24 Amendments of Monika VANA related to 2014/2152(INI)
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 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
H a. whereas the failure to promote policies making for work-life balance, the insufficient promotion of flexible working hours, especially among men and the low take up rate of parental and paternity leave pose important obstacles for the women's economic independence and for the equal sharing of family and domestic responsibilities.
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas combating poverty is one of the Commission's five measurable targets proposed for EU 2020; whereas the face of poverty in Europe is female, and it is particularly single mothers, migrant, young and old women who are affected by poverty and social exclusion, a situation aggravated by the crisis and specific austerity measures because it is particularly public sector jobs and services in the care sector that are being eliminated;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the EU has a responsibility and a role as model for gender equality world- wide, gender equality and the empowerment of women are essential if the international development goals are to be attained and for a successful EU foreign policy and women all over the world are especially affected by the consequences of climate, environmental and energy policies, thus making the fight against gender inequality interdependent with the fight against climate change;
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 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to make clear the EU role that it wishes to play in the world and in working with the Member States including their local and regional levels, with regard to the promotion of gender equality and to pursue these goals both through the concept of gender mainstreaming in all areas and through individual targeted and specific actions;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to introduce a specific gender pillar for equality between women and men in the Europe 2020 strategy, to consider the objectives of the future strategy as an aspect of the European Semester and to insert a gender perspective in the country-specific recommendations and the Annual Growth Survey ;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to gather gender-specific data in all policy areas; and at all levels of governance, building on the work of the FRA and EIGE, and to further disaggregate such data on the basis of race or ethnic origin, religion or belief and disability, in order to allow for an intersectional analysis to be possible for all policy areas, thus documenting the multiple discrimination suffered by certain groups of women; asks the Commission to initiate gender impact assessments of Member States policies, especially when Member States propose labour and pensions reforms. ;
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 192 #
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;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to adopt a new strategy to combat human trafficking after the current strategy expires, which should incorporate a gender perspective, give priority to the rights of victims of trafficking, develop new tools to monitor and evaluate the Directives 2011/36/UE and 2012/29/UE as well as ensure that all Member States' policies, budgets and outcomes within the development of the strategy are transparent and accessible;
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.
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Stresses that due to austerity measures and cutbacks in health and care services, women are increasingly bearing the burden of care for children and/or elderly, sick or disabled relatives; whereas universal access and affordable, high quality support services such as childcare facilities, facilities for the elderly and other dependants is important for equal participation of women and men in the labour market and as a means to prevent and reduce poverty;
Amendment 379 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Stresses that compliance with gender equality should be considered a criterion for all EU-funded research programmes and asks the Commission to include a specific area of gender research within the Horizon 2020 programme;
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Calls on the Commission to focus support campaigns forand initiatives to promote the active participation of citizens in society especially on women and women migrantsfor women, women migrants and those women belonging to stigmatised groups or whose labour activity is not formally recognised or regulated;
Amendment 417 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Calls on the Commission, in the Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy and development cooperation, trade and diplomatic relations, to work for the introduction of a standard that defines women’s rights as a human right and makes respect for this right mandatory, making gender equality one of the core points for any bilateral negotiations; emphasises the importance of participatory collaboration with all stakeholders, especially with civil society organisations and local and regional government associations in the context of development cooperation;
Amendment 432 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Calls on the Commission to gather gender-specific data so as to conduct angender impact assessments for womenall policies and legislative proposals in the areas of climate, environment and energy policy, while actively promoting equal gender representation at all levels of political decision-making concerning these areas;
Amendment 440 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Calls on the Commission to promotimpose the use of gender mainstreaming, and to implement gender budgeting and gender impact assessment in all areas, both at EU and at nat and for each legislative proposal, at all levels of governance (EU, national, local and regional levels) and thus ensure specific gender equality targets;
Amendment 444 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Calls on the Commission also to encourage cooperation between Member States, including at the local and regional level, and women's NGOs and the social partners;
Amendment 447 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Stresses the importance of adequate funding for national anti-discrimination bodies; calls in this connection also on the Commission to support the implementation of the European Charter for Equality of women and men in local life, and the continuity of non- governmental organisations through adequate and predictable financial assistance; calls in this connection also for continued financial support for the Daphne programme and for its profile to be maintained in order to continue to allow in particular women's rights organisations on the ground in the Member States to combat violence against women;
Amendment 449 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Stresses the importance of the partnership between the Commission and the Parliament and therefore proposes that the Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality submit an annual progress report in oral and written form to the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality - from the perspective both of the Commission and of Member States, adopting a country specific approach in reporting, with specific information on each Member State - on the objectives set out in the strategy;