13 Amendments of Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER related to 2013/2156(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
-Aa. whereas equality between women and men is a fundamental principle of the European Union, recognised in the Treaty on European Union and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas equality between women and men has a positive impact on productivity and economic growth, and greater female participation in the labour market has a host of social and economic benefits;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the policies applied in the name of the crisis haves a particularly harsh impact on vulnerable people and particularly women, who feel the impact both directly – through loss of employment, wage, pension and benefit cuts, and loss of job security – and indirectly through budget cuts in public services and social care;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas an important role can be played by the media not just in disseminating stereotypes, degrading the image of women, and hypersexualising young girls, but also in overcoming gender stereotypes, promoting the participation of women in decision- making and promoting gender equality;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Urges the Member States and the Commission, using information and awareness campaigns, for example, to encourage women to participate in fields of activity that stereotypes term ‘masculine’, not least sciences and new technologies, the object being to make the most of the human capital to be found in European women and hence enable the goals of the Europe 2020 strategy and gender equality to be achieved to more fruitful effect;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Strongly uUrges the Member States to increase theigether to seek, and to exchange, best practice with a view to opening up new sources of finance for investment in public services, particularly health servicystems, taking into account the difficulties relatinged to sexual and reproductive healththe crisis and the demographic challenges posed by population ageing while avoiding any lowering of the high standards and the requirements laid down in the relevant European models;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to increase their child support budgets in order to expand the public network ofPoints to the need for specific proposals making for better balance in terms of working, family, and personal life by encouraging men and women to share occupational, family, and social responsibilities more evenly, especially where assistance to dependants and childcare are concerned; notes that more comprehensive day care, and nurseries and public services providing extracurricular activities for childreny facilities depend not only on the necessary public policies, but also on incentives to businesses to offer such solutions; urges (regional) chambers of commerce and industry, in addition, to facilitate networking of entrepreneurs, especially female entrepreneurs, with a view to working out solidarity-based joint approaches to work-life balance;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Member States, and especially media regulators, to consider the place accorded – in both quantitative and qualitative terms – to women in the media and television in particular, not least in order to avert insults to the dignity of women, avoid conveying gender stereotypes, and curb any tendency to hypersexualise little girls;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Points to the need to redouble efforts at European level to increase the representation of women in political spheres and in the European institutions, including the European Parliament; believes that women’s participation needs to be encouraged at national, regional, and municipal levels; points out that political parties have a key role to play;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Observes that increasing poverty and marginalthe feminisation, owing to so-called austf poverity policies, havemight lead to an increase in female trafficking, sexual exploitation and forced prostitution and that there are signs that domestic violence is on the rise, as social tensions within families also increase, and that women now find themselves more economically dependent on their aggressorsreduce women to greater financial dependence, including those who have suffered domestic violence;
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes with concern that – according to data from the Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the EU Member States: Violence against Women, Victim support (2012), from the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) – professional training and the sustainability of funding for public services, associations and NGOs providing services to women in situations of domestic violence are clearly being affected by the so-called austerity measures, threatening the continued existence of such services, and that this is a shameful step backwards in civilizational terms; recalls that tremendous inequality exists among the Member States in terms of access to support services, with secure and sufficient state funding existing in Denmark, the Netherlands and Austriaconsequences of the economic crisis;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recommends that the Member States strengthen their free public health servicePoints out that violence against women is a major hindrance to gender equality; calls ion the area of support to women subjected to violence and that they increase the number of refuges and their capacity, with specialised assistance to women of different nationalities, in a range of languagesCommission to propose a comprehensive directive on the prevention and eradication of violence against women in all its forms, whether physical, sexual, or psychological; recommends that Member States provide better training to police, court, and social service personnel and improve cooperation among them to enable them to help women who have suffered violence;