2021/2020(INI) Equality between women and men in the European Union in 2018-2020
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date 2021/11/22
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Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date 2021/11/22
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Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | FEMM | PEREIRA Sandra ( GUE/NGL) | MALDEIKIENĖ Aušra ( EPP), FRITZON Heléne ( S&D), MELCHIOR Karen ( Renew), DELBOS-CORFIELD Gwendoline ( Verts/ALE), TOVAGLIERI Isabella ( ID), HOOGEVEEN Michiel ( ECR) |
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RoP 54
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2021/11/22
Indicative plenary sitting date
2021/11/08
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
2021/10/28
EP - Vote in committee
2021/07/19
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
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2021/06/16
EP - Committee draft report
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2021/03/11
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2021/02/17
EP - PEREIRA Sandra (GUE/NGL) appointed as rapporteur in FEMM
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Amendments | Dossier |
287 |
2021/2020(INI)
2021/07/19
FEMM
287 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Citation -1 (new) -1 having regard to Articles 2 and 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), Articles 6 and 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and Article 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 3 Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas their role as primary caregivers within the family imposes a disproportionate burden of unpaid care and domestic work on women
Amendment 101 #
Ga. whereas measures to achieve work-life balance are important in ensuring an equal division of caregiving responsibilities between women and men and addressing income and employment disparities; whereas achievement of work- life balance depends on the availability and accessibility of high-quality of public care services, which should be provided free of charge; whereas all maternity benefits should be ensured and upheld, with an increase in fully paid leave entitlements; whereas public policies for the protection and promotion of nursing and breastfeeding are needed;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) G a. whereas women's care work within the family, with the inherent involvement of men, is of indispensable and incalculable value for a healthy consolidation of social structures and should be properly acknowledged and supported by the entire public and private sector;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas EU
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) H a. whereas the presence of women in EU national parliaments (both houses) has increased from 24 % in 2010 to 32 % in 2020; whereas gender balance has improved among cabinet ministers in national governments, from 26 % in 2010 to 32 % in 2020; whereas there are significant differences between Member States with only 7 member states having reached gender parity or gender-balanced cabinets: whereas at regional and local levels, the rate of change continues to be extremely slow with only 29% of women represented in 2019 with Hungary, Slovakia and Romania having more than 80 % male representation in regional assemblies;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) Ha. whereas the right to equal pay for equal work of equal value is not guaranteed in many circumstances, even where enshrined in law; whereas the root causes of such discrimination need to be tackled, whether by protecting and enhancing labour rights or by stepping up business monitoring, especially by national labour inspectorates; whereas collective bargaining is key to reversing and overcoming gender inequalities;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) H a. whereas gender equality and the green and digital transitions are interlinked and the inclusion of women in decision-making is a prerequisite for sustainable development and the efficient management of both the green and digital transitions in order to achieve fair and just transitions that leaves no one behind; whereas all climate action and digital policies must include a gender- and an intersectional perspective;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) H a. whereas the effects on families of involving men and fatherhood show that caring men are important to the optimal development of children, and that they can improve the work life balance and help redress gender inequitable relationships; whereas male engagement can contribute to preventing violence in families and contribute to more equitable societies;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) H a. whereas the family is the fundamental unit of society and should constitute the focus of economic and social support policies in order to overcome any inequality and economic hardship that may be experienced by both men and women;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H b (new) H b. whereas the persistence of gender stereotypes and expectations of men's and boys’ roles can restrain them from showing, their positive emotions and internalizing negative emotions such as sadness and anxiety and can result in men and boys expressing greater levels of aggression and anger than women; whereas this can result of men and boys who are more likely to perpetrate violence such as gender-based violence;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H b (new) H b. whereas gender imbalance is likewise a persistent phenomenon in central banks, corner stones of economic- decision making and which shape social, political and economic realities; whereas currently, all central banks of EU Member States are governed by a man and women held a quarter (24.6%) of seats in the key decision-making bodies of national central banks in the EU;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H c (new) H c. whereas the European Institute for Gender Equality has found that the performance of EU Member State in gender main-streaming has been decreasing since 2012; whereas despite a slight rise of governments’ commitment to mainstream gender into public administration the availability of gender mainstreaming structures and the use of gender mainstreaming tools has decreased;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph -1 (new) -1. Is concerned about the fact that according the 2020 Gender Equality Index the EU remain still far from achieving gender equality; Stresses than more than one third of Member States scored fewer than 60 points in 2018 with Greece, Poland and Hungary in particular need of improvement; Regrets the slow progress and the fact that for some member states combating gender discrimination is not seen as important policy area or political priority;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that respect for the right to work is an essential precondition if women are effectively to enjoy equal rights, economic independence and career fulfilment
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that respect for the right to work is an essential precondition if women
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that respect for the right to work is an essential precondition if women and men are effectively to enjoy equal rights
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that respect for the right to
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that respect for the right to equal pay and equal treatment in work is an essential precondition if women are effectively to enjoy equal rights, economic independence and career fulfilment
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Believes that combating gender inequalities must be a core consideration at the workplace; urges Member States to promote policies that enhance the status of work, increase real wages and safeguard rights, outlawing job insecurity, tackling the deregulation of labour relations and working hours and imposing severe restrictions on recourse to solutions such as part-time and temporary work; supports collective bargaining as a means not only to enhance working conditions but also to tackle inequalities between men and women;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Underlines that equal opportunities and higher labour market participation among women can increase jobs, economic prosperity and competitiveness in Europe; calls on the Commission and Member States to set goals to eliminate precarious jobs and involuntary part-time work in order to improve the situation for women in the labour market. Full-time work should be the norm, and part-time a possibility;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Access to decent work for men and women should allow basic economic needs to be met in order to achieve family self-sufficiency;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Points to the need to pay close attention to the situation and rights of professional and non-professional top- level athletes representing their countries in international and European competitions both during and after their sporting careers; urges Member States to ensure that children and young people are fully entitled to participate in sport and to combat the widening social divide regarding access to sport;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Member States to take practical measures to ensure that women have equal access to work with rights and decent pay; stresses the need to promote collective bargaining as a determining factor in reversing and overcoming
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 a (new) — having regard to the Commission communication of 24 March 2021 entitled ‘EU Strategy on the rights of the child (2020-2025)’(COM(2021)0142),
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Member States to take practical measures to ensure that women have equal access to work with rights and decent pay;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Member States to take practical measures to ensure that women have equal access to work with rights and
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Member States to take practical measures to ensure that women have equal access to work with rights and
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Member States to take practical measures to ensure that women and men have equal access to work with rights and decent pay; stresses the need to promote
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Member States to take practical measures to ensure that women who so wish have equal access to work with rights and decent pay; stresses the need to
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Member States to take practical measures to ensure that women have equal access to
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Welcomes the Commission proposal on binding transparency measures as an important initiative to combat the gender pay gap, but stresses that pay transparency alone will not address the deep-rooted gender inequalities behind this gap; Calls for an immediate gender pay and pension gap action plan which should set clear targets for the Member States and ensure that such targets are taken account in the country-specific recommendations; highlights the need to include in such action plan an intersectional perspective and the diverse realities and discrimination experiences faced by particular groups such as muslim women, women form diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, migrant women, women with disabilities, trans, lesbian and non- binary persons;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the Commission and Council to ensure that all budgetary allocations under the MFF 2021-2027 respect and promote the principle of gender equality in all Union policies;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Urges Member States to impose firm measures, including sanctions, where businesses fail to comply with labour legislation and where they actually encourage gender discrimination; considers that EU funding should be made conditional in the case of companies that do not take care to protect employment and respect workers' rights, especially where this involves discrimination against women;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 b (new) — having regard to the Commission communication of 11 November 2020 entitled ‘LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020- 2025’,
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Urges Member States to impose firm measures, including sanctions, where businesses fail to comply with labour legislation and where they actually encourage
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Urges Member States to impose firm measures, including sanctions, where businesses fail to comply with labour legislation and where they actually encourage
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Urges Member States to impose
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Calls on Member States, employers and associations to ensure that they have proper procedures in place for preventing gender discrimination, sexual harassment and gender-based violence, which create a toxic environment and insists that they protect the victims of and accountability for gender-based violence committed within the workplace or their organisation;
Amendment 145 #
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the EU
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the EU and its Member States to fully transpose the Work Life Balance Directive and to further underpin maternity and paternity entitlements,
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 c (new) — having regard to its resolution of 21 January 2021 on the EU Strategy for Gender Equality,
Amendment 150 #
4. Calls on the EU and its Member States to
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the EU and its Member States to further underpin maternity and paternity entitlements, for example by increasing periods of full leave with no loss of pay, taking into account the World Health Organization recommendation that children be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of their lives; calls for
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the EU and its Member States to
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a drastic impact on the lives of women, in particular working women; notes that a disproportionate share of the burden was borne by teleworking women whose lives were made harder by the need to combine work, childcare and domestic chores; points out that many women were faced with increased expenses on lower pay;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Points out that the promotion of teleworking in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has become a pretext for exploitation, turning all workers' homes into an extension of the companies employing them, thereby eroding their privacy and undermining their health through the resulting deregulation of working hours;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls for measures to achieve work, employee and pay enhancement, effectively combat joblessness and promote full employment; calls for the creation and promotion of employment with rights, the defence of collective bargaining, the revitalisation of public sector employment and an end to job insecurity; calls in addition for a reduction in working hours without loss of pay; calls for measures to achieve the objective of 35 hours per week and the organisation of working time so as to respect daily and weekly rest periods, breaks, holidays and other important needs such as the protection of workers' health and safety and measures to guarantee suitable working conditions;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls for measures to achieve
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 d (new) — having regard to is resolution of 21 January 2021 on the gender perspective in the COVID-19 crisis and post-crisis period,
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls for measures to achieve
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls for measures to achieve work, employee and pay enhancement, effectively combat joblessness and promote full employment; calls for the
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls for measures to achieve work, employee and pay enhancement, effectively combat joblessness and promote full employment;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Call on the EU to put forward a Care Deal For Europe, a set of policies, programmes, funding and recommendations to foster a transition towards a care economy with a view to advance towards societies where life and the wellbeing of all is prioritised over growth, the value of care work, both paid and unpaid, is put at the centre of our economies and to respond to the social impacts on those with caring responsibilities.
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Stresses the importance of addressing gender equality aspects related to the future world of work, including greening and digitalising the economy; regrets the weak link between the EU Strategy for Gender Equality and the European Green Deal; calls on the Commission to strengthening the connection between climate change and digitalisation policies and gender equality;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Notes that equal pay for women and men must necessarily form part of a fairer distribution of income between labour and capital, as a means of preventing inequality and poverty and improving the living conditions of all workers and their families;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls for measures to be adopted to ensure men's and women's entrepreneurship in the EU by promoting fiscal, economic and financial measures, allowing this important initiative to create new jobs and alleviate the financial burden on entrepreneurs;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Calls on all member states and the EU as a legal entity to ratify and implement the Istanbul convention, which stresses the misconceptions about gender roles in our society such as “traditional family values” and combat repressive views on women;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Urges the Commission and Member states, in order to better apply the principle of equal pay for work of equal value between men and women across different occupational sectors, to develop in close cooperation with social partners and while respecting the social partner’s autonomy, collective agreements, and national labour market traditions and models, gender-neutral job evaluation tools and classification criteria taking into account factors such as qualification, working conditions, the degree of responsibility conferred on the worker, physical and mental requirements of the work, with the aim to better valuation and consequently fairer remuneration of work in highly feminised sectors;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Underlines the negative consequences of joint taxation systems on women’s employment rates and their economic independence and on the pension pay and care gaps; stresses that tax systems should no longer be based on the assumption that households pool and share their funds equally and that individual taxation is instrumental to achieving tax fairness for women;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 e (new) — having regard to the study entitled ‘The gendered impact of the COVID-19 crisis and post-crisis’, published by its Directorate-General for Internal Policies on 30 September 2020,
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote a thriving economic environment that creates a labour market that can offer sufficient and varied jobs adapted to the circumstances and needs of each person;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Advocates convergence in measures to improve conditions at the workplace and living standards, establishing the principle of non- regression and reversing the current levelling down of living and working conditions;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Calls on the Member States to provide specific support for the cultural sector in order to remedy the serious problems facing it, namely the lack of rights for thousands of cultural workers, underfunding, insecurity, low pay, lack of fixed hours, low pensions and high unemployment rates; stresses the need to increase funding for cultural initiatives, including programmes to promote arts and culture and improve working conditions for those employed in this sector;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 c (new) 5 c. Regrets that only 8 member states have ratified the ILO Convention No189 on domestic workers that aims to provide legal recognition for domestic work, extend rights to all domestic workers, especially women, in the informal economy, and prevent violations and abuses; Calls on all MS to urgently ratify and ensure compliance with the articles of this ILO Convention;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 d (new) 5d. Reiterates its call for more investment to uphold the rights of women and girls; calls for budget appropriations to be earmarked for EU programmes and funds to promote women's economic independence; calls for a more strategic deployment of ESF resources for the purpose of promoting gender equality, facilitating labour market access and re- entry and combating unemployment, poverty, social exclusion and all forms of discrimination; calls on the Commission to propose proactive measures to encourage the employment of women in rural areas through the deployment of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 d (new) 5 d. Reminds ones again to put a stronger focus on gender equality within different phases of the European Semester process; Urges to incorporate the EIGE Gender Equality Index in the Social scoreboard and provide gender disaggregated data on the exiting indicators in order to monitoring progress on gender equality and better address country-specific challenges;
Amendment 176 #
5e. Calls on the Commission and Council to include gender equality among the objectives of the Structural Fund framework provisions and of key EU funding programmes (health and environment, education, youth, economy, etc) and to ensure that the necessary appropriations are earmarked for this purpose;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 f (new) 5f. Stresses the urgency of eliminating inequalities regarding the rights and working conditions of healthworkers, especially women; calls on the Commission and Council to ensure that career opportunities are provided, in particular through research projects and ongoing vocational training, encouraging the acquisition of knowledge and promoting innovation and technology in the health sector;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 g (new) 5g. Points out that workers in precarious employment, most of whom are women, suffer discrimination, whether they are workers on fixed-term contracts, trainees, seasonal workers, migrants, young and long-term unemployed people recruited for extended trial period, bogus self-employed workers, workers on digital platforms refused employee status or other categories, and that this has implications for their working lives, conditioning their choices, particularly the timing of maternity, as well as their welfare entitlements, especially pensions;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 h (new) 5h. Recognises the importance of negotiation and collective bargaining to combat discrimination against women, particularly regarding access to employment, pay, health and safety at work, career advancement and vocational training;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 7 f (new) — having regard to its resolution of 24 June 2021 on the situation of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the EU, in the frame of women’s health,
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 i (new) 5i. Points out that COVID-19 has revealed the precarious situation of female intellectuals (researchers, architects, and others) who, in the absence of a stable employment relationship, have been particularly affected; stresses the need for extraordinary measures to mitigate the consequences of the Member States' containment measures and underlines the importance of structural measures that take into account equality at work and in everyday life and enforce women's rights;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 j (new) 5j. Stresses the role of women working in the social sector; recognises that their workload has been exacerbated by the pandemic and that low wages, increased exploitation (especially of migrant women) and the hiring of people without training or qualifications for the tasks to be performed are aggravating their working and living conditions; stresses the importance of enhancing working conditions and pay, respecting working hours and using collective bargaining as a guarantee of respect for working conditions;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 2 Eradication of violence against women and gender based violence
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 2 Eradication of
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 e (new) 5 e. Strongly reaffirms its previously expressed commitment on tackling gender-based violence and on the need to have a comprehensive Directive covering all its forms, as the best way to put an end to it; recalls that the Council should urgently conclude the EU’s ratification of the Istanbul Convention on the basis of a broad accession without any limitations, as the Convention remains the international standard and a key tool for the eradication of gender-based violence by following a holistic and coordinated approach that places the rights of the victim at the centre and addresses the issues from a wide range of perspectives;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Condemns all forms of violence against women and girls in all their diversity;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 d (new) 5 d. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to come up with a proposal in 2021 for a Directive to prevent and combat all forms of gender-based violence; stresses the urgent need to conclude the EU’s ratification of the Istanbul Convention and to advocate its ratification by Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia; calls on the Commission to extend the areas of crime to encompass specific forms of gender-based violence in accordance with Article 83 TFEU;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the urgent need to counter the exploitation of women at work and combat the inequalities, discrimination and violence affecting them; Stresses that harassment experienced in a work place constitutes a serious attack on a person’s psychological and physical health, making them feel insecure at work or in some cases preventing them from doing their work; notes that women are far more likely to be exposed to sexual harassment than men; Calls on Member States to adopt the International Labour Organisation (ILO)Conventions 190 in order comply with the global standards aimed at ending violence and harassment in the world of work.
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the urgent need to counter the exploitation of women at work and combat the inequalities, discrimination and violence affecting them; calls on the Member States to adopt International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention 189; urges the Commission to present a Metoo-directive addressing sexual harassment at the workplace;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the urgent need to counter the
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 8 Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the urgent need to counter the exploitation of
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the urgent need to counter the exploitation of women at work and combat the inequalities, discrimination, harassment and violence affecting them;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the urgent need to counter the exploitation of
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls for women who suffer
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls for
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls for women who suffer domestic violence to be afforded proper protection, ensuring the deployment of increased resources and more effective responses by the
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls for
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Notes that violence between men and women rises during emergencies of any kind – whether economic crises, conflicts or epidemics; notes that inequalities, the economic and social stress caused by confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, the restrictions on movement and the social isolation have led to an increase in violence against women; points out that many women have been confined at home with their aggressors; notes that in certain Member States, such as Portugal and France, domestic violence rose by 30% during that period;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Citation -1 (new) -1 having regard to Articles 2and 3(3) of the Treaty on European Union, and Articles 6, 8, 153and 157 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 9 Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Calls on Member States to implement preventive programmes, including through education on issues such as skills necessary to create safe and healthy relationships, awareness about the ingrained preconceptions about the gender care gap, equality between women and men, mutual respect, non-violent conflict resolution in interpersonal relationships, gender-based violence against women and the right to personal integrity, and age appropriate sexuality education;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Stresses the urgent need to protect women from violence offline and online, and reminds that violence against women can take many different forms and recognises the structural nature of violence against women as gender-based violence, and that violence against women is one of the crucial social mechanisms by which women are forced into a subordinate position compared with men, and this violence remains still underreported and under-reacted on;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Underlines that violations of sexual and reproductive rights, including the denial of safe and legal abortion care, are a form of violence against women and girls; stresses that girls' and women's autonomy and ability to free and independent decisions about their bodies and lives are preconditions for their economic independence and thus for gender equality and the elimination of gender-based violence;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) 7 b. Welcomes that the Commission intends to propose measures to tackle cyber violence against women; considers that the cross-border dimensions of cyber violence against women and girls needs a common Union response; calls on the Member States and the Commission to adopt specific measures to eradicate all forms of online violence;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Stresses the need for specific prevention, treatment and rehabilitation programmes to protect and monitor victims of violence and ensure that measures are taken to step up social support and improve access to justice, shelter and mental healthcare;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 b (new) Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 c (new) 7c. Stresses the need for Member States to adopt programmes specifically designed to prevent aggressors perpetrating further acts of domestic violence; calls for them to be identified or monitored by the competent authorities to prevent them from attacking their victims again with possibly fatal consequences;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 c (new) 7 c. Underlines that men’s violence against women starts with boys violence against girls; considers therefore that preventive measures and gender-sensitive education must start at an early age;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 d (new) 7 d. Calls for effective prevention of gender inequality and gender-based violence, including educational measures directed towards, and implemented with, young people, as well as ensuring that all young people benefit from comprehensive sexual, reproductive, health, rights and relationship education;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 e (new) 7 e. Calls for further measures to combatting gender stereotypes as well as violence prevention measures focusing on men, boys and destructive masculinities; calls on Member States to implement clearer measures to target these norms as gender stereotypes are a root cause of gender inequality and affect all areas of society;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Stresses that forced prostitution constitutes a serious form of violence and exploitation affecting mostly women and children; notes that the root causes of forced prostitution are inextricably intertwined with social and economic realities, particularly unemployment, financial need and poverty; stresses the importance of a gender sensitive approach to human trafficking and about the need for Member States to increase funding for social support and access to public services for victims of trafficking or sexual exploitation; Calls on Member states to fully implement the Anti-trafficking Directive and to urgently stop imprisoning or deporting potential victims; Calls on the European Commission to closely monitor specially the application and transposition of this Directive and to initiate infringements procedures on those Member States failing to do so;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Stresses that prostitution constitutes a serious form of violence and exploitation affecting mostly women and children; notes that the root causes of prostitution are inextricably intertwined with social and economic realities, particularly unemployment, financial need and poverty; stresses the need for Member States to increase funding for social support and access to public services for victims of trafficking or sexual exploitation; calls for psychological and social support to be provided by specialised professionals and for the adoption of social and economic policies aimed at helping vulnerable women and girls to leave prostitution, in particular by guaranteeing jobs that effectively lead to their social integration;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Stresses that prostitution constitutes a serious form of violence and exploitation affecting mostly women and children; notes that
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Stresses that
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Stresses that prostitution constitutes a serious form of violence and exploitation affecting mostly women and children; notes that the root causes of prostitution are inextricably intertwined with social and economic realities, particularly unemployment, financial need and poverty; stresses the need for Member States to increase
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Stresses that prostitution constitutes a serious form of violence and exploitation affecting mostly women and children; notes that the root causes of prostitution
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Stresses that gender-based violence intersects with multiple axes of oppression; Underlines that women and girls with disabilities are two to five times more likely to experience various forms of violence, highlights that the EU is obliged, as a party to the CRPD, to take measures to ensure the full and equal enjoyment by women and girls with disabilities of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, notes that the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recommended in 2015 that the EU should advance its efforts in this direction, inter alia through ratification of the Istanbul Convention;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Points out that trafficking in persons, particularly women and children, for sexual exploitation is a form of slavery and incompatible with human dignity; notes that, as a result of the increase in organised crime and its profitability, human trafficking is on the rise around the world; points out that prostitution is fuelling the trafficking of women and children and exacerbating violence against them, particularly in countries where the sex industry has been legalised;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 11 a (new) — having regard to its resolution of 11 February 2021 on challenges ahead for women’s rights in Europe: more than 25 years after the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Recalls the Commission's long standing defence of gender equality and equal rights, and regrets the backlash and regression in women’s rights especially against sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR);
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Insists that all legislation on sexual offences must be based on consent; insists that only voluntary sexual acts should be considered legal;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 b (new) 8 b. Stresses that consent cannot be bought, therefore considers all forms of sex purchase to be sexual exploitation; calls on Member States to recognise sex purchase as a form of violence against women; calls on Member States to criminalise sex purchase in line with the Swedish Equality Model introduced in Sweden in 1999 and implemented by, among other countries, France and Ireland;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 b (new) Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Applauds the unambiguous defence of all freedoms anywhere in the world, while condemning measures that undermine rights, freedoms and guarantees and deprecating all forms of prejudice, including discrimination on the grounds of gender sexual orientation gender identity, gender expression or sex characteristic;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Applauds the
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Applauds the unambiguous defence of all freedoms anywhere in the world, while condemning measures that undermine rights, freedoms and guarantees and deprecating all forms of prejudice, including discrimination on
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Stresses the importance of combating inequalities and injustices against women; calls on the Commission and Member States to take urgent action to address poverty and increasing inequalities among women, especially among vulnerable groups, including single mothers, women with disabilities, Roma women, LGBTQI+ women, migrant and refugee women, older women and women in rural or depopulated areas;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 11 a (new) — having regards to the Commission communication of 12 November 2020 entitled ‘A Union of Equality: LGBTIQ equality strategy2020-2025” COM(2020) 698;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that any strategy designed to achieve equality must get to grips with all forms of violence against women, including the erosion of healthcare entitlements and sexual and reproductive rights acquired by women and infringements thereof; reiterates that access to healthcare and public services, particularly access to induced abortion services and psychological support for female victims of violence must be considered a priority;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that any strategy designed to achieve equality must get to grips with all forms of violence
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that any strategy designed to achieve gender equality must get to grips with all forms of violence against women, including the erosion of
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that any strategy designed to achieve equality must get to grips with all forms of
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10 a. Calls on the Commission to strongly condemn the backsliding in women’s rights and SRHR, and to use its full capability to strengthen its actions to counter it; calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up their political support for human rights defenders, healthcare providers working to advance SRHR, women’s rights and SRHR civil society organisations which are key actors for gender-equal societies and crucial providers of SRH services and information;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Notes that violations of the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women, including denying them induced abortion services, are a form of violence against them;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 b (new) 10b. Considers gestational surrogacy, or 'wombs for hire' to be a form of violence against women, treating their bodies as a convenience and turning children into a tradable commodity in order to generate business for companies engaged in such practices;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 11 b (new) — having regard to its resolution of 17 December 2020 on the need for a dedicated Council configuration on gender equality,
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Stresses that access to sexual, reproductive and other forms of healthcare for women is a fundamental right that must be underpinned and may not be in any way watered down or withdrawn; recalls that SRH services are essential healthcare services that should be available to all and include comprehensive, evidence-based and age-appropriate sexuality and relationship education;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Stresses that access to sexual, reproductive and other forms of healthcare for women is a fundamental right that must be underpinned and may not be in any way watered down or withdrawn; condemns the actions of anti-gender and anti-feminist movements in Europe and worldwide that systematically attack women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights, including sexual and reproductive rights;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Stresses that access to
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Calls on the Member States to take measures to ensure access for migrant and refugee women to healthcare, employment, alimentation and information services, focusing in particular on violence between men and women and the trafficking of women;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Stresses the need for Member States to adopt a policy placing special emphasis on improved public health and the prevention of disease by guaranteeing free, universal and high-quality healthcare and ensuring the availability of the necessary resources to combat the main public health problems; Stresses that health inequalities are accumulating for women with low education and women with disabilities, who have both the poorest health and the most limited access to health services;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Stresses the need for Member States to
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Stresses the need for Member States to adopt a policy placing special emphasis on improved public health and the prevention of disease by guaranteeing
Amendment 249 #
12. Stresses the need for Member States to adopt a policy placing special emphasis on improved public health and the prevention of disease by guaranteeing
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 11 c (new) — having regard to itsresolution of 21 January 2021 on the gender perspective in the COVID-19 crisisand post-crisis period,
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Stresses that access to healthcare in certain Member States has been restricted by the COVID-19 containment measures and that, in certain cases, consultations, treatments and diagnoses were not provided; urges Member States to strengthen their public health systems in order to speed up such consultations, treatments and diagnoses, mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 on other areas of healthcare;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 b (new) Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses the need to create a public crèche and pre-school education network; points out that the provision of a universal public service that is genuinely accessible to all children and families wishing to avail themselves of it is an overarching social responsibility; recognises the need for the creation/extension of a network of support facilities for the elderly and people with disabilities, as well as the development of continuous care networks; urges the Commission and the Member States to meet those targets, which are key to boosting equality in the family;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses the need to
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses the need to create a public crèche and pre-school education network; points out that the provision of a universal public or private service that is genuinely accessible to all children and families wishing to avail themselves of it is an overarching social responsibility;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses the need to
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses the need to create a
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Stresses the need to create a public crèche and pre-school education network; points out that the provision of a universal public service that is genuinely accessible to all children and families wishing to
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13 a. Stresses that since 2010 gender segregation in education has increased slightly, with the situation worsening in 13 Member States and in other cases remaining almost unchanged; Highlights that gender segregation in education remains a major barrier to gender equality in the EU; Calls on the Member States to tackle sexism and gender stereotypes in their education systems and to combat gendered labour market segmentation in STEM careers by investing in formal, informal and non- formal education, lifelong learning and vocational training for women to ensure their access to high-quality employment and opportunities to reskill and upskill for future labour market demand and prevent a vicious circle of gender segregation of labour;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13 a. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal Towards a European Education Area by 2021 and its aim to promote a gender equal workplace, culture, and help combat racism and all forms of discrimination, including gender stereotyping; calls on the Member States to ensure that women and men, girls and boys have the same opportunities to personal development as well as full access to equal opportunities to reach their full potential without being hindered by structures, prejudices and stereotypical perceptions based on gender;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 12 a (new) — having regard to Article 157 of the TFEU,
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Stresses the need for a substantial increase in investment for healthcare, education and transport services, with a view to addressing public need and contributing to the independence, equality and emancipation of women;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Urges the Member States to take specific measures to combat the risk of poverty in old age and retirement, increasing pensions and boosting social benefits; stresses the need to overcome gender inequalities regarding pensions, requiring the latter to be increased, and for public, universal and solidarity-based social security systems to be maintained and enhanced, ensuring that they are redistributive and provide a fair and decent income after a lifetime of work, while safeguarding the sustainability of public social security systems by creating jobs with rights and better pay;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Urges the Member States to take specific measures to combat the risk of poverty in old age and retirement, increasing pensions and boosting social benefits; Is extremely concerned with the fact that the poverty gender gap has increased in 21 Member State since 2017; Stresses that poverty or social exclusion are concentrated among certain particularly marginalised groups of women as lone mothers, women above 65 years of age, women with disabilities and those with low level of education and migrant background;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Urges the Member States to take specific measures to combat the risk of poverty in old age and retirement, increasing pensions and boosting social benefits; draws attention to the high gender pension gap resulting from, among other things, joint taxation; stresses that individual taxation is important in terms of achieving tax fairness as it creates an incentive for women to enter the labour market, as women's incomes would no longer be seen as part of the husband’s income;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Urges the Member States to take specific measures to combat the risk of poverty in old age and retirement,
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Urges the Member States to take specific measures to prevent and combat the risk of poverty
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Urges the Member States to take specific family-friendly measures to combat the risk of
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14 a. Highlights that there is still a misconception that homelessness amongst women is a relatively minor social problem in Europe; Points at the lack of basic data on the nature and extent of women’s homelessness making this problem less visible; Stresses the importance to recognize gender-based violence and the gendered experiences of trauma as a root cause of women’s homelessness, as well as to look at wider societal problem intersecting with broader socio-economic and structural barriers, such as poverty, the lack of affordable housing and other structural factors; Urges on EU and Member States to integrate a gender perspective into policies and practices addressing homelessness and to develop specific strategy to combat women’s homeless and ensure that services work appropriately and effectively to meet the needs of homeless women;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Takes the view that the participation of women in all sectors must be increased; takes the view that investment in public services and welfare provision is a means of ensuring access, on an equal basis, to healthcare, education, culture, social security and justice; urges the Member States to take specific measures to tackle the risk of social exclusion and poverty, focusing especially on access to affordable housing, transport and energy;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14 b. Recalls the need to combat intersectional forms of discrimination, especially against marginalised groups, including women with disabilities, black women, migrant, ethnic minority and Roma women, older women, single mothers, LGBTIQ+ people and homeless women, and stresses the importance that their needs and concerns are addressed in EU polices and initiatives; Calls on the Commission to lay down explicit guidelines on the implementation of the intersectional framework; Calls on the European Commission to present a EU Action Plan with specific measures to improve the socio-economic situation of women who face intersecting forms of discrimination and to combat feminisation of poverty and of precarious work;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 12 b (new) — having regard to Article 153(5) of the TFEU,
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 c (new) 14 c. Is deeply concerned about increasing gender equality backlash in some EU member states and specially in the attempts to further criminalise abortion care and undermine young people's access to sexuality education in Poland and about the adopted reforms that attacks LGTBIQ+ people in Hungary; Demands strengthened support for women’s rights defenders and women’s rights organisations in the EU, including organisations working on sexual and reproductive rights and LGBTI+, through increased and earmarked financial support in the next MFF;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Recognises that it is essential to ensure a broad set of effective, appropriate and targeted economic and social measures to
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Recognises that it is essential to ensure a broad set of effective
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Recognises that it is essential to
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15 a. Is deeply concerned about the fact that the Green New Deal and related environmental and climate initiatives do not include a gender perspective; Urges the Commission to comply with their obligation to incorporate gender mainstreaming into all EU policies, including EU environmental and climate policies: Urges that these policies be informed by rigorous gender analysis to ensure that they address existing gender inequalities and other forms of social exclusion; Calls the European Commission to design a roadmap to deliver on the commitments of the Gender Action Plan agreed at COP25and to appoint a permanent EU gender and climate change focal point, with sufficient budget resources, to implement and monitor gender-responsible climate action in the EU and globally;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Highlights the major contribution of women in the fields of employment culture, education, science, and research; recognises the profound deterioration in the living conditions of women employed in arts and culture, women running micro and small businesses and those working on farms and living in rural communities resulting from the suspension of economic and cultural activities during the pandemic period;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15 a. Reiterates that the gender equality strategy shall be implemented using intersectionality; urges the Commission and Member States to strengthen the implementation of the intersectional framework;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 b (new) 15 b. Urges the Member States to reach 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 or sexual orientation (COM(2008)0426), which has been blocked since its adoption by Parliament in April 2009;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 b (new) 15 b. Reiterates the importance of gender mainstreaming as a systematic approach to achieving gender equality; welcomes, therefore, the Commission’s established taskforce on equality; underlines the importance of transparency and the involvement of women’s rights and civil society organisations from diverse backgrounds;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 b (new) 15b. Considers it essential to promote the participation of women in sports activities and sports structures and their further development; recognises the need to address the inequalities regarding women's access to sport and the presentation of awards;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 13 Amendment 280 #
15 c. Calls on the Member States and the Council to create a formal Council configuration on Gender Equality, in order to provide the Ministers and Secretaries of State in charge of gender equality with a dedicated forum for discussion, to ensure that gender equality issues are discussed at the highest political level and to better facilitate gender mainstreaming across all EU policies;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 c (new) 15c. Stresses the need for specific measures to combat gender inequality in order to ensure equal participation in every walk of life ;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 c (new) 15 c. Stresses the importance of gender- budgeting, as an application of the principle of gender mainstreaming in all budgetary processes;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 d (new) 15 d. Stress that the European Court of Auditors concluded that the Commission had not yet lived up to its commitment to gender mainstreaming in the EU budget; Calls on the European Commission to implement the European Court of Auditors recommendations to strengthen the institutional framework for supporting gender budgeting; to carry out gender analyses of the needs and impacts and update its better regulation guidelines; to systematically collect, analyse and report on existing sex-disaggregated data for the EU funding programmes; to make use of gender-related objectives and indicators to monitor progress; to develop a system for tracking funds allocated and used to support gender equality; and to report annually on the results achieved in terms of gender equality;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 d (new) Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 e (new) 15 e. Welcomes the commitment to take gender equality into account under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the largest part of the Next Generation EU instrument but deeply regrets that the gender impact of these funds will be difficult to monitor and follow up on the results due to the lack of gender specific indicators and objectives; Calls therefore on the Commission to use gender disaggregated data and indicators, in particular, in the recovery and resilience scoreboard, assess the gender impact of implemented measures and results at the time of the evaluation of the national plans setting out the Member States reforms and their investment agendas, and impose a gender balanced governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and the European Semester;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 e (new) 15 e. Regrets the weak link between the new EU Strategy for Gender Equality and the European Green Deal; calls on the Commission to strengthening the connection between climate change policies and gender equality in its upcoming proposals;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 f (new) 15 f. Calls on the Commission to mainstream gender equality into all policy-making and to carry out gender impact assessments when setting up any new policy to help ensure a more coherent and evidence-based EU policy response to gender equality challenges; calls on the Member States to undertake corresponding measures at the national level;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Recital -A (new) -A. whereas the right to equal treatment is a defining fundamental right recognised in the European Union Treaties and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights; whereas the EU shall aim to eliminate inequalities, and to promote gender equality in all its activities;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Citation -1 a (new) -1 a having regard to Article 23of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas gender equality in the EU has not yet been achieved and progress in this direction has recently been slowing down, stagnating or even regressing in certain regions and countries; whereas the
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas gender equality in the EU has not yet been achieved
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas women’s rights are human rights and hence universal and indivisible, and whereas gender equality in the EU has not yet been achieved and progress in this direction has recently been slowing down, stagnating or even regressing in certain regions and countries; whereas the struggle for gender equality and the promotion and protection of women’s rights is a truly collective responsibility;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas gender equality in the EU has not yet been achieved and progress
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) A a. whereas according to the EIGE 2020 Gender Equality Index the EU has a long way to go before reaching gender equality, with an overall score of 67.9 out of 100; whereas since 2017 the score has only increased 0.5 points and at this pace of progress it will take more than 60 years to achieve gender equality in the EU; whereas faster progress and efforts by EU institution and Member States are needed;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) A a. whereas there is a backlash on gender equality in some member states; whereas movements opposing gender equality policies and women’s rights are trying to re-establish traditional gender roles as the norm, questioning the status quo, attacking women’s rights, and trying to block further progress;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) A a. whereas the right to equal treatment is a defining fundamental right recognised in the European Union Treaties and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights; whereas the EU shall aim to eliminate inequalities, and to promote gender equality in all its activities;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the objective of the European Union in this area is to ensure equal treatment and equal opportunities for women and men in all their diversity and to combat all forms of gender discrimination;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 1 a (new) — having regard to the EU directives from 1975 onwards on various aspects of equal treatment for women and men (Council Directives 79/7/EEC(1), 86/613/EEC(2), 92/85/EEC(3) and 2004/113/EC(4), Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(5), Council Directive2010/18/EU(6) and Directive2010/41/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council(7))
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas women and men must have the same opportunities for economic independence; whereas, although female employment rates have risen, gender inequality on the labour market remains a fact
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas, although female employment rates have risen, gender inequality on the labour market remains a
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas, although female employment rates have risen, gender inequality on the labour market remains a fact
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas, although female employment rates have risen, gender inequality on the labour market remains a
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas, although female employment rates have risen, gender inequality on the labour market remains a fact of life; whereas the employment gap is particularly high in the case of single mothers, female caregivers, women with disabilities, women from ethnic minorities, migrant and refugee women, LBTIQI+ women and young and elderly women;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) B a. whereas women face intersecting inequalities and discrimination, including linked to their race, ethnic or social origin, sexual orientation, gender identities and expression, religion or belief, residence status, disability and efforts must address all forms of discrimination to achieve gender equality for all women; whereas EU policies have not until now deployed an intersectional approach and have focused only on the individual dimension of discrimination, which downplays its institutional, structural and historical dimensions; Whereas applying an intersectional analysis not only allows us to understand structural barriers, but also offers evidence to create benchmarks and set a path towards strategic and effective policies against systemic discrimination, exclusion and social inequalities;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas Member States on average scored 67.9 out of 100 in the 2020 EU Gender Equality Index published by the European Institute for Gender Equality, just 1.7 points up on 2017, showing that the EU is still far from achieving gender equality;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas the 2021 report on gender equality in the EU concludes that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing gender inequalities in almost every walk of life; and that the hard-won achievements of past years have been rolled back by the pandemic; whereas the Global Gender Gap report 2021 states that closing the global gender gap has increased by a generation from 99.5 years to 135.6 years; whereas the impacts of the pandemic range from an increase in gender-based and domestic violence and harassment, unpaid and unequal care and domestic responsibilities for women, through restricted access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), to economic and employment impacts for women, particularly healthcare workers, caregivers and workers in other female- dominated and precarious sectors;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 2 Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing gender inequalities
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing gender inequalities in almost every walk of life and increased the risk of nullifying the improvements achieved, with significant consequences for individuals, families, economies, societies, such as the erosion of opportunities, freedoms, rights, and wellbeing;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected women’s lives and exacerbated existing gender inequalities in almost every
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing gender inequalities
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas hourly pay for women is, on average, 14% less than for men in the European Union, the gender pay gap varying between 3.3% and 21.7% in the Member States; whereas – despite the significant body of legislation in force for almost 46 years and the actions taken and resources spent on efforts to reduce the gap – progress is extremely slow, with the disparity actually widening in certain Member States;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) C a. whereas available reports and figures from several Member States revealed a worrying increase in gender- based violence during the period of COVID-19 pandemic; whereas lockdown measures made it more difficult for victims of intimate partner violence to seek help as they are often confined with their abusers, and have limited access to support services, and insufficient support structures and resources have exacerbated an already existing ‘shadow’ pandemic;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) C a. whereas preliminary data on labour market trends connected to the pandemic shows a more significant impact on women than on men; whereas Eurostat figures show that unemployment among women grew from 6.9 % in April to 7.9 % in August 2020 while male unemployment grew from 6.5 % to 7.1 % during the same period;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C b (new) Cb. whereas, although female employment rates have risen, gender inequality on the labour market remains a fact of life; whereas the gender gap regarding access to employment and professional activity was 11.7% in 2019, with 67.3% of women in the EU employed, compared to 79% of men; whereas the employment gap is particularly high in the case of single mothers, female caregivers, women with disabilities, women from ethnic minorities, migrant and refugee women, LBTIQI+ women and young and elderly women;
Amendment 6 #
— having regard to Articles 2 and 3(3) of the Treaty on European Union, and Articles 6, 8, 10, 83, 153, 157 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C c (new) Cc. whereas, during the pandemic, social confinement policies and their impact in social, economic, psychological and democratic terms affected the most vulnerable people, including women, who suffered particularly from violence, economic dependency, inequalities in the workplace and the problems facing caregivers;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C d (new) Cd. whereas the outbreak of COVID- 19 has had a particular impact on the living and working conditions of women; whereas some 70% of front-line social and health workers combating the epidemic, whether nurses, doctors or cleaners, were women; whereas women who were teleworking, unemployed or working part-time were subject to even greater pressure, continuing to carry out the majority of domestic and family tasks; whereas, on the basis of complaints submitted, the number of women who were victims of violence and harassment rose during the COVID-19 pandemic;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C e (new) Ce. whereas there has been an unprecedented focus on gender equality in sport over the last decade, but not always for the best reasons and purposes - especially regarding women's rights in practice;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas violence against women in all its forms (physical, sexual, psychological, economic or cyber violence) is a violation of human rights and one of the biggest obstacles to achieving gender equality; whereas gender based violence is rooted in the unequal distribution of power between genders, patriarchal structures and gender stereotypes, that have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men; whereas gender- based violence may be of differing appearance, intensity and form; whereas a society free of violence must be acknowledged as an absolute prerequisite for equality;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) defines gender- based violence against women as any form of violence that is directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects women disproportionately; whereas violence against women and girls in all its forms is a violation of human rights and one of the biggest obstacles to achieving gender equality; whereas violence against women may be of differing appearance, intensity and form; whereas a society free
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas violence against women may be of differing appearance, intensity and form and is a violation of human rights and a an extreme form of discrimination against women; whereas a society free of violence against women must be acknowledged as an absolute prerequisite for gender equality;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas violence against women may be of differing appearance, intensity and form; whereas
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas violence against women may be of differing appearance, intensity and form; whereas a society free of gender-based violence must be acknowledged as an absolute prerequisite for equality;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas violence against women and men may be of differing appearance, intensity and form; whereas a society free of violence must be acknowledged as
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas violence against women may be of differing appearance, intensity and form; whereas a society
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 2 b (new) — having regard to Articles 21 and 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) D a. whereas 33 per cent of women in the EU have experienced physical and/or sexual violence and countless women experience sexual assault and harassment in the context of intimate partnerships and public life; whereas gender-based violence has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic; whereas according to the World Health Organization, some Member States have reported a 60 % increase in emergency calls from women subjected to violence by their intimate partner during the pandemic; whereas according to the latest Europol Report child sexual abuse online in the EU has dramatically increased;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) D a. whereas there is a rising trend of misogyny, anti-gender and anti-feminist movements attacking women’s rights across Europe;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D b (new) D b. whereas trafficking in human beings (THB) is a highly gendered phenomenon with nearly three quarters reported victims in the EU being women and girls who were predominantly trafficked for sexual exploitation; whereas THB is a growing part of organised crime and a human rights violation; whereas 78 % of all children trafficked are girls and 68 % of adults trafficked are women;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D c (new) Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas women in the EU are more severely affected by poverty or social exclusion than men, being systematically placed at a disadvantage by structural and cultural factors; whereas since 2010, the gender gap in earnings has increased in 17 Member States, while the gender gap in income has gone up in 19 Member States, leading to an overall increase in gender inequality in earnings and income in the EU; whereas these situation is even worse for women experiencing intersecting forms of discrimination;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas women in the EU are more severely affected by poverty or social
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas women in the EU are more severely affected by poverty or social exclusion than men, being systematically placed at a disadvantage by structural and cultural factors, such as family honour, child marriage, female genital mutilation, trafficking in human beings and sexual violence;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas women in the EU are more severely affected by poverty or social exclusion than men, being systematically placed at a disadvantage by structural and cultural factors; whereas in the EU, 40,3% of single parents households were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2019;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas women in the EU are more severely affected by poverty or social exclusion than men
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 2 c (new) — having regard to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) there of, in particular goal 5 and its targets and indicators,
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas women in the EU are
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas women in the EU
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas women in the EU are more severely affected by poverty or social exclusion than men, being
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) E a. whereas it is important to guarantee the principle of equal payment for equal work, or equal payment for work of equal value, enshrined in the EU Treaties;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the EU gender pay gap is 1
Amendment 85 #
F. whereas
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the EU gender pay gap is 1
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the EU gender pay gap is 16%, with variations between the Member States; whereas this gender pay gap has a number of implications, not least a 37% difference in corresponding pension entitlements, placing older women at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas the right to equal pay for equal work and work of equal value is not always guaranteed and remains one of the biggest challenges to be met in efforts to combat pay discrimination; whereas gender-equal sharing of parental days is important for tackling the gender pay gap;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the EU gender pay gap is 16%, with variations between the Member States; whereas this gender pay gap has a number of implications, not least a 37% difference in corresponding pension entitlements, leading to a gender pension gap placing older women at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas the right to equal pay for equal work or work of equal value is not always guaranteed and remains one of the biggest challenges to be met in efforts to combat pay discrimination;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 2 d (new) — having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention),
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) F a. whereas the progress towards gender equality in the EU remains slow, and at the current progress pace it will take more than 60 years to achieve gender equality in the EU according to EIGE1a and the COVID-19 crisis’ economic impact has the risk of rolling back past decade’s progress achieved on women’s economic independence and women’s employment is falling sharper than it did during the 2008 recession; _________________ 1aEIGE Gender Equality Index 2020 Report https://eige.europa.eu/publications/gender -equality-index-2020-report
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) F a. whereas work in mostly female- dominated sectors such as care, cleaning, retail, education are essential and of high socio-economic value but often less valued and lower paid than work in men dominated sectors; whereas this fact highlights the urgent need to reassess the adequacy of wages in these female- dominated sectors;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas in the European Union, 20.6 % of women with disabilities are in full-time employment compared with 28.5 % their male counterparts; whereas figures show that, on average, 29.5 % of women with disabilities in the EU are at risk of falling victim to poverty and social exclusion, compared with 27.5 % of men with disabilities;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas their role as primary
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas their role as primary caregivers within the family imposes a disproportionate burden of unpaid care and domestic work on women, who play a vital role in this respect; whereas COVID-19 crisis has revealed the shocking state of European care homes and sector as a whole, and as women tend to live longer and require more care services and most of the carers are women this is an extremely gendered issue;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas t
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas their
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas their role as primary caregivers within the family or in general the allocation of care responsibilities imposes a disproportionate burden of unpaid care and
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas
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