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Motion for a resolution
Citation 21

~~– having regard to the results of the European Union lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender survey carried out by the Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and published in May 2013,~~deleted

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 25

~~– having regard to its resolution of 3 February 2016 on new Strategy for gender equality and women’s rights post- 201510 , __________________ 10 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2016)0042.~~deleted

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas three quarters of household chores and two thirds of parental care in 2015 were performed by working women, who were therefore overwhelmingly bearing a double burden of responsibilities; whereas gendered division of care and family responsibilities are detrimental to women’s economic independence in the long term;deleted

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas, despite the fact that women attain on average a higher level of education than men, the EU-average gender pay gap remains 16.1 %, though there are vast differences between the Member States;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas some legal systems in the EU maintain the practice of non- individualisation of tax and social security systems; whereas the non- individualisation of social security rights makes women dependent on men, as they may have been granted only derived rights through their relationship to men;deleted

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas more than half of female murder victims are killed by an intimate partner, relative or family member15; whereas 33 % of women in the EU have experienced physical and or sexual violence and 55 % have been sexually harassed, while in some Member States the probability of such incidents is much higher than in other Member States; __________________ 15 http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/crime/data base

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital P

P. whereas the EU LGBT survey found that lesbian, bisexual and transgender women face a huge risk of discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity; whereas gender-based discrimination intersects with other discrimination on grounds of race and ethnicity, religion, disability, health, gender identity, sexual orientation and/or socio-economic conditions;deleted

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital S

S. whereas application of EU gender equality law in the Member States has been found to carry specific problems related to the transposition and application of the relevant Directives, such as substantive deficiencies in legislation and its inconsistent application by national courts, but importantly also a general lack of awareness about equality principles and law17; __________________ 17The European network of legal experts in gender equality and non- discrimination: ‘A comparative analysis of gender equality law in Europe 2015’.deleted

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital T

T. whereas sexual and reproductive health and rights are fundamental rights and an essential element of gender equality and self-determination; and whereas they should be included, as basic human rights, in the EU Health Strategy in order to ensure coherence between the EU’s internal and external fundamental rights policies;deleted

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to mainstream gender and women’s rights into all budgets and policy-making and to carry out gender impact assessments when setting up any new policy to help ensure a more coherent and evidence- based EU policy response to gender equality challenges;deleted

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Member States that have not yet done so to move towards the individualisation of rights in social equity policy, particularly in tax systems in order to eliminate financial incentives for the spouse earning less to withdraw from the labour market or to work part-time;deleted

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Congratulates the Member States which have achieved both Barcelona objectives; encourages ~~Portugal, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Finland, Italy, Malta and Estonia to achieve the other target, and calls on Poland, Croatia and Romania, where both targets remain fa~~other countries to achieve these objectives; notes, however, that women often choose to stay with children at home or to employ flexible forms of work that make it possible for them to reconcile their fpro~~m being achieved, to step up their efforts in providing formal child care~~fessional and private lives; therefore the Barcelona objectives cannot be considered a gender equality index;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Reiterates its call on the Council to state its position on the proposal for a directive on gender balance among non- executive directors of listed companies, so as to enable the legislative process to continue as soon as possible;deleted

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Welcomes the progress of the Member States in signing the Istanbul Convention, and urges those that have not yet ratified it to do so without delay; repeats its call for EU accession to the Convention in 2016; calls on the Commission to assess the possibility of initiating an EU legislative act to end and prevent violence against women in all Member States;deleted

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to include measures to protect women and LGBTI people against harassment in the workplace; calls on the Commission to revise the current EU framework decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law, in order to include sexism, bias crime and incitement to hatred on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Reiterates that women must have control over their sexual and reproductive rights; supports, accordingly, measures and actions to improve women’s access to sexual and reproductive health services and to inform them fully about their rights and the services available;deleted

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Underlines that the impact of climate change ismight be greater for women than men, with women more likely to bear the greater burden in situations of poverty~~, and reiterates the need to adopt a gender perspective in designing, planning and implementing climate policy and in the development of gender-responsive climate action~~;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

17 Amendments of Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA related to 2014/2015(INI)

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