Activities of Britta THOMSEN related to 2010/2115(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Women and business leadership (debate)
Amendments (15)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas gender equality in employment must entail the advancement of men and women, without distinction, both within the labour market generally and in terms of their promotion to management posts at all levels, in the interests of social justice and balance as well as effective economic performancefor making full use of women's skills so as to strengthen the economy in the process, and must afford women the same career development prospects as men;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas women's underrepresentation in decision-taking posts within firms can also be ascribed to inadequate access to child care facilities and gender disparities in the amount of time spent on unpaid work and daily involvement in care and domestic activities, and whereas women in particular have the greatest unpaid workload,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas it is therefore essential to proceed with the introduction of methods such as case studies and exchanges of good practice in this field, as well as affirmative actionuse existing methods such as the introduction of binding quotas for equal representation of women in firms' decision-taking posts and management bodies, exchanges of good practice in this field, transparency in pay bargaining and promotion processes, as well as affirmative action through public procurement, for example, in order to achieve optimal use of female human resources at all levels within companies,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas it is incumbent on policymakers, in both the EU and the Member States and companies to remove the barriers to women joining the labour market generally and management bodies in particular, and to offer women equal opportunities so that they can obtain senior posts, with a view to ensuring that all existing resources are efficiently utilised, that women’s skills and strengths are channelled to best effect and, that the best possible use is made of the Union’s human potential, and that the EU's core values are defended, given that equality is a fundamental principle,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the proactive initiatives and measures taken by the private sector to increase female representation – such as in- company human-resources development with a view to improved career support for women, or the creation of networks, beyond the bounds of the company, to encourage women’s participation and advancement as well as regular exchanges of good practice – have proved inowhere near sufficient to alter the status quo within companies, and women remain under-represented at management level,
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the initiatives of Member States such as France, Spain and the Netherlands in setting thresholds, which companies have to achieve, for women’s representation on management bodies, and is following the debate about women’s representation in other Member States such as Germany and Italy; nottakes that voicing a political will is the only way of gettinge view that political decisions on binding measures adopted to help ensure meaningful representation of women in corporate management bodies are essential;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. Invites the Member States and the Commission to consider introducingimplement new policies for enabling more women to become involved in managing companies, in particular by:
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point a
Paragraph 4 – point a
a. initiating a dialogue with the management of large companies about ways of increasing female representation, over and above quotas for decision-taking posts, in firms in general and in decision- taking posts,
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point b
Paragraph 4 – point b
b. supporting initiatives to assess male- female equality on recruitment committees and in other areas, e.g.to ensure transparency with regard to wage differentials and pay bargaining and in connection with promotion and career patterns,
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point c
Paragraph 4 – point c
c. establishing institutions and arrangements to help parents employed in business to balance family and work commitments, and in that connection, in particular, establishing childcare facilities for children under three, which is a component of the Barcelona objectives, and care facilities for elderly persons and persons with special needs,
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Warmly welcomes allny other voluntary steps by companies themselves to reach the critical threshold of 30% female membership of management bodies by 2015 and 40% by 2020;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 – point a
Paragraph 7 – point a
a. present, as soon as possible, comprehensive current data on female representation within all types of companies in the EU and on the compulsory and non-compulsory measures taken by the business sector as well as those recently adopted by the various Member States with a view to increasing such representation,
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 – point b
Paragraph 7 – point b
b. following this exercisto introduce mand if the steps taken by companies and the Member States are found to be inadequate, to consider taking concrete measuresatory quotas for women in decision-taking posts at all management levels within companies with more than 250 staff, as Spain has already done, for increasing female representation in corporate management bodies, while taking account of the Member States’ responsibilities and of their economic, structural (i.e. company-size related), legal and regional specificities;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Invites the Commission to draw up a road map settingfor achieving the specific, measurable, appropriate and realistic and binding targets set, with a timetable, for the achievement of balanced representation; which it submitted in the Strategy for equality between men and women 2010-2015, and to propose a binding action plan for the introduction of quotas for women for decision-taking posts within firms;