19 Amendments of Hiltrud BREYER related to 2008/2118(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1
Citation 1
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation (new)
Citation (new)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Lisbon Strategy aims to ensure that 60% of women able to work are in employment; whereas efforts relating to the demographic challenge seek to promote higher birth rates to meet future requirements; whereas these two public policies target the same pivotal population group of women aged between 18 and 49, who are viewed both as workers and as mothers carrying life and bringing children into the world as well as taking care of the elderly; whereas the different policies now need to be built not just around the professional performance of workers but also around their role in society as human beinggender equality and work/life balance remains central to the debate on demographic change, recognising the diversity of 21st century family patterns,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas gaps between women and men persist in all other aspects of work quality, for instance reconciling professional and private life, and whereas the employment rate for women with dependent children is only 62,4 %, compared with 91,4 % for men, whereas 76,5 % of part-time workers are women,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on Eurostat to develop measures to highlight the value of invisible work in the field of inter-generational solidarity and its contribution to the Union's GDP and, for this purpose, to work closely with the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Labour Office (ILO)visualise childcare and care for dependents, broken down by gender ;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to conduct an awareness-raising campaign and introduce pilot projects to facilitate the balanced participation of women and men in professional and family life;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to launch a new directive concerning specific rights and safeguards in relation to reconciliation of working and family life where there are dependent family members (children, elderly and disabled people), also calls on the Member States to consider flexible working hours for parents (as a result of free choice) and flexible times for children's care institutions, to help both women and men to combine work and family life more successfully;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Refers to the growing number of teenage mothers and in this context to UK studies revealing that girls as young as 13 are making their "career choice" by deciding to have children, since they see parenting as preferable to working in a "dead-end job";
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Points out that women's income remains the key to their economic autonomy and to greater equality between women and men in society as a whole;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Points out that pension schemes in Member States still leave many women with only derived rights based on their husband's employment record, with the consequence that the majority of older people living in poverty are women;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Calls on the Member States to address the structural factors contributing to inequality in pension schemes including the organisation of care and combining family and work life, inequalities in the labour market, the gender pay gap and direct discrimination in second and third pillar pensions;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Member States to review their tax systems and set tax rates based on individual rights and consequently demands the individualisation of pension rights as well as social security system rights;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls on the Member States to re- evaluate and reform their tax and benefit systems in order to facilitate the return of women to the workforce, underlines priority to be given to the abolishment of discriminatory tax systems, for example the "Ehegattensplitting";