Translation of "Conseil international des femmes psychologues " (French → English) :

1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement and improve measures to apply gender equality at all levels of the education system, and to fully integrate improving awareness of gender issues into teacher training, but also for all categories of school professionals, e.g. school doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers and pedagogues, as well as to ensure the creation of mechanisms throughout the education system to facilitate the promotion, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of gender eq ...[+++]uality in educational institutions;

Is a national provision, such as additional provision 7(1), rule 3(b) of Spain’s General Law on Social Security, contrary to Article 4 of Council Directive 79/7 (1) of 19 December 1978 on the progressive implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security, in that it affects a group comprising mainly women, and according to which contribution gaps existing within the period for calculating the reference base of a permanent invalidity contributory pension, after a period of part-time employment, are covered by taking the minimum contribution bases applicable at any time, reduced as a result of the partiality coef ...[+++]ficient of the employment before the contribution gap, whereas if the employment is full-time, there is no reduction?

Having spent ten years at the head of such an organisation, namely the European Centre of the International Council of Women, which has affiliated organisations in the European Union, in the new Member States, in Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, the EFTA countries and in other countries too, I am better placed to assess the real value of this programme, which is intended to help the numerous women’s organisations that are active at the European level in the domain of sexual equality. These organisations will be eligible to benefit from subs ...[+++]idisation from an appropriation that, according to the proposal, will amount to EUR 2.222 million.

14. Welcomes the various initiatives to create gender-specific early warning and conflict surveillance indicators, e.g. those taken in the UN Development Fund for Women (Unifem), the Council of Europe, the Swiss Foundation for Peace, International Alert and the Forum on Early Warning and Early Response;

That is the advice of a woman and a psychologist!

For example, in so far as they are regulated in the host Member States, the professions of doctor, dentist, pharmacist, veterinary surgeon, architect, nurse, midwife, engineer, accountant, tax consultant, physiotherapist, radiologist, psychologist, sports instructor, tourist guide, surveyor, estate agent, electrician and hairdresser will be covered.