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7 Amendments of Anne SANDER related to 2015/2007(INI)

Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Points out that digitalisation has a substantial impact on the labour market by modifying job dynamism, creating new job opportunities and more flexible working conditions such as telecommuting or teleworking which could serve as a an effective tool for better reconciliation of professional and domestic duties for both women and men;
2015/12/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 b (new)
-1b. Highlights the fact that the Commission's estimations show that allowing more women to enter the digital jobs market can create an annual € 9 billion GDP boost in the EU area;
2015/12/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 c (new)
-1c. Stresses the importance of improving digital skills and IT-literacy among women and boosting their inclusion into ICT, which is one of the highest paying sectors, which could contribute to women's financial empowerment and independence resulting in the reduction of the total gender wage gap and future pension gap;
2015/12/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Highlights the fact that the ICT sector is characterised by both vertical and horizontal segregation which is even higher that the other sectors, as well as a gap between women's educational qualifications and their position in the ICT sector; whereas the majority (54 per cent) of women employed in ICT sector occupy lower paid and lower skill-level positions and only a small minority of them (8 per cent) are in the high skill software engineer positions; whereas women are also underrepresented in the decision-making within this sector with only 19,2 per cent of ICT sector workers having female bosses compared to 45,2 per cent of non-ICT sector workers;
2015/12/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Highlights the fact that some Member States (Germany, Spain, Sweden) initiated policies to encourage a positive gender balance within Europe's ICT professions, and these policies are primarily aimed at promoting ICT-related studies and career paths for girls and women from an early age;
2015/12/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the opportunity for a better work-life balance for women in the digital age; emphasises the risks posed by potential demand for a constant accessibility of employees (e.g. burnout); advocates, therefore, a ‘right to log off’ for workerstresses therefore the need for respecting working time arrangements under flexible hours employment contracts in order to maintain the boundaries of working time as defined by the labour law in the individual Member States;
2015/12/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Takes the view that women over 55 are more likely to have depreciated e-skills due to the lack of life-long learning and that digitalization constitutes an important barrier for older job seekers with limited e-skills, calls on the Commission and the Member States to support life-long learning as well as training and schemes which prepare for a better adaptation or a potential change of career path according to the growing demand for e-skills in many different sectors with a special regard to women over 55 in order to safeguard them from the exclusion from the labour market;
2015/12/14
Committee: EMPL