Activities of Kartika Tamara LIOTARD related to 2011/2091(INI)
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REPORT on the situation of women approaching retirement age PDF (191 KB) DOC (116 KB)
Amendments (17)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the persistence of gender stereotypes which, compounded by the age discrimination faced by older people in the labour market, particularly reduces employment, training and promotion opportunities for older women, and is partly responsible for the increased risk of poverty in old age;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas gender differences in socio- economic status are plartialgely rooted in the traditional gender division of labourroles, where men are considered to bear the primary responsibility for breadwinning and women for unpaid housework and family care, including wider family care, which has a huge impact on women’s and women’s abilitybility, compared with men’s, to accumulate social security entitlements, for example, for retirement,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas older women often, compared with men, often choose or are compelled to choose part- time work and more often leave the labour market by opting or being compelled to opt for early retirement more often than men,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s decision to designate 2012 as the European Year of Active Ageing, and calls for appropriat and Solidarity between the Generations, and calls on the Commission and Member States to take appropriate and effective steps to combat discrimination, particularly by changincluding by tackling the stereotypes associated with gender and age discrimination and promoting solidarity between generations;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that multiple discrimination against women over 50 is better reflected and effectively tackled in the open method of coordination regarding pensions, social inclusion, employment, changing gender stereotypes and inclusion of women in decision-making;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the CommissionMember States to implement bothe gender equality approachmainstreaming and age mainstreaming in the preparation and implementation of pension reform and other reforms in social security policy, to promote use of the same actuarial calculation of pensions for men and women, to promote decreasing the risk of poverty, to tackle the poverty currently experienced by older people, to improve the current pensions for older women, to improve the quality, accessibility and financial viability of (health) care and to end the practice of compulsory (early) retirement;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to create conditions enabling and encouraging older women to remain and/or return to the labour market under the European Year of Active Ageing, so that their potential is not wasted; calls on the Commission and the Member States also to implement measures that encourage employers to give older women the opportunities needed to remain in or return to the labour market, to offer them the requisite training and to improve their chances of promotion;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish a comprehensive, multi-dimensional, gender- sensitive and age-friendly approach to employment and social policies in order to ensure employment and social inclusion of older womenwomen; calls on the Commission and the Member States to also carry out an in- depth review of the situation of the generation of older women who are already living in poverty and to speedily take appropriate, effective measures to take these women out of poverty;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to further develop and improve the collection and analysis of accurate, relevant, comparable European gender- and age-specific data, particularly on the employment and unemployment rate of older women and the rat, the (informal) involvement of older women in (unpaid) care for their families and relatives, and the percentage of dependent elderly people;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Emphasises that it is criticalCalls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the disadvantages faced by women in the labour market, particularly those stemming from care responsibilities, should not penalise them in their pension or other social security entitlements;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission and Member States to speedily take effective measures to promoteimplement the principle of equal pay for equal work, which can also help to close the pension gap, and to reduce the higher risk of poverty faced by – mainly older – women;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopimplement appropriate policies to reconcile work, family and private life and to integrate the ageing dimension into all relevant policies, by means of age mainstreaming, taking account of the various periods of life;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to make full use of the existing EU instruments and programmes, including the European Social Fund, to increase participation of older women in labour markets and to tackle discrimination against older women in all areas;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Member States to encourage companies to integrate ‘senior planning’ intoage management principles and tools into their policy, particularly their staff policy, to adopt an ‘age-friendly and gender- sensitive’ policy in work places, to give the accumulated knowledge and experience of their policy, and to consider the adoption of an ‘age-friendly’ policy in work placder (female) employees more recognition and respect, and to develop a reliable, transparent information policy that gives older employees the opportunity to prepare for retirement in full knowledge of the facts; further calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve the procedures for imposing penalties on employers who discriminate against older (female) employees;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Asks the Member States to facilitate the provision of quality care services, (including home care for the elderly), to guarantee the accessibility and financial viability of such quality care, to improve recognition of the value of the work undertaken by professional caregivers, and to support families providing care to older dependent persons, for example by compensating them financially for what they contribute and by advising and training them so they are able to offer high-quality informal care;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to recognise the gender dimension in health as an essential part of EU health policies, and therefore asks the Commission and the Member States to further step up their efforts to adopt a gender and age mainstreaming strategy in EU and national health policies;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Recognises the vital role of screening and preventive treatment in health care, and encourages the Commission to use the open method of coordination to ensure exchanges of views, promote harmonisation of screening across the EU and identify best practices and establish guidelines; further encourages the Commission and the Member States also to recognise the importance of gender- and age-sensitive curative and palliative health care and to promote scientific research in this area so the medical aspects of curative and palliative care can be better geared to the needs, requirements and wishes of older women;