16 Amendments of Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA related to 2011/2295(INI)
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas the World Bank’s 2008 study on ‘Corruption and Women in Government’ concludes that lower levels of government corruption are found where there are higher levels of female participation, because, according to the findings of this research, women have higher ethical behaviour standards and show themselves to be more concerned with the ‘common good’,
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Invites the Council, the Commission and Member States to design and implement effective multifaceted strategies for achieving paritygender balance in participation in political decision making and leadership at all levels,. This is understood to mean that in all decision-making bodies of more than four people both genders will have at least a 40% representation, and that in smaller bodies both genders will be represented. Achievement of this principle should be sought especially in the areas of macro- economic policy, trade, labour, budgets, defence and foreign affairs, through indicators, quantified targets with specified balance percentages to be attained and deadlines to achieve this, clear action plans and regular monitoring mechanisms followed up with corrective measures where the set targets are not met;.
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Invites the Council and the Member States to consider possible constitutional and/or legislative changes, including positive action measures, to facilitate more balanced participation of women and men in political decision making;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and Member States to launch a pledge whereby political parties at European and nat, national and regional level will take measures to achieve parity in their internal decision making, in theirgender balance by incorporating this principle in their statutes, in the composition of their governing bodies and in their internal decision making. This principle should also apply to nominations for elected office and in party electoral lists, paying attention, where applicable, to the position of women candidates on these listelectoral lists. To this end, in cases of closed lists, observance of the gender balance criterion will be encouraged within the relevant electoral laws for groups of every six candidates;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Acknowledges the role of political parties as key factors in the promotion of paritygender balance; calls in consequence for the Member States to require national parties, where appropriate, to set quotas and apply rank- ordering rules to electoral candidate lists for regional, national and EU elections, to consider measures regarding the public funding of parties linked to the goal of gender balance and to define and enforce appropriate sanctions for non-compliance;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Invites the Commission, the Council and the Member States to promote this provision favouring gender balance also in employer and trade union organisations and in all organisations that normally form part of advisory councils related to government;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Invites the Commission, the Council and the Member States to make special efforts to implement these gender balance criteria in youth organisations;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. It Emphasises the need for concrete steps designed to achieve parity in elected offices in the national parliaments and the European Parliament (such as the President, Vice-Presidents and Chairs and Vice- Chairs), for instance by setting athe target of 50%balanced representation of men andat least 50% women in those offices within three consecutive parliamentary terms;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to launch parity-targeting campaigns well ahead of the upcoming national and European parliamentaryfor the electoral lists for the European Parliament at least two years ahead of each election announcement and to encourage Member States to carry out similar actions in their local and regional elections;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Council to enhance gender parity, if necessary by usingcommit to meeting the target of gender balance in all their decision- making bodies in accordance with the definition in article 1, using, if necessary, quotas, when recruiting high-level officials; calls on the national governments to nominate both women and men to high- level positions at EU level;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to promote positive action measures, includingfrom constitutional changes, including succession provisions affecting constitutional monarchies, to binding legislative measures, with a view to ensuring parity in all governing bodies and public appointments and to develop tools for gender monitoring of nominations and elections;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that women have access, if necessary by preferential treatment, to leadership training and positions of leadership as part of career promotion in order to enhance women’s leadership skills and experience; this principle should enable, in the event of equal ability, priority to be given to access for women to managerial posts and to decision-making bodies of government in which women's representation is less than 40%, unless there are reasons, which are not discriminatory on grounds of sex, regarding the other candidate that justify not applying the measure; these should include candidates who belong to other groups with special difficulties in accessing employment, such as disabled people and ethnic minorities;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Calls for the European Parliament and national and regional legislatures to give special attention to the treatment of maternity leave for women holding elected posts in these bodies, in order to promote legally viable procedures for substitution and/or remote voting that prevent such leave from altering pre-existing majorities and generating dysfunctions in decision making;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. EncouragInvitest the Member States and the Commission, including through the involvement of the EIGE where appropriate, to collect, analyse and disseminate data broken down by sex for the purpose of monitoring gender equality in decision making and as a basis for further measures if the set targets are not met; invitescalls on the Commission to continue to collect and disseminate comparable data at EU level through the use of its database on women and men in decision-making positions and to report regularly on the basis of common indicators; develop this observatory toward a European map of gender balance that includes the annual variations experienced at EU, state and regional levels with regard to gender balance, on the basis of common indicators. This map should include, at least: - The objectives for promotion of gender balance, expressed as a percentage of representation, that are incorporated in the legislation of Member States and of European regions with legislative powers to regulate their electoral processes; - The percentages of representation of each sex in the European, state and regional parliaments and in local institutions; - The percentage of representation of each sex in the executive bodies elected or controlled by the above-mentioned legislative institutions;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the European External Action Service (EEAS) to promote women’s participationgender balance in decision making in the external relations of the European Union, with special attention to the appointment of representatives to international mediation and negotiation committees, particularly in processes to observe the situation of human rights, prevention of corruption, achieving peace and resolving conflicts;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Invites the media to reflect on their handling of news coverage regarding women with responsibilities in public and private spheres, in order to help balance it with the coverage given to men; calls on state and European institutions to undertake a study of the maintenance of gender stereotypes, especially in the field of education and the media, to contribute towards eliminating them;