Traduction de «Discrimination professionnelle » (Français → Anglais) :

41. Recommends that the Latin American governments - hoping also that the EU will offer all possible support for this huge task and aware of the difficult social situation despite a reasonably sound economic outlook - adopt firm and consistent policies including investment in public works, strengthening of the internal market, support for SMEs, extension of credit facilities, greater investment in health and education, and more decided steps to deal with youth unemployment and gender discrimination in the workplace;

We do not have a department, as you have here, for the status of women, but our gender committee deals with various issues such as unemployment, which is on the rise currently in transitional economies, and domestic violence, women's health, discrimination at work, and similar issues.

3. Notes that the correlation between female employment rate and the share of social services is high and therefore, any expansion of support service will draw more women into employment, although the gender segregated structure of employment will not automatically be reduced; therefore, call on the Member States to address occupational segregation and to combat all forms of gender-based discrimination by implementing positive measures and by improving the quality of jobs for women;

Combating gender-based job segregation, by implementing targeted measures to ensure the principle of equality is firmly anchored in the work place, and through supporting promotion of women into top positions.

Occupational segregation on the job market continues to be very pronounced despite changes in the structure and level of employment.

Under the common position, the aim of the common framework of objectives is to contribute to the achievement of the objectives of Article 127 of the Treaty by pursuing a number of objectives such as: - improving the quality and innovation capacity of Member States' vocational training systems and arrangements; - developing the European dimension in vocational training and vocational guidance; - promoting lifelong training so as to encourage the ongoing adaptation of skills to meet the needs of workers and undertakings, contribute to reducing unemployment and facilitate personal development; - giving all young people in the Community who so wish the possibility of one or, if possible, two or more years of initial vocational training after ...[+++] their full-time compulsory education, leading to a vocational qualification recognized by the competent authorities of the Member State in which it is obtained; - encouraging specific vocational training measures for adults without adequate vocational qualifications, in particular adults without adequate education; - supporting vocational policies in such a way that all workers in the Community have access to continuing vocational training throughout their working life without any discrimination; - promoting equality of opportunity as regards access for men and women to vocational training and their effective participation therein, in particular so as to open up new areas of work to them and to encourage them to return to work after a career break; - supporting activities aimed at developing linguistic skills as part of vocational training measures; - promoting the development of vocational guidance facilities in order to guarantee life-long high-quality vocational guidance for all.