly ensconced. Now, in particular, it is important to be aware of the fact that women are more vulnerable than men, for the competition for research funds is tough. We must increase the proportion of top women academics and PhD students in order to meet the challenges we face. Investing in education, research and innovation is our only opportunity for coping successfully in the knowledge-based economy. The unexploited female potential for research is the nuclear power of the future.
We must become better at encouraging young women to choose a research career, and we must at the same time secure better conditions for both women and men in the research world. For example, by far the majority of research posts in Europe are at present temporary and, if we do not remedy that state of affairs soon, public research will end up taking second place behind private research. In the longer term, this may mean that most university teachers will be women, reflecting the situation further down the education ladder in the school system, while men find employment in industrial research, which is better paid and more prestigious and in which only 15% of researchers are at present women."@en1
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