1 Amendments of Ria OOMEN-RUIJTEN related to 2011/2285(INI)
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that this inequality has a strong impact on the lives of women, particularly after retirement age, as lower pay results in smaller pensions, for which reason a higher proportion of women than men suffer poverty in old age – 22% as against 16%; stresses that in many cases the reason why retired women live in poverty is that they have undertaken care tasks, because it is more common for women to take temporary or part-time employment in order to combine work with family responsibilities; calls on the Commission and Member States therefore to continue their efforts to eliminate these inequalities and ensure equal treatment of men and women in relation to pensions;