25 Amendments of Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN related to 2019/2168(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12
Citation 12
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19
Citation 19
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21
Citation 21
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas gender stereotypessex greatly influences subject choices; whereas very few teenage girls in EU Member States (less than 3 %) express an interest in working as an ICT professional at the age of 30are becoming increasingly interested in working with ICT, and whereas they do not necessarily have to have the same degree of involvement because their nature differs from that of men in that having a family is also a priority for their personal development; __________________ 12EIGE factsheet entitled ‘Gender equality and digitalisation in the European Union’, published on 11 October 2018.
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the salary level of men and women must be consistent with the principle of fairness and equality on equal terms, and women in the information and communication sector earn 19 % less than men; whereas the gender pay gap directly contributes to the gender pension gap;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas in the past couple of years, there has been an increase in the number of women working in cybersecurity, the figures nevertheless remain significantly low, with women representing fewer than 20 % of cybersecurity professionals in Europe;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas women struggle to find their place in the ICT job sector as a result of various barriers, such as stereotypes and male-dominated workplaces; whereas there is considerable vertical and ho, and whereas that problem will get worse if women continue to be victimised in comparizsontal segregation in the ICT sector and women are often overqualified for the positions they occupy; whereas only a small minority of women occupy senior software engineering positions with men, projecting an image that they are undervalued and in precarious situations, which does absolutely nothing for their self-esteem in upholding their dignity and enhancing the intrinsic and unique qualities they have as women;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas ICT is a sector with a low proportion of female workers, a great numbernd whereas the level of wcomen abandons their ICT career (the phenomenon known as the ‘leaky pipeline’), mainly due to a poor work-life balance, organisational constraints and a male‑dominated environmentmitment in such a highly competitive sector is directly related to the possibility of reconciling personal and family expectations that are also extremely satisfactory;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas the IT sector has witnessed a significant increase in female board members, but is also the sector with the highest percentage of all-male boards, and whereas a system of quotas that are inconsistent with the merits and requirements of the posts concerned cannot be applied indiscriminately;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to take the digital gender gap and the need to secure equal access for men and women into due account while negotiating programmes within the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) and funds and loans under the Recovery Plan, and to increase awareness of these mechanisms amongst women;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the importance of ensuring gender mainstreaming in digital education at all levels, including extra- curricular, informal and non-formal education, also for teaching staff; calls for specific strategies for different age ranges;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to address the gender gap differences in the ICT sector and cooperate in finding solutions and sharing best practices on better inclusion of girls in digital education from a very young age; calls for the EU and the Member States to develop, support and implement the actions promoted by the UN and its bodies with account being taken of the maturity period that is specific to their sex;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines the importance of female self‑efficacy in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and ICT becoming an integral part of female identity in pre‑school and primary school, abandoning harmfulthe gender role stereotypesperspective and gender prejudices that are so harmful for girls and boys;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for gender equality with regard to sexual difference to become a consistent and structural part of future EU youth strategy and policies;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote gender equality in companies in the ICT and related sectors and in the digital economy and to adopt horizontal policies to reduce the gender gap in the digital economy, if there is one, while always taking into account the value of the sexual difference between men and women;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to fully assess the causes and factors that lead to a high drop‑out rate of women from digital careers and – while respecting the freedom to choose other options, such as starting a family – to develop mechanisms and programmes to integrate women and girls into education, training and employment initiatives in the digital sector;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses the impact of the cultural, media and audiovisual sectors in the confusing development of the gender stereotypes andperspective promotion ofng normative and cultural barriers;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls the importance of eliminating conscious and unconscious gender‑discriminatory biasall forms of discrimination between men and women from AI applications, videogames and toys that devalue the role of women and lead to the reduced participation of women in the digital, AI and ICT fields;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Stresses that ICTs can greatly increase women’s ability to take part in electoral processes, public consultations, surveys and debates, as well as to submit petitions or complaints; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take the gender dimension into accountinto account the rich complementarity of sexual difference when devising e- government initiatives; underlines the effectiveness of using the internet for campaigns, forums and boosting the visibility of female role models;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Encourages the Member States and the Commission to organise awareness- raising, training and gender- mainstreaming campaigns to highlight the impact of ICT proficiency on the economic empowerment of men as well as women;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Expresses its concerns about the possibility of an increase in the digital gender gap in the developing countries in the current crisis; stresses the importance of digital proficiency as an instrument to obtain gender equalitypromote equality in dignity among men and women in development strategies;