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REPORT on poverty: a gender perspective PDF (416 KB) DOC (197 KB)
Amendments (21)
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the austerity policies implemented by both the Commission and the Member States, in addition to the economic crisis of the past few years, have affected women in particular, exacerbating their state of poverty and increasingly excluding them from the labour market;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas 123 million people are currently at risk of poverty in Europe and the number of women is permanently higher than that of men, with some 65.1 million women against 58.8 million men;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas poverty has a different impact on women and men; whereas, unemployment rates being equal, women are more likely to fall below the poverty line than men;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas, very often, women who intend to set up a business have difficulty in gaining access to credit because traditional financial intermediaries are reluctant to grant loans, as they consider women entrepreneurs to be more exposed to risk and less inclined to make their businesses grow and to make profitable investments;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas women often take the responsibility for the care of elderly or ill family members as well as for children, resulting in their lower participation in the labour market, also through long periods of inactivity, which consequently diminishes their overall income; whereas the establishment of high-quality childcare services and facilities at affordable prices reduces the risk of impoverishment; whereas few Member States have achieved or surpassed the Barcelona objectives;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the introduction of a minimum income would enable women living in poverty to have some basic support for their living expenses and to be able to look after their children and loved ones;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas behind female poverty there is often a lack of education and meritocracy as regards access to jobs, which means that women, despite being better educated than men, have greater difficulties in entering the labour market and finding tasks that are commensurate with their skills, thus remaining unemployed;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas investing in policies to support women not only reduces the poverty of the women themselves but also improves their families' living conditions, in particular those of their children;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Deeply deplores the austerity policies pursued by the European Union which, together with the economic crisis, are helping to increase the rate of poverty, particularly among women;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to develop and utilise the available financial instruments, including the Social Investment Package, to meet the Barcelona objectives; calls, in this context, for the Social Fund and the ERDF to be improvoptimised, for priority to be given, in the use of social investments and the EFSI regulation, to the establishment of public and private childcarchildcare and assistance facilities, and for the flexibility mechanism introduced in the context of the Stability and Growth Pact to be used for financing of childcare and assistance facilities; proposes the creation of a specific line in the EU budget to fundat the Commission allocate specific resources, through a co- financing mechanism, to promote incentives for specific areas where there is a shortage of childcare and assistance facilities and where the female employment rate is extremely low;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote policies to facilitate access to credit, also through microcredit instruments, in order to support and develop female entrepreneurship;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Regrets that the proposal to revise the directive on maternity leave has been withdrawn and believes that specific measures need to be taken in all Member States to improve the work-life balance for women;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for there to be a move towards the individualisation of rights in social equity polictroduction of an income tax splitting system for families, which takes into account family sizes, in order to promote greater social equity;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Member States to monitor the rights of female workers, who increasingly work in low-paid jobs and are victims of discrimination;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Points out that there are new categories of women in poverty, consisting of young professional women, especially in certain Member States whose tax policies do not take into account the difficulties encountered by these categories, and which therefore condemn a large portion of young female graduates to a precarious working life and an income that rarely manages to rise above the poverty line (the 'new poor');
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that in all Member States the risk of poverty and social exclusion among children is strongly linked to their parents’ level of education, and in particular to that of their mothers, and their parents’ situation in the labour market and their social conditions; stresses the need to establish a fsupport, with targeted programmework of support fors, the ongoing education of teenage mothers, for whom leaving school early is a first step towards poverty;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Member States to promote policies to strengthen and improve education, especially university education, and to invest more in training, in lifelong learning programmes and information campaigns, ensuring that meritocracy prevails in the subsequent integration of women into the labour market;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that the absence of a partner income is a major contributing factor to the poverty trap and to the social exclusion of women; notes the often precarious situation of divorced women who are heads of household,to whom judges have granted custody of children and for whom an adequate level of maintenance should be defined;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Points out that the new technologies should be regarded as a fundamental tool for creating new jobs and as an opportunity to bring women out of poverty;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Points out that promoting free access to the Internet can remove all discrimination between those who have the economic means to access the Internet and those who do not, enabling women to obtain a better work-life balance, by teleworking, for example;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Encourages the Member States and the Commission to collect gender-segregated statistics in order to develop exchanges of best practice on legislative and budgetary instruments for combating poverty;