Activities of Sandra PEREIRA related to 2021/2170(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Women’s poverty in Europe (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on women’s poverty in Europe
Amendments (25)
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the employment rate of women has even fallen more sharply than it did during the 2008 recession and has also resulted in a lower labour intensity, leading to significant increases in women’s poverty; whereas according to estimates for 2019 in the EU-27, women are particularly affected by the risk of poverty (AROP), with the poverty rate standing at 25.1 % before social transfers and 17.1 % after such transfers; whereas, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, women were in the majority in temporary or part-time posts and the pandemic has reinforced this trend;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the COVID-19 situation has significantly increased the unemployment rate in Member States; whereas the effects of this situation are particularly serious for women who are affected directly through loss of their jobs or job security and indirectly through budget cuts in public services and welfare assistance; whereas it is therefore essential that the dimension of female poverty in the handling of this situation and the development of solutions be examined;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the increasing risk of poverty is closely and directly linked to the destruction of significant social functions performed by the state, as seen, for example, with the dismantling of public social security systems, along with, in a number of Member States, cuts to key social benefits (family allowance, unemployment benefit, sickness benefit, social integration minimum income);
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the right to work is an essential precondition if women are to enjoy economic independence, professional fulfilment and effective equal rights; whereas precarious employment should thus be eradicated through the mandatory application of the principle that for every actual job there should be a permanent post, and by recognising and enhancing the right to work with rights;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas the importance of combating discrimination between men and women in access to employment and work, and promoting equality in careers and professional categories, in vocational training and in salaries is essential, at the same time as strengthening work with rights and protecting collective bargaining and union rights;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the vast majority of retail workers and cleaners are women and are often only paid the minimum wage, and the COVID-19 pandemic has put them at even greater risk of poverty; stresses the urgent need to improve wages and combat precarious employment; urges the Member States to raise the status of health professionals by means of decent wages and working conditions and, in particular, by concluding proper employment contracts;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Insists on mandatory respect for collective bargaining in the private sector, state-owned enterprises and public administration, this being the form of worker protection that best guarantees equal rights for men and women in the workplace; rejects, therefore, measures aimed at making labour relations more flexible and weakening the role played by trade unions in guaranteeing labour rights;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Takes the view that the participation of women in all sectors must be increased; takes the view that investment in public services and welfare provision is a means of ensuring access, on an equal basis, to healthcare, education, culture, social security and justice; urges the Member States to take specific measures to tackle the risk of social exclusion and poverty, focusing especially on access to affordable housing, transport and energy;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for a public transport policy that takes account of gender equality, in particular by expanding and improving the public transport service and offering effective mobility so that women can find work and participate more actively in the labour market (and achieve a better work- life balance);
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses the importance of making it genuinely possible to combine work, private and family life, which will have the positive effect of increasing the participation of women from all sections of society in social and political life;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Stresses the need for Member States to adopt a public health policy that places special emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention by guaranteeing free, universal and high- quality healthcare and ensuring the availability of the necessary resources to combat the main public health problems;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Urges the Member States to take specific measures to tackle the risk of social exclusion and poverty, focusing on access to affordable housing, transport, justice and energy;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses the need to enhance the responsibility of states and employers for maternity and paternity rights, which include the right of women to be both mothers and workers without forfeiting labour rights;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Points out that measures to achieve a work-life balance are important in ensuring an equal division of care- giving responsibilities between women and men and addressing income and employment disparities; notes that the achievement of a work-life balance depends on the availability and accessibility of high-quality public care services, which should be provided free of charge; notes that all maternity benefits should be ensured and upheld, with an increase in fully paid leave entitlements; stresses that public policies for the protection and promotion of nursing and breastfeeding are needed;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a drastic impact on the lives of all women, especially working women; notes that a disproportionate share of the burden was borne by teleworking women whose lives were made harder by the need to combine work, childcare and domestic chores; points out that many women were faced with increased expenses on lower pay;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Notes that the worsening social and economic situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has increased all forms of abuse and violence towards women, as well as prostitution, in violation of their human rights; underlines the need to increase public, financial and human resources in order to support groups at risk of poverty and tackle situations posing a risk to children and young people, the elderly, people with disabilities and the homeless;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Considers prostitution to be a serious form of violence and exploitation affecting mostly women and children; calls on the Member States to take specific action to combat the economic, social and cultural causes of prostitution so that women in a situation of poverty and social exclusion do not fall victim to such exploitation; calls on the Member States to take specific action to help prostitutes with their social and professional reintegration;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls for positive discrimination measures to be introduced for women farmers, encouraging them to remain in rural areas; calls, in addition to support for women, for measures promoting associative structures that can provide technical advice and assistance to keep farms operating as tools to help the sector survive, and encourage young people to invest in agriculture and livestock for the future;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Stresses the importance of combating inequalities and injustices against women; calls on the Commission and Member States to take urgent action to address poverty and increasing inequalities among women, especially among vulnerable groups, including single mothers, women with disabilities, Roma women, LGBTIQ+ women, migrant and refugee women, older women and women in rural or depopulated areas;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Points out that the situation of women in rural areas is heavily influenced by the agricultural situation and that unfair measures under the common agricultural policy have resulted in the increasing abandonment of small and medium-sized holdings and family agriculture; stresses the need to increase support in order to maintain family agriculture and ensure rural development, with particular emphasis on the work of women, including women migrants who work in agriculture;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 d (new)
Paragraph 11 d (new)
11d. Highlights the major contribution of women in the fields of employment, culture, education, science, and research; recognises the profound deterioration in the living conditions of women employed in arts and culture, and in micro and small agricultural and rural businesses resulting from the suspension of economic and cultural activities during the pandemic period;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission to refrain from promoting any policy recommendation that would lead to an increase in precarious working relations, the deregulation of working hours, a reduction in salaries, an attack on collective bargaining or the privatisation of public services and social security;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Recalls that cuts in public budgets resulting from the European Union’s macro-structural economic policies, in particular the implementation of ‘economic governance’ measures, are causing and will continue to cause increasing gender inequalities and female unemployment, women being in the majority in the public sector and the principal beneficiaries of social policies, and greater feminisation of poverty; stresses that a change in policy is therefore required;