17 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2014/2160(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas Directive 2006/54/EC refers expressly to CJEU case law, which lays down that the principle of equal treatment for men and women cannot be confined to the prohibition of discrimination based on the fact that a person is of one or other sex, but that it also applies to discrimination arising from a person’s gender reassignment;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas Directive 2006/54/EC stipulates that Member States may, with a view to ensuring full equality in practice between men and women in working life, maintain or adopt measures providing for specific advantages in order to make it easier for the underrepresented sex to pursue a vocational activity or to prevent or compensate for disadvantages in professional careers (Article 3 of Directive 2006/54/EC and Article 157(4) TFEU);
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas motherhood and care for children, the elderly and other dependants represent additional work that is for the most part carried out by women; whereas this work is neither paid nor valued by society, even though it contributes to social welfare and can be measured by economic indicators such as GDP; whereas this results in the widening of the income gaps that exist between women and men through the ‘costs’ of the years spent out of the labour market or of reduced hours due to part-time arrangements; whereas the impact of these elements on lifetime earnings varies across the Member States depending on the level of support given to parents, by either legislative measures or collective agreements;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas both horizontal and vertical segregation exist on the labour market: the former because women are concentrated in a far more limited number of sectors and professions than men, and these sectors and professions tend in general to be less well paid and less valued, and the latter because women carry out less well paid jobs and they come up against more obstacles to their professional development (only one third of management posts in EU firms are held by women);
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M b (new)
Recital M b (new)
Mb. whereas traditional gender roles and stereotypes still exert a great deal of influence over the division of labour in the home, in education, in careers, in the workplace and in society in general;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the fact thatRegrets that although the Member States were obliged to transpose only those ‘ʽsubstantive changes’ʼ brought about by the ‘ʽrecast Directive’ whichʼ, transposition of the Directive has only been sufficiently clear and correct in two Member States, with matters still outstanding in the remaining 26 Member States; points out, however, that these changes had not been clearly identified; underlines the fact that the Commission’s efforts to monitor implementation were limited in their impact as regards ensuring a coherent approach and securing the necessary guidance in order to allow for effective implementation at national level;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses that a range of sanctions would need to be established at EU level to be meted out to companies and employers in general that fail to comply with rules on equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters concerning employment and occupation, and on equal pay in particular, said sanctions to include fines, ineligibility for public subsidies, a ban on taking part in public procurement and publication of offendersʼ names;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Emphasises the need to combat the specific obstacles faced by women and girls with disabilities, and by the parents of children with disabilities as regards equal access to education and to the labour market; emphasises too the need to adapt the measures so that the gender dimension is incorporated into all policies and the particular characteristics of people with special needs, such as the disabled, people from ethnic minorities, immigrants, the long-term unemployed, etc. are taken into account;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Points out that there are significant differences between the Member States as regards implementation of the clauses on equal treatment for transexual people, and in particular those who have undergone a change in sex; calls on the Member States to state clearly and expressly in their national laws that people in the process of changing their sex, or who have already done so, have the right not to suffer discrimination; calls on the Commission to compile data on compliance with these clauses and to encourage exchange of best practice;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Stresses that social dialogue needs to be fostered between the social partners so as to promote equal treatment by monitoring workplace practices and through collective agreements, codes of conduct, research, exchange of experience and good practice, etc.;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on Member States to make it obligatory through their national legal systems for companies to draw up and implement annual corporate plans on gender equality and the rights of men and women to care for family members, as well as to guarantee a balanced gender representation on their management boards;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Calls on the Council to adopt as soon as possible a common position on the proposal for a directive on improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Stresses the need to increase efforts at national and EU level to combat the persistence of stereotypes, through awareness-raising campaigns aimed at all levels of society, greater media involvement, strategies to encourage women to choose careers and professions in which they are less well represented and the incorporation of gender issues into education and vocational training;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Emphasises the importance of taking positive measures that foster the involvement of women in political and economic decision-making; points out that binding quotas have proved to be one of the best ways of achieving this aim;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Points out that positive measures are also needed to incentivise the less well represented sex to enter certain professions where there is clear horizontal gender segregation;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Stresses that for reconciliation of work and family life to be facilitated and more women enabled to enter the labour market there has to be a sufficient number of affordable, good quality services provided to care for children, the elderly and other dependants at hours compatible with a full-time working day;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Emphasises the relevance of having reliable, comparable and available quantity and quality indicators, as well as gender-based statistics, for ensuring implementation and follow-up to the Directive; urges equality bodies to intensify their efforts in conducting independent surveys, publishing independent reports and making recommendations concerning any issue related to discrimination; recalls the role of the European Institute for Gender Equality, entrusted with the task of gathering and analysing information regarding gender equality, raising the awareness of EU citizens as regards gender equality and developing methodological tools in support of gender mainstreaming;