Activities of Inês Cristina ZUBER related to 2014/2152(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
EU Strategy for equality between women and men post 2015 (A8-0163/2015 - Maria Noichl) PT
EU Strategy for equality between women and men post 2015 (debate) PT
Amendments (27)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on Member States to strengthen and enforce the full exercise of collective bargaining in the private and the public sectors, an indispensable tool in regulating labour relations, fighting wage discrimination and promoting equality;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Urges Member States to respect the principle of ‘equal pay for equal work and work of equal value’, to strengthen the state mechanisms of workplace inspection, to adopt methodologies to measure the value of work in the production chain and to identify within companies, for example, the creation of semi-skilled or unskilled pay bands occupied mainly by women;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the right to work is a prerequisite for the fulfilment of equal rights, economic independence and the professional achievement of women;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the net destruction of jobs has coincided with an increase in precarious employment; it should be noted, furthermore, that the vast majority of low wages and almost all very low wages occur in part-time employment and that about 80% of poor employees are women;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that economic growth and competitiveness in the EU are dependent one need to closinge the gap between women’s educational attainment and their participation and position in the labour market;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that flexible working hours should be an employee’s choice and not imposed by the employer; rejects flexibility and contractual uncertainty which does not allow employees an organised and stable family life;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Deplores the withdrawal of the draft maternity leave directive by the Council, which provided, inter alia, 20 weeks of guaranteed maternity leave and two weeks of fully paid paternity leave, and protected working mothers on returning to work. This undermines the consensus on strengthening the rights of families and working mothers;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of factors including women’s career breaks, the gender pay gap, the pension gap and poverty in households headed by single mothers, and that the reduction of poverty levels by 20 million by 2020 can be achieved by anti-poverty policies that are grounded in gender mainstreaming. In particular, older women suffer high rates of poverty because many of them have not worked outside the home long enough to have a decent pension; it is therefore necessary to increase the amount of non-contributory pensions;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of factors including women’s career breaks, the gender pay gap, the pension gap and poverty in households headed by single mothers, and that the reduction of poverty levels by 20 million by 2020 can be achievrequires changes in women's access to labour markets, supported by anti-poverty policies that are grounded in gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need for transparency and greater gender balance in recruitment for decision-making positions, not just in the business world, but also in political institutions and in senior positions in the university system;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights the high levels of undeclared work which negatively impact on women’s social security and the EU’s GDP levels; calls for the creation of incentives for employers and workers to move from the informal to the effective use of sanctions to employers operating in the informal economy.
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that the victims of undeclared work are mainly women, something which is not always their decision; calls for a comprehensive policy against employers who employ women in undeclared work.
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to make clear the EU role that it wishes to play in the world and in working with the Member States with regard to the promotion of gender equality and to pursue these goals both through the concept of gender mainstreaming in all areas and through individual targeted and specific actions, namely specific programmes in the area of equality;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Calls on the Commission to support the Member States in preventing and combating violence in its many forms and root causes and to adopt specific measures for each of its aspects, while safeguarding the balance of rights and duties for men and women in all spheres of life: the right to physical and moral integrity, the right to legal protection and access to the courts to defend their rights;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13 c. Calls on the Commission to support the Member States in making society more aware of the problem of violence against women and the social role of women;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 d (new)
Paragraph 13 d (new)
13 d. Calls on the Commission to support the Member States in promoting annual awareness campaigns on the problem of violence against women and promoting women's rights: on domestic violence; on violence among young couples; on trafficking human beings; on exploitation of women and children in prostitution; on female genital mutilation; on wage discrimination based on sex; on employment rights and maternity protection in the workplace;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 e (new)
Paragraph 13 e (new)
13e. Calls on the Commission to help the Member States improve their free public health services for women who are victims of violence and increase the number of shelters and places available, providing special assistance in different languages to women of different nationalities;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission to support the Member States in adopting measures that will monitor and sanction breaches of maternity protection;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Stresses the importance of effectively balancing professional, personal and family life through the regulation of working time, the reduction in working hours, the ban on intensive working and respect for collective bargaining, which will have a positive result in strengthening the participation of women from all social strata in social and political life;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to monitor the attainment of the Barcelona objectives and to continue to support Member States in creating high quality and affordablefree public child care with reasonable hours of attendance; emphasises in this connection the importance of nursing and care services for the elderly and persons requiring special care;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses the importance of flexible forms of work in allowing women, but more especially men, to reconcile work andat flexible working hours should be the choice of those who work and not be imposed by the employer; rejects flexibility and situations of contractual uncertainty that do not allow the organisation and stability of family life and instructs the Commission to coordinate and promote exchanges of best practice; stresses in this connection the need for awareness campaigns for the equal division of domestic work and care and nursing, for the inclusion of men and the introduction of paternity leave of at least 10 days and parental leave to be divided between both parents;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to include specific measures to promote the equal representation of women and men in leadership positions in the strategy and to support the Council in the negotiations for the adoption of the Directive for a balanced representation of men and women on supervisory boards and to expand the scope of this Directive to include executive boards; points out that increasing the number of women on the boards of companies listed or not on the stock exchange, a legitimate aspiration for women of this social class, does not alter the irresolvable contradictions between capital and labour which use discrimination against workers as an instrument of increased exploitation;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Stresses that direct and indirect discrimination on pay is inseparable from the attack on collective bargaining and salaries, policies that are on a clear collision course with employment rights due to all workers and women in particular. The identification of wage discrimination and the promotion of equal pay is inseparable from a new policy based on raising wages and the achievement of ‘equal pay for equal work or work of equal value’;
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to create incentives for competent training in the critical use of the media in the Member States to encourage the questioning of stereotypes and structures and to share best practice examples so as to review the ways in which roles have been stereotyped in the educational material used so far; calls on the Commission, in this connection, to support programmes to raise awareness of stereotypes and traditional gender roles in the education and media sector; notes the development of a culture of trivialisation of violence in general, of ‘every man for himself’ individualism, of the proliferation of images of women as sexual objects and the attempted transformation of prostitution into ‘sex work’ and its victims into ‘sex workers’; emphasises in this connection the importance of gender-equitable teaching methods for teachers, so that they can clearly explain the benefits of gender equality and a diverse society;