Activities of Elena KOUNTOURA 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 (17)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. Whereas only 22% of workers in the transport sector are women while at the same time the transport sector suffers of considerable shortage of workers in all transport modes;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. Whereas making the transport sector more attractive for women would be beneficial for all workers and would improve its resilience and sustainability;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. Whereas the main barriers to attract and retain women in the transport sector are a dominant culture of masculinity and gender stereotypes, discrimination and unequal treatment at work, lack of work-life-balance and ‘the care trap’ for women, deficiencies in provision for women’s health and safety at work including access to decent sanitary facilities, high levels of violence and harassment against women in the work place;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. Whereas shift work is widespread in transport and often entails late night working including the travel to and from work; whereas ILO Convention C190 concerning the elimination of violence and harassment in the world of work applies to commuting to and from work;
Amendment 20 #
Ba. whereas sexual harassment toward women, whether they are walking on the street, taking buses, or riding trains, is a major problem that has a very serious impact on women’s travel behaviour; whereas fear of harassment in public space is not only limited to women and girls, it is also prevalent in the LGBTQI community limiting their access to other services especially jobs, health care facilities, and education;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. Whereas, women tend to walk more and make greater use of public transport;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. Whereas women's mobility patterns are often more complex than those of men as they often require different means of transport when they engage in care work within families
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. Whereas among the 384 transport sector-related measures in the national Recovery Plans of 23 Member States, zero measures included priority ‘Improve conditions and attractiveness of working in transport’ and zero measures included priority ‘Gender equality’;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. Whereas mobility poverty presents a gender dimension as women more often than men have no alternatives to public transports and working conditions are more disadvantageous for women in the EU than for men;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to considerintroduce gender-related provisions in all relevant legislation, in order to address gender based discrimination and inequalities, and ensure a safe 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 a gender- balance approach to health and safety at work including gender-specific risk assessment of the workplace, safe access to adequate sanitary facilities at the work place and along transport infrastructure including the necessary breaks and 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 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission and Members States to ensure the implemention of legislation related to a better work-life-balance, pay transparency and the elimination of the gender pay gap also in transport;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on Member States to use RRF funds to make the transport sector more attractive and safe and for women workers;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on Member States and regional and local authorities to take into account the caregivers’ mobility needs when planning public transport timetables and connections prioritising local area transport plans and ensuring busses and trains and trams are designed considering caregivers' needs;
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Calls on the Member States to involve women's and organisations LGBTQI associations into the process of transport planning and to train transport staff and transport security staff on gender based violence and sexual harassment; calls on the Commission to adopt guidelines for inclusive transport infrastructures and to support campaigns against gender-based violence and sexual harassment in public transport and increase awareness on the matter;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Calls on the Commission and Member States to make affordable, reliable and efficient public transport a priority of transport policy, which will help guarantee women’s access to employment and social life;
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Call on Member States to consider gender differentiated levels of risk to users in the design of footways, pedestrian crossing facilities and road junctions;