Activities of Dragoş PÎSLARU related to 2021/2170(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Women’s poverty in Europe (debate)
Opinions (1)
OPINION on women’s poverty in Europe
Amendments (19)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas the eradication of poverty is one of the priorities of the EU, enshrined in Article 3 TEU, Article 34 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan headline target, reflecting the EU's commitment to combat poverty in its policies;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the COVID-19 crisis has had a severe impact on labour income and wealth and is halting improvements in AROPE; whereas support measures have cushioned the negative effects of the crisis in the short ruwomen are more at risk of COVID-19 contamination due to their overrepresentation in essential frontline and more exposed occupations; whereas the pandemic disproportionately affects them in the socio-economic sphere, deepens existing discrimination and results in even more inequalities between women and men in the labour market, considering that women are more at risk of unemployment or reducing their working hours as a result of the health crisis and resulting care responsibilities; whereas support measures have cushioned the negative effects of the crisis in the short run; whereas the full economic, employment and social consequences of the pandemic are still unknown;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas, according to Eurostat, the risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU was higher for women than for men (22.9 % compared with 20.9 %) in 2020; whereas in the same year there were 96.5 million people in the EU at risk of poverty or social exclusion and that was equivalent to 21.9% of the EU population1a; whereas the poverty rate among working women could decrease if women were paid equally to men; _________________ 1ahttps://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=Living_conditi ons_in_Europe_- _poverty_and_social_exclusion#Key_findi ngs3
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas according to the recent data from the European Institute for Gender Equality only 62,5% of the women in the EU are employed, compared to 72,8% of men 2a; whereas the participation of women in the labour market has grown in the last decades but several gender gaps still exist; whereas in 2019 women's gross hourly earnings were on average 14,1% below those of men in the EU 3a; whereas women in the EU aged over 65 received a pension that was on average 29% lower than of men 4a and effective actions are needed to close the gender employment, care, pay and pension gaps; _________________ 2ahttps://eige.europa.eu/gender- statistics/dgs/indicator/ta_wrklab_lab_em plrate_gen__lfst_r_ergau/bar/year:2020/g eo:EU28,EU27_2020,EU15,EA19,BE,BG ,CZ,DK,DE,EE,IE,EL,ES,FR,HR,IT,CY, LV,LT,LU,HU,MT,NL,AT,PL,PT,RO,SI, SK,FI,SE,UK,IS,NO,CH,ME,MK,RS,TR/ age:Y15- 64/unit:PC/deg_urb:TOTAL/sex:M,W 3ahttps://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=Gender_pay_g ap_statistics 4a https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/prod ucts-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20210203-1
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas the risk of poverty rises sharply along the life course, revealing the gradually accumulating impact of pay inequalities; whereas poverty among those aged 75 years and over is consistently concentrated among women, mainly as a result of the impact of gendered unpaid care duties, life-long differences in pay and working time with the lower pensions that result, different retirement ages for men and women in some Member States, and the fact that more older women live alone;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas women, who constitute 76% of the healthcare workers in the EU5a, are over- represented among frontline workers, in non-standard forms of work, and in the hardest-hit sectors and among frontline workers in healthcare; whereas more women than men are in occupations that can be carried out remotely;by the pandemic; _________________ 5ahttps://eige.europa.eu/covid-19-and- gender-equality/essential-workers
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas across the EU women receive disproportionately lower earnings than men; whereas low pay and low career prospects are barriers to achieving equal economic independence for women and men and can lead to higher risks of poverty and social exclusion; whereas non- discriminative remuneration is an essential requisite for women; whereas women's economic empowerment is key to achieve gender equality and combat women's poverty;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the digital and the green transition require action to ensure that no one is left behind; whereas women are under-represented at all levels in the digital and STEM sectors in Europe and work less, compared with the men, in innovative technologies, such as artificial intelligence;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas gender equality in the labour market is an important instrument for eliminating poverty among women that benefits not only women but the economy as a whole with a positive impact on GDP, employment levels and productivity; whereas improving gender equality would lead to an increase in EU GDP per capita by 6,1 to 9,6% and an additional 10.5 million jobs which would benefit both women and men by 20501a; _________________ 1ahttps://eige.europa.eu/gender- mainstreaming/policy-areas/economic- and-financial-affairs/economic-benefits- gender-equality
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas investing in policies to support women also improves their families' living conditions, in particular those of their children; whereas eradicating child poverty is included in Principle 11 of the European Pillar of Social Rights;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Recital E d (new)
Recital E d (new)
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for an overarching European anti-poverty strategy, with ambitious targets for reducing poverty and a focus on breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty risks; stresses the importance of ensuring an intersectional approach so that all women, including those from minority and vulnerable groups, benefit from its objectives and actions;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve opportunities for the women in the labour market and to reduce the burden of women by ensuring affordable and quality care and services for people with disabilities, the elderly and other dependants; calls on the Commission and the Member States to adequately fund affordable public services and social infrastructure, as this would allow more women to participate in the labour market and would also contribute to reducing the risk of women falling into poverty; stresses the role of the social partners, in efforts to improve gender employment, pay and pension gaps;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the need for Member States to implement well-designed labour market policies that aim to eradicate the gender gaps that put women at more risk of poverty, in particular the gender employment, pay and pension gaps; Welcomes the Commission's proposal for a directive to strengthen the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms; Highlights that while a lot has been achieved there are still gender inequalities in the labour market that have to be tackled; Calls on the Commission to implement and closely monitor the key objectives set out in the Gender Equality Strategy through concrete actions;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to present a revision of the Barcelona targets on early childhood education and care in 2022; calls on the Commission and Council to develop similar targets for long-term care as part of the forthcoming initiative on long- term care in 2022 to ensure sustainable long-term care that ensures better access to quality services for those in need as well as ensuring women’s continued participation in the labour market unhindered by unequal caring responsibilities;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights that universal access to public, solidarity-based and adequate retirement and old age pensions must be granted to all; underlines the importance of public and occupational pension systems that provide an adequate retirement income above the poverty threshold and allow pensioners to maintain their standard of living; asks the Member States to consider factoring child-raisaring responsibilities into pension schemes when women are not able to work and make suitable contributions during such periods to address the fact that women are most often required to take career breaks to fulfil such responsibilities due to entrenched gender roles;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the recovery efforts should boost jobs and growth, and the resilience and fairness of our societies, and should be complemented by a strong social dimension, paying attention to for all women, with an intersectional approach to support women who have a disability or, minority background, who stay at home to care for a family member and/or from different vulnerable groups, as they are particularly at risk of falling into poverty;
Amendment 113 #
5. Recognises the crucial role of all European funds and programmes in the social area, particularly the Recovery and Resilience Facility, European Social Fund Plus and the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers; calls on the Member States to make full use of these fundshighlights that through the ESF+, Member States and the Commission should aim to increase the participation of women in employment as well as conciliation between working and personal life, combat the feminisation of poverty and gender discrimination in the labour market and in education and training as well as to support the most vulnerable and combat child poverty; calls on the Member States to make full, effective and transparent use of these funds to mitigate the socio-economic impacts of the crisis, particularly on women and mainstream gender equality objectives throughout their national recovery and resilience plans (NRRPs);
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to submit initiatives to promote women’s empowerment through education, vocational training and lifelong learning, as well as access to finance, female entrepreneurship and women’s representation in future-oriented sectors with a view to ensuring access to high- quality employment; calls on the Member States to implement policies that contribute to the skilling, up-skilling and re-skilling of women, especially with regard to the green and digital transitions; calls for greater promotion of STEM subjects, digital education, artificial intelligence and financial literacy in order to ensure that more women enter these sectors and contribute to their development.