15 Amendments of Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA related to 2021/2170(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7
Citation 7
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas women in the EU are disproportionally more affected by poverty and the risk of social exclusion than men, in particular women who experience intersectional forms of discriminatiodespite a reduction in poverty in the EU among both women and men, women continue to be more affected by poverty and the risk of social exclusion than men; whereas in 2020, the risk of poverty and social exclusion (AROPE) in the EU was higher for women (22.9 %) than men (20.9 %), though in both cases it has fallen since 2015 (24.9% and 23.1%, respectively); whereas since 2017, the gender- poverty gap has increased in 21 Member States12; _________________ 12 European Institute for Gender Equality, ‘Gender Equality Index 2020: Digitalisation and the future of work’, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020.
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas poverty in general, and thus also women’s poverty, is multidimensional, and therefore includes not only material deprivation, but also a lack of access to many different resources and even an inability to fully exercise the rights of citizenship, in addition to the resulting sense of exclusion that affects future generations;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas although work in highly female-dominated sectors is essential and of high socioeconomic value, it is undervalued and lower paid than work in male-dominated sectors; whereas there is an urgent need to reassess the adequacy of wages in female-dominated sectors related to their social and economic value and to advance on minimum wages, minimum income and pay transparency in EU regulations;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas women have a lower employment rate and are disproportionally highly represented in low-paid, precarious and dead-end job sectors; whereas the gender pay gap stands at 14.1 % at EU level, though there are significant differences between Member States;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the pension entitlements gap averages at almost 30 % as a result of the imbalances created by persistent lifelong inequalitiesnadequate recognition of the social value of women’s work when caring for children; whereas this pension gap means that women fall below the poverty line as they get older;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to develop an ambitious 2030 European anti- poverty strategy, with concrete targets for reducing poverty and a focus on ending women’s poverty, taking into account the particular situation of women and the risk of intergenerational poverty;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that women’s poverty needs to be analysed from an intersectional approach, including migrant and ethnic origin, age, race and sexual or gender orientation; cCalls for the EIGE’s Gender Equality Index to be incorporated into the social scoreboard; calls on the EIGE to provide data disaggregated intersectionally and by gender, and calls on the Member States to use this data in order to better address country-specific challenges;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to put forward a ‘care dealstrategy for Europe’, which should take a holistic, gender-sensitive and lifelong approach to care while envisaging legislative measures and investment at EU levelinvestment at EU level and, if necessary, legislative measures in line with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights that in order to tackle the multidimensionality of women’s poverty, it is necessary to overcome the segregaensure greater recognition ofor unpaid domestic care work, mainly performed by women and to introduce flexitime in order to allow women and men to better reconcile their professional life with their private life (time use policy);
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Notes in particular the difficult situation of single parents, the majority of whom are women, and calls on the Member States to develop effective mechanisms to support these persons, but without encouraging the artificial break- up of families in order to obtain higher benefits;
Amendment 246 #
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16