28 Amendments of Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA related to 2017/2008(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12
Citation 12
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 28 a (new)
Citation 28 a (new)
– having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the role of family policy in relation to demographic change with a view to sharing best practices among Member States (2011);
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 33 a (new)
Citation 33 a (new)
– having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the role of the social partners in reconciling working, family and private life (2007);
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas education and training are fundamental to improving women’s position in society;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas women take on the role of informal carers for elderly people or dependent relatives far more frequently than men do;1a __________________ OECD (2013) ‘Closing the Gender 1a Gap’.
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas caring responsibilities and difficulties arising from the combining of work and private life mean that women are far more likely to work part-time than men; whereas this situation contributes significantly to the pay gap, which becomes ever more pronounced in later stages of people’s careers; whereas this leads to a significant difference between the pensions of women and men (on average 40% in the EU) and a high risk of poverty and social exclusion among women, in particular elderly women;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas motherhood and care for the elderly represent additional or full-time work that is for the most part carried out by women; whereas that work is neither paid nor sufficiently valued by society, although it has huge social value and increases social well-being;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Ae. whereas strengthening the economic position of women should not be a goal in and of itself, but should always be carried out in the light of current EU social issues, in particular the decades-long decline of birth rates below replacement levels, the postponement of the decision to have children, growing divorce rates, growing numbers of single- parent households and families without a regular source of income and growing numbers of dependent elderly persons;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A f (new)
Recital A f (new)
Af. whereas all steps towards strengthening the economic position of women must present a satisfactory solution to the challenges faced by their families;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A g (new)
Recital A g (new)
Ag. whereas the shift away from large families towards nuclear families is accompanied by a change in lifestyle and the emergence of new social groups that are often at risk of social exclusion, including single-parent families, the working poor and children who are impoverished or at risk of falling into poverty;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A h (new)
Recital A h (new)
Ah. whereas, while time devoted to children and the family is necessarily time taken away from one’s career, it is an investment into the care and education of people, which should be recognised and valued accordingly by the Member States;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas in 2015 the average employment rate for women with one child under the age of six was nearly 9 % lower than for women without young children, and whereas in some countries the difference exceeded 30 %;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas ‘reducing the gender pay, earnings and pension gaps and thus fighting poverty among women’ is one of the priority areas set by the Commission in its document ‘Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019’;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas women, 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 higher risk of poverty;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas maternity and parenthood represent unacceptable grounds for discrimination against women in relation to accessing and remaining in the labour market;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. 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 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas quotas have been found to improve the performance of private companies and boost wider economic growth, in addition to bringing about better use of the talent pool in the labour forcefemale entrepreneurship offers a way to make better use of the pool of talent among the working population whereas, according to Eurostat research, Poland ranks highly in terms of female entrepreneurship rates; whereas it has achieved this without interfering in the structure of companies;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas women over 55 are at particular risk of unemployment and inactivity on the labour market;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that women’s economic participation and empowerment are key for strengthening their fundamental rights, enabling them to reach economic independence, and to exert influence in society and to have control over their lives;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that the strengthening of the economic position of women is also one element of the Member States’ broader family policies, which differ widely as a result of varying social attitudes and the different expectations of families and the people in them – including future families; stresses, in that connection, that if the concrete solutions put forward by the EU are to be fully effective, the EU should refrain from making ideological assumptions, and the mechanisms it proposes should be adapted to the situation in each country and the real needs of women and their families;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is convinced that the engagement of men in caring responsibilities is a precondition for changing the traditional stereotypes related to gender rolesfor children or elderly people is a positive step on the path towards the equal sharing of responsibilities, although this should be a personal decision; further believes that both genders and the whole society will benefit from a fairer distribution of unpaid work and from more equal take-up of leave related to care;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. 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 dependants with professional responsibilities;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Condemns gender parity on the grounds that it harms social perception of women’s professional competence;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Maintains that current economic models and practices do not take account of gender-based differences and are not responsive to the issue of closing gender gaps; believes in this context that tax policies and spending priorities during crises must be rethought in order to take women into account as economic actorsthe situation of women and their families into account;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Stresses that the principle of subsidiarity must be complied with and that the strengthening of the economic position of women is a Member State matter;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Calls on the Commission to present another proposal for the revision of the maternity leave directive, taking account of the minimum length of maternity leave specified by the International Labour Organisation;