26 Amendments of Maria NOICHL related to 2014/2152(INI)
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
G a. whereas the industrial sector has historically set the standards for wages and continues do to so, the setting of wages in occupations traditionally dominated by women has been considered of secondary importance and has treated women unfairly. Questioning some industrial norms and the factors that assign men and women to different occupations will bring us closer to the principle of equal pay for equal work which must be promoted.
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
M a. whereas in recent years, anti-gender equality movements have gained public ground in a number of Member States, attempting to reinforce traditional gender roles and challenging existing achievements in the area of gender equality;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to draw up and adopt a new strategy for up and adopt a new strategy for gender equality between women gender equality between women and men in Europe aimed at and men in Europe aimed at eliminating discrimination against eliminating discrimination against all women and men in their all women and men in their diversity (ethnicity, class, sexual diversity (ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, orientation, gender identity, disability, religion, nationality and disability, religion, nationality and age); age); in this context emphasises the importance of an updated vocabulary in order to define clearly the areas of action and the groups being addressed;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Stresses that discrimination and oppression take different forms and should be seen from an intersectional perspective in which all forms of oppression have common underlying factors but affect women differently; calls for work on equality to include factors such as class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, religious beliefs and age when drafting measures to address discrimination and oppression.
Amendment 158 #
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 with the identification of responsibilities, 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;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Reiterates the appeal to the Commission it made in its resolution of 25 February 2014, with recommendations to combat psychological, physical, sexual and structural violence against women, to submit a legal act providing both a consistent system for collecting statistical data as well as a uniform approach by Member States to the prevention and suppression of violence against women and girls and making low-threshold access to justice possible; particularly emphasises in this context the importance of continuous and qualified data collection by the European Institute for Gender Equality and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Calls on the European Union to support the Member States in the development of campaigns and strategies against the daily harassment of women in public and in the process to pass on the best practices to the Member States;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Considers that violence against women and girls should be understood from a power perspective, in which women as a group are historically subordinate to men and are subjected to violence on the basis of an unequal power relationship; therefore calls for violence against women and girls not to be understood only as violence against separate individuals but as an expression of an unequal gender-related position of power in society;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to enshrine ‘zero tolerance’ campaigns in the strategy and to push forward the debate in the Member States about the origins of violence and abuse and the reasons why women resort to prostitution and emphasises the importance of including men more specifically in the fight against violence against women; also notes here the importance of programmes to exit from prostitution;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Calls on the Commission to sensitise the Member States in particular to the need for protection of, among others, women with disabilities, women migrants and women in prison;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses the importance of flexible forms of work 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 andon full pay and subsequent parental leave to be divided between both parents; notes here the generally inadequate recognition of caring, supporting and household work;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls on the Commission to monitor the implementation of Directive 2006/54/EU, in particular in connection with discrimination on the basis of gender identity and both legislative and non- legislative measures to reduce the gender- specific wage and pension gap;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to include specific measures to promote the equal representation of women and men in leadership positions in the strategy and to support the Council in the negotiations for the adoption of the Directive for a balanced representation of men and women on supervisory boards and to expand the scope of this Directive to include executive boards; notes here the importance of female mentoring programmes;
Amendment 291 #
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 the national, regional and municipal parliaments 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 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the Commission to support the Member States in fighting poverty, which particularly affects single mothers and was further increased by the crisis, leading to increased social exclusion;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Calls on the European Commission to promote access to patient-centred and appropriate healthcare to all women, without discrimination on the grounds of their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, disability, socio-economic status, ethnic origin, religion or belief, nationality and age.
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls on the Commission to encourage Member States to enshrine (medical) fertility support as an individual right; and also notes in this connection the importance of support for adoption and the right of all children to know their parents;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls on the Commission to encourage Member States to enshrine (medical) fertility support as an individual right and to end discrimination in access to fertility treatment and assisted reproduction;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to create incentives for competent training in the critical use of the media in the Member States to encourage the questioning of stereotypes and structures and to share best practice examples so as to review the ways in which roles have been stereotyped in the educational material used so far; calls on the Commission, in this connection, to support programmes to raise awareness of stereotypes, sexism and traditional gender roles in the education and media sector as well as to carry out campaigns for positive female and male role models and their change; emphasises in this connection the importance of gender-equitable teaching methods for teachers, so that they can clearly explain the benefits of gender equality and a diverse society;
Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Calls on the Commission to sensitise the Member States to the need for public and legal media to act as a role model in the presentation of diversity and to reject every form of discriminatory advertising;
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)
Paragraph 29 b (new)
29b. Stresses the necessity of gender- sensitive teaching which will not only ensure greater life choices for people but will also in the long term ensure a balanced representation of women and men in all areas of the labour market and society;
Amendment 405 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Underscores that universal access to sexual and reproductive health and the associated rights is a fundamental human right, and calls on the Commission to ensure that European development cooperation adopts an approach based on a human rights; emphasises the importance of family planning services, information and education to reduce maternal and infant mortality and eliminate female genital mutilation, child-bride and forced marriages, selective, gender-based abortion, registration at birth and forced sterilisation;
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Stresses the importance of a gender- sensitive asylum and migration policy, the recognition of the threat of genital mutilation as a reason for asylum and the development of appropriate guidelines and the coordination of best practice examples; emphasises in this connection the indispensability of an individual right to stay, especially for migrant women in cases of domestic violence;
Amendment 433 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)
Paragraph 38 a (new)
38a. Stresses in this connection the importance of continuous and intensive cooperation between the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and the European External Action Service;
Amendment 439 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Calls on the Commission to promote the use of gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting and gender impact assessment in all areas, both at EU and at national level at all levels (EU, national, regional and local) and thus ensure specific gender equality targets;
Amendment 443 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Calls on the Commission also to encourage cooperation between Member States, women's NGOs and the social partners at regional level;