17 Amendments of Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT related to 2015/2007(INI)
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas digitalisation has an enormous impact on the labour market by changing value chains and creating new job opportunities and more flexible working patterns; whereas women, in particular, face possible negative consequences such as the erosion of workers’ riopportunities for flexible and teleworking work arrangements broughts and working time boundaries as well as boundaries of professional and non- professional responsibilities, increasing low-paid and less secure types of employment andbout by digitalisation may serve as a an effective tool for better reconciliation of professional and domestic duties for both women and men; whereas these flexible working arrangement and digital technologies which facilitate work from home could also contributinge to the challenge of maintaining a work-life balancinclusion into the labour market of disadvantaged groups of women, such as women with disabilities or with caring duties which require presence at home;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas improving digital skills and IT-literacy among women and boosting inclusion of women into the ICT which is one of the highest paying sectors could contribute to their financial empowerment and independence resulting in the reduction of the total gender wage gap;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas, in the digitalised labour market, responsibility is increasingly shifted away from the company to the individuation offers new opportunities for entrepreneurship for women, including small scale digital entrepreneurship which in many cases does not require significant initial, changapital as well as enterprises pursued withing the termsframework of social security membership of the self-employed and freelancers; whereas digitalisation often uncouples the ponomy which enhance social inclusion; whereas there is need to support female digital entrepreneurship as women constitute only 19 per cent of entrepreneurs in this sector; whereas digitalisation of the labour market is likely to increase micro entrepreneurship, self-employment and freelance of work from the enterprise, challengingwhich in cases of multiple individual contracts within various companies and institutions may render the monitoring of the principle of equal pay for equal work at the same workplace, which is of utmost importance for a truly equal society, more challenging;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the entry of more women into the ICT sector would boost a market in which labour shortages are foreseen and in which an equal participation of women would lead to a gain of around EUR 9 billion for EU GDP each year; whereas in the existing male-dominated workforce leads to many women leaving the ICT sector within a few years of completrealities women remain heavily underrepresented in ICT degrees where they constitute only around 20 per cent of graduates ing their university degree field;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas sexism and gender stereotyping is a burden for economic development and the competitiveness of the EU, further widening the already strong digital gender gap in participation of women in the field of ICT, media and information society;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas ICT, like any technology, can be used and abused to threaten women, their rights and freedoms, and ultimately their empowerment, such as in the case of cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking, trafficking of human beings through the internet, hate speech, incitement to hatred, discrimination and violation of fundamental rights; whereas anonymity the Internet contributes to the proliferation of these forms of violence against women; whereas such new challenges and risks need to be identified and addressed appropriately by policymakers as well as by enterprises, companies and civil society organisations, while providing room for information exchange on the internet;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
H a. whereas new communication and information technologies are abused to create channels and platforms which also facilitate the expansion of prostitution, also involving minors; whereas universal accessibility and easiness of using these new digital channels as well as anonymity they offer could also contribute to widening of the spectrum of potential actors involved, in particular among the most vulnerable groups in terms of sexual abuse, such as teenage girls; whereas there is a need for relevant law enforcement professionals to recognize the transformations in the way prostitution is carried out through the digital medium as well as to monitor relevant Internet platforms from this perspective, when there is a justified reason for suspecting a crime; whereas there is also a need to raise awareness among relevant education professionals about these new forms of digital threats in order to safeguard minors;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
H b. whereas social awareness about digital forms of violence both among the general public and the relevant professionals, such as law enforcement agents and teachers, remains insufficient to ensure adequate prevention, monitoring and assistance for victims; whereas different forms of online violence are not yet fully reflected in the criminal law as well as modes and procedures of prosecution in all member states; whereas there is a need for a recognition at the EU-level of the potentially transborder nature of the abuse and violence on the Internet;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)
Recital H c (new)
H c. whereas low participation of women and girls in ICT related education and later in employment is a result of a complex interplay of gender stereotyping that starts at early stages of life and education and continues to professional career; whereas factors limiting women and girls from participating in the ICT education and employment include: lifelong stereotyping, segregation into "typically female and male" activities, hobbies and toys that starts at the earliest levels of education, a relative lack of female role models in the ICT sector as well as the limited visibility of women in this sector especially in leadership positions;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and social partners to promote gender equality in ICT companies, representative bodies and training institutions and to closely monitor and follow up the progress made as well as share best practices in this area;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support life-long learning as well as training and schemes which prepare for a better adaptation or potential change of career path according to the growing demand for e-skills in many different sectors with a special regard to women over 55 in order to safeguard them from the exclusion from the labour market;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Encourages Member States to introduce age appropriate ICT education at early stages with a particular focus on inspiring girls to develop interest and talent in the digital field and to safeguard them from constraining and negative stereotypes as well as segregation of activities and toys whereby digital-related themes are associated with "natural predispositions of boys" which discourage girls to advance their e-skills;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Urges the Commission, within the scope of the Digital Single Market Strategy, and more specifically with regard to the reference to building an inclusive e- society, to increase the visibility of women in technology by starting an endowed professorship for women in ICT, setting up a pilot project on a European online university specifically focused on ICT and technical engineering and introducing a tailored scholarship programme for women in the area of ICT and new media;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for identification of the challenges posed by the use of ICT and the internet to commit crimes, issue threats or perpetrate violence against women based on misogyny, homophobia or transphobia; urges policymakers to address these issues properly taking into account the challenges related to online anonymity and potential transborder nature of such crimes and abuses;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to consider the changed realities of women and girls, on account of digitalisation, in the implementation of future EU data protection legislation; emphasises that data controllers may only use sensitive data for limited purposes and may under no circumstances further share such data;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls for the EU institutions, agencies and bodies, as well as the Member States and their law enforcement agencies, to cooperate and concretely coordinate their actions to counter the use of ICT to commit crimes related to trafficking in human beings, cyber-harassment and cyber- stalking as they are often transborder in nature and a European-level coordination is vital for persecuting these crimes; calls on the Member States to review and potentially revise their criminal law to ensure that new forms of digital violence are clearly defined and recognized as well as that appropriate modes of persecution are in place; calls for the EU Cybersecurity Strategy and the Europol Cybercrime Centre to cover these issues; calls on the Commission to promote training and capacity-building for victim support in digital matters, for police and judicial authorities, as well as psychological support during court cases related to the issue;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26 a. Calls on the Member States to sign and ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence and calls on the European Commission to initiate the necessary steps for the accession of the European Union to the Convention, as outlined in the recently issued EC Roadmap on EU Accession to the Istanbul Convention; stresses that ratification of the Council of Europe Convention is instrumental to eradication of violence against women, including digital forms of violence since it introduces harmonized legal definitions and modes of prosecution of crimes that are facilitated by the new communication technologies, such as trafficking in human beings and stalking;