24 Amendments of Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ related to 2014/2015(INI)
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas three quarters of household chores and two thirds of parental care in 2015 were performed by working women, who were therefore overwhelmingly bearing a double burden of responsibilities; whereas gendered division of care and family responsibilities between women and men are detrimental to women’s economic independence in the long term;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas one of the precondition for women’s active inclusion in the labour market is availability of quality and affordable childcare facilities and services;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas some legal systems in the EU maintain the practice of non- individualisation of tax and social security systems; whereas the non- individualisation of social security rights makes women dependent on men, as they may have been granted only derived rights through their relationship to men;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas mothers after maternity leave are often disadvantaged by the fact that employers consider them as having lower competences and time availability, resulting in lower salaries and overall discrimination when applying for jobs in comparison to women non-mothers;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas in the past decade the overall proportion of women in national/federal parliaments has increased by only around 6 %, reaching 29 % in 2015;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas in 2015 only 6.5 % of presidents and 4.3 % of CEOs in the largest publicly listed companies on the stock exchange were women;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T
Recital T
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is deeply concerned that the EU remains only halfway towards achieving gender equality, according to the 2015 EIGE Gender Equality Index; strongly regretstakes into account the fact that the status and profile of gender equality shows signs of decreasing in importance, being marginalised as a political goal and undermined it as a policy area; deems necessary to consider the reasons behind this trend and to review the current strategies, tools and approaches promoted in the area of gender equality;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Supports the Council’s call for a new Commission initiative setting out a strategy for equality between women and men 2016-2020, and for the status of its strategic engagement on gender equality to be enhanced, which should be closely linked to the Europe 2020 strategy andmmission strategic engagement on gender equality; suggests the Commission´s initiatives in this area should take into account the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide both gender and parenthood or motherhood disaggregated data regarding pay and pension gaps;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States that have not yet done so to move towards the individualisation of rights in social equity policy, particularly in tax systems in order to eliminate financial incentives for the spouse earning less to withdraw from the labour market or to work part-timeabandon discriminatory practices towards single women or part-time working women in social and tax systems without prejudice to various incentives for married couples;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Congratulates the Member States which have achieved both Barcelona objectives; encourages Portugal, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Finland, Italy, Malta and Estonia to achieve the other target, and calls on Poland, Croatia and Romania, where both targets remain far from being achieved,other Member States to achieve the other target or, if applicable to step up their efforts in providing formal child care;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Strongly condemnRegrets the persistence of the gender pay gap, and urges the Commission, Member States and social partners to take urgent action to close the gap; encourages Slovenia, Malta, Poland, Italy, Croatia, Romania and Belgium to close the gender pay gap fully, and Finland and Austria to continue the trend of decreasing the gap; encourages Estonia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, Spain and Hungary to step up their efforts by introducing special measures to significantly decrease the gap;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Is extremely concerned that in more than half of the Member States the gender pension gap has increased; encourages Cyprus, Germany and the NetherlandsMember States to step-up effort to reduce the difference between male and female pensions, which is almost 50 %; calls on Malta, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, Greece, Italy and Austria or to close the gender gap in pension coverage, as between 11 % and 36 % of women in thossome countries have no access to a pension;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Congratulates the Government of Sweden on achieving parity in representation in view of gender, and Slovenia and France on achieving virtual parity, and encourages Hungary, Slovakia and Greece, which have formedWelcomes the fact that some EU governments have achieved parity or virtual parity in representation of women, and encourages other governments without any women as their members, to ensure that women are sufficiently represented in all levels of political and economic decision-making;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Observes with concern that in 2015 the majority of countries remain below the EU average as regards the level of female representation on boards of large listed companies in comparison with 2010; appreciates, however, the overall trend of progress, in particular in France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Denmarksome countries;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Welcomes the progress of the Member States in signing the Istanbul Convention, and urges those that have not yet ratified it to do so without delay; repeats its cthe Commission´s proposall for EUthe EU´s accession to the Convention in 2016; calls on the Commission to assess the possibility of initiating an EU legislative act to end and prevent violence against women in all Member States;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Highlights that gendered forms of violence and discrimination, including, but not limited to, rape and sexual violence, female genital mutilation (FGM), forced marriage, domestic violence, so-called honour crimes and state-sanctioned gender discrimination, constitute persecution and should be valid reasons for seeking asylum in the EU; calls for the creation of safe and legal entry channels to the EU, and recalls that women and girls are particularly vulnerable to exploitation by smugglers;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25