4 Amendments of Angelika WERTHMANN related to 2011/2294(INI)
Amendment 9 #
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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 them about their possibilities of becoming researchers and the opportunities available in the research field, including applied research, as that should liberate any untapped talent; reasonable gender balance should be mandatory in study and any imbalance must be justified;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
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2. Calls on universities and higher education colleges to recognise that women learners may have specific responsibilities outside of learning, for example, caring for young children or elderly relatives; providing a sufficient number of high- quality affordable and accessible childcare is a vital step in offering parents and especially women, a genuine choice to study. Other Reforms could be improved community centres;
Amendment 23 #
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 lackscarcity of women in these postssenior positions in public research, women's participation in science and technology can contribute to increasing innovation, quality and competitiveness of scientific and industrial research and needs to be promoted, and to recognise that women are far more likely than their male counterparts to take career breaks in order to have a family;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
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6. Reiterates that the gender pay gap is still a huge concern and that in the field of higher education women researchers and professors are paid less than their male counterparts at the same level, it is fact that women have fewer resources during their working life and that in retirement they face more difficulties in accessing finance, and that in the field of higher education women researchers and professors are paid less than their male counterparts at the same level; and thus, women are more affected than men by all forms of poverty, including in-work poverty. The gender pay gap is a cost that neither any Member State nor Europe in general can afford;