13 Amendments of Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN related to 2015/2230(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)
Citation 13 a (new)
- Having regard to EIGE's study on "Gender-Sensitive Parliaments: A Global Review of Good Practice", published in 2011,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)
Citation 19 a (new)
- Having regard to its report of 1.12.2011 on women in political decision making – quality and equality,
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T a (new)
Recital T a (new)
T a. Whereas owing to gender stereotypes there is a severe segregation as regards key political decision-making positions which distorts the power structure and resource allocation, and whereas the Parliament should more clearly address this segregation, and organize as practical tools to abolish it leadership training for women, and offer women experiences of positions of leadership, f.ex. by favouring women substitutes to male managers during their absence of leave, as part of career promotion in order to enhance women's leadership skills and experience.
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T b (new)
Recital T b (new)
T b. Whereas the responsibilities of decision making is often divided based on gender, so that men make decisions on resources, i.e. how money is spent, whereas women decide on matters that require money and resources, such as education and social welfare; whereas in order to increase the quality of decisions made, we need to ensure that the allocation of decision making positions is evenly spread between men and women.
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls for addressing structural barriers that prevent women from participating in politics, and to create an enabling environment for women to take part in political life at all levels; notes that reconciliation of work, private and family life is recognised at the EU level as an important priority for achieving gender equality and calls for facilitating women's possibilities to take part in political life; calls for further consideration to be given to enhancing these enabling measures in its own work, as well as more effective measures to promote them outside the Parliament.
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Calls for positive action measures, through which the number of underrepresented gender can be increased in positions which are dominated by either male or female workers, and which are a useful tool to enhance gender equality. This includes binding legislative measures, with a view to ensuring parity in all governing bodies and public appointments and to develop tools for gender monitoring of nominations and elections.
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Calls for political parties to recognize their responsibility in the promotion of women in politics as the power to recruit, select and nominate candidates is in the hands of political parties, whatever the electoral system. considers that is therefore necessary that attempts to address the issue of women's under-representation in politics target the political parties and their views and strategies on more inclusive decision-making assemblies; encourages parties to envisage measures to increase women's participation, setting also, when applicable, quotas and rank- ordering rules to their candidate lists for EU elections and defining sanctions for non-compliance; considers that one sort of incentive for the political parties could be the use of parity targets as a prerequisite for party funding.
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Reaffirms the need for sufficient allocation of resources also at Parliament level in order to develop gender impact assessments and gender-based analysis; emphasises that such analyses and the data collection methodologies need to be sensitive to the experiences of trans and intersex persons;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Regrets that at the moment the European Institute for Gender Equality's (EIGE) is lacking sufficient resources to conduct all the work it is asked to perform, and therefore there is a need to ensure that EIGE's budget is amended to match its wide mandate.
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Expresses it full support for developing targeted and regular gender mainstreaming training, with adequate resources and tailor-made for Parliament specific needs; recommends that training sessions include information on the multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination affecting women with disabilities, migrant and ethnic minority women, Roma women, older women, single mothers and LGBTI persons;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Highlights the need to ensure that all its services are aware of their responsibilities in implementing gender mainstreaming, including those in charge of human resources, security and facilities; recommends the introduction of specific human resources guidelines on trans and intersex, as well as gender- neutral sanitary facilities, to improve the well-being of trans and intersex people on the workplace; emphasises that data on past or ongoing legal gender recognition should be protected;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Reminds that gender mainstreaming evaluations and programmes also require an effective follow-up measure to be conducted in order to address the effectiveness and possible problems of each effort; underlines that is important to conduct corrective measures where needed, and to develop gender mainstreaming if lack of progress can be detected after their implementation.
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26 a. Calls for using its power to urge forward gender mainstreaming in wider policy actions; underlines that this should be done more actively with regards to the European Semester process, in which gender equality indicators could be used to measure Member States' performance and to point out if their efforts lack behind the gender equality targets agreed on at the EU level.