Activities of Irène TOLLERET related to 2021/2039(INI)
Reports (1)
REPORT on gender mainstreaming in the European Parliament – annual report 2020
Amendments (63)
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)
Citation 19 a (new)
— having regard to the study "Gender mainstreaming in the European Parliament: State of play" prepared by European Parliamentary Research Service of the European Parliament,
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas gender mainstreaming is a widely recognised strategy to ensure gender equality by integrating gender perspective into all policies, programmes and measures, with a view to promoting gender equality and combating discrimination;
Amendment 37 #
A a. whereas there is progress regarding gender equality in some areas, but still a lot of room for improvement, with fragmented implementation of gender mainstreaming across policy areas and institutions at EU and national levels;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas gender discrimination often intersects with other types of discriminationdiscrimination on other grounds, leading to multiple and compounding discrimination against specific groups, as well as particular types of discrimination due to several intersecting grounds;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas gender mainstreaming measures include, among others, quotas, work-life balance measures, anti- harassment policies and gender impact assessments, gender responsive recruitment procedures, gender impact assessments to adopt gender responsive legislation, the use of gender neutral language and communicating in a gender responsive manner;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas the OECD defines gender balance as ‘an equitable distribution of life's opportunities and resources between women and men, and/or the equal representation of women and men’;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas the EIGE defines horizontal segregation as the ‘concentration of women and men in different sectors and occupations’;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the progress in addressing sexual harassment after three years of the #MeToo movement is not sufficient and there is still a lot to be done, within the European institutions and beyond; whereas research shows that harassment is more widespread than commonly believed and is significantly underreported;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas gender-responsive budgeting consists ofis not just about funding explicit gender equality initiatives, but also about understanding the impact of budgetary and policy decisions on gender equality and adjusting public expenditure and revenue accordingly;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas in the hearings organised by most of Parliament committees since the beginning of this term until November 2020, the presence of women is below 50%; whereas in committees such as AGRI, PECH, PETI or EMPL the proportion is below 25%;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reaffirms its strong commitment to gender equality and endorses gender mainstreaming as one of its official policy approaches to ensure it; stresses that gender equality is a joint responsibility, requiring action by all EU institutions, Member States and EU agencies, in partnership with civil society and women’s organisations, social partners and the private sector;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that measures to ensure gender equality need to incorporate an intersectional approach with the aim of leaving no one behind and eliminating all forms of discrimination including intersecting forms;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the increasing number of women involved in politics, but stresses that we are far from reaching gender parity; in that area and that women with a public profile, such as politicians and activists, are often the target of harassment with the intention of discouraging their presence in public life and decision- making spheres; stresses that no feminist legislation and policies can be designed without the presence of women in decision-making;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the lack of data on gender mainstreaming within the EU institutions beyond data on the number of women in different positions, therefore, commits to collect qualitative indicators on gender equality and additional gender disaggregated data in order to continue the improvement of gender equality;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Welcomes EIGE’s ‘Gender sensitive parliaments toolkit’ that focuses in five key areas to be addressed, namely, equal opportunities to enter the parliament, equal opportunities to influence the parliament’s working procedures, adequate space on the parliamentary agenda for women’s interests and concerns, producing gender- sensitive legislation and compliance with the symbolic function of the parliament;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the adoption of gender action plans by all Parliament committees; notes, however, the lack of monitoring and implementation of these plans; calls therefore on the Committees to monitor their Gender Action Plans in order to measure their progress and ensure their implementation;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the adoption of a gender action plan in July 2020 and a roadmap for its implementation in April 2021; regrets, however,new provision of the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament adopted in 2019 that established the obligation to adopt a gender action plan aimed at incorporating a gender perspective in all Parliament’s activities, at all levels and all stages; welcomes the adoption of a gender action plan in July 2020 and a roadmap for its implementation in April 2021; requests to prepare regular monitoring reports of the progress made in implementing it; regrets that the Gender Action Plan and the Roadmap are not publicly available and that most of the measures included are formulated as principles without clear targets and obligations, which indicates the lack of political engagement in their implementation;
Amendment 99 #
7. INotes that the percentage of women MEPs has slightly decreased since the end of last term from about 39.6% to 39.1%; nevertheless, welcomes the progress in female political representation in the Parliament, which is higher than the EU average of 30.4% female members within Member States’ national parliaments and significantly higher than the worldwide average for parliaments of 25.2%; welcomes that some Member States and political parties have introduced rules to ensure gender balance in their electoral lists and insists on the need to introduce binding quotas in the upcoming revision of the EU electoral law;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Stresses that in order to ensure the presence of women candidates, internal party organisation and procedures must be gender responsive by including measures such as explicitly addressing gender equality in party rules, establishing gender quotas for decision- making roles, or the existence of well- functioning forums for lobbying, advocacy and discussion, such as women’s wings and/or committees;
Amendment 108 #
8. Regrets the lack of gender- responsive recruitment procedures in Parliament which would avoid discrimination and increase the presence of women in areas where women are underrepresented in the administration and political groups;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. CWelcomes the fully gender- balanced Bureau of the Parliament with eight female Vice-Presidents out of 14 and two female Quaestors out of five; notes however, that only three out of seven political groups of the Parliament have women as chairs or co-chairs, 11 of the 27 committees are currently chaired by a woman and 13 out of the 44 delegation chairs are women; calls for gender balance in the leadership of committees, delegations and political groups to be improved; welcomes the amendment to Rule 213(1) of Parliament’s Rules of Procedure requiring the bureau of each committee to be gender- balanced; however, regrets that this amendment will enter into force only at the opening of the first part-session following the next elections to the European Parliament due to be held in 2024;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for gender balance to be ensured at all levels of plenary, committee and delegation work, including when appointing coordinators, rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs and when distributing speaking time; calls to amend Parliament’s Rules of Procedure accordingly; highlights the need to ensure that parity is respected especially with regard to the governance of co-chaired bodies and the distribution of shared responsibilities such as co-rapporteurs or co-shadow-rapporteurs;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Requests that measures to tackle horizontal segregation are put in place to ensure gender balance in the participation of Members in different Committees and to put an end to the gendered concentration in portfolios, with areas with a higher presence of women being less valued;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the political groups to establish internal rules ensuring gender equality in their internal functioning especially regarding appointments, distribution of roles and responsibilities;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Calls on the relevant Directorates- General to ensure that the selection of authors of studies is gender balanced;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that despite all the progress and efforts made, gender equality at all management levels of Parliament’s administration has not yet been achieved; welcomes the fact that at directors level the parity is reached, but regrets that at the Directors-General level women represent only 23,1% and at Heads of Unit level - 39.3%; commends in this regard the target of the administration of the Parliament to have 50% women in middle and senior manager positions and 40% women in top manager positions in the administration by 2024; calls for women to be prioritised for recruitment when they are under- represented and the respective merits of the candidates are equal; calls for mentorship programmes to be implemented;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Stresses that harassment, experienced in a work place, constitutes a serious attack on a person’s psychological and physical health, making them feel insecure at work or in some cases preventing them from doing their work; notes that women are far more likely to be exposed to sexual harassment than men;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13 b. Considers that, despite all efforts taken so far to ensure zero-harassment policy, there are still cases of sexual harassment in the Parliament and efforts with regard to prevention of sexual harassment should increase;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point c
Paragraph 14 – point c
c. recompose the anti-harassment bodies to ensure gender balance and independence by includeing external legal, medical and therapeutic experts in the domain of harassment with full voting rights;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point d a (new)
Paragraph 14 – point d a (new)
d a. introduce compulsory training for all people working in Parliament’s premises on a regular basis about zero- harassment policy, providing them with tools to recognise all forms of harassment, including particularly sexual harassment and report it, as well as with tailored information about available support structures;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Commits to guaranteeing a good work-life balance for Members, group staff, accredited parliamentary assistants and administrative staff such as by adopting work-life balance friendly working hours and engage with the Commission and the Council to establish a common solution for meetings involving the three institutions;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Demands in particular that maternity, paternity and parental leave are recognised for Members of the Parliament through an amendment to the Statute for Members of the European Parliament;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Welcomes the work of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, the High-Level Group on Gender Equality and Diversity and the Gender Mainstreaming Network as leading bodies in ensuring gender mainstreaming in Parliament; calls for a closer and more structured cooperation between these bodies through regular meetings to share information and to issue joint thematic reports;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Welcomes a new initiative of the Conference of Delegation Chairs to invite all delegations to appoint members in charge of gender mainstreaming and commends the cooperation of the Gender Mainstreaming Network of Committees and of Delegations;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for the institutionalisation of the Gender Mainstreaming Network in the Rules of Procedure, making it possible for the network to take decisions and have a budget with the aim of promoting gender mainstreaming in the activities of the parliamentary committees and delegations;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. CWelcomes the training organised by EIGE for Members of the Parliament about gender impact assessments and gender budgeting, which was tailored for the Parliament; commits to working more closely with the European Institute for Gender Equality to deliver regular training on gender mainstreaming for Members, group staff, parliamentary assistants and staff of committee secretariats;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Welcomes the commitment in the Roadmap to collect, through the relevant services and bodies, clear indicators to measure if the input from FEMM committee has been incorporated in the final position of the Parliament; notes that the inclusion of FEMM’s suggestions in the form of opinions or amendments varies among other committees;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Commits to modifying the Rules of Procedure to include a specific procedure for gender mainstreaming amendments; requests, in the context of own-initiative reports, to ensure sufficient time between the draft report of the leading committee is available and the vote in committee in order to allow FEMM committee to produce its position in the form of amendments to the draft report;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for all missions of the committees and delegations to be gender- balanced and for the gender equality and women’s rights dimension to be examined; calls, in addition, to include meetings with organisations promoting gender equality in mission programmes;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Welcomes the commitment in the gender action plan roadmap to ensure that all Committees and other bodies organising hearings, workshops and conferences include gender-balanced panels and experts competent to examine the gender equality and women’s rights dimension in the specific area of focus; asks for clear targets to implement this provision;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Praises the initiative of Gender Equality Week, which took place for the first time in 2020 in the Parliament; welcomes the continuation of this successful initiative and calls for all bodies of the Parliament to join and contribute to this initiative;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Asks the relevant bodiGender Mainstreaming Network, the High Level Group on Gender Equality and Diversity and FEMM, BUDG and CONT Committees to develop and adopt dedicated guidelines to implement gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Welcomes the translation of the Gender-Neutral Language guidelines into all EU official languages; regrets the lack of implementation and asks for additional raising-awareness actions and specific trainings for Parliament’s lawyer- linguists; requests a regular revision of the guidelines and their translations, in order to guarantee that they reflect developments in the languages and remain accurate;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Asks the Commission to carry out a gender impact assessment for each legislative proposalRegrets that gender impacts are rarely addressed as part of the Commission’s impact assessments and that the Commission’s impact assessment guidelines for the 2021-2027 MFF recommend that gender equality should be taken into account in policy-making, only when it is “proportionate” to do so; asks the Commission to change their approach, carry out a gender impact assessment for each legislative proposal and include explicitly gender-related objectives and performance indicators in the proposal thereof; commits to carrying out a gender impact assessment for each own initiative legislative report with the aim of including the gender perspective;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Regrets that, overall, gender mainstreaming has not yet been applied across the EU budget and the contribution of the budget to achieving gender equality has not been adequately monitored; commends achievements of negotiators of the Parliament to include the gender mainstreaming aspects as horizontal principles within the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework; welcomes, in particular, the commitment by the Commission to put in place a methodology to measure the relevant expenditure at programme level in the 2021-2027 MFF at the latest by the end of 2022; calls on the Commission to improve accountability and budgetary transparency and to apply the new methodology to all EU funding programmes;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Welcomes the fact thatat the general objective of mitigating the social and economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis, in particular on women, was included as aand the requirement to include an explanation of how the measures in the national recovery and resilience plans are expected to contribute to genderal objective of equality were included in the Recovery and Resilience Facility; calls on the Commission to closely monitor this provision Regulation; regrets, however, that the call of the FEMM committee to include a specific chapter on gender equality in national plans was not included; calls, therefore, on the Commission to closely monitor the existing provisions linked to gender equality and to include relevant indicators in the recovery and resilience scoreboard to monitor the impact of national plans on gender equality;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Calls on the Commission to evaluate the proposed measures included in Member States’ recovery and resilience plans and report on the results achieved in terms of gender equality, including the amount of funds allocated and spent to support gender equality;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25 b. Regrets that several EU funding programmes with significant potential to contribute to gender equality such as ESI funds, CAP or Erasmus did not take gender equality effectively into account;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the institutional framework for supporting gender mainstreaming and to translate its commitment to gender mainstreaming into specific actions; asks the Commission to adopt an implementation plan for gender mainstreaming in each policy area;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26 a. Regrets that the Commission has no fully fledged strategy for gender mainstreaming training, offering only a single, non-mandatory introductory course to its staff; urges the Commission to develop a training strategy on gender mainstreaming, ensure that training is available to all staff and make full use of EIGE’s tools and expertise on gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Commission to systematically disaggregate data by gender upon collection and take the gender dimension into account when evaluating and reporting on EU programmes; calls on the Commission to include in upcoming legislative proposals the requirement to systematically collect gender- disaggregated data and relevant gender equality indicators for all programmes and include gender responsive monitoring and evaluation requirements;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Regrets the lack of commitment of the Council to deliver legislation with a gender perspective and reiterates its requests to unblock the EU ratification of the Istanbul Convention, the horizontal anti- discrimination directive, which will ensure that the intersectional dimension is taken into account when combating gender discrimination, and the women on boards directive;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28 a. Urges the Member States to fully transpose and implement the Work-Life Balance Directive and calls on the Commission to monitor it effectively;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Reiterates its call on the Council and the European Council to establish a Council configuration on gender equality in order to strengthen gender mainstreaming across all EU policies and legislation, develop dialogue and cooperation between Member States, exchange best practices and legislation, unblock the negotiations on the main files related to gender equality, deliver common responses to EU-wide problems and ensure that gender equality issues are discussed at the highest political level;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30 a. Stresses that a gender-sensitive parliament is aware and pays attention to the symbolic meanings conveyed within and by the institution through its communications strategy and the design of physical spaces; requests to step up its efforts in these areas;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Requests that concrete targets to ensure gender balance when naming and renaming buildings, rooms and other physical spaces of the European Parliament be adopted;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31 a. Welcomes the commitment in the Roadmap to carry out an analysis of the spaces dedicated to childcare in Parliament’s premises, including breastfeeding spaces, and requests a commitment to redesign them where appropriate;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Requests that an analysis of the distribution and design of Parliament’s toilets to assess the need to adapt them to the requirements of all genders be carried out, including through measures such as the introduction of gender neutral toilets and increasing the number of toilets with individual trashcans and sinks to facilitate the use of menstrual cups and other sanitary products;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Asks for its communication strategy to be revised, including through measures such as revising Parliament’s website to include a specific section on gender equality; in the home menu, include relevant information about key files, such as the process of ratification of the Istanbul Convention by the EU, update the information on the Parliament’s history and composition from the gender point of view, or establishing a protocol to mourn victims of femicide;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Reiterates its call for an audit to be carried out to map the current situation in terms of gender equality and gender mainstreaming and make recommendations in both the political and the administrative sides of Parliament’s activities; suggests that this audit should cover all the areas and indicators developed in the European Institute for Gender Equality’s “Gender-sensitive parliaments toolkit” and identify the rules that facilitate or block gender equality in each aspect analysed with the aim of updating Parliament’s Gender Action Plan and its roadmap;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)
Paragraph 34 a (new)
34 a. Points that some areas covered by the Gender Action Plan and its roadmap are inherently linked to the political organisation of the groups and therefore need a political deliberation involving all groups;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Calls for the establishment of a working group composed of representatives of each political group and chaired by the gender mainstreaming standing rapporteurs of Parliament to steer the work in that area, implement this resolution and coordinate with the High Level Group on Gender Equality and Diversity, the EP Bureau, the FEMM committee, the Gender Mainstreaming Network and the Conference of Presidents, where relevant;