9 Amendments of Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA related to 2016/2221(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas equality between men and women is a fundamental right that presupposes a guarantee of equal opportunities and equal treatment, and policies aimed at ensuring such equality promote smart and sustainable growth;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas ‘reducing the gender pay, earnings and pension gaps and thus fighting poverty among women’ is one of the priority areas set out by the Commission in its document entitled ‘Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019’
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas women suffer particular discrimination in relation to access to the labour market, with substantially lower wages and more uncertain and precarious employment ties, who work for substantially lower wages and face more uncertain and precarious employment ties, are at greater risk of poverty than men, with single mothers, older women living alone and disabled women being most affected; whereas families with three or more children also face a high risk of poverty; whereas maternity and parenthood represents an unacceptable form ofgrounds for discrimination against women in relation to accessing and remaining in the labour market;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the EU’s macro-economic and austerity policies have resulted in increasing levels of poverty and inequality, particularly affecting womenpoverty is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon that cannot be explained exclusively in economic terms, and it is often linked to the unfair treatment of women – and mothers in particular – on the labour market;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas one must also take into account, when comparing the situations of men and women on the labour market, that social factors, such as pregnancy and motherhood, are natural reasons for drawing a distinction between the situations of women and men;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that combating poverty and inequalities between men and women necessarily entails a fairer distribution of wealth and better employment legislation, notably through collective bargaining, higher wagesraising awareness among employers and employees of the solutions available, and implementation of the principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’ or ‘work of equal value’, and social protection;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that women often decide to work part-time because they want greater employment flexibility in order to make it easier to reconcile family life and professional life;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls for the development of a legal framework for – and the increased popularisation of – flexible employment models, accompanied by adequate social protection, in order to make it easier to reconcile responsibilities associated with caring for children and other dependents with professional responsibilities;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on Member States to take measures to eliminate the unjust pay differential between women and men and put an end to all forms of precariouswith a view to combating discrimination on the labour market on grounds of parenthood, and put an end to all forms of precarious employment, while also considering the introduction at national level of flexible forms of employment;