On Thursday 10 June, MEPs backed by a very large majority (546 votes in favour, 35 against and 100 abstentions) the report by Susana Solís Pérez (Renew Europe, Spain) on promoting gender equality in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
The report points out that only two out of five scientists and engineers in the EU are women. The latter account for about 15% of senior academic positions in most scientific fields. And less than 3% of teenage girls in the Member States...