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Motion for a resolution
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1. ~~Urges the Commission and the Council to~~Insists that only the Member States have the right to legislate and fully exploit the potential that the information society, ICT and the internet have to promote women’s empowerment, women’s rights and freedoms as well as gender equality;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
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2. Calls on the Commission to exploit and better target the Digital Agenda and the Digital Single Market Strategy with a view to addressing the severe gender gap within the ICT sector, fostering education and training of women and girls in ICT, increasing the visibility of women in the digital arena, enhancing gender equality and participation of women through better access to funding and supporting civil society and women’s organisations in making an inclusive internet a reality;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
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3. Urges the Commission to include in the upcoming Strategy for Equality 2016- 2020 specific actions to support the integration and participation of women in the information society and to strongly promote women’s networks online as they are the manifestation of a self-organised, bottom-up approach to female empowerment and should receive all the support necessary for them to become long-term;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
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4. Notes the Commission communication on ‘A Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe’, but regrets its narrow focus, as it underestimates the considerable potential that digitalisation can have with regard to an inclusive, equal and participatory society and fails to give sufficient recognition to the opportunities that targeted support and funding infrastructure can provide for women’s empowerment;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
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5. ~~Calls on the EU and~~Insists that only the Member States have the right to develop, support and implement the actions promoted by the UN and its bodies, notably in the framework of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and of the World Summits on the Information Society (WSIS), in order to strive for women’s empowerment in the digital age at European and global level;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
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6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to make better use of the considerable potential that digitalisation has at all levels of political participation and the inclusion of women in decision- making processes; hHighlights the major opportunities that digitalisation holds with respect to access to information, transparency and greater government accountability;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
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7. Calls on the Commission to make full use of the ‘Europe for Citizens’ programme to specifically target civil society and women’s organisations working in relation to digitalisation and ICT, in order to improve conditions for civic and democratic participation of women and to pay special attention to the gender-specific objectives in the upcoming evaluations of implementation;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
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9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the severe underrepresentation of women in the ICT sector, in particular those in higher positions and on boards; urges the Commission and the Member States to unblock the Directive on Equal Representation of Women on Executive Boards; urgently reminds the Commission of its responsibility to take any action that could help break the deadlock in the Council as regards EU legislation addressing transparency and greater balance in recruitment for decision- making positionreject and withdraw the Directive on Equal Representation of Women on Executive Boards;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
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10. ~~Urges the Commission and~~Insists that only the Member States have the right to safeguard fundamental workers’ rights and the social protection of employees and to combat precarious working conditions; urges the Commission to propose, and the Member States to further develop, new protection mechanisms adapted to the working and career patterns shaped by digitalisation, paying particular attention to the situation of women;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
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11. Notes that the digitalisation of the labour market requires adaptation of both labour market policies and the underlying social security systems; calls on the Commission and the Member States, with regard to the Commission’s roadmap ‘New start to address the challenges of work-life balance faced by working families’, to address the impact of digitalisation on workers with care responsibilities, as regards working conditions and the need for adaptation of the workplace, skills development and lifelong learning opportunities;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
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13. Underlines the importance of ensuring gender mainstreaming in the education sector by promoting digital literacy and the participation of women and girls in ICT education and training through the integration of coding, new media and technologies in education curricula at all levels and in all types of education and training, including for teaching staff, in order to reduce and remove digital skills gaps; highlights, in this connection, the importance of open educational resources (OERs), which ensure better access to education for all;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
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14. Calls on the Commission to promote digital technologies as tools for reducing barriers to entry in the labour market in the framework of lifelong learning and to set EU benchmarks for public and private investment in skills as a percentage of GDP;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
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15. Urges the Commission, within the scope of the Digital Single Market Strategy, and more specifically with regard to the reference to building an inclusive e-society, to increase the visibility of women in technology by starting an endowed professorship for women in ICT, setting up a pilot project on a European online university specifically focused on ICT and technical engineering and introducing a tailored scholarship programme for women in the area of ICT and new media;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
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16. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to make funds available and to improve access to funds for female entrepreneurs to create ICT-related businesses and digital start-ups, fostering innovation and investment within the EU;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
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18. Calls on the Commission in relation to the Digital Agenda to thoroughly monitor and evaluate the application of gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting within the framework of EU funds in accordance with Article 7 of the Common Provisions Regulation on European funds, and calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the involvement of women’s organisations in the monitoring committees of funding programmes in order to guarantee that targeted actions strengthening the role of women in ICT are implemented; recalls the Commission’s commitment to gender budgeting;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
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20. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with the European Investment Bank, to set up support programmes in relation to investing in ICT through the European Structural and Investment Funds, including favourable credit conditions and loans for firms, civil society organisations and start-ups in the ICT sector in which 40 % of the workforce are female;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
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21. Calls on the Commission to support and promote a digital entrepreneurial culture for women, promote and financially support a European networking and mentoring platform for women and further strengthen the role of women in existing programmes;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
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25. Calls on the Commission to launch and support e-literacy and training programmes, as well as awareness campaigns, thereby raising awareness of the potential risks of the digital world and how to counter them; calls on the Commission to promote campaigns against stereotypes in social media and digital media;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

18 Amendments of Margot PARKER related to 2015/2007(INI)

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