9 Amendments of Britta THOMSEN related to 2011/2067(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the fact that, in order to raise the employment level of women, Member States must pay special attention toguarantee efficient implementation of anti- discrimination legislation and family- friendly provisions, promote recruitment to non-traditional jobs through voluntary measures and attainable targets, and provide for accessibility and accountability; emphasises the importance of monitoring the labour market and skills requirements;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that efforts should be made to ensure that all children develop fundamental IT skills at an early age, that IT should therefore be included in primary school education and that all Europeans should have cheap and easy access to the internet;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights the need to arrange the labour market in the interest of reconciling work and family life by setting up structures and institutions for the care of children, older people and other dependents, and by doing more to introduce more flexible working times and various options for teleworking;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Invites the Member States to include in their structural labour market reforms instruments to combat professional segregation of women in, as manifested both in the horizontalinadequate representation of women in leading positions and in the vertical sensegender-segregated labour market, through effective measures against prejudices and stereotypes, and exchange of good practice and benchmarking indicators between the Member States, and legislative measures including quotas to increase women's representation in leading positions;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support, and invest in, women’s labour market participation through the promotion of diversity management, professional encouragement of women, and the promotion of the creation of new posts that allow a balance between professional and family life, such as flexible forms of work;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers that the Agenda for New Skills and Jobs should be seen in conjunction with the EU’s Research Framework Programme, and that synergies between the two could create growth and jobs;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that opportunities to raise the rate of women’s employment are offeCalls on the Member States to increase their efforts to prevent segregation of job markets by gender and to counter the trend not only by the ‘white-job’ sector, but also by the business servicesfor many women to work in worse- paid occupations, by interesting boys and girls at school in the whole spector – insurance and consulting, for example – and the ecological sector and sustainable jobrum of possible occupations, and broadening training opportunities for women so as to enable them to adapt to changes in the labour market during their careers;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage the private and public sector to take all possible and necessary action to eliminate the gender pay gap with the aim of improving women’s participation in the labour market.; stresses in this connection the importance of transparency in the form of better statistics, and of a usable definition of ‘work of equal value’;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that ‘green jobs’ have the potential to become an important growth area in the future labour market in the EU; calls on the Council, Commission and Member States to ensure that women benefit from these jobs to the same extent as men; and highlights the importance of women obtaining the right qualifications to do these jobs;