10 Amendments of Teresa RIERA MADURELL related to 2007/2206(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Points out that to comply with the Lisbon Strategy the EU needs 700 000 further researchers, and therefore calls on the Commission and the Member States to take specific measures, in accordance with the Roadmap for equality between women and men 2006-2010, to ensure that in 2010 the participation of women and men in science and technology are in balance;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers that networks of women scientists are an essential instrument for attracting a larger number of women to scientific and technological fields and promoting them in posts of responsibility; to this end, calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up networks at European, national and regional level and to support those that already exist, such as the European Platform of Women Scientists;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to take appropriate measures to ensure that women’s contribution is not excluded in publications on the history of science and technology, not just because this is a clear case of discrimination, but also because the absence of ‘role models’ makes it hard to encourage the presence of a greater number of women in such fields;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Points out that age-limits for the award of grants adversely affect young people looking after dependants, and that these are for the most part women; therefore calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure, when such circumstances apply, that they include in their legislation measures to correct this anomaly, such as adding one year to the deadline for applications for each year in which a dependant is looked after;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission to ensure that in submissions to calls for proposals under the Seventh FP a balanced presence of men and women is assessed positively; urges the Member States to make the same arrangements in their national and regional programmes;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to include the gender aspect in the Seventh FP’s interim assessments and progress reports;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers, however, that special legislation and quotas are needed for women in science would be counterproductive and would possibly create a ‘second class’ of women scientists appointed to fill quotas rather than according to their skills and merits and therefore judged by their colleagues according to the same criteria; believes that such measures are indeed unnecessary, since most Member States have more women than men and since according to various studies, women usually exhibit higherin order to balance the participation by men and women in posts of responsibility, given that despite the fact that in the majority of the Member States the number of women with a university degree exceeds the number of men and they present a higher average levels of persistence, hard work, motivation and determination than men, these being the key factors leading to success in all areas, including scientific communityacademic qualifications than their male counterparts, women are under- represented in all academic and research establishments.
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that age limits for the award of grants adversely affect young people looking after dependants, and that these are for the most part women; therefore calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that, in such circumstances, legislative measures are in place to correct this anomaly, such as adding one year to the deadline for applications for each year in which a dependant is looked after;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)