10 Amendments of Raül ROMEVA i RUEDA related to 2011/2294(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph A
A. whereas over 60 % of university graduates are women, but the majority of senior positions in universities (e.g. postdoctoral positions and professorships) are still held by men; whereas only 13 % of institutions in the higher education sector were headed by women and only 9 % of universities had a female head of staff and therefore considerably less influence with regard to research decision-making,
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph A a (new)
Paragraph A a (new)
A a. whereas 35% of all jobs in the EU will require high-level qualifications by 2020, whereas only 26% of the workforce currently has a higher education qualification,
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph B
B. whereas there is a disturbingly low proportion of women on decision-making boards relating to research, with the lowest numbers beinghereas only 25% Members of the European Research Council (ECR) are female, whereas since its start in 2007 1700 projects have been selected to receive found in Estonia, Poland, Cyprus, Slovakia and the Czech Republic;g from the ERC, representing some 2.5 Billion Euro in grants, whereas almost 90% of these grants went to male candidates,
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
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1. Calls on universities, the EU institutions and the Member States to encourage young women to study subjects in which women are still underrepresented, especially science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and to inform themwhich provide the basis for high-level low-carbon skills, stresses that stereotypes affecting these professions have to be addressed e.g. by informing especially young women about their possibilities of becoming researchers and the opportunities available in the research field, including applied research, as that should liberate untapped talent;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 2
2. CPoints out that sharing between women and men of domestic and family responsibilities is a sine qua non for the advancement and achievement of equality beween women and men, calls on universities and higher education colleges to recognise that womenmale and female learners may have specific responsibilities outside of learning, for example, caring for young children or elderly relatives;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
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3. Considers it necessary to review the criteria for promotion to senior research- oriented positions (e.g. professorships) in order to include a strong gender perspective and address the lack of women in these posts, and to recognise that women are far more likely than their male counterparts to take career breaks in order to have a family;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
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4. Recalls that higher education should give tools to women to enable them to achieve better positions in the private sector and develop their entrepreneurial skills,Encourages universities, higher education and research institutes to adopt and enforce equality strategies in their organisations and to conduct gender impact evaluation in their decision making process, recalls that these institutions are likewise required to ensure equal treatment of and equal opportunities for women and men at work and education, stresses that with thuis promoting growth and jobs in the EU; insists, therefore, that women should beaim in view measures should be adopted to prevent any kind of discrimination in order to enable women to achieve better positions in the private and public sector; encourageds women to participate actively in university/private sector partnerships, e.g. through start-ups or spin- offs;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Reiterates the Commission's announcement from 1 March 2011 to propose European legislation in 2012 including binding targets for increasing representation of each sex to a minimum of 40%, if companies do not increase the proportions of women on their decision- making bodies voluntarily by 5 % a year reaching, reaching 30% female representation by 2015 and 40% female representation by 2020;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up programmes of coaching and supporting young women scientists in participating in research programmes and grant applications in order to help them to stay in academia and research;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Criticises that the Commission's agenda for the modernisation of Europe's higher education systems is gender blind and gender mainstreaming basically non existent;