14 Amendments of Terry REINTKE related to 2017/2210(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas sexism and gender stereotyping is a burden for the democratic and economic development and the success of the EU, further widening the already strong digital gender gap in the field of ICT, media and information society;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas women writing in social media are at a very high risk of harassment; whereas this harassment has the potential of silencing women's voice and weakens their participation in society;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. NotDeplores that while women make up a clear majority of journalism and media graduates in the EU, they are still significantly under-represented at the decision-making level; notes that this under-representation is a major contributing factor to the negative and stereotypical portrayal of women in the media in the EU;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that economic arguments cannot be an excuse to perpetuate gender stereotyping in media content;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the social partners to promote gender equality in media organisations, representative bodies and training institutions, especially in their boards, and to closely monitor and follow up the progress made;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the severe underrepresentation of women in the media sector, in particular those in decision-making positions and on boards; urges the Commission and the Member States to unblock the Directive on Equal Representation of Women on Executive Boards as in its absence the under- representation of women on boards continues at a shockingly high level; 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 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that women working in the media will benefit from the general advancement of conditions for women in the workplace, including ending the gender pay gap and the gender pension gap, reducing precarious work, ensuring affordable and accessible childcare and boosting collective bargaining rights;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that achieving equality for women at all levels, and particularly decision-making levels, in the media requires transparency in pay systems, an employee-centred organisational culture, a gender-sensitive senior management team, transparency in pay systems, recruitment and promotion policies, gender-neutral classification, effective measures to end sexual harassment, reversing the onus of proof in challenging gender discrimination in the workplace, and desegregation of the workforce;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers that gender equality should be a compulsory module for education and training in the media sector in order to ensure a long-term impact; calls on national and European institutions to promote and fund gender- awareness trainings for media professionals, including the use of non- sexist language and avoiding gender stereotypes in the media; stresses that special attention needs to be paid to training on how the media report on cases of violence against women;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Considers that gender equality in education must include a range of issues, such as literacy including media-literacy, bullying including cyber-bullying, violence against LGBTI, hate speech, human rights and civic education; underlines that prevention measures should cover technology-related aspects, particularly with a view to ensuring a safer internet and digital literacy as well as media literacy; calls upon the Member States to adopt provisions to apply measures of protection, such as encryption and parental control;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Stresses the role of the media as agents of social change and its influence in the configuration of public opinion, and calls on Member States to promote contents on gender equality in public media; encourages public and private media to mainstream gender equality in all their contents and to use non-sexist language; encourages broadcasting organisations to adopt an equality plan for both their internal structures and content production;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Calls on media organisations to make gender-awareness trainings obligatory for recruitment specialists and managers as well as for career advancement;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Calls on the Member States to implement action programmes which ensure women’s involvement in the design and implementation of effective and efficient gender-sensitive policies and programmes within media organisations;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls urgently for the adoption of a quota system in both public and private media organisations in order to ensure women’s equal representation at the decision-making level; calls for Member State governments to link the award of public contracts in the media to obligatory gender-equality measures; notes the positive role of women’s councils and women’s equality officers in workplaces;