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2014/2152(INI) EU strategy for equality between women and men post 2015
Lead committee dossier: FEMM/8/01459
Legal Basis RoP 052
| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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| Opinion | EMPL | KOZŁOWSKA-RAJEWICZ Agnieszka (EPP) | |
| Lead | FEMM | NOICHL Maria (S&D) | GÁLL-PELCZ Ildikó (EPP), WIŚNIEWSKA Jadwiga (ECR), MLINAR Angelika (ALDE), BJÖRK Malin (GUE/NGL), URTASUN Ernest (Verts/ALE) |
Legal Basis RoP 052
Subjects
Activites
- 2015/06/09 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
- 2015/06/08 Debate in Parliament
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2015/05/13
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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A8-0163/2015
summary
The Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality adopted an own-initiative report by Maria NOICHL (S&D, DE) on the EU Strategy for equality between women and men post 2015. Members recalled that gender equality is a basic value of the EU and that the EU has assumed the specific task of integrating it in all its activities. They noted that the EU cannot remain tied to redundant and environmentally unsustainable economic models based on an outdated distribution of work along gender lines which has been superseded by the integration of women in the labour market. They suggested, on the contrary, a new, socially sustainable model based on knowledge and innovation that incorporates the full range of women’s talents in the productive fabric. It is within this context that they made a number of general recommendations which may be summarised as follows: drawing up and adopting a new separate strategy for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in Europe aimed at creating equal opportunities and based on the priority areas of the previous strategy with a view to ending all forms of discrimination suffered by women in the labour market, with respect to wages, pensions, decision-making, access to goods and services, reconciliation of family and working life and all forms of violence against women and to removing discriminatory structures and practices related to gender; taking into account the multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination, including women with disabilities, migrant and ethnic minority women; adopting a common position as soon as possible on the proposal for a Council directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age, gender or sexual orientation, which has been blocked since its adoption by Parliament in April 2009; strengthening, by the Member States, enforcing the full exercise of collective bargaining in the private and public sectors, as an indispensable tool for regulating labour relations, fighting wage discrimination and promoting equality; clarifying the role that it wishes the EU to play in the world and in working with the Member States, including their competent authorities with regard to the promotion of gender equality, both within and outside the Union’s borders, and to pursue these goals both through the concept of gender mainstreaming in all areas and through individual targeted and specific actions; integrating the gender perspective and the fight against gender violence into EU foreign policy, development cooperation policy and international trade policy and to safeguard the necessary financial instruments and human resources. Members called on the Commission and Council to ensure that gender equality is incorporated in all the programmes, actions and initiatives launched under that strategy and to introduce a specific pillar for equality between women and men within the strategy, to consider the objectives of the future strategy as an aspect of the European Semester. Members called on the Commission and the Member States to gather, analyse and publish reliable statistical data broken down by gender and gender equality indicators in all policy areas and at all levels of governance. The Commission is called upon to draft the strategy in the form of a practical action plan covering the areas of violence against women, work and time, women in power and decision-making, financial resources, health, knowledge, education and the media, the wider world and institutional mechanisms and gender mainstreaming. They emphasised the need to introduce, where applicable and in full respect of the EU’s competences, legislative inputs in order to strengthen the legal framework for gender equality. More specifically, further action is recommended in the following areas: violence against women: Members reiterated their call for a strengthened approach by Member States to the prevention and suppression of all forms of violence against women and girls. They called on the Commission to include a definition of gender-based violence in line with the provisions of Directive 2012/29/EU in the future strategy and to present a comprehensive strategy on violence against women and girls and gender-based violence that contains a binding legislative act as soon as possible. They called on the Council to activate the passerelle clause by adopting a unanimous decision adding gender-based violence to the areas of crime listed in Article 83(1) TFEU. The report called for 2016 to be designated as the European Year for combating violence against women and girls. The Commission is called upon to enshrine ‘zero tolerance’ campaigns making society more aware of the problem of violence against women; work and time: Members stressed the importance of flexible forms of work in allowing women and men to reconcile work and family life, provided the worker is free to make the choice, and instructed the Commission to coordinate and promote exchanges of best practices. They encouraged men’s participation and the introduction of paternity leave of at least 10 days and parental leave available to both parents but with strong incentives for fathers. Members also called for the adoption of the necessary measures to promote higher employment rates among women, such as affordable care and childcare and adequate maternity; women in power and decision-making: Members called for specific measures to promote the equal representation of women and men in leadership positions in the strategy, and to support the Council in the negotiations for the adoption of the directive for a balanced representation of men and women on non-executive boards. They also called on Member States to create a more balanced representation of women and men in municipal councils, regional and national parliaments and the European Parliament; financial resources: Members reiterated that Directive 2006/54/EC, in its current form, is not sufficiently effective to tackle the gender pay gap. This directive should be revised without delay; health: the Commission is urged to include sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHRs) in its next EU Health Strategy, in order to ensure equality between women and men and complement national SRHR policies. Members called on the Commission and the Member States to act to implement sex education programmes in schools. Members called for high-quality, geographically appropriate and readily accessible services in the areas of sexual and reproductive health and rights and safe and legal abortion and contraception, as well as general healthcare; culture, education, media: Members called on the Commission to support programmes to raise awareness of stereotypes, sexism and traditional gender roles in the education and media sector and emphasised in this regard that combating bullying and prejudice against LGBTI persons in schools. international dimension: amongst other recommendations, Members underscored that it is absolutely necessary to integrate the gender perspective in all elements of food safety programming, because women are responsible for 80% of agriculture in Africa. They stressed the importance of a gender-sensitive asylum and migration policy. Members also emphasised the right to voluntarily access family planning services, including safe and legal abortion-related care. They urged that the provision of humanitarian aid by the EU and the Member States should not be subject to restrictions imposed by other partner donors regarding necessary medical treatment, including access to safe abortion for women and girls who are victims of rape in armed conflicts. Lastly, Members called for an institutional mechanisms, gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting and gender impact assessment in all areas and for each legislative proposal at all levels of governance. They called on the Commission to collaborate with the Parliament and the Council and to call an annual EU summit for gender equality and women’s rights, to identify progress made, and to make renewed commitments. It should be noted that in a minority opinion, Beatrix VON STORCH (ECR, DE) rejected the call for abortion to be recognised as a human right.
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A8-0163/2015
summary
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2015/05/06
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2014/11/24
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A8-0163/2015
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T8-0218/2015
| Amendments | Dossier |
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2014/2152(INI)
2015/02/10
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112 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph -1 a (new) -1a. Takes the view that gender equality, by increasing social and economic well- being, benefits not only women but society as a whole; recalls that effectively challenging gender stereotypes is crucial to increasing women's participation in all segments of the labour market; calls on the EU to be a champion in challenging gender stereotypes especially in the area of education, work and further training; stresses that the new gender equality strategy should, based on the Treaties of the European Union, aim at further reducing inequalities;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Draws attention to the fact that the EU is facing a demographic crisis which by 2040 will result in a shortfall of 24 million in the labour force, creating an economic necessity to further include women in the labour market; emphasises that increasing women’s employment rate to the level of men’s employment would reduce the labour force shortfall to 3 million; supports the promotion of women's entrepreneurial initiatives.
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Highlights the high levels of undeclared work which negatively impact on women’s social security and the EU’s GDP levels; calls for the creation of incentives for employers and workers to move from the informal to the formal economy; notes that the establishment of a European platform to strengthen cooperation for the prevention and deterrence of undeclared work represents a key lever in this respect;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Highlights the high levels of undeclared work and false self-employment which negatively impact on women’s social security and the EU’s GDP levels; calls for the creation of incentives for employers and workers to move from the informal to the formal economy
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Highlights the high levels of undeclared work which negatively impact on
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Highlights the high levels of undeclared work, which
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Highlights the high levels of undeclared work, which negatively impact on women
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Highlights the need to recognize public procurement as the potential tool to enhance social inclusion policies, takes the view that public procurement should be used as an instrument to advance gender equality by considering to set requirements on anti-discrimination and gender quality criteria as prerequisites for public procurement contracts where applicable;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Calls on Member States to step up their efforts to combat undeclared employment and precarious work, including 'mini jobs' and false part-time jobs, and to ensure that all workers enjoy appropriate social protection; deplores, furthermore, the abuse of non‑standard employment contracts in order to avoid having to comply with employment and social protection obligations.
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Stresses that the victims of undeclared work are mainly women, something which is not always their decision; calls for a comprehensive policy against employers who employ women in undeclared work.
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Further recommends that as the composition and definition of families change over time, family and work legislations need to be more comprehensive regarding single-parent families and LGBT parenting;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Draws attention to the fact that the EU is facing a demographic crisis which by 2040 will result in a shortfall of 24 million in the labour force, creating an economic necessity to further include women in the labour market;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Regrets that the Commission intends to withdraw the proposal for a directive on maternity leave, thus delaying the creation of a harmonised legislative and welfare framework.
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Considers that policies and instruments aimed at tackling youth unemployment, such as the Youth Guarantee and the Youth Employment Initiative, should meet the specific needs of young men and women in order to enable them to access the labour market; and notes that the proportion of young women not in employment, education or training (NEET) is higher than that of men;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Affirms that equal representation of women in company boards and Member States' decision-making positions hasn't increased sufficiently on voluntary basis, therefore the implementation of quotas should be considered as the most effective temporary solution to ensure equal gender representation.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Draws attention to the fact that the EU is facing a demographic crisis which by 2040 will result in a shortfall of 24 million in the labour force, creating an economic necessity to further include women in the labour market;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Draws attention to the fact that the EU is facing a demographic crisis which by 2040
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls on Member States to strengthen and enforce the full exercise of collective bargaining in the private and the public sectors, an indispensable tool in regulating labour relations, fighting wage discrimination and promoting equality;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Considers that ending violence against women should be a priority within the post-2015 strategy;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Urges Member States to respect the principle of ‘equal pay for equal work and work of equal value’, to strengthen the state mechanisms of workplace inspection, to adopt methodologies to measure the value of work in the production chain and to identify within companies, for example, the creation of semi-skilled or unskilled pay bands occupied mainly by women;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Stresses that discrimination in the labour market is one of the main causes of gender inequality in society at large and that equal opportunities in working life and women's economic independence is crucial for gender equality in other areas; calls for the EU gender equality strategy to include strong measures against discrimination based on gender in the labour market, including recruitment, equal pay, social benefits and pensions; underlines that such measures should address multiple discrimination;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Takes the view that gender equality is a necessary condition for meeting the Europe 2020 strategy’s 75 % employment rate target
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph -1a (new) -1. Emphasizes that in the last decade global economy has missed out on 27% of GDP growth per capita due to the gender gap in the labour market and stresses that GDP would grow between 15% and 45% in the EU Member States if gender gaps in employment were eliminated
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Takes the view that gender equality is a necessary condition for meeting the Europe 2020 strategy’s 75 % employment rate target and is crucial for maintaining sustainable pension systems; calls therefore for the inclusion of employment targets for both men and women respectively, with an equal ambition, in the EU 2020 strategy;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Takes the view that gender equality is a necessary condition for meeting the Europe 2020 strategy’s 75 % employment rate target and is crucial for maintaining sustainable pension, social and health care systems;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Takes the view that gender equality is a necessary condition for meeting the Europe 2020 strategy’s 75 % employment rate target and is crucial for maintaining sustainable pension systems; stresses that an increase in the employment rate should be associated with high-quality jobs, so as to contribute to the achievement of the Europe 2020 strategy’s objective of reducing poverty; and considers that the achievement of the Europe 2020 objectives will not be possible unless they are taken into account in all aspects of the European semester;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Takes the view that g
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Takes the view that gender equality is a necessary condition for meeting the Europe 2020 strategy’s 75 % employment rate target and is crucial for maintaining sustainable pension systems; draws attention to the need to promote measures to improve the balance between work and family life and social provisions to support children;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Underlines that affordable, accessible and quality childcare is an important prerequisite for gender equality and for women's participation in the labour market; calls on the Commission and the Member States to make the fulfilment of the Barcelona targets for childcare a priority ambition in the new strategy for gender equality; highlights that the targets were originally set for the year 2010 and that the targets have still not been met by a majority of the Member States;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Highlights that while the differences between the employment and pay rates of men and women may have reduced slightly in recent years, this is not the result of an improvement in the position of women, but of the fact that men’s employment rates and levels of pay have fallen during the economic crisis;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Considers that the austerity measures which have imposed budget reductions in public services have had a twofold negative effect on women, in that women hold a significant proportion of public service jobs and that the reduction in public services has an adverse effect on their inclusion in the labour market; highlights in particular that the impact of cutbacks in public services for childcare and care for the elderly is most likely to be borne by women;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that economic growth and competitiveness in the EU are dependent on closing the gap between women
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that gender equality is not only a necessary prerequisite for equality, but it is also an essential tool to achieve economic growth and support competitiveness in the EU
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph -1b (new) -1. Stresses that a post 2015 Gender Equality Strategy should propose action to (a) decrease the gender pay gap, (b) increase the economic independence of women, (c) improve women's labour market accessibility and career progression, (d) fundamentally increase equality in decision-making, and (e) remove discriminatory structures and practices related to gender;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that economic growth and competitiveness in the EU are dependent on closing the gap between women’s educational attainment (60% of university graduates in Europe are women) and their participation and position in the labour market;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that in order to promote economic growth and competitiveness in the EU
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that economic growth and competitiveness in the EU are dependent on closing the gap between women’s educational attainment and their participation and position in the labour market; reminds the Commission that men are over-represented in ‘green’ jobs while women are over-represented in ‘white coat’ jobs (in health and social care), both identified as priority sectors in its October 2013 Employment Package, and also reminds the Commission of the need to pay particular attention to this in helping to combat horizontal discrimination in the labour market;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that economic growth and competitiveness in the EU are dependent on closing the gap between women
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses th
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Commission to propose clear measures in its new gender equality strategy to combat sexual harassment at the workplace more efficiently; regrets that despite EU law protecting individuals from discrimination in employment, 30% of trans job seekers experienced discrimination when looking for a job, and trans women were the most likely to have felt discriminated against in the year preceding the Fundamental Rights Agency's LGBT Survey; points out that this is a violation of the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights; calls on the European Commission to monitor closely the effectiveness of national complaint bodies and procedures in the context of the implementation of the gender equality directives in regard to gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment; calls on the Commission to provide Member States with expertise on ways forward to address discrimination in the area of employment on the ground of "sex characteristics"; calls on the European Commission to support and encourage Member States in including trans and intersex in diversity trainings and work with employers on workplace measures, e.g. promote anonymous recruitment procedures; calls on Member States to use ESF funds to actively tackle discrimination against trans people in line with ECJ case law;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Highlights the unequal and vulnerable position of women of minority and immigrant origin as regards their access to education and labour market;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Underlines the importance of STEM studies as well as the involvement of women in high growth industry sectors like Research & Development, as well as Information and Communication Technology (ICT); a study on women active in the ICT1 a sector published by the European Commission in October 2013, found that allowing more women to enter the digital jobs market can create an annual € 9 billion GDP boost in the EU area; stresses that we are also facing an alarming drop in ICT female graduates (today only 29 out of every 1000 female graduate have a computing or related degree); __________________ 1a Women active in the ICT sector study by the European Commission in October 2013 - http://europa.eu/rapid/press- release_IP-13-905_en.htm
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Considers that there is resistance to employing women in the private sector and serious discrimination in favour of male candidates at the time of recruitment;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph -1c (new) -1. Takes note that, in the meantime, one fourth of women remain in the category of unpaid contributing family workers, meaning they receive no direct pay for their efforts, and there is a clear segregation of women in sectors that are generally characterized by low pay, long hours and often informal working arrangements which lead to fewer monetary, social and structural gains to women than are brought to the typical working male; remarks that there are still distinctive barriers to women's labour market participation and that, on average, women in the EU earn around 16,4 % less than men; and addresses, due to these discriminatory structures and practices against women, that gender equality must be ensured in all areas, including in access to employment, career progression, reconciliation of work and private life and promotion of equal pay for work of equal value;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Commission to propose clear measures in its new gender equality strategy to combat sexual harassment at the workplace more efficiently;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that the unequal division of family responsibilities is at the root of the unequal position of women in the labour market; making progress towards a fair and equal division of those responsibilities requires a change of mentality that will only happen if changes are made in education, culture and the law; stresses that reconciliation of work and home duties is a key condition for achieving gender equality,
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that the unequal division of family responsibilities is
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that the unequal division of family responsibilities is at the root of the unequal position of women in the labour market; stresses that reconciliation of work and home duties is a key condition for gender equality, which should be promoted by investment in care infrastructure, childcare services and care services for dependent adults, flexible working time arrangements and adequate flexicurity measures and encouragement of men’s participation in domestic labour by means of legislation on parental and paternity leave
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that the unequal division of family responsibilities is at the root of the unequal position of women in the labour market; stresses that reconciliation of work and home duties is a key condition for gender equality, which should be promoted by investment in care infrastructure and encouragement of men’s participation in domestic labour by means of European legislation on parental and paternity leave and flexible working time arrangements;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that the unequal division of family responsibilities is at the root of the unequal position of women in the labour market; stresses that reconciliation of work and home duties is a key condition for gender equality and the partnership-based division of work on the one hand and family care responsibilities on the other, which should be promoted by investment in care infrastructure and encouragement of men’s participation in domestic labour by means of legislation on parental and paternity leave and flexible working time arrangements;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that the unequal division of family responsibilities is at the root of the unequal position of women in the labour market; draws attention to the fact that many women do not return to work after pregnancy; stresses that reconciliation of home and work duties is a key condition for gender equality which should be promoted by investment in care infrastructure
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that the unequal division of family responsibilities is at the root of the unequal position of women in the labour market; stresses that reconciliation of work and home duties is a key condition for gender equality, which should be promoted by investment in care infrastructure and encouragement of men’s participation in domestic labour by means of legislation on parental and paternity leave and flexible working time arrangements; the same applies to the reconciliation of work and caring responsibilities, since the majority of those caring for close relatives are still women;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that the unequal division of family responsibilities is at the root of the unequal position of women in the labour market; stresses that reconciliation of work and home duties is a key condition for gender equality, which should be promoted by investment in care infrastructure and encouragement of men’s participation in
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that the unequal division of family responsibilities is at the root of the unequal position of women in the labour market; stresses that reconciliation of work and home duties is a key condition for gender equality, which should be promoted by investment in care infrastructure
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that the unequal division of family responsibilities is at the root of the unequal position of women in the labour market; stresses that reconciliation of work and home duties is a key condition for gender equality, which should be promoted by: a) investment in care infrastructure
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that the unequal division of family responsibilities is
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Stresses the need in the affected Member States to liberalise excessively rigid working conditions to increase the flexibility of working times and to give women greater choice in combining family and working life;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Suggests that in order to involve men more in the family responsibilities and women in the labour market, minimum conditions and times for paternal leaves should be set as European recommendations for Member States;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Stresses that flexible working hours should be an employee’s choice and not imposed by the employer; rejects flexibility and contractual uncertainty which does not allow employees an organised and stable family life;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on Member States to invest in affordable, high-quality facilities for the care of children, the sick, the disabled, the elderly, and other dependent persons, making sure that they have flexible opening times compatible with full-time working days and are accessible so that as many people as possible can combine work with family and private life; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that men and women caring for children or other dependants receive recognition in the form of dependency allowances and are accorded individual social security and pension entitlements; calls on the social partners to put forward specific initiatives serving to validate skills acquired during care-related leave periods;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to introduce compulsory paid paternity leave of a minimum of ten working days and to give priority to legislative and other measures which enable men, and fathers in particular, to exercise their right to reconcile their private and working lives, including promoting non-transferable parental leave, to be taken equally by both men and women during the early years;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a It is a fact that care infrastructure and the statutory minimum wage have been severely damaged by the crisis and the cuts in the provision of social services in many EU Member States; recalls that the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) can guarantee social infrastructure projects;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Draws attention to the fact that the EU is
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Deplores the withdrawal of the draft maternity leave directive by the Council, which provided, inter alia, 20 weeks of guaranteed maternity leave and two weeks of fully paid paternity leave, and protected working mothers on returning to work. This undermines the consensus on strengthening the rights of families and working mothers;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on the Member States to safeguard their maternity entitlements, to take measures to prevent the unfair dismissal of employees during pregnancy and to protect women and men with care responsibilities from unfair dismissal; calls also on the Council to speed up the adoption of the directive concerning the implementation of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of pregnant workers, workers who have recently given birth and women who are breastfeeding;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Also considers that there is an urgent need for a common position of the Council relative to the revision of the directive on the implementation of measures to promote improvements in the health and safety at work of pregnant workers, workers who have recently given birth and women who are breastfeeding;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Stresses that without European legislation on paternity leave, amendments on maternity leave and reinforcement of the public services which support women’s inclusion in the labour market, the EU will not be able to respond to the demographic crisis which by 2040 will result in a shortfall of 24 million in the labour force; emphasises that increasing women’s employment rate to the level of men’s employment would reduce the labour force shortfall to 3 million;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of factors including women’s career breaks, the gender pay gap, the pension gap and
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of factors including women’s career breaks, the gender pay gap, the pension gap and poverty in households headed by single mothers, and that the reduction of poverty levels
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of several factors including
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of factors including women’s career breaks, the gender pay gap (16,4%), the pension gap (39%) and poverty in households headed by single mothers, and that the reduction of poverty levels by 20 million by 2020 can be achieved by anti- poverty policies that are grounded in gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of factors including women’s career breaks, the gender pay gap, the pension gap and poverty in households headed by single mothers or mothers raising a disabled child, and that the reduction of poverty levels by 20 million by 2020 can be achieved by anti-poverty
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of factors including women’s career breaks, gender inequalities in career progression, the gender pay gap, the pension gap and poverty in households headed by single mothers, and that the reduction of poverty levels by 20 million by 2020 can be achieved by anti-poverty policies that are grounded in gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of factors including women’s career breaks, the gender pay gap, the pension gap and poverty in households headed by single mothers, and that the reduction of poverty levels by 20 million
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of factors including women’s career breaks, the
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of factors including women’s career breaks, the gender pay gap, the pension gap and poverty in households headed by single mothers, and that the reduction of poverty levels by 20 million by 2020 can be achieved by anti-poverty policies that are grounded in gender mainstreaming. In particular, older women suffer high rates of poverty because many of them have not worked outside the home long enough to have a decent pension; it is therefore necessary to increase the amount of non-contributory pensions;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of factors including women’s career breaks, the gender pay gap, the pension gap and poverty in households headed by single mothers, and that the reduction of poverty levels by 20 million by 2020
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Once again stresses the need to create flexible regimes for parental leave during the early years of a child’s education to ensure greater individual freedom in balancing family and working life.
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Stresses that the austerity measures in Southern Europe have overly affected women who have to cope with loss in pay and benefits while having major care obligations binding them to their home region; stresses that a new gender strategy needs to address the negative impact of austerity measures on women in Europe;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Stresses that the gender pay gap arises from insufficient participation of women in the labour market, vertical and horizontal segregation, and the fact that sectors where women are over- represented often have lower salaries. Stresses the need for monitoring the gender pay gap in both the public and private sector and the need for transparency in acknowledging the gender pay gap in workplaces;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Emphasises that, although women work during maternity leave, they acquire competencies other than those required by the labour market, as confirmed by PIAAC research into adult skills, and this ultimately places them at a disadvantage; therefore, attention must focus on the process of integrating persons into the workforce upon completion of their maternity or parental leave by means of flexible working arrangements, telecommuting opportunities and support to renew their job skills through training and courses;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Welcomes the change in the burden of proof in Directive 2006/54/EC in favour of women who are presumed in legal proceedings to be the victims of sexual discrimination, but wishes to stress that this provision will not be effective unless there is a recognised right for such women to access information held by employers, as proposed by the European Commission for Directive 97/80/EC on the burden of proof in cases of discrimination based on sex, but ultimately not adopted;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Draws attention to the fact that the EU is facing a demographic crisis which by 2040 will result in a shortfall of 24 million in the labour force, creating an economic necessity to further include women in the labour market; notes that this further inclusion of women in the labour market is not merely an economic necessity, but also a question of justice; emphasises that increasing women’s employment rate to the level of men’s employment would reduce the labour force shortfall to 3 million;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need for transparency and greater gender balance in recruitment for decision-making positions to combat the ‘glass ceiling’ identified in the vast majority of EU Member States;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need for active measures for transparen
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need for the EU's gender equality strategy post-2015 to promote the equal representation of women and men in all aspects of decision-making, including in the EU institutions; considers that the strategy should include an action plan in this regard; highlights the need for increased transparency and
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need for transparency and greater gender balance in recruitment for decision-making positions; calls also on the Council to speed up the adoption of the directive on improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need for transparency and greater gender balance in recruitment for decision-making positions; and considers that there is an urgent need for the Parliament and Council to reach an agreement on the presence of women on the boards of companies listed on stock exchanges;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need for transparency and greater gender balance in recruitment for decision-making positions
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need for transparency and greater gender balance in recruitment for decision-making positions, not just in the business world, but also in political institutions and in senior positions in the university system;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need for transparency and greater gender balance in
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Draws attention to the fact that the EU is facing a demographic crisis which by 2040 will result in a shortfall of 24 million in the labour force, creating an economic necessity, among other things, to further include
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a(new) 6a. Further stresses the need for tougher regulations on discrimination against women in the workplace and tougher sanctions on employers who do discriminate;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Takes the view that initiatives and measures must be taken, principally in the field of education, including higher education, to combat stereotyped perceptions of female employment, promote female entrepreneurship, career in science and the ICT sector which would significantly boost Europe's economic growth and competitiveness;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Stresses the importance of encouraging the employment of women and of ensuring greater social protection of businesswomen;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls on Member States to make full use of the instruments provided in the new public procurement directive by using gender equality on company boards as a selection criterion when running procurement exercises with companies listed on stock exchanges;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Supports the introduction of gender quotas for non-executive members in company boards, transparent procedures on their appointment, encourages the public and private sector to envisage voluntary schemes to promote women in managerial positions and calls on the European Council to finally adopt a common position after the first EP reading of the Women on Boards directive;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Highlights the high levels of undeclared work which
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Highlights the high levels of undeclared work which negatively impact on women’s social security and the EU’s GDP levels; calls for the
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Highlights the high levels of undeclared work performed by women which negatively impact on women
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Highlights the high levels of undeclared work which negatively impact on women’s social security
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Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 2 a (new) - having regard to Article 168 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union concerning Public health and in particular Article 168(7) which states that " Union action shall respect the responsibilities of the Member States for the definition of their health policy and for the organisation and delivery of health services and medical care;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 28 b (new) - having regard to the report of the European Agency of Fundamental Rights (FRA) entitled 'Being Trans in the EU – Comparative analysis of EU LGBT survey data' published in December 2014,
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas the EU has a responsibility and a role as model for gender equality world- wide, gender equality and the empowerment of women are essential if the international development goals are to be attained and for a successful EU foreign policy and women all over the world are especially affected by the consequences of climate, environmental and energy policies, thus making the fight against gender inequality interdependent with the fight against climate change;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L a (new) L a. whereas women are not only more vulnerable to the effects of energy, environment and climate change, but they are also effective actors in relation to mitigation and adaptation strategies, as well as a driving force for an equitable and sustainable model of growth;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M M. whereas institutional mechanisms form a necessary basis for the achievement of gender equality; whereas also gender equality, as a cross-cutting task should serve as a basis of all policy areas in the EU
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M M. whereas institutional mechanisms form a necessary basis for the achievement of gender equality; whereas also gender equality
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M a (new) M a. whereas the breakdown of data by gender is a vital tool for achieving genuine progress and efficiently evaluating results;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M a (new) M a. whereas health policies, programmes, and research largely discriminate against women, and there is a need to scrutinize EU health and research policies to make sure that women's health status and issues are increasingly addressed,
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M a (new) M a. whereas in recent years, anti-gender equality movements have gained public ground in a number of Member States, attempting to reinforce traditional gender roles and challenging existing achievements in the area of gender equality;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M b (new) M b. whereas existing challenges and the experience acquired show that the lack of a coherent policy between the different areas has made it difficult to achieve gender equality in the past and that a suitable proportion of funds and better coordination, broadcasting and promotion of women’s rights are needed, taking into account the varying situations;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 30 a (new) - having regard to the comparative analysis of EU LGBT survey data "Being Trans in the European Union of the Fundamental Right Agency published in December 2014 1 a, __________________ 1a http://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2014/b eing-trans-eu-comparative-analysis-eu- lgbt-survey-data
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M b (new) M b. whereas safeguarding and strengthening the SRHR of women, young people, and lgbti persons is important to close gaps in health and to strengthen gender equality and whereas women and girls power over their own bodies and sexuality are key to gender equality, which includes access to SRHR, contraception, gender sensitive and non- judgmental sexuality education, and access to safe and legal abortion,
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M c (new) M c. whereas women are often subjected to serial discrimination on the grounds of gender, age (particularly in the case of older women), disability, ethnic origin or race, religion, nationality, immigrant status, socio-economic situation, sexual orientation and/or gender identity, and that serial discrimination gives rise to a number of obstacles to empowering and improving the social status of women;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the Commission to draw up and adopt a new strategy for gender equality between women and men in Europe aimed at eliminating discrimination against all women and men in their diversity
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the Commission to draw up and adopt a new strategy for gender equality between women and men in Europe
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the Commission to draw up and adopt a new strategy for gender equality between women and men in Europe aimed at eliminating discrimination against all women and men (in
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the Commission to draw up and adopt a new strategy for gender equality between women and men in Europe
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the Commission to draw up and adopt a new strategy for up and adopt a new strategy for gender equality between women gender equality between women and men in Europe aimed at and men in Europe aimed at eliminating discrimination against eliminating discrimination against all women and men in their all women and men in their diversity (ethnicity, class, sexual diversity (ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, orientation, gender identity, disability, religion, nationality and disability, religion, nationality and age); age); in this context emphasises the importance of an updated vocabulary in order to define clearly the areas of action and the groups being addressed;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the Commission to draw up and adopt a new separate strategy for
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the Commission to draw up and adopt a new strategy for gender equality between women and men in Europe aimed at eliminating discrimination against all women and men in their diversity
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the Commission to draw up and adopt a new strategy for
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 32 Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the Commission to draw up and adopt a new strategy for gender equality between women and men in Europe, aimed at
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the Commission to draw up and adopt a new strategy for gender equality between women and men in Europe aimed
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the Commission to draw up and adopt a new strategy for gender equality between women and men in Europe aimed at eliminating discrimination against all women and men in their diversity (such as ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, disability, religion, nationality and age);
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Underlines the importance of incorporating disability issues into gender policies, programmes and measures to strengthen recognition and understanding of the cross-cutting nature of gender and disability issues in the EU and in Union and Member States policy and law; believes that women with disabilities should be invited to work with the corresponding authorities as consultants, advisors or experts; regrets that the Strategy for equality between women and men 2010-2015 does not specifically address disability, despite the fact that women with disabilities are often in a less favourable situation than men with disabilities and are more exposed to the risk of poverty and social exclusion; in that sense also regrets that the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 also does not include an integrated perspective on gender or a separate chapter dedicated to disability policies with a special focus on gender;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Underlines that the new Strategy for Women's Rights and Gender Equality must develop specific actions to strengthen the rights of different groups of women, including women with disabilities, migrant and ethnic minority women, older women, lesbians and trans persons, in order to ensure a more inclusive strategy that strengthen the rights of all women, promotes real gender equality and that challenges patriarchal power structures;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Stresses that discrimination and oppression take different forms and should be seen from an intersectional perspective in which all forms of oppression have common underlying factors but affect women differently; calls for work on equality to include factors such as class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, religious beliefs and age when drafting measures to address discrimination and oppression.
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Stresses that the future Strategy for equality between women and men should pay special attention to women with special needs and older women, women from ethnic minorities, female immigrants, women with low qualifications, single mothers, especially the poorest, women with disabilities, lesbians and transsexuals, etc., because they are often subjected to serial discrimination as they are women with special characteristics and suffer from prejudice, stereotyping, racism, xenophobia, homophobia and gender violence, which has a negative impact on their chances of genuine integration in society;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission, to involve civil society and the social partners
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission, to involve civil society
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission, to involve civil society and the social partners, in
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 37 a (new) - having regard to its resolution of 5 April 2011 on priorities and outline of a new EU policy framework to fight violence against women1, __________________ 1 OJ C 296 E, 2.10.2012, p. 26
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Insists that efforts at national and EU level need to be increased to combat the persistence of stereotypes through awareness-raising campaigns aimed at all levels of society, greater involvement of the media, strategies for encouraging women to choose careers and professions in which they are less well represented and the incorporation of gender issues into primary and secondary education and education materials;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 b (new) 2 b. Calls on the Commission, in assessing the application of Directive 2004/113/EC implementing the principle of equal treatment of men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services, to take into account instances of discrimination relating to pregnancy, breastfeeding, maternity planning and maternity, e.g. in connection with housing (renting), difficulties in obtaining loans, access to health services and products, in particular legally available reproductive care and sex change treatments;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission to make clear the EU role that it wishes to play in the world and in working with the Member States, regional and local authorities with regard to the promotion of gender equality and to pursue these goals both through the concept of gender mainstreaming in all areas and through individual targeted and specific actions;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission to make clear the EU role that it wishes to play in the world and in working with the Member States with regard to the promotion of gender equality and to pursue these goals
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission to make clear the EU role that it wishes to play in the world and in working with the Member States with regard to the promotion of gender equality, both within and without the European borders, and to pursue these goals both through the concept of gender mainstreaming in all areas and through individual targeted and specific actions;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission to make clear the EU role that it wishes to play in the world and in working with the Member States including their sub-national levels with regard to the promotion of gender equality and to pursue these goals both through the concept of gender mainstreaming in all areas and through individual targeted and specific actions;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission to make clear the EU role that it wishes to play in the world and in working with the Member States with regard to the promotion of gender equality and to pursue these goals both through the concept of gender mainstreaming in all areas and through individual targeted and specific actions, namely specific programmes in the area of equality;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission to make clear the EU role that it wishes to play in the world and in working with the Member States with regard to the promotion of gender equality and to pursue these goals both through the concept of gender mainstreaming in all areas and through individual targeted and specific actions; stresses the need to integrate gender perspective and the fight against gender violence in EU foreign policy, development cooperation policy and international trade policy and safeguard the necessary financial instruments and human resources;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission to make clear the EU role that it wishes to play in the world and in working with the Member States including their local and regional levels, with regard to the promotion of gender equality and to pursue these goals both through the concept of gender mainstreaming in all areas and through individual targeted and specific actions;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Stresses on high levels of undeclared work that can be observed especially in female dominated sectors, such as work in private households – cleaning services, babysitting or taking care of the elderly or disabled people, which in turn negatively impact on women's social security and add to the risk of poverty among women, particularly in the later age,; in this context calls on a swift establishment of the European Platform to better prevent and deter undeclared work;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 38 a (new) - – having regard to its resolution of 10 December 2013 on sexual and reproductive health and rights 27 a, __________________ 27 a Texts adopted, P7_TA(2013)0548
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Calls
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission to introduce a specific gender pillar for equality between women and men in the Europe 2020 strategy, to consider the objectives of the future strategy as an aspect of the European Semester and to insert a gender perspective in the country-specific recommendations and the Annual Growth Survey ;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Calls on the Commission to thoroughly take into account the multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination experienced by many women in Europe, including Roma women who are part of the largest minority group in Europe that has been marginalised and discriminated against for centuries due to antigypsyism.
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. Calls on the Commission to include specific measures in the new strategy to promote the equality of Trans persons that experience discrimination, harassment and violence due to their gender identity,
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas the right to equal treatment is a defining
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission to gather gender-specific data in all policy areas and the necessary parameters which are in effect;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the European Commission to take into account and to gather the gender-specific data in all policy areas collected by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission to gather gender-specific data in all policy areas
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to draft the strategy in the form of a practical action plan, ensuring that it takes into account in particular the following specific suggestions in the areas of violence against women, work and time, women in power and decision-making, financial resources, health, knowledge, education and the media, the wider world and institutional mechanisms and gender mainstreaming; emphasises the need to introduce, where applicable and in the full respect of the EU competences, legislative inputs in order to strengthen the legal framework for gender equality;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to draft the strategy in the form of a practical action plan, ensuring that it takes into account in particular the following specific suggestions in the areas of violence against women, work and time
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to draft the strategy in the form of a practical action plan with the identification of responsibilities, ensuring that it takes into account in particular the following specific suggestions in the areas of violence against women, work and time, women in power and decision-making, financial resources, health, knowledge, education and the
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to draft the strategy in the form of a practical action plan, ensuring that it takes into account in particular the following specific suggestions in the areas of violence against women, work and time, women in power and decision-making, financial resources, health, knowledge, education and the media, the wider world and institutional mechanisms and gender mainstreaming; Stresses that a post 2015 Gender Equality Strategy should propose action to (a) decrease the gender pay gap, (b) increase the economic independence of women, (c) improve women's labour market accessibility and career progression, (d) fundamentally increase equality in decision-making, and (e) remove discriminatory structures and practices related to gender;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Emphasises the importance of maintaining a separate EU strategy focused on gender equality in order to fully take into account all aspects of the promotion of gender equality that goes beyond the prohibition of discrimination
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Calls on the Commission to commission a study to identify the most urgent problems of younger women;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 2 Violence against Women and gender based violence
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 2 Violence against Women and gender- based violence
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Reiterates the appeal to the Commission
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Reiterates the appeal to the Commission it made in its resolution of 25 February 2014, with recommendations to combat violence against women, to submit a legal act providing both a consistent system for
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Reiterates the appeal to the Commission it made in its resolution of 25 February 2014, with recommendations to combat psychological, physical, sexual and structural violence against women, to submit a legal act providing both a consistent system for collecting statistical data as well as a uniform approach by Member States to the prevention and suppression of violence against women and girls and making low-threshold access to justice possible; particularly emphasises in this context the importance of continuous and qualified data collection by the European Institute for Gender Equality and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Reiterates the appeal to the Commission it made in its resolution of 25 February 2014, with recommendations to combat violence against women, to submit a legal act providing
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Reiterates the appeal to the Commission it made in its resolution of 25 February 2014, with recommendations to combat violence against women, to submit a legal act providing both a consistent system for collecting statistical data as well as a
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Reiterates the appeal to the Commission
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) A a. whereas the right to work is a prerequisite for the fulfilment of equal rights, economic independence and the professional achievement of women;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Calls on the Commission to present a comprehensive strategy against gender- based violence that contains a binding legislative act as soon as possible; calls on the Council of the EU to apply the ‘passerelle clause’ and adopt a unanimous decision defining gender violence as one of the areas of crime listed in Article 83(1) TFEU, as it concerns the trafficking of human beings and the sexual exploitation of women and girls;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) 7 b. Calls on the Commission to include in the future Strategy for equality between men and women a definition of gender violence in line with the provisions of Directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of the victims of crime: ‘Violence that is directed against a person because of that person’s gender, gender identity or gender expression or that affects persons of a particular gender disproportionately, is understood as gender-based violence. It may result in physical, sexual, emotional or psychological harm, or economic loss, to the victim. Gender-based violence is understood to be a form of discrimination and a violation of the fundamental freedoms of the victim and includes violence in close relationships, sexual violence (including rape, sexual assault and harassment), trafficking in human beings, slavery, and different forms of harmful practices, such as forced marriages, female genital mutilation and so-called ‘honour crimes’. Women victims of gender-based violence and their children often require special support and protection because of the high risk of secondary and repeat victimisation, of intimidation and of retaliation connected with such violence’.
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Commission to assess the possibility of the EU adhering to the Istanbul Convention, and to promote the ratification of the Istanbul Convention by the Member States through the new strategy and to work actively for its ratification by the EU with a view to combating violence against women; calls on the Member States to sign and ratify the Istanbul Convention as soon as possible;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Commission to promote the ratification of the Istanbul Convention by the Member States through the new strategy and to work actively for
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Commission to promote the ratification of the Istanbul Convention by the Member States through the new strategy and to work actively for its ratification by the EU with a view to combating violence against women and girls;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls on the Commission to initiate the procedure for EU accession to the Istanbul Convention as soon as possible;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Reiterates its appeal to the Commission to designate 2016 European Year
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Reiterates its appeal to the Commission to designate 2016 European Year for combating violence against women and girls during which priority should be given to promoting far-reaching and effective strategies for significantly reducing violence against women and girls;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Calls on the European Union to support the Member States in the development of campaigns and strategies against the daily harassment of women in public and in the process to pass on the best practices to the Member States;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) A a. whereas strengthening women´s rights demands that the we address the deeprooted unequal gender power relations that give rise to discrimination and violence against women, girls, and also LGBTI persons, and whereas gender power structures interact with other forms of discrimination and inequalities such as race, disability, age and gender identity,
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Stresses that in order to effectively combat violence against women and impunity, a change of attitude towards women and girls in society is necessary, where women are too often represented in subordinate roles and violence against them is too often tolerated or undermined;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Considers it urgently necessary to further monitor the transposition and implementation of the Directive establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, the Regulation on mutual recognition of protection measures in civil matters and the Directive on the European Protection Order up to 2015 and beyond;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10 a. Considers that violence against women and girls should be understood from a power perspective, in which women as a group are historically subordinate to men and are subjected to violence on the basis of an unequal power relationship; therefore calls for violence against women and girls not to be understood only as violence against separate individuals but as an expression of an unequal gender-related position of power in society;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to enshrine ‘zero tolerance’ campaigns in the strategy and to push forward the debate in the Member States, regional and local authorities about the origins of violence and abuse and the reasons why women resort to prostitution and emphasises the importance of including men more specifically in the fight against violence against women;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to enshrine ‘zero tolerance’ campaigns in the strategy and to push forward the debate in the Member States about the origins of violence and abuse
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to enshrine ‘zero tolerance’ campaigns in the strategy and to push forward the debate in the Member States about the origins of violence and abuse and the reasons why women resort to prostitution and emphasises the importance of including men more specifically in the fight against violence against women; moreover calls on the Commission to put forward as many initiatives as possible in the fight against Female Genital Mutilations;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to enshrine ‘zero tolerance’ campaigns in the strategy and to push forward the debate in the Member States about the origins of violence and abuse and
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to enshrine ‘zero tolerance’ campaigns in the strategy and to push forward the debate in the Member States about the origins of violence and abuse and
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to enshrine ‘zero tolerance’ campaigns in the strategy and to push forward the debate in the Member States about the origins of violence and abuse and the reasons why women resort to prostitution and emphasises the importance of including
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to enshrine ‘zero tolerance’ campaigns in the strategy and to push forward the debate in the Member States about the origins of violence and abuse and the reasons why women resort to prostitution and emphasises the importance of including men more specifically in the fight against violence against women; also notes here the importance of programmes to exit from prostitution;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A b (new) A b. whereas the EU has historically taken some important steps to strengthen women's rights and gender equality, there has been a slowdown in political actions and reform for gender equality during the last decade at EU level and whereas the previous Commission strategy was too weak and did not result in sufficient action being taken for gender equality, and whereas a new strategy need to give new impetus and deliver concrete action to strengthen women's rights and promote gender equality,
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to enshrine
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to enshrine ‘zero tolerance’ campaigns in the strategy and to push forward the debate in the Member States about the origins of violence and abuse and
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to enshrine ‘zero tolerance’ campaigns in the strategy and to push forward the debate in the Member States about the origins of violence and abuse and
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to enshrine ‘zero tolerance’
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to explore the reasons why women resort to prostitution and ways to discourage demand, since as long as there is a demand for prostitution, there will always be prostitutes, and worse still, the mafia will continue trafficking in and sexually exploiting human beings;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11 a. Notes that the feminisation of poverty might lead to an increase in female trafficking, sexual exploitation and forced prostitution, reducing women to greater financial dependence, including those who have suffered domestic violence;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11 a. Emphasises that the sexual exploitation of women and girls in the growing, and sometimes institutionalised, prostitution markets in Europe are both an expression of and generates gender inequality and racism, and therefore underlines the need for actions to decriminalize and step up support to women in prostitution, to curb demand, and take increased actions against buyers, pimps, and traffickers;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11 b. Emphasises the importance of including men and boys more specifically in the fight against violence against women; and that perpetrators programmes and involving men in the work against gender based violence must be modelled on feminist research and documented experience of effective and good practices in this field;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11 b. Points to the importance of systematic training for qualified personnel looking after female victims of physical, sexual, or psychological violence; considers such training to be essential for providers of first- and second-line care, including emergency social services and medical, civil protection, and police services;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Calls on the Commission to adopt a new strategy to combat human trafficking after the current strategy expires, and monitor the application of the Directive on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 2 a (new) - having regard to Article 168 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in particular to paragraph 7 thereof
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas the previous Commission strategy attained some of the goals that had been set, but failed to achieve full gender equality
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Calls on the Commission to adopt a new strategy to combat human trafficking after the current strategy expires in 2016, with particular focus on new methods of trafficking that are developing as other more established methods are being closed down; stresses the importance of implementing and transposing Directive 2011/36/EU adequately to protect victims of trafficking;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Calls on the
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Calls on the Commission to adopt a new strategy to combat human trafficking after the current strategy expires; with a specific pillar on trafficking for sexual exploitation;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Calls on the Commission to adopt a new strategy to combat human trafficking after the current strategy expires, which should incorporate a gender perspective, give priority to the rights of victims of trafficking, develop new tools to monitor and evaluate the Directives 2011/36/UE and 2012/29/UE as well as ensure that all Member States' policies, budgets and outcomes within the development of the strategy are transparent and accessible;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12 a. Call on the Commission to assist Member States ensuring that victims of stalking can benefit from the protection afforded by existing measures such as the European Protection Order, Regulation on mutual recognition of protection measures in civil matters, and the EU Victims' Directive when moving from one EU Member State to another, and to consider further measures to improve the protection of victims of stalking, considering that figures show that 18 % of women in the EU have experienced stalking since the age of 15, and one in five victims of stalking said that the abusive behaviour had continued for two years or longer 1 b . __________________ 1bViolence against women: an EU-wide survey. Main results report by FRA, pp.83-84 and 92-93.
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12 a. Calls on increased support to women's shelters and organizations working to support women victims of gender-based violence, and carrying our prevention and awareness raising work;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Commission to assist Member States, regional and local authorities in drawing up their action programmes for gender equality and to pay special attention to new forms of violence against women, such as cyber-harassment and cyber-stalking, and to carry out continual evaluations; stresses in this connection also the importance of close cooperation with civil society in order to recognise problem areas at an earlier stage and to address them more effectively;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Commission to assist Member States in drawing up their action programmes for gender equality and to pay special attention to new forms of violence against women and girls, such as cyber- harassment and cyber-stalking, and to carry out continual evaluations; stresses in this connection also the importance of close cooperation with civil society in order to recognise problem areas at an earlier stage and to address them more effectively;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Commission to assist Member States in drawing up their action programmes for gender equality and to pay special attention to new forms of violence against women, such as cyber-harassment
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Commission to assist Member States in drawing up their action programmes for gender equality and to pay special attention to new forms of violence against women and persons who do not conform to gender stereotypes, such as cyber-harassment and cyber-stalking, and to carry out continual evaluations; stresses in this connection also the importance of close cooperation with civil society in order to recognise problem areas at an earlier stage and to address them more effectively;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas under the previous Commission strategy
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Stresses that abusive requirements in gender recognition legislation lead to further obstacles hindering trans people from pursuing or accessing jobs and calls upon the Commission to ensure EU Member States enable the full legal recognition of a person's preferred gender, including the change of first name, social security number and other gender indicators on identity documents;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13 a. Calls on the Commission, once again, to establish as soon as possible a European Observatory on Violence against Women on the premises of the European Institute for Gender Equality and directed by a EU Coordinator on violence against women and girls;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13 a. Calls on Commission and Member States to invest in systematic prevention of violence against women and girls through school system aiming to diminish gender stereotypes and other causes of gender violence and to develop acceptable social skills,
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13 a. Calls on the Commission to support the Member States in preventing and combating violence in its many forms and root causes and to adopt specific measures for each of its aspects, while safeguarding the balance of rights and duties for men and women in all spheres of life: the right to physical and moral integrity, the right to legal protection and access to the courts to defend their rights;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13 a. calls on the member states to implement the abolitionist model of prostitution law as the only proven model, which aims to reduce prostitution and allow prostituted persons to exit it;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13 a. Calls on the Commission to sensitise the Member States in particular to the need for protection of, among others, women with disabilities, women migrants and women in prison;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure EU Member States enable the full legal recognition of a person’s preferred gender, including the change of first name, social security number and other gender indicators on identity documents;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 b (new) Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 c (new) 13 c. Calls on the Commission to support the Member States in making society more aware of the problem of violence against women and the social role of women;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 d (new) 13 d. Calls on the Commission to support the Member States in promoting annual awareness campaigns on the problem of violence against women and promoting women's rights: on domestic violence; on violence among young couples; on trafficking human beings; on exploitation of women and children in prostitution; on female genital mutilation; on wage discrimination based on sex; on employment rights and maternity protection in the workplace;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas gender equality is a basic value of the EU recognised in the Treaties and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights and is essential as a strategic objective to achieve the overall EU objectives, such as the employment rate target within the Europe 2020 strategy;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 e (new) 13e. Calls on the Commission to help the Member States improve their free public health services for women who are victims of violence and increase the number of shelters and places available, providing special assistance in different languages to women of different nationalities;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Commission in the new strategy to pay special attention to the various ways of reconciling family life and work and regrets in this connection the faltering of the negotiations on the adoption of the Maternity Protection Directive and reiterates Parliament
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Commission
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Commission in the new strategy to pay special attention to the various ways of reconciling family life and work
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Commission in the new strategy to pay special attention to the various ways of reconciling family life and work
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Commission in the new strategy to pay special attention to the various ways of reconciling family life and work and regrets in this connection the faltering of the negotiations on the adoption of the Maternity Protection Directive and reiterates Parliament’s unrestricted willingness to cooperate; reiterates in this regard the widespread discrimination associated with pregnancy and maternity leave within the labour market, for example; stresses in this regard the importance of comprehensive care for children and the elderly to facilitate the participation of women in the labour market and to combat the role assigned to women in unpaid sectors such as domestic work and the care of dependents.
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Emphasises that improving the balance between family, personal and work life is an important element for economic recovery, sustainable demography and personal and social well- being;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls on the Commission to support the Member States in adopting measures that will monitor and sanction breaches of maternity protection;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. calls on the Member States to appreciate the economic and social benefit of raising children and family time by mothers and fathers and to enhance this educational performance through appropriate financial instruments like a national education salary;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas gender equality is a
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Stresses the importance of effectively balancing professional, personal and family life through the regulation of working time, the reduction in working hours, the ban on intensive working and respect for collective bargaining, which will have a positive result in strengthening the participation of women from all social strata in social and political life;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the Commission to monitor the attainment of the Barcelona objectives and to continue to support Member States
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the Commission to monitor the attainment of the Barcelona objectives and to continue to support Member States in creating high quality and
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Draws attention to the fact that despite the Community funding available (to support Member States in developing child care facilities and promoting employment for women, EUR 3.2 billion was allocated from the 2007-13 Structural Funds), some Member States have made budget cuts that are affecting the availability (closure of day care nurseries), quality (understaffing) and increased cost of child care services with the subsequent negative impact on reconciling family and work life, which affects women particularly;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Stresses the importance of flexible forms of work in allowing women, but more especially men, to reconcile work and family life and instructs the Commission to coordinate and promote exchanges of best practices; stresses in this connection the need for awareness campaigns for the equal division of domestic work and care and nursing, for the inclusion of men and the introduction of paternity leave of at least 10 days and parental leave to be divided between both parents; stresses that equal parental leave benefits all parties in a family group and can act as an incentive for reducing the discrimination associated with parental leave.
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Stresses the importance of flexible forms of work in allowing women, but
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Stresses the importance of flexible forms of work in allowing women
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Stresses the importance of flexible forms of work in allowing women
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Stresses the importance of flexible forms of work in allowing women, but
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas gender equality is a basic value of the EU and is essential as a strategic objective to achieve the overall EU objectives, such as the 75% employment rate target within the Europe 2020 strategy;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Stresses th
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Stresses the importance of flexible forms of work in allowing women, but more especially men, to reconcile work and family life and instructs the Commission to coordinate and promote exchanges of best practices; Calls the Commission to include in the upcoming revision of the working time Directive the right for a worker to ask for specific working time arrangements (e.g. flexitime, telework) depending on their personal situation, and to have their request duly considered; stresses in this connection the need for awareness campaigns for the equal division of domestic work and care and nursing, for the inclusion of men and the introduction of paternity leave of at least 10 days and parental leave to be divided between both parents;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Stresses the importance of flexible forms of work in allowing women
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Stresses the importance of flexible forms of work in allowing women, but more especially men, to reconcile work and family life and instructs the Commission to coordinate and promote exchanges of best practices; stresses in this connection the need for awareness campaigns for the equal division of domestic work and care and nursing, for the inclusion of men and the introduction of paternity leave of at least 10 days
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Stresses the importance of flexible forms of work in allowing women, but more especially men, to reconcile work and family life and instructs the Commission to coordinate and promote exchanges of best practices; stresses in this connection the need for awareness campaigns for the equal division of domestic work and care and nursing, for the inclusion of men and the introduction of paternity leave
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Stresses the importance of flexible forms of work, better investment in care infrastructure and encouragement of men's participation in domestic labour by means of legislation on parental and paternity leave available to both parents but with strong incentives for fathers, in allowing women, but more especially men, to reconcile work and family life and instructs the Commission to coordinate and promote exchanges of best practices; stresses in this connection the need for awareness campaigns for the equal division of domestic work and care
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Calls on the Commission to conduct a study and come up with specific proposals for measures to combat undeclared work and the shadow economy where a significant percentage of women work without employment contracts and thus have no right to maternity or childcare leave;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Points out that although part-time work, which in the majority is done by women (32.0 % of women work part-time, compared with 8.2 % of men), can make it easier to reconcile family and work life, it is no less true that it also involves fewer career opportunities, lower pay and pensions, under-utilisation of human capital and, consequently, lower economic growth and prosperity; also points out that it is often much more difficult for women than for men to switch from part- time to full-time contracts;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Stresses the importance of good, secure working conditions allowing both women and men to reconcile work and private life and calls on the Commission to coordinate and promote strengthening of labour rights for increased gender equality; and calls for an exchange of best practices in terms of general shortening of the working hours in the Member States;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. 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;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) C a. whereas the promotion of gender equality goes beyond the prohibition of discrimination based on gender and includes measures such as positive action to ensure progress towards a gender equal society,
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Calls for the adoption of the necessary measures to promote higher employment rates among women, such as affordable care and childcare, adequate maternity, paternity and parental leave schemes and flexibility in working hours and places of work, which will make it possible to reconcile their private and working lives;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 c (new) 16c. 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 nursery facilities depend not only on the necessary public policies, but also on incentives to businesses to offer such solutions;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 d (new) 16d. Expects 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 and to encourage dialogue with social partners to look into issues such as transparency of payment, part-time and fixed-term contract conditions for women, encouraging women's participation in "green" and innovative sectors;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses the importance of calling on EIGE for gathering qualified, gender- specific data relating to the allocation of time to care, nursing and domestic work and leisure, with the aim of making a regular assessment;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Stresses the importance of gathering qualified, gender-specific data relating to the allocation of time to care, nursing and domestic work and leisure, with the aim of making a regular assessment; stresses that unequal division of care work is also driven by societal perceptions about gender roles and that it is important to challenge these as a means to achieving a fairer distribution of both care work and paid work; calls on the Commission to address this in the new gender equality strategy; stresses that parents of families not following classical gender patterns continue to face discrimination at the workplace as regards among others parental leave, social security benefits, access to benefits for their children, right to work-life-conciliation measures at the workplace, and family-related wage elements;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote the voice of women in social dialogue and the representation of women in trade unions across all sectors.
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 b (new) 17b. Expresses concern over the number and proportion of women who suffer in- work poverty; calls on the Commission and Member States to reinforce a gender perspective in all job creation programmes, creating high quality jobs in line with the ILO's Decent Work agenda.
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to support Member States, regional and local authorities in creating incentives for employers to convert unofficial work into official employment;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas the net destruction of jobs has coincided with an increase in precarious employment; it should be noted, furthermore, that the vast majority of low wages and almost all very low wages occur in part-time employment and that about 80% of poor employees are women;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to support Member States in creating incentives for employers to convert unofficial work into official employment; and calls on the Commission to address the needs of women with disabilities to ensure increased participation in work and employment;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to support Member States in creating incentives for employers
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Draws attention once again to the fact that although Community regulations explicitly prohibit gender-based pay discrimination for equal work or work of equal value, there is still a gender pay gap that has hardly been reduced in recent years, despite the actions taken and measures applied in this respect, and that has even increased in recent years in some Member States; asks the Commission and Member States to strengthen the existing legislation with new measures to increase pay transparency and to apply sanctions such as fines, sentences and disqualification from receiving State aid, with the objective of reducing and ultimately eliminating pay differences between men and women;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. urges the Commission and the Member States to contribute to the promotion of a strategy that would lead to job creation for women in rural areas and, implicitly, to ensuring decent pensions for retired women in the EU who live in precarious conditions, many of them working or having worked in agriculture and having very small pensions, if at all;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Calls on the Commission and Member States, in their gender mainstreaming, to take into account the socio-economic obstacles met by women in specific circumstances such as in rural areas, in male-dominated sectors, in older age, and by women with disabilities.
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Calls on the Member States to combat the undeclared employment of women which contribute to the full deregulation of women's pay structures, causing increased poverty among women, especially in later life;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Calls on the Commission to monitor the implementation of Directive 2006/54/EU, in particular in connection with discrimination on the basis of gender identity and both legislative and non- legislative measures to reduce the gender- specific wage and pension gap;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Emphasises that actions to strengthen the rights of migrant and ethnic minority women are needed, and ask the Commission to develop policy recommendations and actions in the cross cutting areas of social- and employment policy, migration and asylum policy, as well as in the gender equality field;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Calls on the European Commission to ensure that within the European Union, in matters of employment and occupation, women are protected against discrimination on the grounds of their gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics.
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 b (new) 19b. Emphasises that women continue to experience greater job insecurity than men, and this is reflected in their lower rate of activity, lower rate of employment, higher rate of unemployment and pay inequality; also points out that job insecurity has increased as a result of the crisis.
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) C a. whereas gender equality is a fundamental principle of the European Union, enshrined in the Treaty on the European Union and whereas the EU has assumed the specific task of integrating gender equality in all its activities, and whereas, despite the gradual progress in this area, many inequalities still persist between women and men;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 b (new) 19b. Takes the view that helping women to return to the labour market requires multidimensional policy solutions incorporating lifelong learning and action to combat precarious work and promote work with rights and differentiated work organisation practices, at the woman's request, so that they do not have to give up their careers or take career breaks;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 c (new) 19c. Asks the Commission and Member States to adopt measures to combat the horizontal segregation of the labour market (women are concentrated in a much more limited number of sectors and professions than men, and these sectors and professions tend in general to be poorer paid and less valued), and vertical segregation (women’s jobs are poorer paid and they encounter more obstacles to their professional development); highlights in this connection that the proven effectiveness of the fight against sexist stereotypes and the application of positive measures to encourage women’s participation in professions in which they are under-represented and in decision- making, and in particular the use of compulsory quotas;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 c (new) 19c. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take appropriate measures to reduce the gender pension gap, which is a direct consequence of the gender pay gap, and to assess the impact of the pension systems on women, paying special attention to part-time and atypical contracts;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 d (new) 19d. Stresses the importance of developing the legal concept of shared ownership at European Union level in order to ensure full recognition of women’s rights in the agricultural sector, adequate protection in the field of social security and the recognition of women’s work;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 4 Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Commission to include specific measures to promote the equal representation of women and men in leadership positions in the strategy and to support the Council in the negotiations for the adoption of the Directive for a balanced representation of men and women on supervisory
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Commission to include specific measures to promote the equal representation of women and men in leadership positions in the strategy and to support the Council in the negotiations for the adoption of the Directive for a balanced representation of men and women on supervisory boards and to expand the scope of this Directive to include executive boards; points out that increasing the number of women on the boards of companies listed or not on the stock exchange, a legitimate aspiration for women of this social class, does not alter the irresolvable contradictions between capital and labour which use discrimination against workers as an instrument of increased exploitation;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) C a. whereas gender equality is a key economic asset to promote fair and inclusive economic growth, whereas reducing occupational inequality is not just a goal in terms of equal treatment, but also in terms of labour market efficiency and fluidity;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Commission to include specific measures to promote the equal representation of women and men in leadership positions in the strategy and to support the Council in the negotiations for the adoption of the Directive for a balanced representation of men and women on supervisory boards and to expand the scope of this Directive to include executive boards; notes here the importance of female mentoring programmes;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Commission to include
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Commission to include specific measures to promote the equal
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Draws attention to the imbalance there is in the participation of men and women in decision-making in politics, government and economics, and to the fact that the obstacles to women’s participation can be attributed to a combination of gender-based discrimination and stereotyped behaviours that still tend to persist in business, politics and society; emphasises that it is difficult to believe that there are not sufficient women with excellent academic records and professional careers and that therefore the greater presence of men can be justified in this way, particularly when 60 % of university graduates are women;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 b (new) 20b. Points out that the biggest increase by far in the proportion of women on corporate boards has occurred in countries that have already adopted legislation on compulsory quotas, and that in Member States in which no compulsory measures have been implemented, companies are still a long way from achieving an acceptable gender balance; emphasises, therefore, that the positive effects of binding targets are tangible proof that companies can comply with measures intended to guarantee balanced recruitment from a gender point of view;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls on the Commission to create incentives for Member States, regional and local authorities to obtain a more balanced representation of women and men in
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls on the Commission to create incentives for Member States to obtain a more balanced representation of women and men in parliaments and in the Commission and
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls on the
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls on the Commission to create incentives for Member States to obtain a more balanced representation of women and men in
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C b (new) C b. whereas the achievement of gender equality requires an intersectional approach that takes into account the full diversity of all sexes including ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, religion, nationality and age,
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls on
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls on the Commission to create incentives for Member States to obtain a more balanced representation of women and men in the national, regional and municipal parliaments and in the Commission and emphasises in this connection the importance of electoral lists alternating by gender and of proposing both a woman and a man candidate for senior EU positions;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls on the Commission to create incentives for Member States to obtain a more balanced representation of women and men in
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Stresses that in the period 2003-2013 the average increase in female participation in the national parliaments of countries without quota legislation was only 3.5 percentage points, compared with the average of 10.3 percentage points in countries that had had quota legislation in place for more than one parliamentary term; consequently highlights the importance of quotas for increasing the presence of women in political decision- making; encourages the Commission and Member States, within the framework of the new Strategy, to consider the possibility of establishing binding measures in this respect;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Stresses the importance that policies aimed for equality between women and men in employment should acknowledge the potential vulnerabilities of women in top professions, in particular the Commission should promote policies against harassment in the work place 1 a; __________________ 1a Sexual harassment is more commonly experienced by women with a university degree and by women in the highest occupational groups: 75 % of women in the top management category and 74 % of those in the professional occupational category have experienced sexual harassment in their lifetime, compared with 44 % of women in the occupational category ‘skilled manual worker’ or 41 % of women who state that they have never done paid work. http://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2014/v iolence-against-women-eu-wide-survey- main-results-report, page 96
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Notes that in 2012, according to Commission figures, 31.6% of men and 40% of women in the EU aged between 30 and 34 have a higher education qualification; points out that women account for 60% of new graduates but are underrepresented in, for example, the science and research sector; calls on the Commission and the Member States to raise women's awareness of training in the above field and ensure that they have the same chances as men to enter the corresponding professions and make a career in them;
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 b (new) 21b. Notes that women in general have careers without significant progression; calls on the Member States to encourage and support women to have successful careers, including through positive actions such as networking and mentoring programmes, as well as creating adequate conditions and having equal opportunities with men at all ages for training, advancement, re-skilling and re-training, as well as pension rights and unemployment benefits that are equal to those applicable to men;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Stresses the importance of support programmes for women entrepreneurs and for women in science and academia and urges the EU to support these programmes in a more tangible manner within the framework of healthy and fair competition and taking into consideration each Member State’s commercial law;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Stresses the importance of support programmes for women entrepreneurs and for women in science and academia and urges the EU to support these programmes in a more tangible manner. Potential women entrepreneurs, scientist and academics should be made aware of support programmes and funding opportunities;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Asks public and private organisations to introduce those equality plans in their internal regulations, accompanying them with specific short-, medium- and long-term targets, and to conduct annual assessments on the effective achievement of those targets;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 – having regard to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women on 15 September 1995
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C c (new) C c. whereas the gap in education, employment, health and discrimination between Roma and the mainstream society remains wide, the situation for Roma women in the EU is even worse as a result of multiple discrimination based on both ethnicity and sex,
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Insists on the fact that gender equality in the economy is very important for rural development and requests support for political efforts to strengthen women’s role in agriculture and for their appropriate representation in all the political, economic and social forums of the agricultural sector, so that the decision-making process may equally reflect the points of view of women and of men;
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Calls for all EU institutions to take internal measures to increase equality within their own decision-making bodies, both for democratic reasons, and to increase confidence in equality issues; believes that equality should be a requirement for the Commission and that the appointment of a Commission on the basis of equality is an important indicator for future equality work.
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Encourages Member States to promote measures and actions to assist and advice women who decide to become entrepreneurs, stressing that financial independence is a key way to equality; calls on the Member States to encourage women entrepreneurship, facilitate access to credit, cut red tape and other obstacles to women's start-ups;
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Calls on the Commission to analyse and develop proposals for ways to interest women in the establishment of undertakings;
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 b (new) 22b. Stresses the fact that women constitute 52% of the total European population, but only one-third of the self- employed or of all business starters in the EU, highlights that women face more difficulties than men in access to finance, training, networking, and in maintaining a work life balance; therefore calls on the European Commission and the Member States to encourage female entrepreneurship and utilising the potential of half of Europe's population to ensure sustained, long term growth;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 b (new) 22b. Calls on the Commission to investigate why young women (under 25) in particular often view gender topics critically and reject quota systems;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the Commission to present specific measures to ensure the transparency of salaries and thereby to reduce the gender pay gap within the next 5 years to less than 10% on average in the EU and to submit an annual progress report on this matter;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the Commission to present specific measures to ensure the transparency of salaries and thereby to reduce the gender pay gap within the next 5 years to less than 10% on average in the EU, with the specific aim of closing the pay gap completely and to submit an annual progress report
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the Commission to present specific measures to ensure the transparency of salaries and thereby to reduce the gender pay gap
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas the economic and political situation in Europe can only be
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the Commission to present specific measures to ensure the transparency of salaries and thereby to reduce the
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the Commission to present specific measures to ensure the transparency of salaries and thereby to reduce the gender pay gap within the next 5 years to less than 10% on average in the EU and to submit an annual progress report on this matter;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the Commission to present specific measures to ensure the transparency of salaries and thereby to reduce the gender pay gap within the next 5 years to less than 10% on average in the
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Calls on the Commission when developing specific measures to reduce gender pay gap to take into consideration the structural wage differences, women are lower paid largely because of the segregation of labour market and because women's education and job is lower valued than men's, even men are paid poorer in women dominated professions and sectors than men with the same educational background in a male dominated profession and sectors;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 b (new) 23b. Points out how important it is for the Commission to involve the social partners in the work to implement these measures. The social partners should also be assured a central role in the national implementation of the measures;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take account of demographic developments and changes in the size and composition of households when designing their fiscal policies, social security and public services; notes that the number of single person households is on the rise in most EU Member States, but most policies directly or indirectly discriminate against them and put them at an undue disadvantage; believes that people should not be rewarded or punished for the particular size and composition of the household they are part of, calls therefore for policies to be neutral with regard to household size or composition;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Calls on the Commission to support the Member States in fighting poverty, which particularly affects single mothers and was further increased by the crisis, leading to increased social exclusion;
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Calls on the Commission to support Member States to increasingly use the Structural Funds for investments in public child- and elderly care, as a core strategy to increase women's participation in the labour market;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Reiterates that Directive 2006/54/EC, in its current form, is not sufficiently effective to tackle the gender pay gap and achieve the objective of gender equality in employment and occupation; urges the Commission to revise Directive 2006/54/EC without delay.
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 a (new) 24a. Stresses that pensions are an important determinant of their beneficiaries' economic independence. Focusing on gaps in pensions should be the natural sequel to an action tackling the gender pay gaps. Those gaps would reflect the cumulated disadvantages of a career spent in a gender-biased labour market.
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas the economic and political situation in Europe can only be maintained and the
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 a (new) 24a. Points out how important it is that the investment package and youth guarantee are not only targeted at investments in male-dominated occupations and sectors but that the Commission also focuses its investment policy on occupations and sectors dominated by women, for example by calling on Member States to support investment in social infrastructure, such as childcare and care of the elderly;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 a (new) 24a. Calls on the Commission to promote, among Member States, the allocation of sustainable funding to organisations and agencies dedicated to helping girls & women at risk of violence.
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Stresses the importance of publishing best practice examples and initiatives so as to counteract the tendency towards de- skilling and to improve the recognition of diplomas and qualifications, because other
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Stresses the importance of
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 a (new) 25a. emphasises the need to simplify the procedure of obtaining financial and other support for female entrepreneurs,
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 a (new) 25a. Stress the fact that when establishing and running a business one of the main challenges faced by female entrepreneurs is the access to finance;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 a (new) 25a. Stresses that direct and indirect discrimination on pay is inseparable from the attack on collective bargaining and salaries, policies that are on a clear collision course with employment rights due to all workers and women in particular. The identification of wage discrimination and the promotion of equal pay is inseparable from a new policy based on raising wages and the achievement of ‘equal pay for equal work or work of equal value’;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 a (new) 25a. Calls on the Commission to calculate the connection between an increased level of employment for women and increased sustainable growth; calls on the commission to highlight the positive effects of equality in the labour market for the economy;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 b (new) 25b. Stresses that care work should be valued as the skilled work it is. The quality of care for children and the elderly is closely connected with personal circumstances. Sufficient continuity is required over time to build up the relationships required for good care. Paid care work is currently dominated by women. Wages and conditions in the care sector are therefore equally important for the ability of women to become economically independent;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) D a. whereas we cannot remain tied to redundant, environmentally unsustainable economic models based on an outdated distribution of work along gender lines which has been superseded by the integration of women in the labour market; whereas we need a new, socially sustainable model based on knowledge and innovation that incorporates the full range of women’s talent in the productive fabric, redresses the balance of responsibility between men and women in the public and private spheres and harmonises the personal and working lives of workers of both genders;
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls on the Commission to assist Member States in ensuring high-quality, geographically appropriate and readily accessible services in the area of sexual and reproductive health and rights, safe and legal abortion and contraception as well as general health care, including fertility treatments to all women without any kind of discrimination;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. C
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls on the Commission to assist Member States in ensuring high-quality, geographically appropriate and
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls on the Commission to assist Member States in ensuring high-quality, geographically appropriate and readily accessible services in the area of sexual and reproductive health a
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls on the Commission to assist Member States in ensuring equal access to high-quality, geographically appropriate and readily accessible health services, in
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls on the Commission to assist Member States in ensuring high-quality, geographically appropriate and readily accessible services in the area of sexual and reproductive health
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls on the Commission to assist Member States in ensuring high-quality, geographically appropriate and readily accessible services in the area of
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 a (new) 26a. Stresses that due to austerity measures and cutbacks in health and care services, women are increasingly bearing the burden of care for children and/or elderly, sick or disabled relatives; whereas universal access and affordable, high quality support services such as childcare facilities, facilities for the elderly and other dependants is important for equal participation of women and men in the labour market and as a means to prevent and reduce poverty;
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 a (new) 26a. Urges the European Commission to include Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in its next EU Health Strategy to ensure equality between women and men and to complement national SRHR policies.
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 a (new) 26a. Draws attention to Members States to focus on the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and prevention methods, as well as on prevention and research in order to improve early detection of diseases as female cancers (breast, cervix, and ovaries cancers) by (gynaecological) regular controls/check- up;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 a (new) 26a. Reiterates its call on the European Commission and the World Health Organisation to withdraw gender identity disorders from the list of mental and behavioural disorders, and to ensure a non-pathologising reclassification in the negotiations on the 11th version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), and to ensure that gender diversity in childhood is not pathologized.
Amendment 341 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 b (new) 26b. Recognising the importance of sexual and reproductive rights, calls on the Commission to create best practice models of sex and relationship education for young people across Europe.
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 b (new) 26b. Stresses that the Commission need to carry out a gender audit, in order to ensure that EU health policies and EU funded research increasingly address women's health status and diagnosis;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 b (new) 26b. Calls on the European Commission to promote access to patient-centred and appropriate healthcare to all women, without discrimination on the grounds of their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, disability, socio-economic status, ethnic origin, religion or belief, nationality and age.
Amendment 344 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Stresses the importance of a
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Stresses the importance of national awareness-
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 Amendment 349 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) D a. whereas the employment rate is a major indicator for measuring inequality between men and women, and the quality and conditions of employment are important parameters for measuring this inequality;
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Calls on the Commission to encourage Member States to enshrine (medical) fertility support a
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Calls on the Commission to encourage Member States to enshrine (medical) fertility support as an individual right; and also notes in this connection the importance of support for adoption and the right of all children to know their parents;
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Calls on the Commission to encourage Member States to enshrine (medical) fertility support as an individual right, including for single women and lesbians;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Calls on the Commission to encourage Member States to enshrine (medical) fertility support as an individual right and to end discrimination in access to fertility treatment and assisted reproduction;
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28a. Calls on Commission and Member States to implement programs on sexual education in schools, counselling and access to contraception to young people,
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D b (new) D b. whereas providing access to affordable, high-quality childcare and support services for the elderly and other dependants is essential for ensuring the equal participation of men and women in the labour market, education and training;
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Calls on the Commission to create incentives for competent training in the critical use of the media in the Member States, regional and local authorities to encourage the questioning of stereotypes and structures and to share best practice examples so as to review the ways in which roles have been stereotyped in the educational material used so far; calls on the Commission, in this connection, to support programmes to raise awareness of stereotypes and traditional gender roles in the education and media sector; emphasises in this connection the importance of gender-equitable teaching methods for teachers, so that they can clearly explain the benefits of gender equality and a diverse society;
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Calls on the Commission to create incentives for competent training in the critical use of the media in the Member States to encourage the questioning of stereotypes and structures and to share best practice examples so as to review the ways in which roles have been stereotyped in the educational material used so far; calls on the Commission, in this connection, to support programmes to raise awareness of stereotypes and traditional gender roles in the education and media sector; notes the development of a culture of trivialisation of violence in general, of ‘every man for himself’ individualism, of the proliferation of images of women as sexual objects and the attempted transformation of prostitution into ‘sex work’ and its victims into ‘sex workers’; emphasises in this connection the importance of gender-equitable teaching methods for teachers, so that they can clearly explain the benefits of gender equality and a diverse society;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Calls on the Commission to create incentives for competent training in the critical use of the media in the Member States to encourage the questioning of stereotypes and structures and to share best practice examples so as to review the ways in which roles have been stereotyped in the
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Calls on the Commission to create incentives for competent training in the critical use of the media in the Member States to encourage the questioning of stereotypes and structures and to share best practice examples so as to review the ways in which roles have been stereotyped in the educational material used so far; calls on the Commission, in this connection, to support programmes to raise awareness of stereotypes and traditional gender roles in the education and media sector; emphasises in this regard that combating bullying and prejudice against LGBTI persons in schools, whether of students, parents or teachers, should be part of the EU's efforts to combat gender stereotypes; emphasises in this connection the importance of gender-equitable teaching methods for teachers, so that they can clearly explain the benefits of gender equality and a diverse society;
Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29a. Stresses that the EU should help combating bullying of trans persons in schools whether of students or parents, as part of its efforts to combat gender stereotypes;
Amendment 365 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29a. Stresses that Member States should ensure that commercial audiovisual communications do not contain any sex discrimination, or humiliating depictions of women, and that instead they promote the equivalence of the roles of women and men in society; they should also improve women’s access to the media and, in particular, to the decision-making structures of those media;
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29a. Stresses that gaining legitimacy by assuming the character of news media never justifies threats and harassment and refers in particular to internet-based media which, as self-appointed newssheets, spread hatred and threats unimpeded and are often targeted at women and girls.
Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29a. Calls on the Commission to sensitise the Member States to the need for public and legal media to act as a role model in the presentation of diversity and to reject every form of discriminatory advertising;
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29a. Points to the decisive role education plays in combating gender stereotypes and ending gender-based discrimination; stresses that boys and men need to be included in promoting women rights and gender equality;
Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29a. Calls on the Commission to analyse what potential is offered to women by the digitisation of commercial life in particular and to prepare proposals for ways to promote and use this potential even more effectively;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas th
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29a. Underlines that educating and empowering of women has a positive impact for themselves as well as for the society and economy in general
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 b (new) 29b. Stresses the necessity of gender- sensitive teaching which will not only ensure greater life choices for people but will also in the long term ensure a balanced representation of women and men in all areas of the labour market and society;
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 b (new) 29b. Stresses that in order to eliminate gender stereotypes and promote equal behaviour models in social and economic life, it is extremely important to inculcate these values from an early age, and to carry out awareness campaigns in workplaces, and the media, highlighting men's role in promoting equality, the equal distribution of family responsibilities and creation of work-life balance;
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 c (new) 29c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to commit themselves more firmly to ending the sexist stereotypes conveyed by the media and draws attention to important measures included in Parliament's report on the elimination of gender stereotypes, which was adopted in 2013;
Amendment 374 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 d (new) 29d. Calls on the Member States, and especially media regulators, to consider the place accorded – in both quantitative and qualitative terms – to women and to promote a balanced, non-stereotyped image of women, and in a way that is respectful of women's dignity, their diverse roles and their identity and placing greater emphasis on her social development, constitutional rights and her role in civil society, the institutions and the working world in the media, and in advertising and promotional materials and television in particular, not least in order to avoid conveying gender stereotypes, and curb any tendency to hyper-sexualise little girls;
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 Amendment 377 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Stresses that compliance with gender equality should be considered a criterion for all EU-funded research programmes by instituting and adopting legal and ethical rules and criteria for determining the boundaries of the concept of ‘gender equality’;
Amendment 378 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Stresses that compliance with gender equality should be considered a criterion for all EU-funded culture, education, and research programmes;
Amendment 379 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Stresses that compliance with gender equality should be considered a criterion for all EU-funded research programmes and asks the Commission to include a specific area of gender research within the Horizon 2020 programme;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas this year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Stresses that compliance with gender equality should be considered a criterion for
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 31. Instructs the Commission to conduct a study of the everyday impact of the gender
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 31. Instructs the Commission to conduct a study of the everyday impact of the gender portrayal in public life, the media and educational institutions, focusing in particular on school bullying, hate speech and gender-based violence;
Amendment 385 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 a (new) 31a. Calls on the Commission to coordinate Member States actions aiming at fighting against gender-based school bullying, hate speech and violence.
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Calls on the Commission to focus campaigns for the active participation of citizens in society especially on women and legal women migrants;
Amendment 388 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Calls on the Commission to focus campaigns for the active participation of citizens in society especially on women and
Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Calls on the Commission
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas
Amendment 390 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Calls on the Commission to focus campaigns for the active participation of citizens in society especially on women
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 a (new) 32a. requests that the Commission and the Member States promote efficient measures in order to guarantee equal opportunities for women in agriculture, who must represent a central focus in all relevant EU policies, with a view to the improvement of the quality of life of women living in rural areas, by ensuring their easiest possible access to education, social protection and professional training, lifelong learning, efficient and appropriate local public health services, infrastructure and services for children and family, especially nurseries, kindergartens, schools, cultural centres and local markets;
Amendment 394 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 Amendment 395 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 Amendment 398 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 Amendment 399 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 33. Calls on the Commission to assist Member States, which choose to do so, in the establishment of university Chairs for gender studies and feminist research;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 a (new) - having regard to its resolution of 10 December 2013 on sexual and reproductive health and rights
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas one in two women experiences one or more forms of sexual harassment in the course of her life and a life free of violence and characterised by self- determination is a prerequisite for full participation in society
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 a (new) 33a. Calls on the Commission to contribute to combatting the bulling in educational setting; emphasises the need to encourage peer learning among EU Member States and promote existing best practices tackling bulling and in particular homophobic and transphobic bulling;
Amendment 401 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Underscores
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Underscores that universal access to sexual and reproductive health and the associated rights is a fundamental human right, and calls on the Commission to ensure that European development cooperation adopts an approach based on a human rights; emphasises the
Amendment 403 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Underscores that universal access to sexual and reproductive health and the associated rights
Amendment 404 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34.
Amendment 405 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Underscores that universal access to sexual and reproductive health and the associated rights is a fundamental human right, and calls on the Commission to ensure that European development cooperation adopts an approach based on a human rights; emphasises the importance of family planning services, information and education to reduce maternal and infant mortality and eliminate female genital mutilation, child-bride and forced marriages, selective, gender-based abortion, registration at birth and forced sterilisation;
Amendment 406 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Underscores that universal access to sexual and reproductive health and the associated rights is a fundamental human right, and calls on the Commission to ensure that European development cooperation adopts an approach based on a human rights; emphasises the importance of family planning services, including contraception and abortion services; and highlights the need for information and education to reduce maternal and
Amendment 407 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34.
Amendment 408 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 34. Underscores that universal access to
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 a (new) 34a. Underscores that it is absolutely necessary to integrate the gender perspective in all elements of food safety programming because women are responsible for 80 % of agriculture in Africa;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas
Amendment 410 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 a (new) 34a. Stresses the importance of conducting information and awareness campaigns in communities where these gender-based human rights violations are practiced;
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 a (new) 34a. Calls for ambitious gender-specific targets to be set, both in EU and beyond, as regards ending the feminisation of poverty and closing gender gaps, including enhanced access for women and girls to quality education, including secondary education, universal access to quality health services, the enhancement of access for women and girls to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including family planning and abortion services, the ending of all forms of violence against women and girls as well as gender based violence, and the boosting of women's social and economic independence, particularly in terms of employment and their participation in decision-making processes; stresses the urgent need to include gender equality, women's rights, the empowerment of women and human rights of women and girls as a stand-alone goal in the post- 2015 global development framework, as the post-2015 development framework will be a universal agenda for global development, urges the European Commission to include SRHR in its next EU Health Strategy;
Amendment 412 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 35. Calls on the Commission, in the Neighbourhood Policy and development cooperation, trade and diplomatic relations, to work for the introduction of a standard that defines women’s rights as a human right and makes respect for this right mandatory and reminds it that international relations can be used as an incentive or a penalty if these standards are not observed; emphasises the importance of participatory collaboration with all stakeholders, especially with civil society organisations and the regional and communal organs of the state in the context of development cooperation.
Amendment 413 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 35. Calls on the Commission, in the Neighbourhood Policy and development cooperation, trade and diplomatic relations, to work for the introduction of a standard that defines women’s rights
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 35. Calls on the Commission, in the Neighbourhood Policy and development cooperation, trade and diplomatic relations, to work for the maint
Amendment 415 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 35. Calls on the Commission, in the Neighbourhood Policy and development cooperation, trade and diplomatic relations, to work for the introduction of a standard that defines women’s rights as a human right and makes respect for this right mandatory; emphasises the importance of participatory collaboration with all stakeholders, especially with civil society organisations and local and regional government associations in the context of development cooperation;
Amendment 416 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 35. Calls on the Commission, in the Neighbourhood Policy and development cooperation, trade and diplomatic relations, to work for the introduction of a standard that defines women
Amendment 417 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 35. Calls on the Commission, in the Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy and development cooperation, trade and diplomatic relations, to work for the introduction of a standard that defines women’s rights as a human right and makes respect for this right mandatory, making gender equality one of the core points for any bilateral negotiations; emphasises the importance of participatory collaboration with all stakeholders, especially with civil society organisations and local and regional government associations in the context of development cooperation;
Amendment 418 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 35. Calls on the Commission, in the Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy and development cooperation, trade and diplomatic relations, to work for the introduction of a standard that defines women’s rights as a human right and makes respect for this right mandatory; to ensure that women are protected against discrimination and violence, including on the grounds of their gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics; emphasises the importance of participatory collaboration with all stakeholders, especially with civil society organisations in the context of development cooperation;
Amendment 419 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 a (new) 35a. Urges the Commission to recognise that placing girls at the forefront of global development delivers a framework for ensuring that girls´ human rights are respected, promoted and fulfilled. Hence, the Commission should include the ´Girl Declaration´ and its aims at the centre of the post-2015 gender equality strategy
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36 36. Calls on the Commission to promote the creation of an action plan on UN Security Council Resolutions 1325
Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36 a (new) 36a. Urges that the provision of EU humanitarian aid and that of its Member States should not be subject to restrictions imposed by other partner donors regarding necessary medical treatment, including access to safe abortion for women and girls who are victims of rape in armed conflicts;
Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36 a (new) 36a. Points out that although there are gender advisers in both the military and civil crisis management missions in which the European Union takes part, the number of women involved in operations and missions, at all levels of decision- making, and in the negotiations of peace and reconstruction processes still needs to be increased;
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36 a (new) 36a. Strongly condemns the continued use of sexual violence against women as a weapon of war; stresses that more needs to be done to ensure respect of international law, protection of victims, access to medical and psychological support for women and girls abused in conflicts;
Amendment 424 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 Amendment 426 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 37. Stresses the importance of a gender-
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 37. Stresses the importance of a gender- sensitive asylum and migration policy
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 37. Stresses the importance of a gender- sensitive asylum and migration policy, the recognition of the threat of genital mutilation as a reason for asylum and the development of appropriate guidelines and the coordination of best practice examples; emphasises in this connection
Amendment 429 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 a (new) 37a. Calls on Commission to assess and identify specific actions that can ensure that women asylum seekers rights are strengthened and fully respected throughout the asylum procedure;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas one in two women experiences one or more forms of sexual harassment in the course of her life and as much as 34% of trans people experience harassment and violence in public, the vast majority of them being women and whereas a life free of violence and characterised by self- determination is a prerequisite for full participation in society;
Amendment 430 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 38 Amendment 431 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 38 Amendment 432 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 38 38. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 433 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 38 a (new) 38a. Stresses in this connection the importance of continuous and intensive cooperation between the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and the European External Action Service;
Amendment 434 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 38 a (new) 38a. Insists that gender balance needs to be rooted in the EEAS overseas missions and a dedicated girls' and women's rights and gender equality strategy for each mission; plus a specific gender equality chapter rooted in the next EEAS Human Rights Action Plan;
Amendment 435 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 Amendment 436 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 Amendment 437 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 39. Calls on the Commission to promote the use of gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting and gender impact assessment in all areas
Amendment 438 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 39. Calls on the Commission to promote the use of gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting and gender impact assessment in all areas,
Amendment 439 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 39. Calls on the Commission to promote the use of gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting and gender impact assessment in all areas
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) F a. whereas forced Prostitution is violence that particularly affects the most vulnerable, is mainly about organized crime networks and trafficking in human beings and is an obstacle to equality between women and men;
Amendment 440 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 39. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 441 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 a (new) 39a. Asks the European institutions to incorporate the gender perspective in the Community budget procedure for the purpose not only of analysing the programmes that are especially directed at women, but also of examining all Community programmes and policies, their impact on the allocation of resources and their contribution to equality between men and women; asks the Court of Auditors also to incorporate the gender perspective when assessing the execution of the Union budget; asks Member States similarly to introduce the gender dimension in their budgets in order to analyse government programmes and policies, their impact on the allocation of resources and their contribution to equality between men and women;
Amendment 442 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40 40. Calls on the Commission also to encourage cooperation between Member States, regional and local authorities women's NGOs and the social partners;
Amendment 443 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40 40. Calls on the Commission also to encourage cooperation between Member States, women's NGOs and the social partners at regional level;
Amendment 444 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40 40. Calls on the Commission also to encourage cooperation between Member States, including at the local and regional level, and women's NGOs and the social partners;
Amendment 445 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 41. Stresses the importance of adequate funding for national anti-discrimination bodies; calls in this connection also on the Commission to support the implementation of the European Charter for Equality of women and men in local life, the continuity of non-governmental organisations through
Amendment 446 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 41. Stresses the importance of adequate funding for national gender equality and anti-discrimination bodies; calls in this connection also on the Commission to support the continuity of non-governmental organisations , in particular women's organisations and other organisations working on gender equality issues through adequate and predictable financial assistance; calls in this connection also for continued financial support for the Daphne programme and for its profile to be maintained in order to continue to allow in particular women's rights organisations on the ground in the Member States to combat violence against women;
Amendment 447 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 41. Stresses the importance of adequate funding for national anti-discrimination bodies; calls in this connection also on the Commission to support the implementation of the European Charter for Equality of women and men in local life, and the continuity of non- governmental organisations through adequate and predictable financial assistance; calls in this connection also for continued financial support for the Daphne programme and for its profile to be maintained in order to continue to allow in particular women's rights organisations on the ground in the Member States to combat violence against women;
Amendment 448 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 41. Stresses the importance of adequate
Amendment 449 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42 42. Stresses the importance of the partnership between the Commission and the Parliament and therefore proposes that the Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality submit an annual progress report in oral and written form to the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality - from the perspective both of the Commission and of Member States, adopting a country specific approach in reporting, with specific information on each Member State - on the objectives set out in the strategy;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) F a. whereas violence against women, including psychological violence is a major obstacle for gender equality and an infringement of fundamental rights, continuing to be one of the most widespread infringements of human rights;
Amendment 450 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42 a (new) 42a. Calls for the Commission to collaborate with the European Parliament and the Council and call an Annual EU Summit for gender equality and women's rights, to identify progress made, and to make renewed commitments;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas, owing to traditional structures and tax disincentives, women have had the unacceptable second-earner status imposed on them, in the form of segregation in the labour market, an incomplete employment history and gender-specific wage inequality, and whereas also unpaid care, nursing and domestic work is performed much more frequently by women who thus have less time available to pursue paid work, which in turn results in a much lower pension, which is why the compatibility of work and family life, in particular to achieve the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy, should continue to be supported by practical measures, a process in which men in particular need to become more involved;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas, owing to traditional structures deep-rooted societal stereotypes and tax disincentives, women have often had second-earner status imposed on them, in the form of segregation in the labour market, an incomplete employment history and gender-specific wage inequality
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas, owing to traditional structures and tax disincentives, women have had second-earner status imposed on them, in the form of both vertical and horizontal segregation in the labour market, an incomplete employment history and gender-specific wage inequality, and whereas also unpaid care, nursing and domestic work is performed much more frequently by women who thus have less time available to pursue paid work, which in turn results in a much lower pension,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 16 a (new) - having regard to the Directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, the Regulation on mutual recognition of protection measures in civil matters and the Directive on the European Protection Order up to 2015 and beyond
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas, owing to traditional structures, the lack of concrete measures to support reconciliation and tax disincentives, women have had second-earner status imposed on them, in the form of segregation in the labour market, an incomplete employment history and gender-specific wage inequality, and whereas also unpaid care, nursing and domestic work is performed much more frequently by women who thus have less time available to pursue paid work, which in turn results in a much lower pension, which is why the compatibility of work and family life, in particular to achieve the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy, should continue to be supported by practical measures, a process in which men in particular need to become more involved;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) G a. whereas the industrial sector has historically set the standards for wages and continues do to so, the setting of wages in occupations traditionally dominated by women has been considered of secondary importance and has treated women unfairly. Questioning some industrial norms and the factors that assign men and women to different occupations will bring us closer to the principle of equal pay for equal work which must be promoted.
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) G a. whereas women in rural areas suffer more from multiple discrimination and gender stereotypes than women in urban areas and the employment rate of women in rural areas is much lower than that of women in cities; whereas, in addition, a lot of women are never active in the official labour market and, therefore, are neither registered as unemployed nor included in unemployment statistics, which leads to particular financial and legal problems in relation to the right to maternity and sick leave, the acquisition of pension rights and access to social security, as well as problems in the event of divorce;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas positions of power and decision-making are occupied
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas positions of power and decision-making are occupied almost exclusively by men, and women are therefore severely limited in their ability to wield influence; the exclusion of women from positions of power and decision- making bodies has a detrimental effect on their ability to influence both their own development and emancipation and the development of society.
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas positions of power and decision-making are occupied almost exclusively by men, and women are therefore severely limited in their ability to wield influence; whereas that lack of female responsibility represents a lack of democratic legitimacy in decision-making, given that women make up half of the population;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas the female employment rate is 63% and 53,5% if employment is measured in full-time equivalents1 a; whereas the gender pay gap stands at 16.4% and the gender pension gap is 39% on average; whereas positions of power and decision-making are occupied almost exclusively by men, and women are therefore severely limited in their ability to wield influence; __________________ 1aCommission, Report on Progress on equality between women and men 2012, page 8 (SWD(2013) 171).
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) H a. whereas positive action in support of women has proven to be essential to their full integration in the labour market, political and economic decision-making and society in general;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 18 Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) H a. whereas the use of gender quotas and zipped lists in political decision making have proven most effective tools in addressing the discrimination and gender power imbalances and improving democratic representation in political decision making bodies,
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) H a. whereas the failure to promote policies making for work-life balance, the insufficient promotion of flexible working hours, especially among men and the low take up rate of parental and paternity leave pose important obstacles for the women's economic independence and for the equal sharing of family and domestic responsibilities.
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas the face of poverty in Europe is female, and it is particularly single mothers, disabled women and young and old women who are affected by poverty and social exclusion, a situation aggravated by the crisis and specific austerity measures because it is particularly public sector jobs and services in the care sector that are being eliminated; it is therefore extremely important that the economic crisis is not allowed to justify a decline in work on equality. An economic crisis does not make it impossible to view policy from a gender-based perspective in more difficult economic times, but makes this perspective even more important.
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas the face of poverty in Europe is
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas the face of poverty in Europe is female, and it is particularly single mothers, young and old women who are affected by poverty and social exclusion, a situation aggravated by the crisis and specific austerity measures
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas the face of poverty in
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas the face of poverty in Europe is female, and it is particularly single mothers, young and old women who are affected by social exclusion, a situation aggravated by the crisis and specific austerity measures because it is particularly public sector jobs and services in the care sector that are being eliminated; whereas the employment level is lower in rural areas and, also, a significant number of women are not present in the official labour market; whereas rural areas are affected by the absence of high-quality employment opportunities;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas the face of poverty in Europe is female, and it is particularly single mothers, young and old women, and migrant and ethnic minority women who are affected by poverty and social exclusion, a
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas the face of poverty in Europe is female, and it is particularly single mothers, young and old women who are affected by poverty and social exclusion, a situation aggravated by the
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas combating poverty is one of the Commission's five measurable targets proposed for EU 2020; whereas the face of poverty in Europe is female, and it is particularly single mothers, migrant, young and old women who are affected by poverty and social exclusion, a situation aggravated by the crisis and specific austerity measures because it is
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 28 a (new) - having regard to its resolution on sexual and reproductive health and rights of 10 December 20131 __________________ 1 Text adopted, P7_TA (2013) 0548
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas the face of poverty in Europe is female, and it is particularly single mothers, young
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas the face of poverty in Europe is female, and it is particularly single mothers, young and old women who are affected by poverty and social exclusion, a situation aggravated by the crisis
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas the face of poverty in Europe is
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) I a. whereas traditional gender roles and stereotypes still exert a great deal of influence over the division of labour in the home, in education, in careers, in the workplace and in society in general;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) I a. whereas approximately 42% of those actors regularly involved in agriculture in the EU are women and three out of ten agricultural holdings in the EU are managed by women, and promoting the principle of equal opportunities for women and men, together with ensuring increased participation of women in economic and social life as forefront actors, must represent constant preoccupations at European level;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas gender stereotypes and traditional structures have a negative impact on health and universal access to sexual and reproductive health and the associated rights is a fundamental human right which should therefore never be restricted. The right to control your own body and to self-determination is a fundamental prerequisite for universal equality;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas gender stereotypes and traditional structures have a negative impact on health and universal access to
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 28 a (new) - having regard to the report of the European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) entitled 'Discrimination against and living conditions of Roma women in 11 EU Member States' published in October 2014,
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas gender stereotypes and traditional structures have a negative impact on health and universal access to
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) J a. whereas one in six couples worldwide experience some form of infertility problem and whereas Commission should put forward a new Comparative Analysis of Medically Assisted Reproduction in the EU as the 2008 study (SANCO/2008/C6/051), which then showed significant inequality of access to fertility treatment, is outdated;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) J a. whereas the Programme of Action of the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development gives a definition of sexual and reproductive health and rights;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) J a. whereas the Cairo ICPD Programme of Action gives a definition of sexual and reproductive health and rights;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) J a. whereas lesbian, bisexual, and trans women and intersex individuals face grave and persistent violations of their rights to health and to bodily integrity, and ongoing discriminatory practices in access to healthcare as a result of gender stereotypes,
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 28 a (new) - having regard to the report of the European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) entitled 'Being Trans in the EU - Comparative analysis of the EU LGBT survey data' published in December 2014.
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas the
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas the roles of girls and boys are being
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) K a. whereas the use of non-stereotypical education methods and materials are key to strengthening gender equality, and whereas feminist self-defence is an effective tool for empowering girls,
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) K a. whereas Trans persons face frequent discrimination, harassment and violence across EU today due to their gender identity or gender expression,
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas the EU has a responsibility and a role as model for gender equality world- wide, gender equality, the fight against gender violence and the empowerment of women are essential if the international development goals are to be attained and for
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas the EU has a responsibility and a role as model for gender equality world- wide, gender equality and the empowerment of women are essential if the international development goals are to be attained and for a successful EU foreign policy
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas the EU
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Amendment A #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment B #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that economic growth and competitiveness in the EU are dependent on closing the gap between women
Amendment C #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) Amendment D #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Emphasises that the unequal division of family responsibilities is
Amendment E #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Takes the view that there is an urgent need for a common position of the Council relative to the revision of the directive on the implementation of measures to promote improvements in the health and safety at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding which prevent the unfair dismissal of employees during pregnancy;
Amendment F #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of several factors including women’s career breaks, the gender pay gap (16,4%), the pension gap (39%), gender inequalities in career progression, the fact that women are often employed on non- standard contracts (such as involuntary part-time, interim or zero hours contracts) and the absence of a social security status for partners assisting self-employed workers and poverty in households headed by single mothers
Amendment G #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6
Amendment H #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Takes the view that initiatives and measures must be taken, principally in the field of education and training, including higher education, to combat stereotyped perceptions of women's employment; stresses the need to promote and support female entrepreneurship especially mother's entrepreneurship, and career in science and the ICT sector, underlines the importance of STEM studies as well as the involvement of women in high growth industry sectors like Research & Development which would significantly boost Europe's economic growth and competitiveness;
Amendment I #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Highlights the need to support transparent procedures on women appointment for non-executive members in company boards listed on stock exchanges , encourages the public and private sector to envisage voluntary schemes to promote women in managerial positions and calls on the European Council to finally adopt a common position after the first EP reading of the Women on Boards directive;
Amendment J #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Highlights th
Amendment K #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Considers that policies and instruments aimed at tackling youth unemployment, such as the Youth Guarantee and the Youth Employment Initiative, should meet the specific needs of young men and women in order to enable them to access the labour market; and notes that the proportion of young women not in employment, education or training (NEET) is higher than that of men; also calls for collection of gender- disaggregated data in the area of youth unemployment in order to develop tailored, evidence-based policies;
Amendment L #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Encourages the Member States to recognize the potential of the latest public procurement Directive as a tool to promote and enhance gender mainstreaming policy by considering setting requirements based on the existing Member States' legislation on equal treatment and gender equality as prerequisites for public procurement contracts where applicable; acknowledges that EU legislation on competition must be complied with in developing this idea.
Amendment M #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a (new). Recalls the importance of thoroughly implementing anti- discrimination legislation, taking into consideration an intersectionality approach; Welcomes the reversed burden of proof in Directive 2006/54/EC in favour of women, who are presumed in legal proceedings to be the victims of sexual discrimination, but wishes to stress that this provision will not be effective unless there is a recognised right for such women to access information held by employers, as proposed by the European Commission for Directive 97/80/EC relating to the burden of proof in sexual discrimination cases, but ultimately not adopted; Further stresses the need for tougher regulation on discrimination against women in the workplace and tougher sanctions on employers who do discriminate;
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