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2008/2182(INI) Equal treatment and access for men and women in the performing arts

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Lead	FEMM	GIBAULT Claire (ALDE)

Lead committee dossier: FEMM/6/65402
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2009/03/10 Results of vote in Parliament
- Results of vote in Parliament
- T6-0091/2009 summary
  
  The European Parliament adopted by 604 votes to 18, with 43 abstentions, a resolution on equality of treatment and access for men and women in the performing arts. Members underline the scale and persistence of the inequalities between men and women in the performing arts and the impact that the unequal way in which the sector is organised can have on society as a whole, given the particular nature of its activities. They recognise the need to take specific action in this sector to analyse the mechanisms and behaviour that produce inequalities. Parliament stresses the absolute need to promote access for women to all the artistic professions where they are still in the minority. The proportion of women employed in artistic professions and in the official culture industry is only very small and women are under-represented in positions of responsibility in cultural institutions and in academies and universities. Member States are encouraged to remove all obstacles to women accessing top positions in these institutions. Parliament stresses that discrimination against women holds back the development of the cultural sector by depriving it of talent and skills and notes that talent requires contact with the public in order to achieve recognition. It calls for the following:measures to increase the presence of women on the directors’ boards of institutions, in particular by promoting equality within cultural undertakings and institutions and professional organisations;the actors in the field of culture to increase the presence of female creators and their works in programming, collections, publishing and consultation;whenever possible, applications should be anonymous. Parliament emphasises the need to continue using screened-off auditions for recruiting orchestra musicians, which has helped women join orchestras. The Commission and Member States are asked to consider immediately, as a first realistic step in the fight against inequality in the performing arts, ensuring that at least a third of the people in all branches in the sector are of the minority sex.Member States are encouraged:(a) to consider together with their cultural institutions how best to understand the mechanisms which produce inequalities so as to avoid any discrimination on the basis of sex as early as possible;(b) to remove all obstacles to women accessing top positions in the most prestigious cultural institutions and organisations;(c) to introduce to the sector new ways of organising work, delegation of responsibilities and time management which take into account the personal-life constraints of women and men;(d) to recognise that in this sector, where untypical hours, high mobility and job insecurity are the norm and are more destabilising for women, collective solutions should be found for providing childcare (e.g. opening of crèches in cultural undertakings with hours adapted to rehearsal and performance times).The cultural institutions are reminded of the absolute need to translate into fact the democratic notion that equal work by men and women must be matched by identical pay, which, in the arts as in many other sectors, is still not the case. Lastly, Parliament encourages Member States to produce comparative analyses of the current situation in the performing arts, to draw up statistics in order to facilitate the design and implementation of common policies and to ensure that the progress achieved can be compared and measured.
2009/02/24 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
- A6-0003/2009
2009/01/20 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
2008/09/04 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading

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Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A6-0003/2009
Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T6-0091/2009

Amendments	Dossier
13	2008/2182(INI) 2008/11/13 FEMM 13 amendments... Amendment 1 # Christa PRETS Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas inequalities and unequal life chances and career prospects between women and men in the performing arts are very much present and persistent, Amendment 10 # Maria PETRE Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Stresses that discrimination against women holds back the development of the cultural sector by depriving it of talent and skills and notes that talent requires contact with the public in order to achieve recognition; Amendment 11 # Christa PRETS Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 − point d (d) to recognise that in this sector, where untypical hours, high mobility and a need for above-average stamina are the norm, collective solutions should be found for providing childcare (e.g. opening of crèches in cultural undertakings with hours adapted to rehearsal and performance times); Amendment 12 # Christa PRETS Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Encourages the Member States to ~~strengthen or introduce in the performing arts general statistical monitoring so as to~~ produce comparative analyses of the current situation in the performing arts in the various countries of the Union, to draw up statistics in order to facilitate the design and implementation of common policies and ~~make available common tools for measuring the progress achiev~~to ensure that the progress achieved can be compared and measured; Amendment 13 # Christa PRETS Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls on the Member States to improve the social situation of persons active in the arts and culture sector and in so doing to take account of the various employment relations involved and to guarantee better social protection; Amendment 2 # Christa PRETS Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the mechanisms which produce th~~ese inequalities~~is gender imbalance should be seriously analysed, Amendment 3 # Maria PETRE Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas, therefore, the current situations of segregation that still persist in the performing arts should be changed, not only by modernising and democratising the sector, but also by setting realistic equality goals which promote social justice, Amendment 4 # Christa PRETS Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas persistent prejudices too often lead to discriminatory behaviour towards women in selection and appointment procedures and in work relations; whereas women often receive lower remuneration than men even if they have higher educational qualifications, a stronger interest in training and superior networking skills, Amendment 5 # Maria PETRE Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas the obstacles to gender equality in this sector are particularly deep-rooted and require specific steps to be taken to reduce inequalities, taking account also of the leverage effect which that may have on society as a whole, Amendment 6 # Christa PRETS Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) Ka. whereas there are wide gaps in the social protection of men and women active in the arts and whereas their income, particularly that of women, is adversely affected by this; Amendment 7 # Christa PRETS Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Notes that ~~inequalities in the arts sector result from~~the proportion of women employed in artistic professions and i~~mbalance of structures wherein the proportion of women in positions of responsibility and in certain jobs is very small compared to men~~n the official culture industry is only very small and that women are underrepresented in positions of responsibility in cultural institutions and in academies and universities; Amendment 8 # Maria PETRE Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Notes that behaviour is only transformed when the two sexes work alongside each other and that establishing a balance will assist artistic personalities of all kinds to manifest themselves; Amendment 9 # Christa PRETS Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Emphasises the need to promote access for women to all the artistic professions and all jobs in the performing arts where they are in the minority and encourages the Member States to remove all obstacles to women accessing top positions in cultural institutions and in academies and universities; source: PE-415.321

Amendments

Dossier

2008/2182(INI)

2008/11/13 FEMM 13 amendments...

Amendment 1 #

Christa PRETS

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas inequalities and unequal life chances and career prospects between women and men in the performing arts are very much present and persistent,

Amendment 10 #

Maria PETRE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses that discrimination against women holds back the development of the cultural sector by depriving it of talent and skills and notes that talent requires contact with the public in order to achieve recognition;

Amendment 11 #

Christa PRETS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 − point d

(d) to recognise that in this sector, where untypical hours, high mobility and a need for above-average stamina are the norm, collective solutions should be found for providing childcare (e.g. opening of crèches in cultural undertakings with hours adapted to rehearsal and performance times);

Amendment 12 #

Christa PRETS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Encourages the Member States to ~~strengthen or introduce in the performing arts general statistical monitoring so as to~~ produce comparative analyses of the current situation in the performing arts in the various countries of the Union, to draw up statistics in order to facilitate the design and implementation of common policies and ~~make available common tools for measuring the progress achiev~~to ensure that the progress achieved can be compared and measured;

Amendment 13 #

Christa PRETS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls on the Member States to improve the social situation of persons active in the arts and culture sector and in so doing to take account of the various employment relations involved and to guarantee better social protection;

Amendment 2 #

Christa PRETS

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the mechanisms which produce th~~ese inequalities~~is gender imbalance should be seriously analysed,

Amendment 3 #

Maria PETRE

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas, therefore, the current situations of segregation that still persist in the performing arts should be changed, not only by modernising and democratising the sector, but also by setting realistic equality goals which promote social justice,

Amendment 4 #

Christa PRETS

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas persistent prejudices too often lead to discriminatory behaviour towards women in selection and appointment procedures and in work relations; whereas women often receive lower remuneration than men even if they have higher educational qualifications, a stronger interest in training and superior networking skills,

Amendment 5 #

Maria PETRE

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas the obstacles to gender equality in this sector are particularly deep-rooted and require specific steps to be taken to reduce inequalities, taking account also of the leverage effect which that may have on society as a whole,

Amendment 6 #

Christa PRETS

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas there are wide gaps in the social protection of men and women active in the arts and whereas their income, particularly that of women, is adversely affected by this;

Amendment 7 #

Christa PRETS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that ~~inequalities in the arts sector result from~~the proportion of women employed in artistic professions and i~~mbalance of structures wherein the proportion of women in positions of responsibility and in certain jobs is very small compared to men~~n the official culture industry is only very small and that women are underrepresented in positions of responsibility in cultural institutions and in academies and universities;

Amendment 8 #

Maria PETRE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Notes that behaviour is only transformed when the two sexes work alongside each other and that establishing a balance will assist artistic personalities of all kinds to manifest themselves;

Amendment 9 #

Christa PRETS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Emphasises the need to promote access for women to all the artistic professions and all jobs in the performing arts where they are in the minority and encourages the Member States to remove all obstacles to women accessing top positions in cultural institutions and in academies and universities;

source: PE-415.321

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activities	date: 2008-09-04T00:00:00 body: EP type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading committees: body: EP responsible: True committee: FEMM date: 2008-07-16T00:00:00 committee_full: Women's Rights and Gender Equality rapporteur: group: ALDE name: GIBAULT Claire date: 2009-01-20T00:00:00 body: EP committees: body: EP responsible: True committee: FEMM date: 2008-07-16T00:00:00 committee_full: Women's Rights and Gender Equality rapporteur: group: ALDE name: GIBAULT Claire type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading date: 2009-02-24T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2009-3&language=EN type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading title: A6-0003/2009 body: EP type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading date: 2009-03-10T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=16645&l=en type: Results of vote in Parliament title: Results of vote in Parliament url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2009-91 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading title: T6-0091/2009 body: EP type: Results of vote in Parliament
commission	body: EC dg: Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion commissioner: ŠPIDLA Vladimír
committees/0	type Responsible Committee body EP associated False committee_full Women's Rights and Gender Equality committee FEMM date 2008-07-16T00:00:00 rapporteur name: GIBAULT Claire group: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe abbr: ALDE
committees/0	body EP responsible True committee FEMM date 2008-07-16T00:00:00 committee_full Women's Rights and Gender Equality rapporteur group: ALDE name: GIBAULT Claire
docs	date: 2008-10-16T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE414.205 title: PE414.205 type: Committee draft report body: EP date: 2008-11-13T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE415.321 title: PE415.321 type: Amendments tabled in committee body: EP date: 2009-02-24T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2009-3&language=EN title: A6-0003/2009 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading body: EP date: 2009-10-06T00:00:00 docs: url: /oeil/spdoc.do?i=16645&j=0&l=en title: SP(2009)3244 type: Commission response to text adopted in plenary
events	date: 2008-09-04T00:00:00 type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP date: 2009-01-20T00:00:00 type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading body: EP summary: The Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality adopted an own-initiative report drafted by Claire GIBAULT (ALDE, FR) on equal treatment and access for men and women in the performing arts. It underlines the scale and persistence of the inequalities between men and women in the performing arts and the impact that the unequal way in which the sector is organised can have on society as a whole, given the particular nature of its activities. Members stress the absolute need to promote access for women to all the artistic professions where they are still in the minority. The proportion of women employed in artistic professions and in the official culture industry is only very small and women are under-represented in positions of responsibility in cultural institutions and in academies and universities. Member States are encouraged to remove all obstacles to women accessing top positions in cultural institutions and in academies and universities. The committee stresses that discrimination against women holds back the development of the cultural sector by depriving it of talent and skills and notes that talent requires contact with the public in order to achieve recognition. It calls for the following: measures to increase the presence of women on the directors’ boards of institutions, in particular by promoting equality within cultural undertakings and institutions and professional organisations; the actors in the field of culture to increase the presence of female creators and their works in programming, collections, publishing and consultation; whenever possible, applications should be anonymous. The committee emphasises the need to continue using screened-off auditions for recruiting orchestra musicians, which has helped women join orchestras. The Commission and Member States are asked to consider immediately, as a first realistic step in the fight against inequality in the performing arts, ensuring that at least a third of the people in all branches in the sector are of the minority sex. Member States are encouraged: (a) to consider together with their cultural institutions how best to understand the mechanisms which produce inequalities so as to avoid any discrimination on the basis of sex as early as possible; (b) to remove all obstacles to women accessing top positions in the most prestigious cultural institutions and organisations; (c) to introduce to the sector new ways of organising work, delegation of responsibilities and time management which take into account the personal-life constraints of women and men; (d) to recognise that in this sector, where untypical hours, high mobility and job insecurity are the norm and are more destabilising for women, collective solutions should be found for providing childcare (e.g. opening of crèches in cultural undertakings with hours adapted to rehearsal and performance times); The cultural institutions are reminded of the absolute need to translate into fact the democratic notion that equal work by men and women must be matched by identical pay, which, in the arts as in many other sectors, is still not the case. Lastly, the report encourages Member States to produce comparative analyses of the current situation in the performing arts, to draw up statistics in order to facilitate the design and implementation of common policies and to ensure that the progress achieved can be compared and measured. date: 2009-02-24T00:00:00 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2009-3&language=EN title: A6-0003/2009 date: 2009-03-10T00:00:00 type: Results of vote in Parliament body: EP docs: url: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=16645&l=en title: Results of vote in Parliament date: 2009-03-10T00:00:00 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2009-91 title: T6-0091/2009 summary: The European Parliament adopted by 604 votes to 18, with 43 abstentions, a resolution on equality of treatment and access for men and women in the performing arts. Members underline the scale and persistence of the inequalities between men and women in the performing arts and the impact that the unequal way in which the sector is organised can have on society as a whole, given the particular nature of its activities. They recognise the need to take specific action in this sector to analyse the mechanisms and behaviour that produce inequalities. Parliament stresses the absolute need to promote access for women to all the artistic professions where they are still in the minority. The proportion of women employed in artistic professions and in the official culture industry is only very small and women are under-represented in positions of responsibility in cultural institutions and in academies and universities. Member States are encouraged to remove all obstacles to women accessing top positions in these institutions. Parliament stresses that discrimination against women holds back the development of the cultural sector by depriving it of talent and skills and notes that talent requires contact with the public in order to achieve recognition. It calls for the following: measures to increase the presence of women on the directors’ boards of institutions, in particular by promoting equality within cultural undertakings and institutions and professional organisations; the actors in the field of culture to increase the presence of female creators and their works in programming, collections, publishing and consultation; whenever possible, applications should be anonymous. Parliament emphasises the need to continue using screened-off auditions for recruiting orchestra musicians, which has helped women join orchestras. The Commission and Member States are asked to consider immediately, as a first realistic step in the fight against inequality in the performing arts, ensuring that at least a third of the people in all branches in the sector are of the minority sex. Member States are encouraged: (a) to consider together with their cultural institutions how best to understand the mechanisms which produce inequalities so as to avoid any discrimination on the basis of sex as early as possible; (b) to remove all obstacles to women accessing top positions in the most prestigious cultural institutions and organisations; (c) to introduce to the sector new ways of organising work, delegation of responsibilities and time management which take into account the personal-life constraints of women and men; (d) to recognise that in this sector, where untypical hours, high mobility and job insecurity are the norm and are more destabilising for women, collective solutions should be found for providing childcare (e.g. opening of crèches in cultural undertakings with hours adapted to rehearsal and performance times). The cultural institutions are reminded of the absolute need to translate into fact the democratic notion that equal work by men and women must be matched by identical pay, which, in the arts as in many other sectors, is still not the case. Lastly, Parliament encourages Member States to produce comparative analyses of the current situation in the performing arts, to draw up statistics in order to facilitate the design and implementation of common policies and to ensure that the progress achieved can be compared and measured. date: 2009-03-10T00:00:00 type: End of procedure in Parliament body: EP
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other	body: EC dg: url: http://ec.europa.eu/social/ title: Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion commissioner: ŠPIDLA Vladimír
procedure/dossier_of_the_committee	Old FEMM/6/65402 New FEMM/6/65402
procedure/legal_basis/0	Rules of Procedure EP 052
procedure/legal_basis/0	Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament EP 052
procedure/legal_basis/1	Rules of Procedure EP 052-p4
procedure/legal_basis/1	Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament EP 052-p2
procedure/subject	Old 4.10.04 Gender equality 4.15.08 Work, employment, wages and salaries: equal opportunities women and men, and for all New 4.10.04 Gender equality 4.15.08 Work, employment, wages and salaries: equal opportunities women and men, and for all

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activities	date: 2008-09-04T00:00:00 body: EP type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading committees: body: EP responsible: True committee: FEMM date: 2008-07-16T00:00:00 committee_full: Women's Rights and Gender Equality rapporteur: group: ALDE name: GIBAULT Claire date: 2009-01-20T00:00:00 body: EP committees: body: EP responsible: True committee: FEMM date: 2008-07-16T00:00:00 committee_full: Women's Rights and Gender Equality rapporteur: group: ALDE name: GIBAULT Claire type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading date: 2009-02-24T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2009-3&language=EN type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading title: A6-0003/2009 body: EP type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading date: 2009-03-10T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=16645&l=en type: Results of vote in Parliament title: Results of vote in Parliament url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2009-91 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading title: T6-0091/2009 body: EP type: Results of vote in Parliament
committees	body: EP responsible: True committee: FEMM date: 2008-07-16T00:00:00 committee_full: Women's Rights and Gender Equality rapporteur: group: ALDE name: GIBAULT Claire
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other	body: EC dg: url: http://ec.europa.eu/social/ title: Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion commissioner: ŠPIDLA Vladimír
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