Activities of Kira Marie PETER-HANSEN related to 2019/2169(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the EU Strategy for Gender Equality
Amendments (15)
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Recalls that discrimination on grounds of gender remains widespread and common, and not only damages the individual but also society as a whole; calls therefore on the Commission to step up its actions, beyond the Strategy, to set itself hard targets and present up-to-date or updated legislation and provide sufficient funding to combat discrimination on grounds of gender;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 b (new)
Paragraph -1 b (new)
-1b. Recalls that the world of work remains unequal as regards income, career perspectives, feminized sectors, access to social protection, education and training; recalls that all these dimensions have to be addressed to achieve gender equality;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Recalls the need to combat multi- layered discrimination, especially of vulnerable groups such as women with disabilities, black women and women of colour, migrant and ethnic-minority women, older women and LGBTIQ+ people;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to amend Directive 2006/54/EC by including a binding definition of ‘work of equal value’ across all occupational sectors which incorporates the gender perspective; calls on the Commission to present within the next year a revision of Directive 2006/54/EC; such revision should include a binding definition of "work of equal value" across all occupational sectors which incorporates the gender perspective, a reference to multiple forms of discrimination, additional measures to ensure the enforceability of the directive by imposing more effective sanctions as well as the prohibition of any discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity or gender reassignment; remove the outdated restrictions in material scope regarding Occupational Social Security schemes; include reference for Member States to comply with obligations of international and human rights law instruments that they have ratified such as UN Treaties and ILO Conventions; strengthen and update the procedural rights;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates its call on the Commission to present a legal instrumentislation on gender pay transparency as soon as possible;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the feminisation of poverty in all its forms, particularly by factoring gender into pension entitlements in order to eliminate the gender pension gap, and by improving working conditions in feminised sectors such as the education, services, cleaning and care sectors; points out the importance of addressing the cultural undervaluation of jobs dominated by women and the overrepresentation of women in atypical forms of work; emphasises the need to strengthen collective bargaining in order to foster stable and quality employmentfor gender-sensitive recruitment and selection processes across private and public sectors and particularly in those such as STEM where women are underrepresented; emphasizes the need to strengthen collective bargaining in order to foster stable and quality employment for all; calls on the Commission and the Council to swiftly adopt the long-awaited Women on boards directive in order to address the considerable imbalance between women and men in economic decision making at the highest level;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Reminds that funding has a strong gender component; regrets the lack of gender budgeting in the new MFF and Structural Funds; calls on the Commission to further promote and improve the use of Gender Budgeting;
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to put forward a Care Deal for Europe to cover all care needs throughout the lifecycle; calls on the Member States to ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on domestic workers and to fully implement and go beyond the Barcelona care targets, ensuring the coverage of those needs through quality universal public care services; urges Member States to swiftly and fully implement the Work-Life Balance Directive1, and invites them to go beyond the Directive’s minimum standards; and introduce measures, such as paid leaves, flexible working arrangements and care and support services which are adapted to the specific challenges and needs of parents and/or family members taking care of persons with disabilities, long- term illnesses or their elderly or; as well as the introduction of more ambitious measures to promote men’s equal role as carers; __________________ 1 OJ L 188, 12.7.2019, p. 79.
Amendment 144 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is deeply worried about violence and harassment in the world of worktowards women; stresses that comprehensive sexuality education and trainings on gender equality are key tools to combat gender-based violence; calls on the Commission to propose a directive on a holistic approach to combatting violence against women; calls on Member States to ratify and implement the Istanbul Convention and ILO Convention No 190 on violence and harassment; reiterates that Gender Equality is Goal 5 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and calls on Member States to steer all possible resources into contributing to its achievement within fields of employment and social affairs;
Amendment 178 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that gender equality must be put at the centre of the European Green Deal in order to truly achieve a just transition that leaves no one behind; calls on the Commission to ensure gender mainstreaming and gender-responsive energy and climate action by implementing systematic gender impact assessment and by allocating specific funds for gender equality in relevant climate actions and policies of the Green New Deal;
Amendment 184 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for the introduction of a gender pillar and an overarching gender equality objective in the successor of the Europe 2020 strategy and to incorporate gender specific targets and indicators in the country-specific challenges identified in the Social scoreboard;
Amendment 191 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls for specific guidelines and recommendations to Member States to integrate the gender perspective in taxation polices - including that they carry out gender audits of fiscal policies in order to eliminate tax-related gender biases - and to ensure that no new tax, spending laws, programmes or practices that increase market or after-tax income gender gaps or that reinforce the male breadwinner model are established;
Amendment 198 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the Commission to propose an EU Framework for National Homelessness Strategies and the Member States to prepare their National Homelessness Strategies featuring both preventive and reactive measures with a gendered approach in order to support women experiencing homelessness, who often suffered from complex trauma and face re-traumatisation, such as domestic violence and abuse, separation from their children, stigmatisation, lack of safe and secure spaces, etc.;
Amendment 203 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 g (new)
Paragraph 6 g (new)
6g. Recognises the key role of NGOs and women’s rights organisations fighting against gender inequality, discrimination and violence against women; calls on the Commission to ensure and strengthen protection the participation and active involvement of civil society organizations by pushing for funding instruments to provide funding for human rights defenders and civil society organizations working to counter backlash and regression on gender equality and to advance women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights, both within the EU and across the world;
Amendment 205 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 i (new)
Paragraph 6 i (new)
6i. Welcomes the Commissions ambitions to obtain gender balance, and hopes to see a clear commitment to effectively implement Gender Impact assessments of all policies and programmes in all policy and programmes of the European Commission and other EU agencies and institutions, and to regularly report on functioning of the Gender Mainstreaming Task;