10 Amendments of Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA related to 2015/2223(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas women and their dependent children are disproportionately at risk of poverty and social exclusion, and the economic crisis and austerity policies have exacerbated these inequalities, leading to a ‘feminisation of poverty’; whereas income distribution within households is unequal and gendered, requiring individualised measurements of income and costs; whereas the family is the basis of society, and strengthening it will help to improve the difficult situation faced by women;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas many single mothers also experience poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the intersectionality of the gender aspects of poverproblem of the impoverishment of society requires a holistic approach to tackle multiple discrimination, and issues such as housing, energy costs, public services, job security, and taxation policies;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the objective of the Union’s fiscal policy is to ensure the smooth functioning of the internal market, while the power to levy taxes is a sovereign competence of the Member States;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the anti-poverty targets cannot be met unless female poverty is tackled, as gender equality andamong single parents, who are most often women, is tackled, as their economic empowerment of women areis necessary for upward convergence in poverty reduction;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Expresses deep concern at the Commission’s assessment that the 2020 anti-poverty target ‘seems out of reach’ and insists on fresh political impetus for drastic action to tackle poverty in the EU; calls on the Member States to ensure that national poverty strategies are gender mainstreamed and address gender inequalitytake particular account of the needs of families facing poverty and of the situation of single parents;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the Commission to incorporate a more robust social dimension and a gender pillarimed at combating poverty among single-parent families in the European Semester, and to include country-specific recommendations (CSRs) which address the gender aspects of poverty in households led by single parents, who are most often women;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for more ambitious action to tackle energy poverty, which disproportionately affects single-parent and female-headed households; points out, however, that no Union policy may exacerbate this problem;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that cuts to public services increase gender inequality; stresses that EU and national macroeconomic policy must be compatible with social equality policy, and that it must include a strong gender perspectivetake into account the situation of persons most at risk of poverty;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5