9 Amendments of Monika VANA related to 2015/2007(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the social partners to promote real gender equality especially in the digital economy including in ICT companies, representative bodies and training institutions and to closely monitor and follow up on the progress made;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to address the gender gap in the ICT sector by use of positive action, by stressing the business case for diversity and by creating morestronger incentives for both companies and women, such as role models and career paths, in order to increase the visibility and empowerment of women; urges the Commission and the Member States to unblock the Women on Boards Directive; welcomes existing initiatives from the Commission to foster network structures and mentoring programs promoting an inclusive digital arena, however, highlights the importance to intensify its efforts and urges to make better use of the Digital Single Market Strategy to promote an open, safe and inclusive internet;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Demands a regular exchange of best practices among all relevant stakeholders, including social partners, to discuss the implementation of the gender aspect in the Digital Agenda; regrets that the Digital Agenda as well as the Digital Single Market Strategy largely neglects the impact that the digitalisation has on the labour market; calls on the Commission to address this issue in its 2016 work programme initiative ‘'New start for working parents’';
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to identify new forms of employment especially forcarefully assess and identify the opportunities and risks of new forms of employment and the gender dimension of this, especially as regards the impact on employment and working conditions of women and to safeguard fundamental workers’' rights and the social protection of employees in order to combat precarious working conditions; stresses that new forms of social protection need to be found to underline new forms of work; and that women have already experienced gaps in social security as regards new forms of work and this experience needs to be taken on board in finding adequate solutions;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Acknowledges the potentials digitalisation has for entrepreneurship and highlights the importance to provide for the necessary funding structures for ICT-related businesses and digital start- ups, especially improving the access to funding for female entrepreneurs;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that the gender pay gap continues at an inacceptable high level for self-employed women and women working in the ICT sector; stresses that this fundamentally challenges the principle of equal pay for equal work in the same workplace to ensure just and fair wages is being challenged; ; highlights the importance of collective bargaining at all levels especially in branches which are strongly affected by digitalisation in order to ensure the principle of equal pay for equal work as well as safeguard working space quality and working space security in times of digitalisation; points out that necessary general framework conditions have to be found in order to safeguard the protection of personal employee data;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the opportunity forNotes both the potentials and risks of digitalisation of work; reminds that risks and potentials are both to be assessed when work has no clear start or end date anymore; considers that digitalisation could be an instrument – if well used – to lead toward a better work-life balance for women and men in the digital age; emphasises the risks posed by constant accessibility (e.g. burnout); advocates, therefore, a ‘'right to log off’' for workers;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Points out that the demand for new skills, particularly in the ICT field, needs to be tackled through training, active labour market measures as well as through further education and lifelong learning, in the interests of promoting digital literacy and tackling the existing gender gap in order to enlarge the pool of highly qualified candidates.; highlights the importance of integrating coding, new media and technologies in the educational curricular at all levels and points out the potential of digital skills to reduce access barriers to the entry in the labour market;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to use experiences from the MINT subjects in order to substantially increase the share of female students in ICT related subjects; points out that existing stereotypes strongly promote the existing gender gap in ICT education having a negative impact for the economic development and the competitiveness of the European Union;