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20 Amendments of Christine ANDERSON related to 2021/2020(INI)

Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas gender equality in the EU has not yet been achieved and progress in this direction has recently been slowing down, stagnating or even regressing in certain regions and countries; whereas the struggle for gender equality and the promotion and protection of women’s rights is a truly collective responsibility;deleted
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas, although female employment rates have risen, gender inequality on the labour market remains a fact of life; whereas the employment gap is particularly high in the case of single mothers, female caregivers, women with disabilities, women from ethnic minorities, migrant and refugee women, LBTIQ+ women and young and elderly women and women and men tend to make very diverse career choices ;
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing gender inequalities inmeasures accros the EU have impacted almost every walk of life for women and men;
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas violence against women may be of differing appearance, intensity and form; whereas a society free of where violence must be acknowledged as an absolute prerequisite for equalityis strongly addressed is ideal for women and men to thrive;
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas women in the EU are more severely affected by poverty or social exclusion than men, being systematically placed at a disadvantage by structural and cultural factors, especially mothers who raise their children alone, can be severely affected by poverty or social exclusion;
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 85 #
F. whereas the EU gender pay gap is 16%, with variations between the Member Stat, for reasons such as different career choices;, whereas this gender pay gap has a number of implications, not least a 37% difference in corresponding pension entitlements, placing older women at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas the right to equal pay for equal work is not always guaranteed and remains one of the biggest challenges to be met in efforts to combat pay discriminationorking hours and other specific factors, the EU registers a difference in male and female workers' salaries of 16%, with variations between the Member States;
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas EU neoliberal policies are, in the long term, contributing to gender inequality, with women being disproportionately affected by rising unemployment, deregulation of the labour market and of working hours, increased precariousness and low pay, not to mention multiple forms of inequality and discrimination resulting from cuts to public services, particularly health, education and welfare benefits;deleted
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that respect for the right to work is an essential precondition if women are effectively to enjoy equal rights,engaging in the Labor market, attaining economic independence and career fulfilment and therefore insists that precarious employis a choice that men and woment should be eradicated through mandatory compliance with the principle that every permanent job must entail an effective employment relationship with recognition and enhancement of rights at the workplaceable to make freely, and in the most optimal conditions;
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to take practical measures to ensure that women who so wish have equal access to work with rights and decent pay; stresses the need to promotesupport collective bargaining as a determining factor in reversing and overcoming inequality and tackling discrimination against women and calls for de jure and de facto compliance with the principle of equal pay for equal work of equal valuend calls for ideology-free respect of the principle of equal pay for equal work of equal value, in all clarity and taking the specific workers context into account;
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Urges Member States to impose firm measures, including sanctions, where businesses fail to comply with labour legislation and where they actually encourage gendeunfair discrimination;
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 145 #
4. Calls on the EU and its Member States to further underpin maternity and paternity entitlements, for example by increasing periods of full leave with no loss of pay, taking into account the World Health Organization recommendation that children be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of their lives; calls for the right to a reduction in working hours following maternity leave to be guaranteed in practice, enabling mothers to breastfeed their children until they are at least two years old, accompanied by investment in a public network of free childcare and education services;deleted
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for measures to achieve work, employee and pay enhancement, effectively combat joblessness and promote full employment; calls for the creation and promotion of employment with rights, the defence of collective bargaining, the revitalisation of public sector employment and an end to job insecurity; calls in addition foroptimal working conditions without excessive State interference with the employers' freedom where the best options for their businesses and employees a reduction in working hours without loss of pay concerned;
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the urgent need to counter the exploitation of women at workfemale workers where it exists and combat the inequalijustices, discrimination and violence affecting them;
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for women who suffer domestic violence to be afforded proper protection, ensuring the deployment of increased resources and more effective responses by the Statecompetent authorities;
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that prostitution constitutes a serious form of violence and exploitation affecting mostly women and children; notes that the root causes of prostitution are inextricably intertwined withinclude social and economic realities, particularly unemployment, financial need and poverty; stresses the need for Member States to increasallocate fundings for social support and access to public services for victims of trafficking or sexual exploitation;
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that any strategy designed to achieve equality must get to grips with all forms of violence against women, including the erosion of healthcare entitlements and sexual and reproductive rights acquired by women and infringements thereof;deleted
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that access to sexual, reproductive and other forms of healthcare for women is a fundamental right that must be underpinned and may not be in any way watered down or withdrawn;deleted
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the need for Member States to adopt a policy placing special emphasis on improved public health and the prevention of disease by guaranteeing free, universal and high-quality healthcare and ensuring the availability of the necessary resources to combat the main public health problems;deleted
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need to create a public crèche and pre-schopromote family-friendly policies, enabling mothers and fathers who so wish, to be invol veducation network; points out that the provision of a universal public service that is genuinely accessible to all children and families wishing to avail themselves of it is an overarching social responsibilit in their children's early years on a full-time basis; stresses that strong and healthy families make strong and healthy societies at all levels, including the economy;
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Urges the Member States to take specific family-friendly measures to combat the risk of povertyaloneness in old age and retirement, increasing pen, which is a cause of poverty, depressions and bpoosting social benefitsr health;
2021/07/19
Committee: FEMM