14 Amendments of Carina OHLSSON 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to work in public services, rely on public services, and become the providers of last resort when public services are withdrawn, due to disproportionate burden of unpaid care work; whereas the impact of high inflation and energy costs is leaving public services with few options; 1a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 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 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;