24 Amendments of Lina GÁLVEZ related to 2019/2168(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas gender stereotypes constitute a serious obstacle to equality between women and men, further widen the gender gap in the digital sector and prevent women’s full participation as users, innovators and creators; whereas common stereotypes associate high-level intellectual ability with men more than women and these stereotypes are endorsed by, and influence the interests of, children as young as 6, specifically girls. In this age group, girls are less likely to believe themselves and members of their gender to be smart enough and therefore start avoiding activities that are said to be for the children with high intellectual ability10a; __________________ 10a https://science.sciencemag.org/content/35 5/6323/389
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 refers to gender equality and empowerment of women and involves the use of technology and the Internet;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report of 2018, only 22% of AI professionals globally are female, compared to 78% who are male. This accounts for a gender gap of 72% yet to close;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. Whereas in 2019, $92 in every $100 invested in European Tech companies went to founding teams that were all men13a; __________________ 13a https://2019.stateofeuropeantech.com/cha pter/diversity-inclusion/article/state-di- european-tech/
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to take the digital gender gap into due account while negotiating programmes within the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) and funds and loans under the Recovery Plan, and to increase awareness of these mechanisms amongst women; stresses that gender budgeting and mainstreaming should be part of policies supporting ICT development;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and Members States to provide appropriate funding to programs aimed at attracting more girls and women to study and work in STEM; urges the Commission and Member States to set up entrepreneurship programs that finance women and girls who start tech projects or new companies; asks the Commission and Member States to discriminate positively companies that are gender balanced in the access to European funds;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Encourages the Commission and Member States to purchase ICT services from providers that apply gender balance in their companies and boards;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on book publishers to revert the “Matilda Effect” by crediting women for their work that was appropriated by men, so girls do not only see male names in science books and have female role models;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up mentoring schemes with female role models in ICT within all levels of education; Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote awareness campaigns directed at students and parents to fight gender stereotypes about what constitutes masculine or feminine subjects or jobs;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support lifelong learning, as well as training and schemes to boost the e-skills, the upskilling and reskilling of girls and women;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the Member States to fully transpose and implement the Work-Life Balance Directive and calls on the Commission to monitor it effectively; invites theencourages Member States to consider ICT as a means to promote work life balance and to observe trends in the digital sector in order to adapt their already existing work-life balance measures, if necessary;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote gender equality in companies in the ICT and related sectors and in the digital economy and to adopt horizontal policies to reduce the gender gap in the digital economy; calls for the Commission and Member States to implement public procurement policies/guidelines that discriminate positively companies that hire women and girls for STEM jobs; asks the Commission and Member States to promote a minimum threshold of women researchers to be part of ICT projects; encourages the Commission and Member States to urge ICT companies, public and private, to train their human resources departments in "unconscious gender-discriminatory bias” in order to promote a gender balanced recruitment;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to fully assess the causes and factors that lead to a high drop-out rate of women from digital careers and; calls on the Commission and Member States to analyse the effect that lack of work-life balance has on women’s ability to participate in the upskilling training needed to keep up the required skill level posed in the ICT sector; calls on the Commission and Member States to develop mechanisms and programmes to integrate women and girls into education, training and employment initiatives in the digital sector;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Considers it to be of the utmost relevance to have more women role models and to increase the number of women in leadership positions in the ICT sector; stresses the need for ICT companies to introduce human resources practices that promote diversity, such as gender balance in middle and top management positions, and on company boards;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the audiovisual and media industries to portray women in STEM and ICT-related professions; Calls on the media industries to include women on discussion panels, newspaper articles, and other spaces where the public opinion and discourse on technological subjects is shaped;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls the importance of eliminating conscious and unconscious gender- discriminatory bias from algorithms, AI applications, videogames and toys that devalue the role of women and lead to the reduced participation of women in the digital, AI and ICT fields;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to engage constructively with and support digital civil society organisations and to encourage such organisations to get involved in internet governance; calls on the Commission and Member States to also work closely with women’s rights organisations in order to better respond to and alleviate concerns present in everyday life of women and girls in the design and implementation of public tech policies;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to encourage ICT companies to publish annual reports on diversity and gender pay gap within the companies;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Urges the Commission and Member States to collect and utilise already existing sex disaggregated data to promote more research on the interaction of the different factors, which impede women’s and girls’ digital inclusion;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7
Subheading 7
Cybersecurityviolence
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls for further legally binding measures and for a directive to prevent and combat gender-based violence, including cyber violence, that is often directed at women, such as activists, politicians and other public figures, in the attempts to silence them, and online hate speech against women;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Urges the Commission and Member States to provide appropriate funding for the development of AI solutions that prevent and fight cyberviolence, online sexual harassment, exploitation against women and girls, harassment at the work place, and help educate people;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Stresses the need to channel development funds for the promotion of the digital education of girls and women;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 b (new)
Paragraph 30 b (new)
30b. Calls on the Commission to use European funds to finance female led projects in the digital sector, especially those that have a social impact;