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REPORT on educational and occupational mobility of women in the EU PDF (226 KB) DOC (141 KB)
Amendments (16)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
- having regard to the Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications,
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action to address gender segregation by sectors by both motivating individuals from early on to go into relevant sectors and by addressing the conditions that make the sector less attractive for women or men, such as on the one hand working conditions incompatible with care responsibilities and on the other hand pay;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. stresses the importance of gender- sensitive educational systems as they give children a diversity of choice in discovering their talents; stresses that research indicates that strong gender stereotyping in education adds to gender segregation in the labour market, both in relation to sectors and occupations; calls on the Commission and Member States to combat these stereotypes;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Stresses the need to attract women to education and training in the MINT professions (mathematics, informatics, new technologies);
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Stresses that the gender pay gap partially stems from the fact that sectors where women are overrepresented often have lower salaries;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2e. Stresses the damage to the economy and the individual stemming from the gender pay gap; urges the Member States to make pay trends more transparent so as to avoid persisting or widening pay gaps; calls on the Commission to revise the existing gender pay gap legislation (Directive 2006/54) as demanded by Parliament in its resolution adopted on 13 March 2012;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 f (new)
Paragraph 2 f (new)
2f. Calls on the Social Partners, Member States and the Commission to support the improvement of gender equality elements in collective agreements amongst others by promoting right to flexible working hours, childcare facilities, mentoring of women workers, measures to increase women's representation in collective bargaining negotiations and by assessing the impact of collective agreement on women;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges Members States to increase securityprotection against human trafficking for women moving abroad for work purposes; including especially access to information, advice
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to include provisions to protect women's rightsreport on gender data in relation to occupational mobility and to include provisions to advance gender equality in terms of occupational mobility when designing their national policies linked to mobility and/or migration and their National Reform Programmes (NRPs), with specific attention to the programming and implementation of national or regional level operational programmes funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) for the 2014-2020 programming period and beyond;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on Member States to encourage national, regional and local projects for the inclusimprove the labour participation rate of women; calls on Member States to encourage higher participation of women in unpaid work and to foster activities such as volunteering and charity activities for the community;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission to monitor and report regularly on how the EU funds focussing on education and training, occupational and educational mobility and on labour market participation are being taken up by women and men; calls on both Member States and the Commission to react rapidly in case of unbalanced take-up;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 – indent 1
Paragraph 8 – indent 1
– to design and to put into practice specific community-building programmes with women's and men's participation,
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 – indent 2
Paragraph 8 – indent 2
– to pay increased attention to the special needs of women and men in expatriate communities,
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 – indent 2 a (new)
Paragraph 8 – indent 2 a (new)
- to address highly mobile women at risk such as domestic workers, care workers, cleaners and women working in the horeca sector
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Emphasises that a key element of social integration is the understanding of local habits and the social environmentCalls on Member states to set up infrastructural measures supporting mobile workers with families, addressing access to education and childcare, social security, community services; calls on both sending and receiving Member States to develop mechanisms for integration and re-integration of highly mobile workers with families;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses the positive impact of attracting women from an early stage on into professions in key industries with a high job potential, in particular the green economy, health and social care sector and the digital economy;