15 Amendments of Jill EVANS related to 2015/2228(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas governments have committed, in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to ensuring that all boys and girls complete a full elementary education; whereas the Parliament organised an event "Empowering girls and women through education" on International Women's Day in May 2015; whereas education, both formal and informal, is instrumental in overcoming marginalisation and multiple discrimination, in terms of creating dialogue, openness and understanding between communities, and in terms of empowering marginalised communities;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that equal access to affordable childcare and free, high-quality education is central to securing equal opportunities andbetween boys and girls, while breaking poverty cycles, especially for women;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that education and culture play a crucial role when it comes to challenging and changing attitudes and stereotypes, and in helping women and girls achieve equality;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Highlights the immediate necessity to close the gap between women's general high level of education in the EU and the professional opportunities available to them afterwards, meaning a loss to society as a whole;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the need for gender awareness to be embedded into teacher and professional training programmes in order to increase understanding of gender stereotyping to reduce unintended consequences;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Stresses the need for school inspections to examine the extent to which gender stereotypes are being challenged in the classroom and careers advice to increase gender neutral teaching practices;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Calls for funding mechanisms which incentivise Further and Higher Education providers to achieve equal representation in areas where there is a gender imbalance;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Stresses the need for gender dis- aggregated data in order to better understand the situation for girls, boys, men, and women, and to therefore be able to provide more effective responses to imbalances;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2e. Stresses the need to provide a rights- based and gender-sensitive learning environment for all learners both in terms of curriculum and pedagogy, where children (and girls in particular) can learn about their rights and experience democratic processes in schools as well as in informal learning environments;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 f (new)
Paragraph 2 f (new)
2f. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to remove barriers to access to formal and informal education, as well as to lifelong learning, by improving awareness and guidance, providing financial support as well as support such as childcare and care for the elderly to enable women and men to participate in lifelong learning, adopting an intergenerational approach and fostering the role played by European Institutions;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Paragraph 2 g (new)
2g. Considers that the EU Structural Funds and particularly the European Social Fund must support educational projects with a gender-specific nature as well as gender-sensitive educational structures;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that gender disaggregated data is central to this priority;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that in all Member States the risk of poverty and social exclusion among children is strongly linked to their parents’' level of education, and in particular the level of education to that of their mothers, their situation in the labour market and their social conditions; points out that a lack of educatinclusion is aof major risk factor for child poverty and social exclusion; notes that a number of family-related factors such as family instability and lifestyle, single parenthood, poor living conditions, physical and mental health problems and domestic violence can, moreover, increase the likelihood of young people giving up education and training prematurely;importance; points out that a lack of education is a major risk factor.
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls in particular the right of migrant and refugee children, both boys and girls, to have access to education, this being one of the priorities of our societies in Europe;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the need for a special focus on groups suffering from multiple forms of discrimination, including migrants, refugees, people with disabilities, young carers, and others;