2019/2168(INI) Closing the digital gender gap: women’s participation in the digital economy
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading 2020/12/14
Lead committee dossier:
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading 2020/12/14
Progress: Awaiting committee decision
| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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| Lead | FEMM |
CARVALHO Maria da Graça ( EPP)
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LEITÃO-MARQUES Maria-Manuel ( S&D),
MELCHIOR Karen ( Renew),
ANDERSON Christine ( ID),
REINTKE Terry ( Verts/ALE),
MOŻDŻANOWSKA Andżelika Anna ( ECR),
MODIG Silvia ( GUE/NGL)
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| Committee Opinion | ITRE |
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54
Legal Basis:
RoP 54Subjects
Events
2020/12/14
Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading
2020/09/30
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2020/09/10
EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2019/12/19
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
2019/12/18
EP - CARVALHO Maria da Graça (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in FEMM
Documents
| Amendments | Dossier |
| 201 |
2019/2168(INI)
2020/09/30
FEMM
201 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) - having regard to the C190 - Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) and Violence and Harassment Recommendation, 2019 of the International Labour Organisation;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas digitalisation has fundamentally changed most aspects of our lives in ways that create countless opportunities but also present new challenges; whereas the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath are likely to result in permanent changes to life in Europe, in which digitalisation will have a major role; whereas due to the pandemic, companies have already undergone a major digital transformation;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take into account the gender perspective in the development of digital education policies and to ensure that both male and female students are equally qualified to undertake the tasks and roles of future occupations in a changing labour market and have equal opportunities which will enable them to face the challenges of global competitiveness in the future;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support lifelong learning, as well as training and schemes to boost the e-skills of girls and women; stresses the Council recommendation on vocational education and training and Updated Skills Agenda for Europe must ensure a gender perspective;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support lifelong learning
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support lifelong learning, as well as training and schemes to boost
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support lifelong learning, as well as training and schemes to boost the e-skills of girls and women, who express a genuine interest for this topic;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support lifelong learning, as well as training and schemes to boost the e-skills, the upskilling and reskilling of girls and women;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support lifelong learning, as well as training and schemes to boost
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission and Member States to adopt policies and measures to
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission and Member States to adopt policies and measures to
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A (new) Aa. whereas women have less confidence in their digital skills, yet such skills are needed in life and work, now more than ever during the Covid-19 lockdown, when everyone has to rely on the internet to work, learn or even buy food;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt policies and measures to address the high incidences of sexual harassments at STEM educational sites and schools;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls for
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls for
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Considers essential for the achievement of gender equality to build a comprehensive sexuality and relationship education, which includes the fight against cyber violence, online sexual harassment as well as against online objectification, hyper sexualisation and sexual exploitation of women;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Urges the Member States to fully transpose and implement the Work-Life Balance Directive and calls on the Commission to monitor it effectively; invites the Member States to observe trends in the digital sector in order to adapt their work-life balance measures, if necessary; calls, therefore, for a debate to begin immediately to consider the most appropriate tools to implement, such as a parental wage;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Urges the Member States to fully transpose and implement the Work-Life Balance Directive and calls on the Commission to monitor it effectively
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Urges the Member States to fully transpose and implement the Work-Life Balance Directive and calls on the Commission to monitor it effectively;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Urges the Member States to fully transpose and implement the Work-Life Balance Directive and calls on the Commission to monitor it effectively; invites the Member States to observe trends in the digitalisation of the world of work, in particular the digital sector in order to adapt their work-life balance measures, if necessary;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Urges the Member States to fully transpose and implement the Work-Life Balance Directive and calls on the Commission to monitor it effectively; invites the Member States to observe trends in the digital sector in order, with a close-up on personal choices and preferences, to adapt their work
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Calls on Member States to promote and strengthen their systems aiming at an equal distribution of caring responsibilities, which can prevent women from keeping pace with ICT education and entering digital sectors;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas according to Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in all its activities, the Union shall aim to eliminate inequalities, and to promote equality, between men and women;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses that the gender pay gap has an irreversibly negative impact on the pension gap for women in the digital sector; welcomes the Commission’s commitment to present
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses that the gender pay gap
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses that the gender pay gap has an irreversibly negative impact on the pension gap for women in the digital sector as well as eligibility for social security benefits such as statutory paid leave; welcomes the Commission’s
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses that the gender pay gap has an irreversibly negative impact on the pension gap for women including in the digital sector; welcomes the Commission’s commitment to present binding measures on pay transparency by the end of 2020 in order to effectively address the gender pay and pension gaps;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Points out that teleworking arrangements allows to work from home and has the potential to lead to a greater work-life balance; notes however the risk of increasing the pay gap if teleworking is not properly regulated and is mainly taken up by women; requests the Commission to examine this situation and propose EU responses in that regard;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote gender equality in companies in the ICT and related sectors and in the digital economy and to adopt horizontal policies to reduce the gender gap in the digital economy; calls for the Commission and Member States to implement public procurement policies/guidelines that discriminate positively companies that hire women and girls for STEM jobs; asks the Commission and Member States to promote a minimum threshold of women researchers to be part of ICT projects; encourages the Commission and Member States to urge ICT companies, public and private, to train their human resources departments in "unconscious gender-discriminatory bias” in order to promote a gender balanced recruitment;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote gender equality in companies in the ICT and related sectors and in the digital economy and to adopt horizontal policies to reduce the gender gap in the digital economy, if there is one, while always taking into account the value of the sexual difference between men and women;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Commission and Member States to
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to fully assess the causes and factors that lead to a high drop-out rate of women from digital careers
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas gender stereotypes constitute a serious obstacle to equality between women and men, further widen the gender gap in the digital sector and prevent women’s full participation as users, innovators and creators; whereas common stereotypes associate high-level intellectual ability with men more than women and these stereotypes are endorsed by, and influence the interests of, children as young as 6, specifically girls. In this age group, girls are less likely to believe themselves and members of their gender to be smart enough and therefore start avoiding activities that are said to be for the children with high intellectual ability10a; __________________ 10a https://science.sciencemag.org/content/35 5/6323/389
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to fully assess the causes and factors that lead to a high drop‑out rate of women from digital careers and – while respecting the freedom to choose other options, such as starting a family – to
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to fully a
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to fully assess the causes and factors that lead to a high drop-out rate of women from digital careers and to develop mechanisms and programmes to integrate women and girls into education, training and employment initiatives in the
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Encourages the Commission and Member States to introduce policies which facilitate self-employed people's access to social protection systems, particularly women entrepreneurs in the ICT and digital sectors and stresses in this regard the need for their access to sufficient maternity leave and affordable child care;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase financing opportunities for female entrepreneurs and to improve access to existing funds so that they have equal opportunities to compete in the digital single market; calls on the Commission and the Member States to foster women’s entrepreneurship and engagement in innovation, more gender balanced composition of financing institutions, including venture capitalists and public support agencies to private R&D, as well as design prizes and incentive schemes for companies and organisations actively implementing gender neutral policies linked to measurable targets;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase financing opportunities for female entrepreneurs and female-led digital start-ups to improve accessibility to existing funds so that they have equal opportunities to compete in the digital single market;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to reinforce the funding for research on gender-related issues in ICT, urges the Member States to unblock the Directive on Equal Representation of Women on Executive Boards; urgently reminds the Commission of its responsibility to take any action that could help break the deadlock in the Council as regards EU legislation addressing transparency and greater balance in recruitment for decision-making positions;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to reinforce the funding for research on gender-related issues in ICT and the consequences of digitalization on women’s employment prospects;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Considers it to be of the utmost relevance t
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas gender stereotypes constitute a serious obstacle to equality between women and men, contributing to gender segregation in education and employment and further widening the gender gap in the digital sector and preventing women’s full participation as users, innovators and creators;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Considers it to be of the utmost relevance to have more women role models and to increase the number of women in leadership positions in the ICT sector; stresses the need for ICT companies to introduce human resources practices that promote diversity, such as gender balance in middle and top management positions, and on company boards;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Considers it to be an utmost relevance to acknowledge and eliminate the innovation bias within the ICT sector, where designers and developers of services, software and user applications are predominately men but users mainly women, for example in the field of eHealth; the risk of those ones who are most in need of new technology and innovations to be most marginalised is real;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt the standards of the ILO convention on Violence and Harassment in the workplace, in recognition of the fact that sexual harassment within the professional ICT sector remains one of the highest of any profession;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Stresses the impact of the cultural, media and audiovisual sectors in the development of gender stereotypes and promotion of normative and cultural barriers, replicated trough the language and images disseminated;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Stresses the impact of the cultural, media and audiovisual sectors in the development and intensification of gender stereotypes and promotion of normative and cultural barriers;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Stresses the impact of the cultural, media and audiovisual sectors in the confusing development of the gender
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Stresses the impact of the cultural, media, advertising and audiovisual sectors in the development of gender stereotypes and promotion of normative and cultural barriers;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the audiovisual and media industries to portray women in STEM and ICT-related professions; Calls on the media industries to include women on discussion panels, newspaper articles, and other spaces where the public opinion and discourse on technological subjects is shaped;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the audiovisual and media industries to portray women in STEM and ICT-related professions, without creating new stereotypes by spreading a distorted image of reality and of the career choices made by women and men;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the audiovisual and media industries to portray women in STEM and ICT-related professions, to introduce the diversity and opportunity of STEM and ICT; calls on male role models to speak out for gender equality in the digital economy;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the audiovisual and media industries to
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Recalls the importance of eliminating conscious and unconscious gender-discriminatory bias from AI applications, videogames and toys that devalue the role of women and lead to the reduced participation of women in the digital, AI and ICT fields; we need to take into consideration when building AI systems that artificial intelligence mirrors its creator and the developers currently are predominantly men;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Recalls the importance of eliminating conscious and unconscious gender-discriminatory bias from AI applications, videogames and toys that
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Recalls the importance of eliminating conscious and unconscious gender
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Recalls the importance of eliminating
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Stresses that ICTs can greatly increase women’s ability to take part in electoral processes, public consultations, surveys and debates, as well as to submit petitions or complaints; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Stresses that ICTs can greatly increase women’s ability to take part in electoral processes, public consultations, surveys and debates, as well as to organise politically and submit petitions or complaints; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take the gender dimension into account when devising e- government initiatives; underlines the effectiveness of using the internet for campaigns, forums and boosting the visibility of female role models;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Stresses that ICTs can greatly increase women’s ability to take part in electoral processes, public consultations, surveys and debates, as well as to
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to engage constructively with and support digital civil society organisations and to encourage such organisations to get involved in internet governance; calls on the Commission and Member States to also work closely with women’s rights organisations in order to better respond to and alleviate concerns present in everyday life of women and girls in the design and implementation of public tech policies;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to engage constructively with and support digital civil society organisations, in partnership with civil society organisations, and to encourage such organisations to get involved in internet governance;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. Stresses the importance of digital and media literacy, cyber- hygiene and - safety particularly in the context of tackling conservative and patriarchal disinformation campaigns regarding women’s rights;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Encourages the Member States and the Commission to organise awareness- raising, training and gender- mainstreaming campaigns to highlight the impact of ICT proficiency on the economic empowerment of men as well as women;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 a (new) 24a. Stresses the importance of gender mainstreaming in digitalisation and calls on the Commission and the Member States to engage women, women’s civil society organisations and experts by assigning them active and supportive roles in development and implementation of existing and coming government programs in digitalisation and redesign existing government programs to promote women’s economic and digital inclusion; encourages the Commission and Member States to provide ICT training on demand for women's rights organisations, in particular for women with less access to digital tools, such as migrant women and women in poverty, in order to improve their visibility and online organisational skills;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 a (new) 24a. Considers that women need to be encouraged to play a more critical role in the design, development, construction and maintenance of smart cities or smart villages;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 b (new) 24b. Encourages companies to take on their corporate responsibility and to apply gender mainstreaming in their strategies in the production, designing and marketing of their products and applications and to prevent potential conscious and unconscious gender discriminatory bias;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25.
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, as well as businesses, to collect
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas gender stereotypes constitute a serious obstacle to gender equality
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, as well as platforms and businesses, to collect
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 a (new) 26a. Calls on Member States to harmonise data collection standards in order to facilitate the comparison and sharing of data and examples of good practice;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 a (new) 26a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to encourage ICT companies to publish annual reports on diversity and gender pay gap within the companies;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 b (new) 26b. Urges the Commission and Member States to collect and utilise already existing sex disaggregated data to promote more research on the interaction of the different factors, which impede women’s and girls’ digital inclusion;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Acknowledges with great concern
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Acknowledges with great concern the rise in digital crimes and acts of intimidation, mobbing, doxing, harassment and violence against women in the digital world; calls for campaigns to raise awareness
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Acknowledges with great concern the rise in digital crimes and acts of harassment and violence against women in the digital world; calls for campaigns to raise awareness of the risks involved and for measures to educate women in how to protect themselves online; calls on the Member States to empower law enforcement agencies to effectively deal with digital crimes; calls on the Member States to impose more severe penalties for such offences;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 refers to gender equality and empowerment of women and involves the use of technology and the Internet;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 27. Acknowledges with great concern the rise in digital crimes and acts of harassment and violence against women in the digital world
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new) 27a. Calls on the Member States to collect and produce gender-disaggregated data concerning online gender based violence; welcomes the Commission's announcement of a survey on gender- based violence, calls for this survey to investigate various forms of online gender-based violence including the impact of self-censorship and digital exclusion;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28. Calls for the EU institutions, agencies and bodies, as well as the Member States and their law enforcement agencies, to cooperate and take concrete steps to coordinate their actions to counter the use of ICT to commit crimes particularly online sexual harassment and trafficking of human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation; calls on the Member States to review their criminal
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new) 28a. Deplores that during the last period major part of the working places, including EU institutions, didn’t implement any measures to address new forms of harassment; calls on the EU institutions and all other workplaces for immediate adaptations in HR-measures tackling old and new forms of online harassment including by setting up a broad survey on working conditions during this period, mandatory training courses against sexual harassment, emergency number for victims of all forms of harassment;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Calls for further legally binding measures and for a directive to prevent and combat gender-based violence, including cyber violence and online hate speech
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Calls for
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Calls for further legally binding measures and for a directive to prevent and combat gender-based violence, including cyber violence and online hate speech against women, calls on the Commission to develop harmonised legal definitions of cyber violence taking into account an intersectional perspective, calls on the Commission to engage civil society in the development of a new Code of Conduct for online platforms on combatting online gender-based violence;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Calls for further legally binding measures and for a directive to prevent and combat gender-based violence, including cyber violence and online hate speech against women; calls for ideologies which seek to put women in a greatly inferior position, such as those advocated by radical Islam, to be banned on the internet;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Calls for further legally binding measures and for a directive to prevent and combat gender-based violence, including cyber
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Calls for further legally binding measures and for a directive to prevent and combat gender-based violence, including cyber violence and online
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the FRA survey on violence against women shows that 14% of women have experienced cyber harassment since the age of 151b; __________________ 1bFRA survey - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/ etudes/STUD/2018/604979/IPOL_STU(20 18)604979_EN.pdf
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29a. Calls on national public administrations and EU institutions to work with the private sector to create European-wide role model campaigns, encouraging women junior professionals towards cybersecurity professions which would significantly reduce the skills gap, boost the economy, and improve the overall resilience of the cybersecurity industry in Europe;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29a. Calls on the Member States to ratify and implement the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) of the International Labour Organisation without delay, which applies inter alia to work-related communications, including those enabled by information and communication technologies;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29a. Urges the Commission and Member States to provide appropriate funding for the development of AI solutions that prevent and fight cyberviolence, online sexual harassment, exploitation against women and girls, harassment at the work place, and help educate people;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29a. Calls on the European Commission to ensure the gender mainstreaming of the digital services act and all upcoming proposals related to the digital realm;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 b (new) 29b. Stresses the need for further regulatory efforts to ensure that AI respects the principles and values of gender equality and non-discrimination as enshrined in article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 b (new) 29b. Highlights that there is a need to deepen understanding, through a gender lens, of emerging fields such as algorithmic decision-making, blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, dataveillance and to lay out strategies to address them;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Expresses its concerns about the possibility of an increase in the digital gender gap in the developing countries and regions in the current crisis; stresses the importance of digital proficiency, digital accessibility and digital affordability as
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Expresses its concerns about the possibility of an increase in the digital gender gap in the developing countries in the current crisis; stresses the importance of digital proficiency as an instrument to
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Expresses its concerns about the possibility of an increase in the digital gender gap in
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Recital 5 a (new) - having regard to the European Pillar of Social Rights and in particular its principles 1, 2, 3 and 20;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas the Gender Equality Index for 2019 reveals persistent gender inequalities
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 a (new) 30a. Stresses the need to channel development funds for the promotion of the digital education of girls and women;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 b (new) 30b. Calls on the Commission to use European funds to finance female led projects in the digital sector, especially those that have a social impact;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas in order to achieve gender equality, girls and young women need equal access to technology, digital training and to be safe online;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas Eurostat data from 2018 showed that about 1.3 million people were studying Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the European Union and that girls and women were largely in a minority, accounting for only 17 % of all ICT students in the EU; whereas this gap is largely due to the differences in career choices between women and men, which is not the result of stereotypes but rather the different preferences of women and men based on their personal choices;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas Eurostat data from 2018
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas the trend shows a decrease in women taking up ICT related higher education compared to 2011; whereas the leaky pipeline phenomenon is more profound in the STEM disciplines;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas among 8 million ICT specialists in the EU, women make up 17%;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas 73 % of boys aged between 15 and 16 feel comfortable using digital devices that they are less familiar with, compared with 63 % of girls in the same age bracket11
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas it appears that 73
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas gender stereotypes greatly influence subject choices; whereas very few teenage girls in EU Member States (less than 3 %) express an interest in working as an ICT professional at the age of 3012 ; whereas teachers and parents can deepen gender stereotypes by discouraging girls from pursuing a career in ICT; whereas eliminating gender- specific expectations about professions and fostering female role models in STEM and ICT can encourage girls to study ICT; __________________ 12EIGE factsheet entitled ‘Gender equality and digitalisation in the European Union’, published on 11 October 2018.
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 9 — having regard to the Commission communication of
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F.
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas gender
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas there are high incidences of sexual harassment in the STEM education sites, including in schools, universities and work places, especially directed at younger women trainees and precarious workers, which further excludes women from the sector;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas women in the information and communication sector
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas the salary level of men and women must be consistent with the principle of fairness and equality on equal terms, and women in the information and communication sector earn 19 % less than men; whereas the gender pay gap directly contributes to the gender pension gap;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas in the past couple of years
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas in the past couple of years, there has been an increase in the number of women working in cybersecurity,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 12 Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report of 2018, only 22% of AI professionals globally are female, compared to 78% who are male. This accounts for a gender gap of 72% yet to close;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) Ja. Whereas in 2019, $92 in every $100 invested in European Tech companies went to founding teams that were all men13a; __________________ 13a https://2019.stateofeuropeantech.com/cha pter/diversity-inclusion/article/state-di- european-tech/
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas women struggle to find their place in the ICT job sector as a result of various barriers, such as stereotypes and male-dominated workplaces; whereas there is considerable vertical and horizontal segregation in the ICT sector and women are often overqualified for the positions they occupy; whereas only a small minority of women occupy senior software engineering positions; whereas software use and creation is becoming key assets for the digital transformation; whereas the gender gap in software developers and engineers is of concern in terms of engagement of women as well as potential conscious and unconscious gender discriminatory bias in AI applications, videogames and toys and other applications due to a lack of diversity in ICT and software engineering and developers positions;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas women
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas women struggle to find their place in the ICT job sector as a result of various barriers, such as gender stereotypes
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas women struggle to find their place in the ICT job sector
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas women struggle to find their place in the ICT job sector as a result of various
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas women are more likely to struggle to find their place in the ICT job sector as a result of various barriers, such as stereotypes and male-dominated workplaces; whereas there is considerable vertical and horizontal segregation in the ICT sector and women are often overqualified for the positions they occupy; whereas only a small minority of women occupy senior software engineering positions;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas ICT is a sector with a low proportion of female workers, a great number of women abandon
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas ICT is a sector with a low proportion of female workers, a great number of women abandons their ICT career (the phenomenon known as the ‘leaky pipeline’), mainly due to a poor work-life balance, owing in particular to the fact that a parental wage is practically never implemented in the Member States of the European Union, or is implemented in a way that is too limited, organisational constraints and a male-dominated environment;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 19 Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas ICT is a sector with a low proportion of female workers, a great number of women abandons their ICT career (the phenomenon known as the ‘leaky pipeline’),
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas ICT is a sector with a low proportion of female workers
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas ICT is a sector with a low proportion of female workers, a great number of women abandons their ICT
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M M. whereas the IT sector has witnessed a significant increase in female board members, but is also the sector with the highest percentage of all-male boards, and whereas a system of quotas that are inconsistent with the merits and requirements of the posts concerned cannot be applied indiscriminately;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M a (new) Ma. whereas digital competence means capacity to acquire, process and communicate digital information and is affected by socio-cultural and economic background; whereas women spend more time than men on unpaid care and domestic work; whereas this restricts their leisure time, time in paid work or possibility to gain digital competence and skills in internet usage; whereas actions aimed to raise awareness, challenging gender stereotypes and norms and a better redistribution of unpaid childcare and housework would enable greater women participation in (digital) labour markets and training and to gain better digital competence;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M a (new) Ma. whereas only marginal percentage of venture capitalists, business angels and investors are women; when girls tend to study less ICT and STEM subjects from primary school throughout secondary to university, to women working in significantly lower numbers within these fields in the job market and as founders and owners of private companies and startups, this kind of lower participation percentage of women in technology has a direct effect on all societal development and creates and innovation bias on what kind of new innovations and technology is released to consumers;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M a (new) Ma. whereas women and men are different and complementary and whereas they have different preferences; whereas it is understandable that they have different career choices; for example, a majority of men focus on ICTs, while in philosophy, languages, economics and social sciences or the paramedical professions men are largely under- represented (85% women); these figures are largely explained by individuals’ freedom of choice;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M a (new) Ma. whereas women and girls in rural and hard-to-reach regions are even more limited with their access to the Internet and digital technologies, and face significantly higher barriers to fully embrace the digital potential of modern technology;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M a (new) Ma. whereas if more women were to enter the digital jobs market, the sector would hugely benefit from an untapped talent pool of skills and diverse perspectives and which could create an annual EUR 16 billion GDP boost for the European economy;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M b (new) Mb. whereas digital inclusion means the ability for all individuals and communities to have access to and use of ICT; whereas lack of access, affordability and education as well as gender-related expectations and socio-cultural norms, lower educational participation in STEM and ICTs, limited use of digital tools and lesser activity in social platforms due to cyber violence towards girls and women excludes them from digital inclusion; whereas the dimension of gender digital inclusion has to be part of all EU initiatives and investments related to ICT and digitalisation;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 20 a (new) - having regard to its resolution of 8 October 2015 on the application of Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M b (new) Mb. whereas women and men are different and complementary, whereas they often have different preferences, and whereas the search for strict parity in areas of study or occupations would be counter-productive;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M c (new) Mc. whereas digital financial inclusion means digital access to and use of formal financial services that are suited to needs and delivered responsibly at an affordable cost; whereas laws and norms that can undermine woman’s right to participate in the labour force, control assets, establish and access funding to grow formal businesses and make own economic decisions are main reasons for women’s financial exclusion; whereas approximately one billion women still do not have formal financial services, due to lack in access to identification documents, mobile phones, digital skills, financial capability, as well as inappropriate products; whereas better access and usage of responsible digital financial services can help build women’s economic power and economic independence;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M d (new) Md. whereas the ability of women to access and use digital technologies is affected by market related factors such as investments, regulations, and competition; whereas especially in rural areas, the investment of digital infrastructure is less economically profitable; whereas, especially in developing countries, women and girls in rural areas generally work in agriculture, and their work is often unpaid and they have shorter and more precarious jobs; whereas this leads to living in technology-poor environments and difficulties in accessibility of digital technologies; whereas accessibility of digital services and safe access to internet connection is essential for digital gender equality;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M e (new) Me. whereas cyber harassment remains a huge concern in the development of software applications in education, whereas significant amounts of people have been victims of new forms of online sexual and psychological harassment during the COVID19 period including zoom-bombing, stalking or threats online; whereas major part of the workplaces, including the EU institutions, did not implement any measures to address these new forms of sexual and psychological harassment;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M f (new) Mf. whereas the objectification, hyper sexualisation and exploitation of women online notably via internet pornography has a devastating effect on the construction of sexuality and on gender equality in general;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission’s commitments to boosting the participation of women in the information society included in the Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025; calls on the Commission to continue to address the serious gender gap within the ICT sector in the digital agenda, the European digital strategy and all other digitalisation policies with concrete measures aimed at specifically increasing the participation of women and girls in the sector;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission’s commitments to boosting the participation of women in the
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission’s commitments to boosting the participation of women in the information society included in the Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025; calls on the Commission to continue to address the serious gender gap within the ICT sector in the digital agenda, as much as possible in full context, the European digital strategy and all other digitalisation policies;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission’s commitments to boosting the participation of women in the information society included in the Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025; calls on the Commission to continue to
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 21 Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to align the measures to foster the digital transition with the Union’s goals on gender equality; stresses that the digital transition should not leave anyone behind and asks for measures to combat discrimination in access to the labour market for women and the gender pay gap and to ensure fair and decent working conditions for women in the digital sector;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Stresses the important impact on increasing women’s participation in the digital sector also on combating gender inequalities, stereotypes and discriminations that are being reproduced through the design and use of technology;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission to take the digital gender gap into due account while negotiating programmes within the
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission to take the digital gender gap into due account while negotiating programmes within the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) and funds and loans under the Recovery Plan, and to increase awareness of these mechanisms amongst women; stresses that gender budgeting and mainstreaming should be part of policies supporting ICT development;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission to take the digital gender gap and the need to secure equal access for men and women into due account while negotiating programmes within the
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the Commission and Members States to provide appropriate funding to programs aimed at attracting more girls and women to study and work in STEM; urges the Commission and Member States to set up entrepreneurship programs that finance women and girls who start tech projects or new companies; asks the Commission and Member States to discriminate positively companies that are gender balanced in the access to European funds;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Encourages the Commission and Member States to purchase ICT services from providers that apply gender balance in their companies and boards;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the full implementation of the
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Recalls that women with disabilities, women who are members of historically marginalised groups, women from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, older women, women in rural areas as well as refugee and migrant women have particular needs and issues regarding access to digital services and related infrastructure; Stresses the importance of an intersectional approach to all gender mainstreaming initiatives as regards increasing women’s access to and use of digital services and education and employment in the digital economy and society;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop political strategies aimed at increasing the participation of women in fields relating to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), AI and the research and innovation sector, and to adopt a multi-level approach to address the gender gap at all levels of education and employment in the digital sector;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 28 a (new) Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Underlines the importance of
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Underlines the importance of ensuring
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Underlines the importance of ensuring
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on Member States to make ICT education accessible to women from all backgrounds by adapting teaching methods, timetables and fees to the different factors determining women's access to education, such as maternity, migratory status and women in poverty;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on book publishers to revert the “Matilda Effect” by crediting women for their work that was appropriated by men, so girls do not only see male names in science books and have female role models;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Encourages the Commission and the Member States, developers, businesses and universities to address the gender gap in the ICT sector and cooperate in finding solutions and sharing best practices on better inclusion of girls in subjects relevant for digital education from a
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to address
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to thoroughly address the issue of the low numbers of women participating in ICT studies and careers, a
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas digitalisation has fundamentally changed most aspects of our lives in ways that create countless opportunities but also present new challenges; whereas the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath are likely to result in permanent changes to life in Europe, in which digitalisation will have a major role; whereas people coming from the most popular classes had been submitted to a double pressure due to the lack of access to digitalisation and been put in an even more precarious situation; whereas the impact of “teleworking” on women and workers in general need to be evaluated notably regarding working hours, lack of collective bargaining, isolation, separation between work and private life, psychological pressure;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to thoroughly address the issue of the low numbers of women participating in ICT studies and careers, also in the updated digital education action plan, including the issue of accessibility of costly digital equipment with further detrimental factors for girls and women from lower income families; calls on educational entities to encourage girls to take up mathematics, coding, ICT classes and science subjects in schools;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Calls on
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to work with educational institutions and civil society organisations to assess and redesign ICT educational formats that perpetuate gender stereotypes;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Underlines the importance of
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Underlines the importance of female self‑efficacy in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and ICT becoming an integral part of female identity in pre‑school and primary school, abandoning
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Underlines the importance of
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Underlines the importance of
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up mentoring schemes with female role models in ICT within all levels of education; Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote awareness campaigns directed at students and parents to fight gender stereotypes about what constitutes masculine or feminine subjects or jobs;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up mentoring schemes with female role models in ICT within all levels of education; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote awareness campaigns directed at both students and their parents to fight gender stereotypes in schools projects and jobs;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up mentoring schemes with, where possible, female role models in ICT within all levels of education, provided this measure does not constitute employment discrimination;
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