Progress: Procedure completed
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | FEMM | ZÁBORSKÁ Anna ( PPE-DE) |
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Legal Basis:
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The European Parliament adopted by 603 votes to 12, with 64 abstentions, a resolution on gender mainstreaming in the work of its committees and delegations.
The resolution recalls the steady increase in the percentage of female Members of the European Parliament from 17.5% in 1979 to 31.08% in 2009. It notes that women are over-represented in Parliament’s Directorates-General for Internal Policies and External Policies, where they account for 66.5% and 66% of staff respectively. It also stresses the major increase in the percentage of women in senior administrative posts (for example, in 2005 the percentage of female heads of unit rose from 5% to 30%).
The Parliament stresses that the majority of parliamentary committees generally attach importance to gender mainstreaming (for example in the context of their legislative activity, their institutional relations with the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, the drawing up of a programme of action for equality, etc.), although a minority of committees rarely or never take an interest in the matter. It congratulates the parliamentary committees which have put gender mainstreaming into practice in their work, and calls on the other committees and delegations to do likewise.
The resolution reiterates the need to adopt and apply a gender mainstreaming strategy incorporating specific targets in all Community policies which fall with the purview of parliamentary committees and delegations. MEPs stress the importance of the task of the High-Level Group on Gender Equality and Diversity and calls on it to continue to encourage and promote this process throughout Parliament, in its relations with the Commission, the Council and other institutions and in cooperation with them.
The resolution encourages the Secretary-General to prioritise training in gender mainstreaming for officials working at every level in parliamentary committees and delegations. In this context, all Members of Parliament should be provided with equal opportunity training from the beginning of the next Parliament. Moreover, the Secretary-General is called upon to continue to implement the integrated strategy for combining life in the family and at the workplace and to facilitate the career development of female employees.
The political groups are called upon to take account of gender equality objectives in selecting staff to fill senior posts.
MEPs stress the need for the parliamentary committees and delegations to have at their disposal appropriate means of gaining a sound understanding of gender mainstreaming, including indicators, data and statistics broken down by gender , and for budgetary resources to be allocated with an eye to ensuring equality between women and men. They also call for the committees and delegations to play an active role in the regular assessments carried out under the auspices of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality.
Lastly, the Parliament’s Bureau is called upon to stress, in its dealings with the parliaments of the Member States, the positive example set by the high level group on gender equality and diversity.
The Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality adopted an own-initiative report drawn up by Anna ZÁBORSKÁ (EPP-ED, SK) on gender mainstreaming in the work of its committees and delegations.
The report recalls the steady increase in the percentage of female Members of the European Parliament from 17.5% in 1979 to 31.08% in 2009. It notes that women are over-represented in Parliament’s Directorates-General for Internal Policies and External Policies, where they account for 66.5% and 66% of staff respectively. It also stresses the major increase in the percentage of women in senior administrative posts (for example, in 2005 the percentage of female heads of unit rose from 5% to 30%).
The majority of parliamentary committees generally attach importance to gender mainstreaming (for example in the context of their legislative activity, their institutional relations with the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, the drawing up of a programme of action for equality, etc.), although a minority of committees rarely or never take an interest in the matter.
On this basis, the committee reiterates the need to adopt and apply a gender mainstreaming strategy incorporating specific targets in all Community policies which fall with the purview of parliamentary committees and delegations. MEPs stress the importance of the task of the High-Level Group on Gender Equality and Diversity and calls on it to continue to encourage and promote this process throughout Parliament, in its relations with the Commission, the Council and other institutions and in cooperation with them.
The report encourages the Secretary-General to prioritise training in gender mainstreaming for officials working at every level in parliamentary committees and delegations. In this context, all Members of Parliament should be provided with equal opportunity training from the beginning of the next Parliament. Moreover, the Secretary-General is called upon to continue to implement the integrated strategy for combining life in the family and at the workplace and to facilitate the career development of female employees.
MEPs stress the need for the parliamentary committees and delegations to have at their disposal appropriate means of gaining a sound understanding of gender mainstreaming, including indicators, data and statistics broken down by gender, and for budgetary resources to be allocated with an eye to ensuring equality between women and men. They also call for the committees and delegations to play an active role in the regular assessments carried out under the auspices of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality.
Lastly, the Parliament’s Bureau is called upon to stress, in its dealings with the parliaments of the Member States, the positive example set by the high level group on gender equality and diversity.
Documents
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament: T6-0240/2009
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A6-0198/2009
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A6-0198/2009
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE421.194
- Committee draft report: PE418.282
- Committee draft report: PE418.282
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE421.194
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A6-0198/2009
Activities
- Gérard ONESTA
Plenary Speeches (2)
- Gabriela CREȚU
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Zita PLEŠTINSKÁ
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Anna ZÁBORSKÁ
Plenary Speeches (1)
Votes
Rapport ZÁBORSKÁ A6-0198/2009 - résolution #
Amendments | Dossier |
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2008/2245(INI)
2009/02/24
FEMM
16 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. having regard to the low proportion of female Members in top positions within the institutional organs of the European Parliament (chair, executive members of committees or delegations, etc.),
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Encourages the Secretary-General to prioritise training in gender mainstreaming for officials working at every level in parliamentary committees and delegations;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Continues to encourage networking amongst those officials working in parliamentary committee and interparliamentary delegation secretariats and the directorates-general for internal and external policies who have received gender mainstreaming training to ensure regular exchanges of best practice;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Stresses the
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that the implementation of gender mainstreaming should take account of the specific features of each parliamentary committee or delegation;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Stresses the importance of effective and coordinated cooperation by the high- level group on gender equality and diversity with the gender mainstreaming network within the committees and interparliamentary delegations and with the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11b. Calls on the Secretariat to ensure the further implementation of the integrated strategy for combining life in the family and at the workplace and to facilitate the career development of female employees;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 c (new) 11c. Urges the political groups to take account of gender equality objectives in selecting staff to fill senior posts;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas women are under-represented in Parliament’s Directorates-General for Internal Policies and External Policies, where they account for 8.1% and 3.4% of staff respectively; noting however the major progress achieved over the last few years in the Directorate-General for Internal Policies, as evidenced by the '2007 Equality - Good Practices Award for the creation of a working environment conducive to equality and integration, together with a major increase in the percentage of women in senior administrative posts (for example, in 2005 the percentage of female heads of unit – chefs d' unité – rose from 5% to 30%),
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas the majority of parliamentary committees generally attach importance to gender mainstreaming (for example in the context of its legislative activity, its institutional relations with the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, the drawing up of a programme of action for equality etc.), although a minority of committees rarely or never take an interest in the matter,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas in practice the network for gender mainstreaming in committees among MEPs and staff has not yet had the desired results,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E b (new) Eb. whereas the high-level group on gender equality and diversity proposed the creation of a similar network within the interparliamentary delegations also for the purpose of gender mainstreaming in the context of EU external relations,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Reiterates th
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Stresses the importance of the task of the high-level group on gender equality and diversity and calls on it to continue to encourage and promote this process throughout Parliament, in its relations with the Commission, Council and other institutions and in cooperation with them;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls for the strengthening of the gender mainstreaming network with regard to interparliamentary delegations also;
source: PE-421.194
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