5 Amendments of Angelika WERTHMANN related to 2011/2285(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas women earn on average 17.1% less than men in the European Union and the gender pay gap varies between 3.2% and 30.9% in Member Statesacross the European Union continue to earn an average of 16.4% less than men, according to new figures released by the European Commission on European Equal Pay Day on 02 March 2012 and the gender pay gap rate ranges from 2% in Poland to something less than 27% in Estonia, and whereas – despite the significant body of legislation in force for almost 40 years and the actions taken and resources spent on trying to reduce the gap3 – progress is extremely slow (the disparity at EU level was 17.7% in 2006, 18% in 2008 and 17.1% in 2009),;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the causes of the persistent high gender pay gap are complex, multiple and often interrelated and go far beyond the single issue of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value; whereas these causes include direct and indirect discrimination, as well as social and economic factors such as occupational and sectoral segregation in the labour marketthe pay gap is not necessarily an indicator of the overall (in)equality between women and men since it only concerns salaried persons; whereas these causes include direct and indirect discrimination, as well as social and economic factors such as occupational and highly horizontally and vertically segregated labour market or labour markets where a significant proportion of women work part-time, which tend to be less well paid than full ones, these markets also tend to produce large gender pay gaps, undervaluing of women's work, inequality in the balancing of work and private life, and traditions and stereotyping, including in the choice of educational paths and employment patternsconsequently professional careers, particularly for girls and women leading them towards typically female professions which are less well paid; whereas, according to expert analysis, discrimination, direct and indirect, is responsible for approximately half the difference;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas, in all Member States, female students achieve a higher pass rate at school than their male counterparts and represent as many as 59% of all university graduates; but they are a minority in fields like mathematics and computer engineering; whereas only 8.4% in 1000 women aged 20-29 are graduates in mathematic sciences and technology compared to 17.6% men; whereas women's skills and competences are often undervalued – especially in those occupations where women predominate – without, necessarily, any justification on the basis of objective criteria; consequently there are fewer women working in scientific and technical jobs: only 29% of scientist and engineers across Europe are women; this result in women working in lower valued and lower paid sectors of the economy;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to implement and enforce the recast Directive 2006/54/EC consistently and to encourage the private sector to play a more active role in closing the gender pay gap and to allow partners to negotiate plans for equality between men and women at company, national and European level; Member States and the European Commission should encourage the social partners, including employers, to undertake job evaluation schemes free from gender bias; to implement job classification systems; and to foster the concept of job of equal pay;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Encourages the social partners to shoulder their responsibility for creating a more gender-equal wage structure; to provide training courses on negotiation skills, including wage negotiation; to promote awareness of equal pay in the first instance with the view to working towards compulsory pay audits; to strengthen women positions within the social partnership structure, in particular in decision-making posts;