19 Amendments of Marije CORNELISSEN related to 2009/2242(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 a (new)
Citation 22 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 13 March 20081 on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Development Cooperation,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. Whereas in our ageing society, women will be indispensible in the labour market while the demand for care for the elderly will rise, which most likely leads to the risk of a double burden for women,
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. Wwhereas in terms of average wages there is a growing gender pay gap throughout the EU, amounting on average to 17% and leading to a pension gap and feminisation of poverty in old age, and whereas indirect forms of discrimination tend to increase when unemployment is rising and affecting women and girls;,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. Whereas there is a persistent gender care gap, with women providing double to more than triple the number of hours of unpaid care for children and other dependants compared to men,
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas there are many kinds of discrimination inflicted on specific categories of women, not leastwomen, and especially older women, women with dependaents, migrant women, female members of minorities, women with disabilities, women in prison, etc.lesbian women and transgender people,
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas existing challenges and the experience acquired suggest that the absence of policy coherence between different areas has hampered to achievement of equality between women and men in the past and that women’s rights need to be adequately resourced coordinated more closely, publicised more widely, and promoted more effectively, allowing for individual circumstances,
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 5 a (new)
Article 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for a gender chapter to be included in the EU 2020 strategy, with mechanisms for gender mainstreaming and targets for female employment with indicators that express economic independence, and taking into account both the effects of the current social and economic crisis on women and the role of women in an ageing society;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 9
Article 9
9. Points out to the Commission and the Member States that a dual strategy needs to be employed, applying an integrated approach to gender equality while continuing to take specific action, including legislative measures, as regards budget headings and allocations, follow- up, and oversight, the aim being to produce practical effects; points out that an agenda for action should include short term and long term qualitative and quantitative targets on both European and national level;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 9 a (new)
Article 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the European Commission to monitor Member States’ compliance with the non-discrimination Directives and measures concerning gender and take active measures including infringement procedures in case of non-compliance;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 11
Article 11
11. Points to the importance of building on the analysis of the Beijing Platform (Beijing + 15) undertaken by the Swedish Presidency, not just with a view to developing appropriate indicators, but also with a view to defining goals and adopting the necessary policies in the 12 areas covered: - women and poverty - education and, training and vocational training of women - women and health - zero tolerance towards violence against women - women andin armed conflict - women and the economyand conflict prevention - women’s participation in the political, social and economic field - institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women - women in power and decision-making - human rights of women - women and the media - women and the environment - the girl child; - reconciling work and family life- immigrant women - gender budgeting;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 12 a (new)
Article 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the European Commission to eliminate the gaps in the areas covered to ensure the same level of legal protection against gender based discrimination than for discrimination on the basis of race, and to improve the legal protection and access to legal remedies for victims of multiple discrimination;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 13
Article 13
13. Maintains that measures need to be taken as a matter of urgency to combat wage discrimination, whether by revising the existing directive or by drawing up phased industry-wide plans, with clear-cut goals, aimed at doing away with direct and indirect forms of discrimination or by encouraging collective bargaining and the training of equality advisers and laying down equality plans for factories and other workplace, addressing the unequal share of unpaid work between women and men and laying down equality plans for factories and other workplaces; transparency in wage composition should be a standard practice to strengthen the negotiation position of women workers;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 13 a (new)
Article 13 a (new)
13a. Demands specific measures to be taken by Council, Commission and EU Member States to improve the position of especially vulnerable groups, such as an independent status for migrant women faced with domestic violence, an individualised entitlement to pension and other benefits for women with no or little labour market participation and a campaign to raise awareness of discrimination of transgender people and improve their access to legal remedies;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 14
Article 14
14. Calls for greater action, awareness- raising, and supervision at the workplace so as to create better working conditions for women by taking into account working times, compliance with maternity and paternity rights, and work-life balance, and calling for wider uptake of maternity and parental leave, with full pay, the establishment of paid paternity leave, measures to combat sexist stereotyping in the division of labour and care, and remedies where the above rights are challenged;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 15 a (new)
Article 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the European Commission to start a consultation on a Directive to combat violence against women that will outline, among other things, the efforts Member States are obliged to make to combat violence against women;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 18 a (new)
Article 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on the Council and the Commission to open a post for a European women’s envoy as already demanded by the European Parliament in March 2008 in order to pay specific attention to the position of women in external policies of the EU, and for gender mainstreaming to be structurally embedded in the EEAS; calls on the European Commission, the Council and the Member States to actively promote and support the empowerment of participation of women in their bilateral and multilateral relations with states and organizations outside the Union;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 18 b (new)
Article 18 b (new)
18b. Calls on the Council and the Commission to set up a European funding programme for awareness raising, in order to improve gender parity in political parties, trade unions and employers organisations on national as well as European level;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 18 c (new)
Article 18 c (new)
18c. Calls on the Member States to take effective steps, notably through legislation, to encourage gender balance in corporate, political and academic positions of responsibility and asks the European Commission to look into possibilities for measures at European level for this purpose;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 18 d (new)
Article 18 d (new)
18d. Calls on the Bureau of the European Parliament and the European Commission to step up efforts to increase the number of women in higher positions in their staff; calls on the EC to devise a mechanism that will ensure that the European Commission will have parity in the next legislature;