15 Amendments of Catherine BEARDER related to 2014/2250(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the decisions made by students at school can impact on choices throughout their life, and therefore contributes to wider gender-based segregation in the job market;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas unskilled and poorly paid work is commonly attributed to women and they continue to be responsible for most of the care within the familyof family and other dependents, which limits access to paid full-time employment, and that gender equality cannot be reduced to providing women with the standard of success defined by men, but involves the recognition of all the work done by women and the education of boys and men in the tasks from which they are traditionally excluded;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, even though women have moreon average women have a higher level of secondary and university education, their professional activity is mainlyoften related to tasks aimed at reproducing and extending traditional social and economic structures and there is a need to increase the presence of women both in vocational education and in the growing and essential sectors of Mathematics, Science, Engineering and Technology;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement and improve measures to apply gender equality at all levels of the education system, and to fully integrate improving awareness of gender issues in teacher training, and the creation of mechanisms, throughout the education system, to facilitate the promotion, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of gender equality in educational institutions;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on educational policy makers to ensure that gender equality goes beyond the level of political intentions and becomes a reality by substantially changing the efforts and resources invested in it, noting the primary importance of education in effecting cultural change;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to organize awareness raising campaigns targeting girls about going to university in order to encourage them to pursue career options which have been traditionally male- dominated, and to boost the self- confidence of the new generation of women;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the need to promote equal gender representation in terms of leadership, especially among school managers, heads and wheadre there is under-representation as in STEM subjects, as this will provide role models for girls;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges that all EU countries, and the EU itself as an institution, sign the Istanbul Convention and work together for gender equality in countries outside the EU, on a trans-European basis; stresses that the Istanbul Convention calls for signatories to include teaching material on issues such as non-stereotyped gender roles, mutual respect, non-violent conflict resolution in interpersonal relationships, gender-based violence and the right to personal integrity, adapted to evolving the capacity of learners, in formal curricula and at all levels of education;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for all EU countries to invest consistently in the production of information and motivawareness-raising and educational campaigns for girls and boys to choose non- stereotyped professions, as well as reflecting on the influence of gender identities and perceptions on girls' life plans, promoting discussion of educational and career choices in the classroom; calls on member states to improve the provision of career guidance for girls and boys as a way of encouraging non-traditional roles;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for the promotion of a gender perspective in education on sexuality and the emotions,comprehensive sex and relationship education, and in sport and leisure activities, where stereotypes and expectations based on gender can affect the self-image, health, acquisition of skills, intellectual development, social integration and identity construction of girls;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Recognises that sensitive, age- appropriate, and scientifically accurate sex and relationship education is an essential tool in the empowerment of girls and boys, helping them to make well- informed choices and contributing to wider public health priorities such as the reduction in unplanned pregnancies, reduced maternal and infant mortality, prevention and earlier treatment of sexually transmitted infections and reduced gap in health inequality;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Encourages girls and boys to try new roles, activities and educational areas, encouraging equal participation of girls and boys in collective decision-making and school management as well as in all extracurricular activities, and calls on those involved to ensure that funding for these effective activities is protected;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for the development of equal access and use of Information and Communication Technologies for girls and boys from pre-school education upwards, paying special attention to children and young people from rural areas, to improve digital literacy, andto disseminate effective methodologies and to improve teacher training in order to increase and improve the presence of women in the areas of Mathematics, Science, Engineering and Technology;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 (new)
Paragraph 14 (new)
14a. Calls for the implementation of sexual and relationship education in curricular programmes aimed at empowering girls through awareness and control over their own bodies, while calling for all other curricular subjects to maintain coherence with these principles;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for the need to include, both in the initial and ongoing training of teachers, strategies to reflect on their own identity, beliefs, values, prejudices, expectations, attitudes and gender representations, as well as on their teaching practices, in order to remove any obstacles to realising girlstudents' full potential, irrespective of gender;