10 Amendments of Hilde VAUTMANS related to 2020/2216(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that across all digital technology domains exists a gender gap putting women at a disadvantage, women account for 30 % of the technology workforce and, 17 % of ICT specialists in Europe and only 12 % in the domain of AI , and that the EU economy would be boosted by EUR 16 billion a year if women technology graduates were not hindered from followeding through to digital jobs at the same rate as men;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls on Commission and member states to apply multi-level approach to address the gender gap in all levels of digital education and employment, as well the access to the increasing online services and facilities; Stresses that closing the digital gender gap will increase gender equality not only for the labour market, but also through access to technologies and services;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Recalls that the Covid pandemic has underlined the lack of access to internet, digital technologies and infrastructures in some rural areas making teleworking difficult if not impossible;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Recalls that teleworking can be an opportunity for women by allowing them to work from home and has the potential to lead to a better work-life balance;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3 d. Calls on the Commission to assist member states to take the necessary steps to ensure that women can benefit from the opportunities telework can provide for an effective balance between paid professional and caregiving responsibilities by ensuring efficient implementation of the work-life balance directive in order to ensure a more equal distribution of caregiving responsibilities in families, as well as ensuring that women have access to the necessary social protection system and childcare;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that AI can significantly contribute to promotingovercoming gender discrimination and address the challenges faced by women in order to promote gender equality, provided that an appropriate legal framework is developed, allowing for the elimination of conscious and unconscious biases are eliminated and the respect of the principles of gender equality are respected; stresses the lack of diversity in the AI sector within teams of developers and engineers, and the importance of using sex- disaggregated data when developing products, AI standards, algorithms and applications;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Recalls the importance of eliminating unintentional gender discriminatory bias from algorithms and AI applications that perpetuate harmful gender stereotypes, favours the development of ‘gender-biased algorithms’, and lead to the reduced participation of women in the digital, AI and ICT fields; Stresses the need to address the gender innovation bias within the digital sector, whereby the designers and developers of services, software and user applications are mostly men and the users for a large amount are women;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Highlights that structural gender- bias present in academia, research and business in the digital sectors slows down the career progression for women and reduces their career opportunities, results in an underrepresentation of women in the digital economy; calls on the Commission to ensure that such bias to the largest extent possible are countered during the funding, application and decision-making processes through the design of these as well as calls on the Commission to allocate more funding supporting females academics, researchers and entrepreneurs;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for special attention to be paid to women and girls as vulnerable consumers and to the rise in cyber violence against women in the digital world, and welcomes the Commission’s proposal on the digital services act (COM(2020)0825), which is addressing these issues.
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls on the Commission to introduce and ensure the implementation of gender mainstreaming in the Digital Single Market Strategy with a view to effectively addressing the under- representation of women ingrowing sectors for the future EU economy.