28 Amendments of Mariya GABRIEL related to 2013/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
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;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the European directives on equal treatment for men and women adopted since 1975 have made a considerable contribution towards effectively promoting gender equality;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
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;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas poverty has increased in the EU since 2007 and household income has dropped, with 24.2 % of the EU’s population now at risk of poverty or exclusion; whereas children, who are often looked after by women, are particularly affected and there has also been an increase in unemployment, the number of unemployed households and in poverty among the unemployed;deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas it is regrettable that some of the old Member States either do not yet apply these Directives correctly, or do not exercise sufficient control over the implementing legislation introduced;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the EU is currently facing the most significant economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930s; whereas this crisis has been exacerbated by so-called austerity measures imposed on the Member States by the EU institutions within the framework of economic governance policies (Stability and Growth Pact, European Semester, Euro-Plus Pact, Budgetary Treaty) and ‘financial aid’ programmes;deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the Commission should do more to ensure implementation of EU directives in the field, notably by the social partners who negotiate collective agreements and are too often unaware of Community requirements regarding the equal treatment of women and men with respect to pay, access to employment and career advancement and social security;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
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;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas several factors have led to a reduction in women’s incomes, with wage inequality standing at 16.2 % in the EU in 2011, and over 20 % in Estonia, the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany and Greece;deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
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;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Emphasises that flexible working hours should be the worker’s decision, and should not be imposed or enforced by the employer; rejects situations of flexibility and contractual uncertainty that do not provide for family formation and stability;deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls on the Commission to pay more attention to ensuring that European directives on the equal treatment of women and men are properly applied by all Member States;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses that whilst there has been a trend towards a reduction in gender inequalities on the labour market following the crisis in terms of the gaps in employment and unemployment rates, this reduction is not the result of Europe suddenly making progress towards greater parity, but rather the consequence of a rapid fall in male employment which has been more affected by the crisis; calls on the Member States to maintain their efforts to achieve better representation of women in decision-making processes, to improve the work-life balance, and to continue to combat violence against women;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to strengthen and ensure the full use of collective bargaining in the private and public sectors as an irreplaceable instrument with which to regulate labour relations, combat wage discrimination and promote equalityExpects the Commission to take all the measures at its disposal to enforce all aspects of EU directives on equal treatment for men and women, including by the social partners who negotiate collective agreements;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Notes that equal participation by men and women in the labour market could significantly increase the economic potential of the EU, while confirming its fair and inclusive nature; points out that, according to OECD projections, total convergence in participation rates would result in a 12.4% increase in per capita GDP by 2030;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Points out that, in December 2012, the Commission recognised that youth policies (the Youth Employment Package and the Youth Guarantee) need to be pursued according to a gender mainstreaming approach; urges the Commission to give greater encouragement to Member States to adopt measures ensuring that the education and vocational training prospects for girls are the same as those for boys;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Calls on the Member States to respect the principle of ‘equal pay for equal work of equal value’ and to strengthen public mechanisms for labour inspection and the adoption of methodologi~~Notes that, for all the progress made in reducing gender pay gaps, wage inequalities are still substantial, not to say increasing, in some Member States; urges the Commission and the Member States to ~~mea~~ensure th~~e value of work in the production chain and to identify, for example, the creation within companies of semi-skill~~at the fundamental principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’ is observed for ~~unskilled wage categories mainly made up of women~~women and men alike;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
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;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Strongly u~~Urges the Member States to ~~increase thei~~gether to seek, and to exchange, best practice with a view to opening up new sources of finance for investment in public services, particularly health s~~ervic~~ystems, taking into account the difficulties relat~~ing~~ed to ~~sexual and reproductive health~~the 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;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Notes that the average gap between men’s and women’s pensions is 39%, whereas the gender pay gap is estimated to stand at 16%; notes that the amounts of pension that women receive are, in general, affected by a number of factors including the types of precarious employment that they are forced to accept and career breaks;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Calls on the Member States to increase their child support budgets in order to expand the public network of~~Points 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 nurser~~ies and public services providing extracurricular activities for children~~y 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;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Emphasises that in order to promote the participation of women in decision- making, measures need to be set in motion to combat stereotypes and prejudices about the role of women, along with specific policies to support equal rights and opportunities in economic, social, political and cultural life ~~(to combat irregular and unforeseeable working hours, applying fair remuneration and equal pay and expand public childcare, nursery and school networks,) with the positive effect of~~and strengthen~~ing~~ women’s participation in ~~all levels of~~economic, social, and political life;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
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;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
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;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Observes that ~~increasing poverty and marginal~~the feminisation, o~~wing to so-called aust~~f poverity ~~policies, have~~might 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 aggressors~~reduce women to greater financial dependence, including those who have suffered domestic violence;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
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;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM