16 Amendments of Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN related to 2011/2295(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission on the Status of Women Agreed Conclusions 1997/2 on the Critical Areas of Concern of the Beijing Platform for Action 1996- 1999,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas equal representation of women and men in political decision making is a matter of human rights and social justice and a necessary condition for the functioning of a democratic society; whereas the persistent under- representation of women is a democratic deficit that undermines the legitimacy of decision-making both at the EU and the national level;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas decision-making is based on administrative preparations and thus the number of women in administrative positions, especially in leadership, is a matter of equality and ensures that gender aspects are taken into account in the preparation of all policies;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action on women in power and decision making underlines the fact that equal participation is a necessary condition for women's interests to be taken into account and is needed in order to strengthen democracy and promote its proper functioning; whereas it reaffirms also that the active participation of women, on equal terms with men, at all levels of decision-making is essential to the achievement of equality, sustainable development, peace and democracy;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas owing to gender stereotypes there is a severe segregation as regards key political decision-making positions to women's care and distributive tasks such as health, social welfare and environment, and to men's powerful, resource-related tasks, such as economy, trade, budget and foreign affairs, which distorts the power structure and resource allocation;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Invites the Council, the Commission and the Member States to design and implement effective multifaceted strategies for achieving parity in participation in political decision making and leadership at all levels, especially in the areas of macro- economic policy, trade, labour, budgets, defence and foreign affairs, through indicators, quantified targets, clear action plans and regular monitoring mechanisms followed up with corrective measures and their monitoring where the set targets are not met;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Acknowledges the role of political parties as key factors in the promotion of parity; calls in consequence for the Member States to require national parties, where appropriate, to set quotas and apply rank-ordering rules to electoral candidate lists for national and EU elections, and to define and enforce appropriate sanctions for non-compliance; encourages the Member States to set parity targets for the political parties as a prerequisite for funding;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the need for concrete steps designed to achieve parity in elected offices in the national parliaments and the European Parliament (such as the President, Vice-Presidents, Chairs and Vice-Chairs), for instance by setting a target of 50 % representation of men and women in each of those offices within three consecutive parliamentary terms;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to support parity by proposing a woman and a man as their candidates for the office of European Commissioner; calls on the President of the Commission to aim at parity when forming the Commission; reiterates the importance of taking the equal representation of women and men into account when giving its consent to the new Commission, in accordance with Rule 106;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to implement positive action measures, such as preferential treatment, when a gender is under- represented;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure that women and men have equal opportunities during election campaigns by providing public funding and access to the state media;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Acknowledges the other actors as a relevant part of the wider democratic process and thus welcomes the efforts of trade unions, the private sector and non- governmental organizations to achieve equality of women and men in their ranks, including equal participation in decision-making;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Takes note of the importance of media and education in encouraging women to participate in politics; underlines the importance of monitoring media coverage of women in decision- making to identify gender bias and means to address it and thus to promote efforts to eliminate stereotypes and encourage the portrayal of positive images of women as leaders in all areas of life;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Encourages the Member States and the Commission, includingespecially through the involvement of the EIGE where appropriate, to collect, analyse and disseminate data broken down by sex for the purpose of monitoring gender equality in decision making and as a basis for further measures if the set targets are not met; invites the Commission to continue to collect and disseminate comparable data at EU level through the use of its database on women and men in decision-making positions and to report regularly on the basis of common indicators; calls for the Commission to submit a yearly report to the European Parliament's Committee on Women's Right and Gender Equality on the progress of gender equality in decision-making in the European Union;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the European External Action Service (EEAS) to promote women's participation in decision making in the external relations of the European Union and to ensure that all delegations representing the EU are gender-balanced; points out the need to increase the number of women as mediators and chief negotiators in peace-building processes as well as in other negotiation processes such as international trade and environment negotiations;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to take measures to promote balanced representation of women in political life in multinational organisations such as the UN, in governments and in national parliaments as well as at regional and local level and to increase their cooperation with other actors at the international level, such as UN WOMEN and the Inter-parliamentary Union, in order to promote balanced representation of women in political life, in governments and in national parliaments, as well as at regional and local levelthese goals;