19 Amendments of Terry REINTKE related to 2014/2152(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Takes the view that gender equality, by increasing social and economic well- being, benefits not only women but society as a whole; recalls that effectively challenging gender stereotypes is crucial to increasing women's participation in all segments of the labour market; calls on the EU to be a champion in challenging gender stereotypes especially in the area of education, work and further training; stresses that the new gender equality strategy should, based on the Treaties of the European Union, aim at further reducing inequalities;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1b (new)
Paragraph -1b (new)
-1. Stresses that a post 2015 Gender Equality Strategy should propose action to (a) decrease the gender pay gap, (b) increase the economic independence of women, (c) improve women's labour market accessibility and career progression, (d) fundamentally increase equality in decision-making, and (e) remove discriminatory structures and practices related to gender;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1c (new)
Paragraph -1c (new)
-1. Takes note that, in the meantime, one fourth of women remain in the category of unpaid contributing family workers, meaning they receive no direct pay for their efforts, and there is a clear segregation of women in sectors that are generally characterized by low pay, long hours and often informal working arrangements which lead to fewer monetary, social and structural gains to women than are brought to the typical working male; remarks that there are still distinctive barriers to women's labour market participation and that, on average, women in the EU earn around 16,4 % less than men; and addresses, due to these discriminatory structures and practices against women, that gender equality must be ensured in all areas, including in access to employment, career progression, reconciliation of work and private life and promotion of equal pay for work of equal value;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Draws attention to the fact that the EU is facing a demographic crisis which by 2040 will result in a shortfall of 24 million in the labour force, creating an economic necessity to further include women in the labour market and fight gender-based discrimination, including discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, in access to employment; emphasises that increasing women’'s employment rate to the level of men’'s employment would reduce the labour force shortfall to 3 million;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Takes the viewStresses that gender equality is a necessary condition forfundamental right enshrined in the Treaties of the European Union but far from being achieved in the EU; points out that improved gender equality on the labour market can contribute to meeting the Europe 2020 strategy’'s 75 % employment rate target and is crucial forto maintaining sustainable pension systems;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that economic growth and competitiveness in the EU are dependent on closing the gap between women’'s educational attainment and their participation and position in the labour market – an effect that results in the so- called glass ceiling; stresses that positive action, in particular in the public sector, has improved gender equality at entry level but that it needs to be extended to all career levels; stresses positive experience with legislation in the public sector of some Member States;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to propose clear measures in its new gender equality strategy to combat sexual harassment at the workplace more efficiently; regrets that despite EU law protecting individuals from discrimination in employment, 30% of trans job seekers experienced discrimination when looking for a job, and trans women were the most likely to have felt discriminated against in the year preceding the Fundamental Rights Agency's LGBT Survey; points out that this is a violation of the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights; calls on the European Commission to monitor closely the effectiveness of national complaint bodies and procedures in the context of the implementation of the gender equality directives in regard to gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment; calls on the Commission to provide Member States with expertise on ways forward to address discrimination in the area of employment on the ground of "sex characteristics"; calls on the European Commission to support and encourage Member States in including trans and intersex in diversity trainings and work with employers on workplace measures, e.g. promote anonymous recruitment procedures; calls on Member States to use ESF funds to actively tackle discrimination against trans people in line with ECJ case law;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that the unequal division of family responsibilities is at the root ofone element adding to the unequal position of women in the labour market; stresses that reconciliation of work and home duties is a key condition for gender equality, which should be promoted byfamily life can help as one element to further gender equality for both fathers and mothers but does not cover all dimensions of gender equality; points out that for improved reconciliation one solution could be a better investment in care infrastructure and another the encouragement of men’'s participation in domestic labour by means of legislation on parental and paternity leave and flexible working time arrangvailable to both parents but with strong incentives for fathers and flexible working time arrangements; stresses that unequal division of care work is also driven by societal perceptions about gender roles and that it is important to challenge these as a means to achieving a fairer distribution of both care work and paid work; calls on the Commission to address this in the new gender equality strategy; stresses that parents of families not following classical gender patterns continue to face discrimination at the workplace as regards among others parental leave, social security benefits, access to benefits for their children, right to work-life-conciliation measures at the workplace, and family-related wage elements;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the female employment rate is 63% and 53,5% if employment is measured in full-time equivalents1 a; whereas the gender pay gap stands at 16.4% and the gender pension gap is 39% on average; whereas positions of power and decision-making are occupied almost exclusively by men, and women are therefore severely limited in their ability to wield influence; __________________ 1aCommission, Report on Progress on equality between women and men 2012, page 8 (SWD(2013) 171).
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of several factors including women’s career breaks, the gender pay gap, the pension gap and poverty , care responsibilities and related breaks, insufficient support and taxation systems affecting households headed by single mothers, and; underlines that multiple discrimination that women face on the grounds of, among others, their gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics, contributes to the feminisation of poverty; stresses that the reduction of poverty levels by 20 million by 2020 can only be achieved by anti- poverty policies that are grounded in gender mainstreaming; and supported by action targeting female poverty; stresses in this context the importance of assessing the gender effect of social security systems, taxation, benefit systems and working time models among others and of reacting with policy changes where women are negatively affected; reminds the importance of thoroughly implementing anti-discrimination legislation, taking into consideration an intersectionality approach in order to reduce poverty among women;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that the austerity measures in Southern Europe have overly affected women who have to cope with loss in pay and benefits while having major care obligations binding them to their home region; stresses that a new gender strategy needs to address the negative impact of austerity measures on women in Europe;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need forCommission's responsibility to take any action that could help breaking the deadlock in Council for EU legislation addressing transparency and greater gender balance in recruitment for decision-making positions;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights the high levels of undeclared work performed by women which negatively impact on women’'s income, social security andcoverage and protection and has a bad effect on the EU’'s GDP levels; calls for the creation of policy measures offering incentives for employers and workeremployees to move employment from the informal to the formal economy; stresses the need to particularly address domestic work, mainly performed by women, as a special challenge, as the work is in the informal sector, singularized and by its nature invisible which requires the development of tailored measures to tackle this efficiently.
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to draw up and adopt a new strategy for gender equality between women and men in Europe aimed at eliminating discrimination against all women and men in their diversity (ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, religion, nationality and age)based on any ground such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, disability, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, nationality and age; calls on the European Commission to be a leader in tackling the still existing gap in including gender identity and gender expression comprehensively in EU non- discrimination legislation;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to draft the strategy in the form of a practical action plan, ensuring that it takes into account in particular the following specific suggestions in the areas of violence against women, work and time, women in power and decision-making, financial resources, health, knowledge, education and the media, the wider world and institutional mechanisms and gender mainstreaming; Stresses that a post 2015 Gender Equality Strategy should propose action to (a) decrease the gender pay gap, (b) increase the economic independence of women, (c) improve women's labour market accessibility and career progression, (d) fundamentally increase equality in decision-making, and (e) remove discriminatory structures and practices related to gender;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses the importance of flexible forms of work, better investment in care infrastructure and encouragement of men's participation in domestic labour by means of legislation on parental and paternity leave available to both parents but with strong incentives for fathers, in allowing women, but more especially men, to reconcile work and family life and instructs the Commission to coordinate and promote exchanges of best practices; stresses in this connection the need for awareness campaigns for the equal division of domestic work and care and nursing, for the inclusion of men and the introduction of paternity leave of at least 10 days and parental leave to be divided between both parents;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses the importance of gathering qualified, gender-specific data relating to the allocation of time to care, nursing and domestic work and leisure, with the aim of making a regular assessment; stresses that unequal division of care work is also driven by societal perceptions about gender roles and that it is important to challenge these as a means to achieving a fairer distribution of both care work and paid work; calls on the Commission to address this in the new gender equality strategy; stresses that parents of families not following classical gender patterns continue to face discrimination at the workplace as regards among others parental leave, social security benefits, access to benefits for their children, right to work-life-conciliation measures at the workplace, and family-related wage elements;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission to create incentives for Member States to obtain a more balanced representation of women and men in parliamentnational and regional parliaments and municipal councils and in the Commission and emphasises in this connection the importance of electoral lists alternating by gender and of proposing both a woman and a man candidate for senior EU positions;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Reiterates that Directive 2006/54/EC, in its current form, is not sufficiently effective to tackle the gender pay gap and achieve the objective of gender equality in employment and occupation; urges the Commission to revise Directive 2006/54/EC without delay.