Activities of Tilly METZ related to 2022/2140(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Ensuring European transportation works for women (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on ensuring European transportation works for women
Amendments (31)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
— having regard to its Resolution of 29 November 2018 on the situation of women with disabilities (2018/2685(RSP))
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Citation 7 b (new)
Citation 7 b (new)
— having regard to the EU Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030,
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas according to available data, women tend to travel with public transport and walk to a greater extent than men who are more likely to travel by car; whereas women tend to often take multiple, non-direct journeys in one day (trip-chaining), while men’s travel pattern is more linear; whereas women more often travel during off-peak hours while men are more likely to travel during peak hours;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
-Aa. whereas although women are motivated to travel actively for health reasons, concerns about lack of time, travelling with family members and trip- chaining, as well as concerns about their personal safety and harassment are barriers preventing them from cycling and walking1a; _________________ 1a Sustrans, 2018. "Are We Nearly There Yet? Exploring Gender and Active Travel", https://www.sustrans.org.uk/media/2879/2 879.pdf
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A b (new)
Recital -A b (new)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A c (new)
Recital -A c (new)
-Ac. whereas women face a greater risk of violence and harassment in public transit than men, which negatively affects women’s transport choices, employment, education and social opportunities;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas there is a lack of the reliable gender-disaggregated data needed to underpin policy initiatives toin order to overcome the gender gap in EU transportation and make the EU transport sector more inclusive ands well as to ensure its accessibility to all user groups;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas too little attention is still being paid to women’s needs in public transport, urban mobility or infrastructure planning, including security and safety issues;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas eradicating mobility poverty across the Union is an essential part of the EU Green Deal’s objective of ensuring a just transition where no one is left behind; whereas women are more likely to suffer from mobility poverty, in particular single mothers, who represent 85% of single parent families, women minority groups, women with low income, as well as single women, women with disabilities, or elderly women;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Recital D c (new)
Recital D c (new)
D c. whereas cars, seat belts, and car seats have been designed using mainly crash test dummies based on an average male human body; whereas a prototype for a crash test dummy based on the average female human body has been developed but is not yet legally required in crash tests standards;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers thatalls on the Commission, Member States and regional and local authorities shouldto improve data collect dataion and establish key indicators, such as gender-sensitive statistics, and age-gender differentiated mobility data on usage, requirements, attitudes, modes of transport and risk exposure, as well as age-and disability related data, in order to identify and overcome barriers for women in transport, to improve road safety and to contribute to public transport design and policy initiatives related to transport workers; recalls that EU policy-making in the field of transport should be based on reliable, accessible and detailed data, together with impact assessments, so as to help design better EU policiestherefore calls on the Commission to ensure that a gender impact assessment is carried out for all transport related proposals, so as to ensure that a gender-responsive approach is mainstreamed in all EU transport strategies, actions and legislation;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the recently adopted General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR), which ensures that in order to consider a product safe, manufacturers will have to assess the impact of gender differences on health and safety; calls on the Commission and Member States to tackle the gender safety gap by ensuring that national standards bodies and standards developing organisations include a plan for gender responsive standards and standards development in their gender action plan, in line with the actions outlined in the Gender Responsive Standards Declaration;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Subheading 1 a (new)
Subheading 1 a (new)
Women as transport users
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Underlines that measures enhancing the further modal shift to public transport and active mobility, including measures reducing the centrality of private cars, would not only contribute to achieving the goal of climate neutrality but also be an appropriate answer to women’s needs; highlights that prioritising women’s need in transport supports the green transition;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Recognizes that a well-designed public transport network should address accessibility, availability and affordability for women and it should take into account women’s needs in terms of mobility pattern, proximity to services as well as security and safety; points out that preventive measures such as bus stops located in places with high visibility, increased lighting, security cameras and buttons, available staff on-board and drop-offs at requested locations during the night can increase safety; underlines furthermore that better infrastructure design such as bus stations within short walking distance, more availability during off-peak hours, increased availability of service for women living in rural areas and stroller-friendly infrastructure can increase usability for women and encourage women to use public transport;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Encourages Member States to adopt measures to reduce motor vehicle traffic around schools and childcare facilities and develop safe routes to schools1a; _________________ 1a Reducing Child Deaths on European Rods, ETSC report; 2022, https://etsc.eu/reducing-child-deaths-on- european-roads-pin-flash-43/
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 g (new)
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1g. Points out that women with disabilities encounter specific barriers and discrimination in transportation and as transport workers, which often remain invisible and unaddressed; calls on Member States and the Commission to mainstream accessibility into all policies and legislation; encourages furthermore Member States to develop public transport policies that facilitate mobility for women with disabilities and promote training for public transport professionals in accessibility;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 h (new)
Paragraph 1 h (new)
1h. Recalls that a wide range of EU funding instruments, are available for Member States to invest in women’s mobility needs and female employment in the transport sector, as well as to address mobility poverty, including the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), European Social Fund+ (ESF+), the Social Climate Fund (SCF) and the Cohesion Fund; calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that measures and investments supported by those funds respect the principle of gender equality and that particular attention is given to ensure that women benefit from the implementation of those funding instruments;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 i (new)
Paragraph 1 i (new)
1i. Regrets that despite the fact that about one third of Recovery and Resilience Fund under the green transition pillar is allocated to sustainable mobility, not enough funding is dedicated to promote gender equality in the transport sector; calls on the Commission and Member States to propose and implement gender equality projects in the transport sector under the Recovery and Resilience Fund;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 j (new)
Paragraph 1 j (new)
1j. Calls on the Commission to develop crash test dummy standards that include requirements for testing with dummies that are based on the average female body, including dummies representing a variety of aspects such as age, gender, size and stature for users both within and outside vehicles;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
A fair, safe and secure workplace
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to consider gender-related provisions in all relevant legislation, in order to ensure a saffair, safe and secure working environment for women in all transport modes, as well as any necessary preventive and dissuasive measures (e.g. safe and secure parking areas); calls, furthermore, on the Commission to promote measures for emergency situations, such as camera surveillance systems and emergency call buttons in places where they are needed, such as unattended charging stations, enabling an immediate connection to local emergency services, as recently envisaged in the proposal for a new Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation3 ; _________________ 3 Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure, and repealing Directive 2014/94/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (COM(2021)0559).
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Council and all Member States to promote initiatives to prevent all kinds of discrimination, as well as to promote measures ensuring safe and secure workplaces, and training, and protocols with clear legal procedures aimed at preventing violence and harassment in all transport-related workplaces., while making sure that staff working in the transportation sector is trained to react in case of harassment, both in their place of work and among the transit users;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Member States to raise awareness, including via information campaigns, on measures to prevent and fight harassment of women in public transport network and in the public sphere;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to implement policies and legislation to counter the gender pay gap and improve working conditions for women in the transport sector, including measures or initiatives that may improve the work-life balance, which would benefit all workers; in this regard, calls on the Member States for a swift transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive and calls on the Commission and the Member States to better enforce the Work-Life Balance Directive;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Calls on the Member States and on social partners to take initiatives, where necessary, to strengthen the social dialogue, ensure collective bargaining and collective agreements, and to promote gender parity in workers’ representative bodies as a basis for improving women’s working conditions in the transport sector;