Activities of Arne GERICKE related to 2015/2007(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Gender equality and empowering women in the digital age (A8-0048/2016 - Terry Reintke) DE
Amendments (23)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1
Citation 1
— having regard to Articles 2 and 3(3), second subparagraph, of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), the gender dimension of which clearly focuses on ‘equality between men and women’,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3
Citation 3
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
— having regard to European Parliament resolution of 10 December 2013 on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (2013/2040(INI)),
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11
Citation 11
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas these developments have strong potential for the empowerment of women, allowing access to information and knowledge beyond conventional means, thereby opening up new opportunities to interact and campaign with a view to defending the rights and freedom of women and LGBTI personother vulnerable groups;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas digital communications channels and social networks are particularly important for parents on parental leave and people working from home;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas the ‘Arbeit 4.0’ scheme and the digitalisation of the workplace represent an excellent opportunity to reconcile work and family life;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas the digital revolution can help realise a new, holistic working culture in Europe;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas ICT, like any technology, can be used and abused to threaten women, their rights and freedoms, and ultimately their empowerment, such as in the case of cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking, trafficking of human beings through the internet, including hiring of surrogate mothers through the internet, hate speech, incitement to hatred, discrimination and violation of fundamental rights; whereas such new challenges and risks need to be identified and addressed appropriately by policymakers as well as by enterprises, companies and civil society organisations, while providing room for information exchange on the internet;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Urges the Commission and the Council to fully exploit the potential that the information society, ICT and the internet have to promote women’s empowerment, women’s rights and freedoms as well as gender equality between men and women;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to exploit and better target the Digital Agenda and the Digital Single Market Strategy with a view to addressing the severe gender gaps within the ICT sector, fostering education and training of women and girls in ICT, increasing the visibility of women in the digital arena, enhancing gender equality between men and women and participation of women through better access to funding and supporting civil society and women’s organisations in making an inclusive internet a reality;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Commission to include in the upcoming Strategy for Equality 2016-2020 specific actions to support the integration and participation of women in the information society and to strongly promote women’s networks online as they are the manifestation of a self-organised, bottom-up approach to female empowermentequality between men and women and should receive all the support necessary for them to become long-term;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the EU and the Member States to develop, support and implement the actions promoted by the UN and its bodies, notably in the framework of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and of the World Summits on the Information Society (WSIS), in order to strive for women’s empowerment in the digital age at European and global level;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to make better use of the considerable potential that digitalisation has at all levels of political participation and the equal inclusion of men and women in decision- making processes; highlights the major opportunities that digitalisation holds with respect to access to information, transparency and greater government accountability;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and social partners to promote gender equality between men and women in ICT companies, representative bodies and training institutions and to closely monitor and follow up the progress made;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that the digitalisation of the labour market requires adaptation of both labour market policies and the underlying social security systems; calls on the Commission and the Member States, with regard to the Commission’s roadmap ‘New start to address the challenges of work-life balance faced by working families’, to address the impact of digitalisation on workers with care responsibilities and parents on parental leave, as regards working conditions and the need for adaptation of the workplace, skills development and lifelong learning opportunities;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote the further development of digital skills, in particular during parental leave, and to make these easy to understand in order to facilitate parents’ reintegration into work;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission in relation to the Digital Agenda to thoroughly monitor and evaluate the application of gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting within the framework of EU funds in accordance with Article 7 of the Common Provisions Regulation on European funds, and calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the involvement of women’s organisations in the monitoring committees of funding programmes in order to guarantee that targeted actions strengthening the role of women in ICT are implemented; recalls the Commission’s commitment to gender budgeting;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for identification of the challenges posed by the use of ICT and the internet to commit crimes, issue threats or perpetrate violence against women based on misogyny, homophobia or transphobia or any other form of unfair discrimination; urges policymakers to address these issues properly;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for identification of the challenges posed by the use of ICT and the internet to commit crimes, issue threats or perpetrate violence against women based on misogyny, homophobia or transphobia; urges policymakers to address these issues properly;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls for the EU institutions, agencies and bodies, as well as the Member States and their law enforcement agencies, to cooperate and concretely coordinate their actions to counter the use of ICT to commit crimes related to trafficking in human beings, including surrogacy, cyber- harassment and cyber- stalking; calls for the EU Cybersecurity Strategy and the Europol Cybercrime Centre to cover these issues; calls on the Commission to promote training and capacity-building for victim support in digital matters, for police and judicial authorities, as well as psychological support during court cases related to the issue;