31 Amendments of Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA related to 2015/2228(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7
Citation 7
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)
Citation 21 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 25 June 2015 on the application of Directive 2006/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (2014/2160 (INI)) and the minority opinion annexed thereto8a, __________________ 8a Texts adopted P8_TA(2015)0351
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 b (new)
Citation 21 b (new)
– having regard to the ‘Single parents and employment in Europe’ study of April 2014 ordered by the Commission;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the economic situation of women and men can only be analysed on the basis of objective data relating to clearly defined statistical parameters such as biological sex;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas only 11 % of mothers in Europe want to be in full-time employment and 63 % of women would like to have the option of more flexible working hours so that they can tailor them to their family responsibilities8b ; __________________ 8bSurvey of Mothers in Europe 2011 results, Mouvement Mondial des Meres- Europe
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas significant problems in reconciling work and family life are making more and more people put off the decision to have their first child until later; whereas this is one of the factors behind the chronically low birth rates in most Member States;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas for the whole EU 27, 34 % of single mothers of active age are at risk of poverty versus 17 % in the case of other families of active age with children; whereas children from those families are disproportionately more likely to continue living in poverty in adulthood;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas, according to the 2014 study, single mothers had more difficulty in finding full-time work than women still in relationships, and single women working part-time were often employed in jobs that require few qualifications, which shows that it is not always possible to find jobs with sufficiently flexible working hours to reconcile work with the additional burden of parental responsibilities;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas a good education that improves a person’s chances of success on the job market is the best means of combating poverty; whereas adequate educational programmes increase a person’s potential by giving them an opportunity to develop their personality, skills, sense of self-worth and physical and psychological capacities;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)
Recital F c (new)
Fc. whereas poverty is the most significant barrier to education given the considerable financial burden inherent in taking classes in order to become better qualified;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas women and girls are free to choose their preferred model of private and professional life and the educational path they take to achieve that way of life; whereas time devoted to the family and to motherhood should not be seen as time wasted as regards women’s personal development;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the stereotypes widely conveyed by society contribute to the feminisation of poverty; whereas these stereotypes are developed during childhood and are reflected in the choice of training and education and on into the labour market; whereas women are still too often confined to ‘women-friendly’ tasks and remain under-represented in certain areas such as mathematics, science, engineering, and so on; whereas these stereotypeslarge number of obligations on single mothers, who make up the bulk of single parents, resulting from the need to reconcile parental responsibilities with the role of sole family breadwinner, is one of the causes of the feminisation of poverty; whereas it is children who are most affected by the negative consequences of parents being overburdened, and whereas this is reflected in the choice of training and education and on into the labour market; whereas women are still too often faced with an unfair choice between motherhood and career development; whereas the idea that women who are mothers are less productive leads to discrimination in terms of recriminmuneration;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the lackConsiders that Member States should prioritise the issue of reconciling family and professional life by introducing family-friendly working arrangements, such as flexible working hours and the possibility of teleworking; stresses the importance of affordable high- quality care, whether for children or for the sick or elderly, contributes to the gender employment gap, the pay gap and the related pension gap; emphasises that equal access to childcar; emphasises that equal access to arrangements making it possible to reconcile family and professional life and to free, high-quality education isare central to securing equal opportunities and breaking poverty cycles;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to take into account, in its work on the new legal framework for improving the work-life balance, differentiated models of childcare which give parents the freedom to choose the model of childcare and do not discriminate against mothers who prefer personal childcare over institutional care;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Stresses that a work-life balance is impossible for single mothers without the involvement of fathers in childcare;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to undertake a comprehensive and global legislative action to modernise in a coherent way the types of leave, namely maternity, paternity, parental and carers’ leave, so as to boostresume work on the maternity leave directive, the draft of which was withdrawn owing to a prolonged stalemate in the negotiations in the Council, in order to ensure an EU- wide system of guarantees for workers which is optimum for mothers and will strengthen women’'s participation in the labour market;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for there to be a move towards th work done by people who devote their time iandividualisation of rights in social equity policy skills to bringing up children and caring for the elderly to be recognised;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to take measures to encourage people at risk of poverty to enter the labour market or make better use of their potential, for instance through policies in the area of vocational training or retraining;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Stresses the importance, in tackling poverty among working parents, of the possibility of using solutions adapted to the needs of families, such as teleworking and flexible working time arrangements;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Reiterates its call on the Commission to revise the existing legislation in order to reduce the pay and pension gap between men and women; stresses the importance of training in negotiating skills, which, with the trend towards salaries being more frequently negotiated individually, may have a positive impact in terms of levelling out the gender pay gap for work of equal quality;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to take account in its future actions of the fact that the best way to reduce poverty and combat social exclusion is to develop economic activity and jobs for people with appropriate qualifications, which requires restoring growth, stimulating competition and creating a favourable legal environment for European businesses, notably through reducing administrative burdens;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Points out that in order to be effective, the fight against poverty must take account of gender differences and the different societal roles that men and women have; stresses that it is not possible to attain equal opportunities for men and women through ideological questioning or ignoring these fundamental differences;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Stresses that women’s rights should not be understood as being in competition with men's rights, since the introduction of solutions available to the general public that both men and women can use will provide solutions that will improve the situation of European families;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Points out that, in accordance with the principle of gender equality, all measures and actions taken vis-à-vis women at risk of poverty must also cover men in similar situations, including single fathers, who are also at risk of poverty;
Amendment 210 #
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 conditionsituation of parents and the forms of family support provided by the Member States; stresses the need to establish a framework of support for teenage mothers, for whom leaving school early is a first step towards poverty;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Points out that the lack of quality education is a factor that significantly increases the risk of child poverty and the social exclusion of children, and that a variety of factors related to family life – such as a lack of stability, violence or poor housing conditions – significantly exacerbate the risk of dropping out of school;
Amendment 220 #
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 widows, divorced women and single mothers who are heads of household, for whom an adequate level of maintenance should be defin, psychological assistance and the opportunity to benefit from career guidance services should be provided;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Believes that many aspects of female poverty in the societies of the Member States remain unrecognised, including for example the, exclusion of women from access to culture and social participation; considers that the severe material deprivation indicators relating to access to culture are inadequate and that more indicators should be developed for assessing exclusion, particularly its influence on the vicious circle of poverty;