Activities of Marije CORNELISSEN related to 2010/2115(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Women and business leadership (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on women and business leadership PDF (181 KB) DOC (107 KB)
Amendments (10)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 b (new)
Citation 15 b (new)
- having regard to the European Commission report on Progress on Equality between Women and Men 2011,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas in 2008, 59,5% of university qualifications awarded in the EU went to women, whereas women outnumber men in business, management and law faculties, whereas however the proportion of women in the highest decision making bodies of the largest publicly quoted firms reached only 10,9% in 2009,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the number of women in corporate boardrooms is currently increasing by only half a percentage point per year; whereas with this slow progress it will take another fifty years before corporate boardrooms have at least 40% of each gender,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the Commission has announced it will present legislative measures to ensure that publicly listed companies take effective measures to reach equal representation of women and men in boards, in case self-regulation fails to do so within the next 12 months,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the clear progress on women's representation in Norway since the adoption in 2003 of legislation imposing a 40% threshold for female membership of therequiring a minimum of 40% of each sex on boards of listed companies with a workforce of more than 500 that includes effective sanctions for non-compliance but that progress is very slow or non-existent in countries without binding measures;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point c
Paragraph 4 – point c
c. establishing arrangements to help parents employed in business to balance family and work commitments, including care services at the company level and actively encouraging men to take care leave,
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Warmly welcomes all voluntary steps by companies to reach the critical threshold of 30% female membership of management bodies;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 – introductory part
Paragraph 7 – introductory part
7. InvitesCalls on the Commission to:
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 – point b
Paragraph 7 – point b
b. following this exercise and if the steps taken by companies and the Member States are found to be inadequate, to consider taking concrete measuresufficient to raise the percentage of women in corporate management bodies by at least 5% a year, reaching 30% by 2015, to launch in 2012 a legislative proposal including (temporary) binding targets for increasing female representation of each sex to a minimum of 40% in corporate management bodies, while taking account of the Member States' responsibilities and of their economic, structural (i.e. company- size related), legal and regional specificities;