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Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas women tend to self-assess the level of innovation of their businesses lower than men and only a small percentage of patents from the European Patent Office (EPO) are awarded to women1; __________________ 1Commission (2008), Report on ‘Evaluation on policy: promotion of women innovators and entrepreneurship’.deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

~~K. whereas the greater difficulty for female entrepreneurs in accessing financing could in part be related to a difficulty in building sufficient credit history and managerial experience;~~deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas data show that women, despite beliefs that female investors are better risk managers5 , are likely to have a greater risk aversion tendency and a greater lack of confidence; whereas this may lead to a lesser ability to generate confidence from external parties and could subsequently influence their financing possibilities; __________________ 5KPMG (2015), Report on ‘Women in Alternative Investments’.deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on Member States to collect gender-disaggregated data, including on social entrepreneurship, and to report regularly on the number of female entrepreneurs; recommends that data are collected and consolidated at a European level with the support of the European Institute for Gender Equality and Eurostat;deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on Member States’ equality bodies to raise awareness levels among financiers regarding their obligation to ensure equality and to explore possibilities of introducing gender equality into investment mandates;deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote the visibility of financing entrepreneurial activity through microfinance under the European Progress Microfinance Facility and to look into collaboration with the private sector for investment in ‘female’ sectors, such as government loan guarantees;deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Commission and Member States to start accumulating gender- disaggregated data on entrepreneurs’ access to finance and to further explore whether there is any hard evidence of direct or indirect discrimination against women in this context and, if so, how the external factors that influence investors’ assessments about the viability of female- led start-ups should be addressed;deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Encourages Member States to promote an entrepreneurial culture in education and training curricula; highlights the importance of financial, entrepreneurship and new business development courses in secondary education, especially in subject areas mostly attended by girls, such as health care and other services;deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Commission and Member States to conduct research that seeks to explain women’s greater entrepreneurial activity in social entrepreneurship and its possible multiplier effect on traditional entrepreneurship;deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

Margot PARKER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on the Commission and Member States to support the development of financial instruments that value companies in correlation with their contribution to society and the development of trustmarks for social and environmental entrepreneurship;deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

Activities of Margot PARKER related to 2015/2111(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

Amendments (10)

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