14 Amendments of Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ related to 2015/0000(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas equality is a founding value of the EU and a necessary condition for achieving the Europe 2020 employment and poverty reduction targets, to which can only be attained if Member States implement new policies to promote gender equalityimplementing gender equality can substantially contribute;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas there is significant gap between employment rates of women and men in Europe and gaps between their salaries and pensions and differences between fertility rates between EU states; whereas these issues have to be addressed in the relevant documents and strategies both at national and EU levels;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers regrettable the absence of gender mainstreamingand family friendly dimensions in the Europe 2020 strategy and calls on the Commission and the Council to introduce a gender equality pillar in the strategy and an overarching gender equalityand family mainstreaming pillar in the strategy as well as related overarching objectives;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers regrettable the absence of gender mainstreaming in the Europe 2020 strategy; and calls on the Commission and the Council to introduceconsider focusing more on a gender equality pillar in the strategy and having an overarching gender equality objective;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes those country-specific recommendations (CSR) intended to advance gender equality, but considers it regrettable that the CSR on the whole have no gender dimensionalls for greater inclusion of the gender dimension and family friendly aspects in the CSRs, specifically as regards labour market reforms and searching for work-life balance; calls for specific equality policy guidance to be included in the annual growth survey;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes those country-specific recommendations (CSR) intended to advance gender equality, but considers it regrettable that the CSR on the whole have no gender dimension, specifically as regards labour market reforms; calls for specific equality policy guidance on reducing gender inequalities, in particular the gender pay gap, to be included in the aAnnual gGrowth sSurvey;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Reiterates its call on the Member States to incorporate the gender dimension into their stability and convergence programmes and national reform programmes through the setting of qualitative targets and measures that address persisting gender gaps and to systematically apply the principles of gender budgeting, which often results in women finding themselves below the poverty line at a later stage of their lives, and to systematically apply the principles of gender budgeting with a view to examining the current action programmes and policies, their effects on resource allocation, and their contribution to equality between women and men;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Reiterates its call on the Member States to incorporate the gender and pro-family dimension into their stability and convergence programmes and national reform programmes through the setting of qualitative targets and measures that address persisting gender gaps and to systematically apply the principles of gender budgeting;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Reiterates its call on the Commission to facilitate the monitoring of the employment and poverty reduction headline targets by requesting that the Member States use gender-segregated data and to define additional gender-specific indicators; calls for social indicators, including on gender inequalities, to be incorporated into the scoreboard of macroeconomic imbalances;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that Member States should improve the participation rate of children and young adults in educational systems and should put more focus on the problem of early school leaving, especially by collecting information on its main causes with a view to adopting and implementing policies for its prevention;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers it regrettable thatWelcomes the Investment Plan for Europe is not ambitious enough in terms ofthat focuses on removing obstacles for investments that will foster job creation and investing in real needs such as childcare, care of dependent persons, including the elderly, care infrastructure and services.