9 Amendments of Jana TOOM related to 2017/2210(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
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1. Notes that while women make up a clear majority of journalism and media graduates in the EU at 68%1a, they are still significantly under-represented at theall decision-making level; notes that this under-representation is a major contributing factor to the resulting in a waste of human capital; notes that across all management levels women averaged 32% of senior staff in decision making positions with female positions at the highest strategic level of CEO etc. even lower at 16%; further notes that female board membership is also low at 25%1b; notes that an increased presence of women in decision making roles in the media is likely to lead to more balanced and realistic media content and combat negative and stereotypical portrayals of women in the media in the EU; __________________ 1a Advancing gender equality in decision- making in media organisations, EIGE Report, 2013, p. 17. 1bAdvancing gender equality in decision- making in media organisations, EIGE Report, 2013, p. 29-33.
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
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2. Considers that women working in the media will benefit from the general advancement of conditions for women in the workplace, including ending the gender pay and pension gaps, reducing precarious work, ensuring affordable and accessible childcare and boostetter work life balance policies and safeguarding collective bargaining rights;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
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2. Considers that women working in the media will benefit from the general advancement of conditions for women in the workplace, including ending the gender pay gap, reducing precarious work2a, ensuring affordable and accessible childcare and boosting collective bargaining rights; __________________ 2a http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getD oc.do?pubRef=- //EP//NONSGML+TA+P8-TA-2017- 0290+0+DOC+PDF+V0//EN , European Parliament resolution of 4 July 2017 on working conditions and precarious employment
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
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2a. Notes the long tradition of both freelance and permanent staff which exists in the media sector; notes that continued digitisation of the sector has led to reduced traditional circulation and advertising revenue which impacts on the type of employment contracts offered in the sector;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
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3. Considers that achieving equality for women at all levels, and particularly decision-making levels, in the media requires gender disaggregated transparency in pay systems, gender- neutral classification, effective measures to end sexual harassment, reversing the onus of proof in challenging gender discrimination in the workplacejob evaluation and classification criteria for promotion and recruitment, effective measures to end sexual harassment, and desegregation of the workforce;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
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4. Calls for the adoption of a quota system for decision-making positions in both public and privalarge listed media organisations in order to ensure women’s equal representation at the decision- making level; calls for Member State governments to link the award of public contracts in the media to obligatory gender-equality measures; notes the positive role of women’s councils and women’s equality officers in workplaces;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Believes that media organisations should significantly strengthen their internal policy frameworks to promote gender equality through measures such as codes of conduct, equality audits, gender equality plans, reporting mechanisms and training on harassment and gender stereotypes and that such actions should be reinforced with monitoring mechanisms; believes that such measures could contribute to a higher proportion of women in strategic decision making positions;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
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6. Notes the positive role of media workers’ unions and professional associations in promoting gender equality more effectively within their internal structures than has been achieved in the workplace; considers that such professional associations should play a key role in developing strategies for gender equality.; notes also the pro-active role that can be played by national equality bodies and national media regulatory bodies to monitor and address gender inequality in the sector;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the use of the indicators developed by EIGE to monitor the Beijing Platform for Action´s critical area of concern regarding the role of women in the media; encourages the Commission and Member States to follow up on these indicators and other data for the systematic monitoring of progress in the area of gender equality and to use the information to input into national action plans and labour market measures.