40 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2009/2242(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas gender equality must be a mark of European cultural and political identity,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas violence against women is a major obstacle to gender equality and is one of the most widespread human rights violations, knowing no geographical, financial or social barriers; whereas the number of women who are victims of violence is alarming,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas we cannot continue being tied to worn out, environmentally unsustainable economic models that are based on an out-of-date sexual division of labour that has been superseded by women being absorbed into the labour market; whereas we need a new and socially sustainable model based on knowledge and innovation that incorporates the full range of women’s skills into the economy, that restores the balance of responsibilities between men and women in public and in private and provides a good work-life balance,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas efforts to mainstream the gender perspective into public policy need to be stepped up,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas gender equality has a positive impact on economic productivity and growth, and participation of women in the labour market has a host of social and economic benefits,
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas sectoral and occupational segregation by gender is not diminishing but is actually rising in some countries,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas women’s participation in decision-making is a decisive indicator of gender equality, whereas there are still not many women in management posts in businesses and universities and whereas the number of female politicians or researchers is only very slowly rising,
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)
Recital H c (new)
Hc. whereas the stereotypes which still exist with regard to the educational and occupational options available to women help preserve inequalities,
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas affirmative actions in favour of women have proved essential for their full incorporation into the labour market and society in general,
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas reconciling their occupational, family and private lives remains an unresolved issue for both women and men,
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L b (new)
Recital L b (new)
Lb. whereas the sharing of family and domestic duties between men and women, not least by developing the use of parental leave and paternity leave, is a precondition for promoting and achieving gender equality; and whereas not counting periods of maternity and parental leave towards aggregate working times is discriminatory and places women in a worse situation on the labour market,
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L c (new)
Recital L c (new)
Lc. whereas access to childcare and services for the care of the elderly and other dependants is essential if men and women are to be able to participate on an equal footing in the labour market, education and training,
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 2 a (new)
Article 2 a (new)
2a. Deplores the unsatisfactory way in which the gender perspective has been handled in the Commission’s EU 2020 strategy proposals and therefore requests that the Council take into account the call by Parliament and women’s organisations for the gender perspective to be incorporated into the final document;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 6 a (new)
Article 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to improve and update regularly its gender equality webpage, and on the Equal Opportunities Group to give at least one of its meetings each year entirely over to gender equality and to create an information service for women;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 7
Article 7
Maintains that the Commission’s directorates-general need to set up coordinating machinery to provide permanent follow-up to gender equality and equal opportunities policies spanning many different areas; calls for the Annual Report on Equality to include one chapter by each directorate-general in which they report on equality in their area of competence;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 8 a (new)
Article 8 a (new)
8a. Considers that the Commission and the Member States need to develop training and implementation tools to allow all stakeholders to take on board in their respective areas of competence a perspective based on equal opportunities for men and women, including assessment of the specific impact of policies on men and women;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 8 b (new)
Article 8 b (new)
8b. Stresses the importance of devising quantity and quality indicators and gender-based statistics which are reliable, comparable and available when needed, to be used in monitoring the implementation of gender mainstreaming in all policies;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 8 c (new)
Article 8 c (new)
8c. Emphasises that better coordination is essential in order to develop equality policy objectives in all EU and Member State institutions and that uniform tangible integration methods, such as gender budgets or incorporating gender analysis into the design, planning, implementation and monitoring of public policy, are needed;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 9 a (new)
Article 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission, the Council and the Member States to take the necessary steps to mainstream the gender perspective into all Community policies and to review existing legislation so as to ensure that gender equality is correctly applied and that positive discrimination measures can be applied where these are necessary;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 9 b (new)
Article 9 b (new)
9b. Calls for the EAFRD Regulation to be amended to enable, as happens with the ESF, proactive measures to be taken in support of women in the 2014-2020 programming period, which was feasible in previous periods but not in the current one, and which will have very beneficial effects on female employment in rural areas;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 10
Article 10
10. Points to the need, within Parliament too, for the committees and parliamentary delegations to assign particular importance to equality issues; draws attention to the important work being done by Parliament’s High Level Group on Equality;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses the need to prevent the current financial and economic crisis, and future economic issues, from endangering what has been achieved so far in the field of gender equality and to avoid the recession being used, as is already the case in some Member States, as an argument for scaling back gender equality measures, as in the long term this would hinder growth in employment figures, economic growth in the EU, higher tax revenue, rising birth rates and the promotion of gender equality;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 11 a (new)
Article 11 a (new)
11a. Points to the need to improve the arrangements by which women’s organisations and civil society in general collaborate with and take part in gender perspective integration processes;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 12
Article 12
12. Considers that one priority should be to fight poverty by reforming the macroeconomic, monetary, social, and labour market policies lying at its roots with a view to guaranteeing economic and social justice for women by, reconsidering the methods used to determine the poverty rate which are normally based on individual income rather than on the joint income of all members of the family, pursuing strategies to promote fair distribution of income, guaranteeing a minimum income and decent wages and pensions, createing more jobs with rights for women, enableing women and girls to benefit from public services of a high standard, and improveing welfare provision and neighbourhood services, including crèches, nursery schools, kindergartens, day centres, and community leisure and family support centres, making them accessible to women, children, and older people as a whole;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 12 a (new)
Article 12 a (new)
12a. Emphasises the positive effect that gender equality has on economic growth; points out in this respect that some studies estimate that if the employment, part-time employment and productivity rates for women were similar to those for men, GDP would increase by 30%;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 13
Article 13
13. Maintains that measures need to be taken as a matter of urgency to combat wage discrimination, whether by revising the existing directive or by drawing up phased industry-wide plans, with clear-cut goals, such as narrowing the pay gap to 10% by 2020, aimed at doing away with direct and indirect forms of discrimination or by encouraging collective bargaining and the training of equality advisers and laying down equality plans for factories and other workplaces;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 13 a (new)
Article 13 a (new)
13a. Welcomes the fact that female employment in the EU is close to the target of 60% by 2010 but is adamant that the more ambitious figure of 70% by 2020 now needs to be set;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 13 b (new)
Article 13 b (new)
13b. Deplores the fact that women are under-represented in decision-making in both the business world and democratic processes and insists that more ambitious measures are needed to boost the number of women sitting on boards of directors of companies and in local, regional, national and European public institutions;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 13 c (new)
Article 13 c (new)
13c. Believes it necessary to reach a stage where 25% of the posts on boards of directors of companies quoted on Member State stock exchanges, and 20% of posts in the Member State executives, are held by women;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 14 a (new)
Article 14 a (new)
14a. Insists on the need to balance personal and family life and work by putting into practice measures, aimed equally at men and women, which promote the sharing of tasks on an equal footing and take into account the fact that until now men have been less inclined to take advantage of parental leave or incentives;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 14 b (new)
Article 14 b (new)
14b. Insists on the need for improvements in the availability, quality and accessibility of childcare and care services for dependent persons, ensuring that the availability of these services is compatible with the full-time working hours of men and women;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 14 c (new)
Article 14 c (new)
14c. Points out that care services for children and other dependants are potentially a major source of employment for older women, who currently have one of the lowest employment rates;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 14 d (new)
Article 14 d (new)
14d. Believes it necessary to ensure that affordable care services are available for at least 40% of children from 0 to 3 years of age, and to make education available to all children between the age of 3 and the mandatory school age;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 15 a (new)
Article 15 a (new)
15a. Supports the conclusions of the Employment and Social Affairs Council on the ‘Eradication of Violence Against Women’ and highlights the importance of the Commission’s ongoing commitment to pursuing a more active policy in the fight to prevent violence against women, including trafficking in women and girls and female genital mutilation, particularly in relation to raising awareness in society and financial support for activities, projects and research at local, European and international level, as well as with non- EU countries;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 15 b (new)
Article 15 b (new)
15b. Emphasises the need for a wide- ranging survey to be conducted, taking in all the EU countries and using a common methodology, to establish the real extent of the problem; draws attention to the important work that will be carried out in this field by the European Monitoring Centre on Gender-based Violence which will provide high-quality statistics in support of political measures to fight this scab on society;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 16
Article 16
16. Maintains that every attention should be brought to bear on the situation of women working with their spouses in agriculture, craft industries, commerce, or fisheries and of small family businesses, in which women are in a more vulnerable position than men, with a view to taking new measures to protect mothers, eliminate indirect discrimination, and safeguard welfare provision, social security, and other entitlements accorded to women, including those working in a self-employed capacity; points in this regard to the importance of developing the legal construct of shared ownership with the aim of ensuring that women’s rights in the agricultural sector are fully recognised, that they receive appropriate social security protection and that their work is recognised;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 16 a (new)
Article 16 a (new)
16a. Emphasises the importance of combating stereotypes in all walks and at all stages of life, since these are one of the most persistent causes of inequality between men and women, affecting their choices in the field of education, training and employment, the distribution of domestic and family responsibilities, participation in public life and participation and representation in decision-making positions, and in their choices regarding the labour market;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 16 b (new)
Article 16 b (new)
16b. Considers that the taxation and social protection systems need to be reviewed in order to individualise rights, guarantee equal pension rights and remove incentives that adversely affect women’s labour-market and social participation, such as joint taxation and grants for caring for dependants that are linked to women being inactive on the job market;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 17 a (new)
Article 17 a (new)
17a. Lays stress on the importance of preventive measures to ensure women’s sexual and reproductive health, and calls therefore on the Member States and on regional and local authorities to sponsor free annual gynaecological check-ups, smear tests and mammographies for all women from puberty;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 18 a (new)
Article 18 a (new)
18a. Insists that the gender perspective and the fight against gender-based violence must be incorporated into the European Union’s external and development cooperation policy;