Activities of Gwendoline DELBOS-CORFIELD related to 2021/2020(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Equality between women and men in the European Union in 2018-2020 (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on equality between women and men in the European Union in 2018-2020
Amendments (42)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation -1 (new)
Citation -1 (new)
-1 having regard to Articles 2 and 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), Articles 6 and 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and Article 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
— having regards to the Commission communication of 12 November 2020 entitled ‘A Union of Equality: LGBTIQ equality strategy2020-2025” COM(2020) 698;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas according to the EIGE 2020 Gender Equality Index the EU has a long way to go before reaching gender equality, with an overall score of 67.9 out of 100; whereas since 2017 the score has only increased 0.5 points and at this pace of progress it will take more than 60 years to achieve gender equality in the EU; whereas faster progress and efforts by EU institution and Member States are needed;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, although female employment rates have risen, gender inequality on the labour market remains a fact of life; whereas the employment gap is particularly high in the case of single mothers, female caregivers, women with disabilities, women from ethnic minorities, migrant and refugee womenworrying reality; whereas the gender gap in the full-time equivalent (FTE) employment rate has increased in eight member states since 2010; whereas this gap is particularly high in the case of single mothers, female caregivers, women with disabilities, women from diverse racial, and ethnic backgrounds, women from religious minorities, migrant and refugee women, those with low educational achievement, LBTIQ+ women and young and elderly women;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas women face intersecting inequalities and discrimination, including linked to their race, ethnic or social origin, sexual orientation, gender identities and expression, religion or belief, residence status, disability and efforts must address all forms of discrimination to achieve gender equality for all women; whereas EU policies have not until now deployed an intersectional approach and have focused only on the individual dimension of discrimination, which downplays its institutional, structural and historical dimensions; Whereas applying an intersectional analysis not only allows us to understand structural barriers, but also offers evidence to create benchmarks and set a path towards strategic and effective policies against systemic discrimination, exclusion and social inequalities;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing gender inequalities in almost every walk of life;and analyses suggest that the economic impact of the pandemic will roll back on the fragile gains achieved in the past decade with regard to women’s economic independence; whereas women’s employment during the pandemic has fall more sharply than it did during the 2008 recession1a; _________________ 1a EIGE Equality Index 2020
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas available reports and figures from several Member States revealed a worrying increase in gender- based violence during the period of COVID-19 pandemic; whereas lockdown measures made it more difficult for victims of intimate partner violence to seek help as they are often confined with their abusers, and have limited access to support services, and insufficient support structures and resources have exacerbated an already existing ‘shadow’ pandemic;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas violence against women in all its forms (physical, sexual, psychological, economic or cyber violence) is a violation of human rights and one of the biggest obstacles to achieving gender equality; whereas gender based violence is rooted in the unequal distribution of power between genders, patriarchal structures and gender stereotypes, that have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men; whereas gender- based violence may be of differing appearance, intensity and form; whereas a society free of violence must be acknowledged as an absolute prerequisite for equality;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas women in the EU are more severely affected by poverty or social exclusion than men, being systematically placed at a disadvantage by structural and cultural factors; whereas since 2010, the gender gap in earnings has increased in 17 Member States, while the gender gap in income has gone up in 19 Member States, leading to an overall increase in gender inequality in earnings and income in the EU; whereas these situation is even worse for women experiencing intersecting forms of discrimination;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the EU gender pay gap is 164.1%, with variations between the Member States; whereas this gender pay gap has a number of implications, not least a 36.7% difference in corresponding pension entitlements, placing older women at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas it is the result of disadvantages accrued by women over time, such as lack of access to the many financial resources, such as benefits and pension systems, that come with full-time employment, and for which many women are ineligible as they tend to stay in part- time employment or face job discontinuity due to care responsibilities; whereas the right to equal pay for equal work is not always guaranteed and remains one of the biggest challenges to be met in efforts to combat pay discrimination;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas theirwomen’s role as primary caregivers with in the family imposes a disproportionate burden of unpaid care and domestic work on women, who play a vital role in this respect; whereas before the COVID-19 outbreak, women in the EU spent an average of 13 hours more than men on unpaid care and housework every week; whereas 7.7 million women (aged 20–64) in 2019 was away from the labour market in the EU, because they were looking after children or other people with care needs, compared with 450 000 men; whereas far more women than men also work part-time (8.9 million versus 560 000) owing to their care responsibilities; whereas the rising long- term care needs and lack of care services intensify gender inequalities within families and in employment; whereas there is an urgent need to foster policies that challenge and combat the patriarchal division of gender roles and stereotypes;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
H a. whereas the presence of women in EU national parliaments (both houses) has increased from 24 % in 2010 to 32 % in 2020; whereas gender balance has improved among cabinet ministers in national governments, from 26 % in 2010 to 32 % in 2020; whereas there are significant differences between Member States with only 7 member states having reached gender parity or gender-balanced cabinets: whereas at regional and local levels, the rate of change continues to be extremely slow with only 29% of women represented in 2019 with Hungary, Slovakia and Romania having more than 80 % male representation in regional assemblies;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
H b. whereas gender imbalance is likewise a persistent phenomenon in central banks, corner stones of economic- decision making and which shape social, political and economic realities; whereas currently, all central banks of EU Member States are governed by a man and women held a quarter (24.6%) of seats in the key decision-making bodies of national central banks in the EU;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)
Recital H c (new)
H c. whereas the European Institute for Gender Equality has found that the performance of EU Member State in gender main-streaming has been decreasing since 2012; whereas despite a slight rise of governments’ commitment to mainstream gender into public administration the availability of gender mainstreaming structures and the use of gender mainstreaming tools has decreased;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Is concerned about the fact that according the 2020 Gender Equality Index the EU remain still far from achieving gender equality; Stresses than more than one third of Member States scored fewer than 60 points in 2018 with Greece, Poland and Hungary in particular need of improvement; Regrets the slow progress and the fact that for some member states combating gender discrimination is not seen as important policy area or political priority;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to take practical measures to ensure that women have equal access to work with rights and decent pay; stresses the need to promote collective bargaining as a determining factor in reversing and overcoming inequality and tackling discrimination against women in all their diversity and calls for de jure and de facto compliance with the principle of equal pay for equal work of equal value;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Welcomes the Commission proposal on binding transparency measures as an important initiative to combat the gender pay gap, but stresses that pay transparency alone will not address the deep-rooted gender inequalities behind this gap; Calls for an immediate gender pay and pension gap action plan which should set clear targets for the Member States and ensure that such targets are taken account in the country-specific recommendations; highlights the need to include in such action plan an intersectional perspective and the diverse realities and discrimination experiences faced by particular groups such as muslim women, women form diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, migrant women, women with disabilities, trans, lesbian and non- binary persons;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the EU and its Member States to fully transpose the Work Life Balance Directive and to further underpin maternity and paternity entitlements, for example by increasing periods of fullequal and fully paid leaves, with no loss of pay,a view of further involving men in unpaid work and taking into account the World Health Organization recommendation that children be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of their lives; calls for the right to a reduction in working hours following maternity leave to be guaranteed in practice, enabling mothers to breastfeed their children until they are at least two years oldand flexible work arrangement following maternity and paternity leave to be guaranteed in practice, enabling parents to better share and balance work with care responsibilities, accompanied by investment in a public network of free childcare and education services;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Call on the EU to put forward a Care Deal For Europe, a set of policies, programmes, funding and recommendations to foster a transition towards a care economy with a view to advance towards societies where life and the wellbeing of all is prioritised over growth, the value of care work, both paid and unpaid, is put at the centre of our economies and to respond to the social impacts on those with caring responsibilities.
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Underlines the negative consequences of joint taxation systems on women’s employment rates and their economic independence and on the pension pay and care gaps; stresses that tax systems should no longer be based on the assumption that households pool and share their funds equally and that individual taxation is instrumental to achieving tax fairness for women;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Regrets that only 8 member states have ratified the ILO Convention No189 on domestic workers that aims to provide legal recognition for domestic work, extend rights to all domestic workers, especially women, in the informal economy, and prevent violations and abuses; Calls on all MS to urgently ratify and ensure compliance with the articles of this ILO Convention;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5 d. Reminds ones again to put a stronger focus on gender equality within different phases of the European Semester process; Urges to incorporate the EIGE Gender Equality Index in the Social scoreboard and provide gender disaggregated data on the exiting indicators in order to monitoring progress on gender equality and better address country-specific challenges;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Eradication of violence against women and gender based violence
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5 e. Strongly reaffirms its previously expressed commitment on tackling gender-based violence and on the need to have a comprehensive Directive covering all its forms, as the best way to put an end to it; recalls that the Council should urgently conclude the EU’s ratification of the Istanbul Convention on the basis of a broad accession without any limitations, as the Convention remains the international standard and a key tool for the eradication of gender-based violence by following a holistic and coordinated approach that places the rights of the victim at the centre and addresses the issues from a wide range of perspectives;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the urgent need to counter the exploitation of women at work and combat the inequalities, discrimination and violence affecting them; Stresses that harassment experienced in a work place constitutes a serious attack on a person’s psychological and physical health, making them feel insecure at work or in some cases preventing them from doing their work; notes that women are far more likely to be exposed to sexual harassment than men; Calls on Member States to adopt the International Labour Organisation (ILO)Conventions 190 in order comply with the global standards aimed at ending violence and harassment in the world of work.
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for women who suffer domestic violence to be afforded proper protectionon Member States to take all necessary measures to ensure protection, support and reparation to all victims of all forms of gender-based violence, including domestic violence, ensuring the deployment of increased resources and more effective responses by the State;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that forced prostitution constitutes a serious form of violence and exploitation affecting mostly women and children; notes that the root causes of forced prostitution are inextricably intertwined with social and economic realities, particularly unemployment, financial need and poverty; stresses the importance of a gender sensitive approach to human trafficking and about the need for Member States to increase funding for social support and access to public services for victims of trafficking or sexual exploitation; Calls on Member states to fully implement the Anti-trafficking Directive and to urgently stop imprisoning or deporting potential victims; Calls on the European Commission to closely monitor specially the application and transposition of this Directive and to initiate infringements procedures on those Member States failing to do so;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Stresses that gender-based violence intersects with multiple axes of oppression; Underlines that women and girls with disabilities are two to five times more likely to experience various forms of violence, highlights that the EU is obliged, as a party to the CRPD, to take measures to ensure the full and equal enjoyment by women and girls with disabilities of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, notes that the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recommended in 2015 that the EU should advance its efforts in this direction, inter alia through ratification of the Istanbul Convention;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Applauds the unambiguous defence of all freedoms anywhere in the world, while condemning measures that undermine rights, freedoms and guarantees and deprecating all forms of prejudice, including discrimination on the grounds of gender sexual orientation gender identity, gender expression or sex characteristic;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that any strategy designed to achieve equality must get to grips with all forms of violence against womengender-based violence, including the erosion of healthcare entitlements and sexual and reproductive health and rights acquired by women and infringements thereof;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the need for Member States to adopt a policy placing special emphasis on improved public health and the prevention of disease by guaranteeing free, universal and high-quality healthcare and ensuring the availability of the necessary resources to combat the main public health problems; Stresses that health inequalities are accumulating for women with low education and women with disabilities, who have both the poorest health and the most limited access to health services;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Stresses that since 2010 gender segregation in education has increased slightly, with the situation worsening in 13 Member States and in other cases remaining almost unchanged; Highlights that gender segregation in education remains a major barrier to gender equality in the EU; Calls on the Member States to tackle sexism and gender stereotypes in their education systems and to combat gendered labour market segmentation in STEM careers by investing in formal, informal and non- formal education, lifelong learning and vocational training for women to ensure their access to high-quality employment and opportunities to reskill and upskill for future labour market demand and prevent a vicious circle of gender segregation of labour;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges the Member States to take specific measures to combat the risk of poverty in old age and retirement, increasing pensions and boosting social benefits; Is extremely concerned with the fact that the poverty gender gap has increased in 21 Member State since 2017; Stresses that poverty or social exclusion are concentrated among certain particularly marginalised groups of women as lone mothers, women above 65 years of age, women with disabilities and those with low level of education and migrant background;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Highlights that there is still a misconception that homelessness amongst women is a relatively minor social problem in Europe; Points at the lack of basic data on the nature and extent of women’s homelessness making this problem less visible; Stresses the importance to recognize gender-based violence and the gendered experiences of trauma as a root cause of women’s homelessness, as well as to look at wider societal problem intersecting with broader socio-economic and structural barriers, such as poverty, the lack of affordable housing and other structural factors; Urges on EU and Member States to integrate a gender perspective into policies and practices addressing homelessness and to develop specific strategy to combat women’s homeless and ensure that services work appropriately and effectively to meet the needs of homeless women;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14 b. Recalls the need to combat intersectional forms of discrimination, especially against marginalised groups, including women with disabilities, black women, migrant, ethnic minority and Roma women, older women, single mothers, LGBTIQ+ people and homeless women, and stresses the importance that their needs and concerns are addressed in EU polices and initiatives; Calls on the Commission to lay down explicit guidelines on the implementation of the intersectional framework; Calls on the European Commission to present a EU Action Plan with specific measures to improve the socio-economic situation of women who face intersecting forms of discrimination and to combat feminisation of poverty and of precarious work;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14 c. Is deeply concerned about increasing gender equality backlash in some EU member states and specially in the attempts to further criminalise abortion care and undermine young people's access to sexuality education in Poland and about the adopted reforms that attacks LGTBIQ+ people in Hungary; Demands strengthened support for women’s rights defenders and women’s rights organisations in the EU, including organisations working on sexual and reproductive rights and LGBTI+, through increased and earmarked financial support in the next MFF;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Is deeply concerned about the fact that the Green New Deal and related environmental and climate initiatives do not include a gender perspective; Urges the Commission to comply with their obligation to incorporate gender mainstreaming into all EU policies, including EU environmental and climate policies: Urges that these policies be informed by rigorous gender analysis to ensure that they address existing gender inequalities and other forms of social exclusion; Calls the European Commission to design a roadmap to deliver on the commitments of the Gender Action Plan agreed at COP25and to appoint a permanent EU gender and climate change focal point, with sufficient budget resources, to implement and monitor gender-responsible climate action in the EU and globally;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15 b. Urges the Member States to reach a common position as soon as possible on the proposal for a Council directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation (COM(2008)0426), which has been blocked since its adoption by Parliament in April 2009;
Amendment 280 #
15 c. Calls on the Member States and the Council to create a formal Council configuration on Gender Equality, in order to provide the Ministers and Secretaries of State in charge of gender equality with a dedicated forum for discussion, to ensure that gender equality issues are discussed at the highest political level and to better facilitate gender mainstreaming across all EU policies;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 d (new)
Paragraph 15 d (new)
15 d. Stress that the European Court of Auditors concluded that the Commission had not yet lived up to its commitment to gender mainstreaming in the EU budget; Calls on the European Commission to implement the European Court of Auditors recommendations to strengthen the institutional framework for supporting gender budgeting; to carry out gender analyses of the needs and impacts and update its better regulation guidelines; to systematically collect, analyse and report on existing sex-disaggregated data for the EU funding programmes; to make use of gender-related objectives and indicators to monitor progress; to develop a system for tracking funds allocated and used to support gender equality; and to report annually on the results achieved in terms of gender equality;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 e (new)
Paragraph 15 e (new)
15 e. Welcomes the commitment to take gender equality into account under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the largest part of the Next Generation EU instrument but deeply regrets that the gender impact of these funds will be difficult to monitor and follow up on the results due to the lack of gender specific indicators and objectives; Calls therefore on the Commission to use gender disaggregated data and indicators, in particular, in the recovery and resilience scoreboard, assess the gender impact of implemented measures and results at the time of the evaluation of the national plans setting out the Member States reforms and their investment agendas, and impose a gender balanced governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and the European Semester;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 f (new)
Paragraph 15 f (new)
15 f. Calls on the Commission to mainstream gender equality into all 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; calls on the Member States to undertake corresponding measures at the national level;