Activities of Florent MARCELLESI related to 2017/2210(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Gender equality in the media sector in the EU - Empowering women and girls through the digital sector (debate) ES
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on gender equality in the media sector in the EU PDF (438 KB) DOC (81 KB)
Amendments (26)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)
Citation 21 a (new)
– having regard to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for action and its annexes, adopted in the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the media act as a fourth power, have the capacity to influence and ultimately shape public opinion, and whereas media is a cornerstone of democratic societies and as such it haves a duty to ensure freedom of information, diversity of opinion and media pluralism;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the relationship between women and media is one of the major areas of concern in achieving gender equality in contemporary societies; whereas the eroticisation of violence and objectification of women in the media have a negative effect on the fight for the eradication of violence against women;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the media have a significant impact on how social and cultural gender norms governing both women and men are formed and evolve, and constitute an important industry of economic value, directly employing over one millihave a strong influence in the configuration of the subjectivity of the audience by perpetuating unequal and unhealthy corporal paradigms and ideas of masculinity and femininity; whereas media has a crucial role to play in portraying LGBTI individuals in a non- people inrejudiced way and in promoting acceptance towards the EUm;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the representation of women in advertising and the way products target potential consumers tend to perpetuate traditional gender norms;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas gender pay and pension gaps are a persistent problem in the EU, and are evident in different economic sectors, including the media; whereas the gender pay gap in the media sector is of 17%;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas public media organisations in the Member States are able tocan establish their own equality policies, which leads to a wide spectrum of practices in the EU: from very comprehensive policy frameworks covering media content and providing for a balanced representation of men and women in decision-making bodies, to there being no such policy in place;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas research has shown that only 4% of news coverage is against stereotypical portrayal; whereas women account for only 23% of the people we hear or read about in the news; whereas around 37 % of stories from both online and offline news sources are reported by women, a situation which has demonstrated no prospect of improvement in the past ten years8 ; whereas women are mostly asked to provide a popular opinion (41 %) or personal experience (38 %) and are seldom quoted as experts (just 17 % of stories); whereas research has also shown that less than one in five experts or commentators are women (18 %)9 ; __________________ 8 Lenka Vochocová, FEMM public hearing ‘Gender equality in the media sector in the EU’, 26 June 2017, recording available at http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep- live/en/committees/video?event=20170626 -1500-COMMITTEE-FEMM 9 Global Media Monitoring project, regional report for Europe (2015), available at http://cdn.agilitycms.com/who- makes-the- news/Imported/reports_2015/regional/Euro pe.pdf
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas there are many women in the media working at a top professional level who are just as appreciated by society as their male counterparts and who include renowned film makers, journalists and reporters; whereas although they perform equally well as men, they may bare more vulnerable and exposed to risks and dangersexposed to gender-based violence and workplace discrimination;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas women are not highly disproportionately under-represented in the news and information media and are even less visible in the domains of sport, politics, the economy and finances, notwithstanding the variety of media outlets across the Member States; whereas historical women are almost not present in related media content such as biographic documentaries;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas women writing in social media meet increasing levels of harassment; whereas this harassment has the potential of silencing women´s voice and weakens their participation in society;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the fact that although women are overrepresented in this field at a graduate level and constitute a substantial workforce, they are underrepresented in management and top-level positions; calls on the Commission to step up its efforts to unlock the Directive on Women on Boards, which has been on hold in the Council since 2013;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets the fact that the representation of women in public service media in the EU is low on average, in both strategic and operational high-level posts and on boards (in 2017: 35.8 % for executive posts, 37.7 % for non-executive posts and 33.3 % as board members)10 ; ; __________________ 10 Gender Equality in Power and Decision- Making. Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the EU Member States, 2017 (Source: EIGE Gender Statistics Database – Women and Men in Decision-Making).
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States, in conjunction with equality bodies, to focus on theully implementation of the existing legislation addressing equality between women and men, and to encourage regulatory bodies to pay attention to women’s presence and advancedevelop, in case it has not been done yet, legislation focusing on non- stereotypical media content which also ensures equal presence of woment in the media sector and to non-stereotypical media content, including in management positions;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that while any regulatory action of sexism and stereotypical gender portrayals in media content is a prerogative of the Member States and subjecte Commission’s obligation to gender mainstreaming each EU policy and programme related to duthe considermmunications of the principle of freedom of expression, editorial freedom should not serve to encourage or legitimise stereotypical or negative portrayals of womensector; recalls the prohibition of sex-based discrimination in media under the Audiovisual Services Directive; recalls that editorial freedom should not serve to encourage or legitimise stereotypical or negative portrayals of women and LGBTI individuals and that efforts should be made to promote positive role models that challenge traditional gender norms;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses the role of media as agent of social change and its influence in the configuration of public opinion and calls on Member States to promote contents on gender equality in public media; encourages public and private media to mainstream gender equality in all their content and to use non-sexist language; encourages broadcasting organizations to adopt an equality plan for both its internal structure and content production;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses that economic arguments cannot be an excuse to perpetuate gender stereotyping in media content;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Encourages the Commission and Member States to promote media literacy and educational initiatives on media with a gender approach to all relevant stakeholders, including children, parents, teachers, social workers, child protection officers, civil organisations and national authorities;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Considers that gender equality should be a compulsory module at universities of communication and journalism studies in order to ensure a long term impact; calls on national and European institutions to promote and fund gender trainings for media professionals, including the use of non- sexist language and avoiding gender stereotypes in the media; stresses that special attention needs to be paid to training on how media reports on cases of violence against women;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Considers that gender equality in education must include a range of issues, such as literacy including media-literacy, bullying including cyber-bullying, violence against LGBTI, hate speech, human rights and civic education; underlines that prevention measures should cover technology related aspects in particular, with a view to ensuring a safer internet and digital literacy as well as media literacy; calls upon Member States to adopt provisions to apply measures of protection, such as encryption and parental control;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Rrecommends that regulations issued by media and communication regulatory authorities set out criteria to ensure stereotype-free portrayals of women and girls andin particular concerning those from under-represented groups, as well as gender non-conforming persons. These regulations should also include the possibility of removing offensive content; recommends that specialist organisations, such as national equality bodies and women’s NGOs, are involved in monitoring the implementation of these regulations;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Encourages the media and advertising sectors to safeguard the dignity of minor and adult women in their productions, through co-regulatory mechanisms, internal codes of conduct and other actions;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recommends that public and private media organisations adopt internal polices which include anti-harassment measures, maternity, paternity or non- transferable parental leave schemes, and employee-oriented flexible working arrangements and mentorship and management training programmes for womenwhich ensure an equal distribution of childcare, as well as mentorship and management training programmes for women; deplores that the Commission has not submitted yet a reform of the Maternity Leave Directive dating from 1992;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to conduct further research on the participation of women in senior positions in the media; calls for the improvement of the collection of disaggregated data, in cooperation with EIGE, especially concerning the new social media technologies in order to develop methodologies to prevent gender-based violence and harassment in social media, commends the EIGE for its work in the field and invites it to continue to monitor the relevant set of indicators;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission to propose a directive on sexism in advertising which ensures that the image of women is not used in a stereotypical, degrading or discriminatory way;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls on Member States to create a special body that will be available to give advice on how to avoid sexism in advertisement campaigns;