20 Amendments of Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES related to 2023/2115(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)
Citation 21 a (new)
– having regard to the Eurofound's last esurvey, Living and Working in Europe, of Spring 2023,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 b (new)
Citation 21 b (new)
– having regard the research from the World Economic Forum of 20231a, _________________ 1a https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01 /cost-of-living-crisis-women-gender-gap/
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, since 2021, inflation has increased sharply, driven primarily by high energy and food costs, and exacerbated by the unjustified war of aggression against Ukraine; whereas wages are not projected to increase as fast as inflation, thus creating a cost of living crisis; whereas this crisis acutely threatens women’s livelihoods, health, well-being and access to housing, while limiting their purchasing power and ability to provide food, as well as decent standard of living;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas crises and energy poverty disproportionately affect women due to structural inequalities related to income distribution, including lower levels of savings and wealth and more debt, as well as lack of social security and public services; whereas women are over- represented in low paying sectors and more likely to work in public services, rely on public services, and become the providers of last resort when public services are withdrawn, due to disproportionate burden of unpaid care work; whereas the impact of high inflation and energy costs is leaving public services with few options; 1a _________________ 1a https://wbg.org.uk/wp- content/uploads/2022/03/The-gendered- impact-of-the-cost-of-living-crisis.pdf
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas women in all their diversity are disproportionately affected by the consequences of the cost of living crisis, as they tend to be among the poorest part of the population, are highly represented in precarious jobs, have lower incomes as a result of the pay and pension gaps, and are still expected to carry out the bulk amongst temporary or part-time workers or informal jobs, overrepresented among minimum wage workers, have lower incomes as a result of the pay and pension gaps, are more likely to report difficulties in making ends meet (particularly if they work in blue collar occupations or are working single mothers) and still bear a disproportionate burden of unpaid care work, leaving them with fewer resources to protect themselves against the negative impact of the crisis;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas women, particularly single parents and those experiencing intersectional discrimination on grounds of ethnicity, race, migration status, sexual orientation, disability or age, are more likely to fall into energy poverty; whereas this means that the ongoing cost of living crisis will exacerbate gendered energy poverty in the EU; whereas gender disaggregated data are needed; where, according the UN, we are facing the largest cost of living crisis for a generation;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas according to Eurofound’s reporting on minimum wages, the high increases in nominal wage rates in many countries for 2023 was in many cases not enough to maintain workers’ purchasing power; whereas women are overrepresented among minimum wage workers;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 a (new)
Subheading 1 a (new)
Gender sensitive solutions to the rising cost of living
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1 Recalls on the Commission to develop an ambitious 2030 European anti-poverty strategy, including time poverty, with concrete targets for reducing poverty and a focus on ending women’s poverty and breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty risks;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Union to promote an extraordinary package to support people struggling with skyrocketing costs of living, including €100 billion for families, especially the ones with single persons with dependant children -which the vast majority are mothers- most affected by energy poverty and at least €20 billion to sted up European Child Guarantee scheme;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Points out that an EU’s fiscal capacity requires a revision of the current economic and social governance, an adequate harmonised EU fiscal policy, including the extension of the clause allowing the maximum flexibility of the fiscal rules and the exemption of targeted measures related to the energy crisis from the calculation of the deficit within the fiscal rules;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls for an extension of the solidarity contribution required only from energy sector to all sectors benefiting from windfall profits and at least to banking, food distribution and pharmaceutical sectors;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Calls on the Member States to take gender sensitive approach when reforming pension systems and adapting the retirement age, taking into account women’s underrepresentation in the labour market, as well as labour market segregation and gender based discrimination;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Calls to ensure an adequate minimum income, following the European recommendations of a minimum income scheme above the poverty line and with a wiew to promote gender equality, income security and economic independence of women;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Recalls for fair and adequate minimum wages in the Member States as a necessary safeguard to ensure fairer wage distribution and to guarantee a basic wage floor protecting women according to the new European law;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 g (new)
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1g. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to mainstream gender equality into all policies in order to achieve the best response to energy crisis, which disproportionately affects women, taking into account that the impact of high inflation and energy costs are undermining public services, in which women are more likely to work, to rely on and to replace when these public services are cancelled;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the Member States and the EU to urgently guarantee affordable utilities and food for low-income households such as single mothers households and, in particular, for those facing intersectional discrimination; stresses that no one should have to freeze in the height of winter or overheat in the scorching summer months and calls for the Member States and the EU to ban energy disconnections;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to increase public investment in policies that, directly or indirectly, aim to counteract the negative effects of the cost of living crisis on women in all their diversity, to guarantee access to high-quality public services for care, education, health, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, and housing, to the decent employment and to protect victims of gender-based violence;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights that access to electricity plays a fundamental role in poverty reduction and in ensuring full and equal participation in society; calls for the EU and the Member States to recognise the right to affordable energy;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls that thea just green transition is necessary to avoid severe future crises and increased poverty; recalls, furthermore, that the green transition will only be socially fair if it includes a gender perspective and guarantees equal opportunities for women and those experiencing intersectional discrimination; calls, therefore, on the Commission to appoint an EU gender and climate coordinator with sufficient staff and funding, and to introduce gender impact assessments in all EU policies and legislation, in particular in European Green Deal initiatives;