Activities of Sandra PEREIRA related to 2022/2140(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Ensuring European transportation works for women (debate)
Amendments (15)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)
Citation 13 a (new)
— having regard to the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
— having regard to the ILO's 2013 study and Working Paper No 298 'Promoting the employment of women in the transport sector - Obstacles and policy options',
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
— having regard to the Council of Europe's Gender Equality Strategy 2018- 2023,
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. whereas, in many sectors and countries in the world, transport continues to be seen as a sector in which women's work is limited to lower-paid jobs and as a sector that offers few or no opportunities for career progression;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N b (new)
Recital N b (new)
Nb. whereas the ILO believes that violence, discrimination, psychological, sexual and workplace harassment, bullying and a lack of basic facilities affecting transport workers are leading factors that make jobs in the sector less attractive for women and make it difficult to retain people working in the sector;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N c (new)
Recital N c (new)
Nc. whereas the various transport sectors find it difficult to recruit and, for some sectors, the situation has become critical due to challenging working conditions and, in many cases, a lack of fair remuneration;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
Recital O a (new)
Oa. whereas women are in the minority among train drivers, particularly for freight trains; whereas that situation is due to particularly challenging working conditions, especially for women; whereas the lack of toilets or poor condition thereof on freight and passenger trains is a major obstacle to increasing the number of women working in the sector; whereas, to address this problem, some companies (like the SNCF in France) recommend 'solutions' that undermine human dignity, such as distributing period underwear rather than installing toilets or having breaks in journeys;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O b (new)
Recital O b (new)
Ob. whereas, according to the International Road Transport Union (IRU), only 2 % of drivers in Europe in 2019 were women, while the shortage of drivers is getting worse and is stopping up to 40 % of requests from being fulfilled; whereas poor working conditions are the main reason for that situation; whereas, according to an IRU study, 87 % of drivers aged over 55 and 73 % of drivers aged under 24 believe that being required to spend long periods away from home is critical to explaining the low number of job applications; whereas the mobility package, by aiming to enable drivers to go home only every four weeks, does not come close to rising to the challenge of improving working conditions so as to have more women in the sector;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O c (new)
Recital O c (new)
Oc. whereas, although progress has been made in recent years, women are still under-represented in the aeronautics professions, particularly in positions of responsibility; whereas, according to a 2021 study, less than 6 % of pilots in the world's major airlines are women; whereas, in a 2018 survey carried out by Women in Aviation International, 71 % of the women surveyed said they had been victims of harassment at work;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O d (new)
Recital O d (new)
Od. whereas women currently make up only 1.2 % of the worldwide seafarer workforce, according to the BIMCO/ICS Seafarer Workforce Report 2021; whereas women's standing in the maritime community has improved in recent years, but has done so too slowly, and men are still predominant in traditional sectors such as transport, the construction industry or fisheries;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines the differing expectations, travel patterns, needs and experiences of women as transport users; calls for relevant legislation in transport to fully integrate women’s needs, including women with disabilities;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Recognises that a high-quality public transport network that tends to be free contributes to empowering women;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Condemns the sexist, discriminatory or degrading practices followed by certain transport companies; points out that working conditions, fair remuneration, a safe environment, training and work-life balance play a fundamental role in involving more women in the transport sector;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Recognises that only by improving working conditions in the different branches of the transport sector will it be possible to hire and retain more women in the labour market; takes the view that having more women in the sector is at once a societal challenge to achieve true labour equality and the only way to remedy the lack of professionals in the sector;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Points out that workplace violence in the different branches of the transport sector is an essential aspect of understanding the lack of women in the sector; emphasises that such violence could be the result of a company's sexist or even misogynistic practices or connected to external factors: attacks by passengers (in the case of public transport) and/or organised gangs in freight transport; calls for the issue of combating workplace violence to be made a priority for the EU and its Member States and for an in-depth study to be carried out in this regard in partnership with the ILO and the Council of Europe;