10 Amendments of Tiziana BEGHIN related to 2017/2015(INI)
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas greater international competition has not proven to reduce the scope for employers to discriminate against female workers;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas country-specific and sector-specific assessments are of great importance; whereas women tend to be more concentrated in low-wage, or low- status forms of formal and informal employment than men, leading to abuses on the workplace, gender segregation in types of occupations and activities and gender gaps in wages and working conditions;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas, especially in the textile sector in development countries, women are almost totally employed in low-level positions and seldom occupy middle and upper level ones;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas gender issues and women rights are not sufficiently taken into account by the sustainable impact assessments of trade agreements;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas studies have shown that women are more likely to participate to international trade as wage workers than as self-employed workers;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines that the same risks may equally come from a Multilateral Investment Court;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Asks the Commission to invest in professional training for women working in development countries;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Believes that sustainable impact assessment should estimate the impact of trade agreements on women in each sector of the economy by means of, among others, gender-disaggregated statistics;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Commission to promote female entrepreneurship in developing countries, focusing especially in those where women, compared to men, face greater constraints in access to credit, infrastructure and productive assets;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls for the Commission to help set up partnerships between female entrepreneurs in the EU and their counterparts in developing countries;