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7. Stresses the importance of combating stereotypes and gender-based discrimination by adopting active policies that can reduce the real disadvantages affecting women in the service sector, where there is an assumption that there are male and female jobs, and that the latter are associated with the work women do at home and are considered as an extension of these (clothing and textiles, teaching, nursing, cleaning, etc.); calls for educational and professional counselling to play a greater role at school, for equality between men and women to be promoted among young people and for the fight against stereotypes to steer young women towards qualifications and professions in which they are under-represented; notes that the proportion of men ent ...[+++]ering the teaching profession is considerably smaller than that of women and stresses the need for more males in the profession;

The aims of this Communication are to ensure that provision for teachers' education and professional development is coordinated and adequately resourced; encourage that all teachers possess the knowledge, attitudes and pedagogic skills that they require to be effective; support the professionalisation of teaching; and to promote research within the teaching profession, as well as the status and recognition of the profession.

There is also a wider range of related issues to consider. For example, women very much outweigh men in the teaching workforce; there are marked differences between countries in the salaries of teachers relative to average wages; the retention of teachers is specially affected by general labour market conditions; and the teaching profession has a high percentage of older workers, with the inevitable implication that sufficient numbers of motivated and high-calibre recruits need to be attracted as these experienced teachers retire.

In several Member States there is a need not only to attract new people — including suitably qualified people with experience from other professions — into the teaching profession, but also to persuade experienced teachers to remain in the profession rather than retiring early or moving to other professions.

Objective 1. 1 of the ‘Education Training 2010’ work programme — Improving education and training for teachers and trainers, which highlights the importance of attracting and retaining well-qualified and motivated people to the teaching profession, of identifying the skills that teachers require to meet the changing needs of society, of providing conditions to support teachers through initial and in-service training, and of attracting recruits to teaching and training who have professional experience in other fields

Numerous social, cultural, economic and technological changes in society place new demands on the teaching profession and hasten the need for the development of more competence-centred approaches to teaching, together with a greater emphasis on learning outcomes.