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Activities of Daniela AIUTO related to 2014/2250(INI)

Shadow reports (1)

2016/11/22
Committee: FEMM
Dossiers: 2014/2250(INI)
Documents: PDF(171 KB) DOC(128 KB)

Amendments (37)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)

- having regard to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Art. 26);

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the concept of gender is a social construct linked to issues of social class, ethnicity, religion, culture, sexuality and age which lead to economic, cultural and educational injustices, and that social representations of gender are replicated at school;deleted

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. considering the significant influence of family attitudes, of peers and teachers in the selection of students' study ~~areas and changing gender stereotypes,~~ and given that teachers as agents of social change, by their attitudes and teaching practices, are essential to the promotion of ~~gender equality~~mutual respect between boys and girls;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas ~~a gender perspective and gender equality should be incorporated into all levels of education in order to~~gender equality must be promote,d among girls and boys, women and men, the values of justice and democratic citizenship, in order to ~~build a genuine partnership between the genders with regard to~~provide equal opportunities in public and private spheres;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas unskilled and poorly paid work is commonly attributed to women and they continue to be responsible for most of the care within the family, which limits access to paid full-time employment, and that gender equality cannot be reduced to providing women with the standard of success defined by men, but involves the recognition of all the work done by women ~~and the education of boys and men in the tasks from which they are traditionally excluded~~;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas European and national authorities should encourage gender equality in educational institutions by all means possible~~, and gender education should be a fundamental part of the curriculum and school programmes, and teaching materials may contain discriminatory content~~;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas, in order to fight gender inequality, constant pedagogical supervision of curricula, objectives, content, strategies, materials, evaluation, disciplinary programmes and lesson plans is essential, as well as monitoring and evaluation by educational research centres and specialists in gender equality;deleted

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)

Ja. whereas education is one of the keys to improving the life of girls, their families and the community as a whole; whereas, according to expert studies, each additional year that a girl invests in secondary education increases her income by over 15 %;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)

Jb. whereas better educated girls are able to obtain better jobs, are likely to enjoy better health and are able progressively pass on these benefits to their children as they grow up;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital J c (new)

Jc. whereas there is a strong link between guaranteed levels of education for girls in a country and its economic strength, while the fact that education gives more power to women is even more important 1a 1a http://www.unicef.it/doc/1197/lunicef- nella-giornata-della-donna-listruzione- femminile-base-dellemancipazione.htm ___

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital J d (new)

Jd. whereas the education is a fundamental human right that is essential in order to exercise all other rights2a; __________________ 2ahttps://europa.eu/eyd2015/it/eu- european-parliament/posts/every-girl- and-woman-has-right-education

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital J e (new)

Je. whereas 17% of adults worldwide, two-thirds (493 million) of them women, are unable to read or write;3a __________________ 3ahttps://europa.eu/eyd2015/it/eu- european-parliament/posts/every-girl- and-woman-has-right-education

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital J f (new)

Jf. whereas giving more women an education helps to reduce poverty and promote economic development 4a ; __________________ 4ahttps://europa.eu/eyd2015/it/eu- european-parliament/posts/every-girl- and-woman-has-right-education

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital J g (new)

Jg. whereas the EU foresees a decrease of 24 million workers by 2040 if the percentage of women in the labour force remains at the current level and, even today, a 40% increase in productivity per worker would be possible if all forms of discrimination between men and women were eliminated;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Recital J h (new)

Jh. whereas, while women in the European Union are well educated and generally perform better than men in terms of attendance and academic results, an enormous disparity remains between their level of education and the professional opportunities available to them: 31.9 % of women work part time as opposed to 8.4% of men and they are still underrepresented in certain sectors and at managerial level5a __________________ 5ahttp://www.bloggirl.it/le-donne-e-la- loro-istruzione-la-situazione-nella-ue/

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement measures to apply ~~gender~~ equality between men and woman, girls and boys at all levels of the education system and in teacher training and the creation of mechanisms, t~~hroughout the education system, to facilitate the promotion, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of gender equality~~o uphold these principles in educational institutions;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses that the fundamental right to choose the kind of education to be given to boys and girls must be exercised by parents and family;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on educational policy makers to ensure that ~~gender~~ equality between the sexes goes beyond the level of political intentions and becomes a reality by substantially changing the efforts and resources invested in it;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Asks the Commission that this recommendation be taken to the political institutions responsible for implementing central, regional and local education policies~~, school management bodies and regional and local authorities~~;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses the need to promote equal ~~gender~~ representation of men and women in terms of leadership, especially among school managers and heads;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for all EU countries to invest consistently in the production of information and motivational campaigns for girls and boys to choose non- stereotyped professions~~, as well as reflecting on the influence of gender identities and perceptions~~ and on girls' life plans, promoting discussion of educational and career choices in the classroom;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls for the promotion of a holistic approach to formal and informal education in schools, a sensitive approach to the inclusion of human rights, human dignity, ~~gender~~ equality between women and men and the development of self-esteem, encouraging informed decision-making for girls and women, both at a personal and professional level;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on European, national and local institutions to raise awareness on the part of women and girls of their rights and their potential by providing them with comprehensive training and information about courses of study and job opportunities on the basis of their aptitudes;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Calls on the institutions to ensure that girls learn to stand up for their own rights to life and health by providing them with proper education about all the instruments they can draw on to safeguard their own well-being;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Insists on giving special attention to the ~~gender dimension in all its forms, in curricula, content, school programmes~~place of and lres~~son plans, as well as the need to assess the place of~~pect for women in school curricula in various disciplines, highlighting their role in the content taught;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls for the promotion of ~~a gender perspective in~~ education on sexuality and the related emotions, in sport and leisure activities, where ~~stereotypes and expectations based on gender can affect the self-image,~~ there is greater scope for inequalities to emerge between men and women as regards health, acquisition of skills, intellectual development, and social integration ~~and identity construction of girls~~;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the authors and publishers of educational materials to be aware of the need to make ~~gender~~ equality between men and women a criterion for the production of these materials, ~~recommending the use of~~using teams of teachers and students in the creation of training materials ~~on gender equality~~;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Underlines the need to prepare and disseminate guidelines for schools, teachers and those responsible for setting the curriculum in order to embrace a gender perspective and gender equality, and asks teachers to analyse and eliminate stereotypes and sexist distortions that the teaching materials may include in their content, language and illustrations, encouraging them also to combat this sexism in literature, film, music, games and other areas that contribute decisively to changing the attitudes, behaviour and identity of boys and girls;deleted

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

~~17. Stresses the need to organise awareness-raising initiatives, training and integration of the gender perspective for all involved in education policy and also for parents and employers;~~deleted

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls for every effort to be made to ensure that employment in the area of early childhood education, primary education and care is promoted as valid work for both women and men~~, reflecting on the relevance of using a system of quotas for men in these areas in the transitional arrangements~~;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Notes the need for monitoring and evaluation by independent bodies of progress made as a result of the adoption of gender equality policies in educational institutions, ongoing communication of information to the relevant authorities on all measures taken and progress made in this area, and the urgent need to convert the gender perspective into an internal and external evaluation element of educational institutions;deleted

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Reiterates the importance of conducting impact studies for educational policies on ~~gender~~the emancipation of women and girls, providing qualitative and quantitative instruments for the assessment of this impact~~, and using a budgetary strategy based on gender to promote both access and the right to educational resources~~;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Recognises it as fundamental to assess the impact of future education legislation on ~~gender equality~~the emancipation of women and girls and, where necessary, to revise existing laws in accordance with this principle;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Stresses that the monitoring procedures for implementing ~~gender equality program~~programmes on equality between men and womesn and respective assessment must be carried out by ~~educational research centres in close cooperation with experts in gender issues,~~the Member States in cooperation with the bodies set up by the EU and local authorities;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Suggests the creation of an Annual European Award for ~~Gender Equality~~the Emancipation of Women through Education for educational institutions and encourages Member States to do the same at national level;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Stresses the need to draw up plans of action and to allocate resources for the implementation of a ~~gender equality programme~~programme on the emancipation of women and girls through education, recommending the use of European instruments available for this purpose, namely the Investment Plan, the Horizon 2020 Programme and Community funds;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Emphasises the need for institutions to invest in suitable programmes, including financing programmes, which facilitate the integration of women into working life, on the basis of meritocratic principles and equality with men;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM