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Motion for a resolution
Recital 1

~~- having regard to the work carried out by the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics, Gary Becker, particularly on human capital,~~deleted

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the Lisbon Strategy aims to ensure that 60% of women able to work are in employment; whereas efforts relating to the demographic challenge seek to promote higher birth rates to meet future requirements; whereas these two public policies target the same pivotal population group of women aged between 18 and 49, who are viewed both as potential workers and as mothers ~~carrying life and bringing children into the world as well as~~, but also as children who may need to take taking care of the elderly; whereas the different policies now need to be built not just around the professional performance of workers but also around their role in society a~~s human beings~~nd their place in the family unit,

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the various alternatives involved in the choice between formal employment and informal non market work do not have the same economic consequences, and the manifold but latent discrimination against women and men who would opt for informal non market work thus takes the form of having to chose between two alternatives which are not recognised as being equivalent in economic terms,deleted

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the various alternatives involved in the choice between formal employment and informal non market work do not have the same economic consequences, and the manifold but latent discrimination against women and men who would opt for informal non market work thus takes the form of having to chose between two alternatives which are not recognised as being equivalent in economic termforms that intrafamilial solidarity takes and the obstacles of all kinds encountered in this area hinder the implementation of a genuine policy, which should build links between professional helpers, voluntary workers and families,

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas there is a ~~‘sandwich~~ generation’ of 40- to 60 -year -olds in the European population who often combine the role of parents with that of children responsible for elderly and dependent family whilst being actively involved in the labour market,

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the work of Gary Becker, the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics, uses economic and mathematical models to highlight the economic value of household production by women, particularly in terms of housework, educating children, looking after dependents regardless of their age or state of dependency, or running inter- generational solidarity networks,,deleted

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas ~~the monetisation of non- market informal work carried out by women/mothers and men/fathers is more than a question of justice, and~~ economic science now attaches increasing importance to the creation of national wealth by the household economy,

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas attention should be drawn to the aforementioned 1995 UNDP Report which notes that if more human activities in the field of non-market informal work devoted to inter-generational solidarity were seen as market transactions in the same way as the prevailing wages, they would yield gigantically large monetary valuations for the work carried out by women/mothers and men/fathers; whereas this same report states that if national statistics fully reflected the ‘invisible’ contribution of women/mothers and men/fathers, it would become impossible for policy-makers to ignore them in their decisions on, particularly, policies to reconcile family life and ‘formalised’ working life,deleted

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas the manifold but latent discrimination against women/mothers and men/fathers in this field is primarily manifested in the obligation of having to chose between two alternatives which are not recognised as being equivalent in economic terms (formal or informal work),deleted

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the manifold discrimination against women/mothers and men/fathers in the official recognition of their informal work is linked to a number of legal, social and economic factors which go beyond the single issue of equal pay for the same job and is due in particular to the fact that women/mothers or men/fathers are obliged to choose formal work simply because of the non- recognition of household work, even though formal work is burdened with the pay gap and upsets the balance between pursuing family plans and professional ambitions,deleted

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas systems of national accounts (SNAs) in the Member States do not recognise the value of non-market informal work in its different forms even though, according to mathematical models, it accounts for one-third of national wealth in GDP,deleted

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas persons who devote their time ~~and skills to looking after children~~ to bringing up children or caring for the elderly should receive social recognition and this could be done by giving such persons individual rights, particularly regarding social security and pensions,

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas the educational role played by ~~women/mothers or men/father~~parents towards future generations and by children towards elderly and dependent persons is essential for the advancement of the common good and should be recognised as such by cross- cutting policies, including policies for women and men who make a free choice to devote all or part of their time to this activity,

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)

Oa. whereas solidarity between generations must, above all, become a social link for the benefit of all, all generations having something to offer each other,

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Recital O b (new)

Ob. calling on the Commission and the Member States to take account of the extraordinary potential represented by young retirees, from both a social and an economic point of view, and encouraging them to promote all policies relating to intergenerational solidarity that are slanted towards voluntary work, by including older people in the structure of associations and NGOs,

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Recital O c (new)

Oc. stressing that solidarity with our elders must become stronger, but emphasising that it must also be met with reciprocal solidarity towards children and young people; whereas, while older people can pass on wisdom, knowledge and experience, the younger generations offer energy, dynamism, joie de vivre and hope,

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Recital O d (new)

Od. whereas, taking into account increased longevity, and in order to allow young retirees who so wish to maintain their social integration and financial independence vis-à-vis their families, the Commission and the Member States should promote policies allowing older people to keep their jobs or to return to the labour market, including through measures aimed at combining employment and a retirement pension,

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Recital T a (new)

Ta. calling on the Commission to encourage the launching of an open coordination method with a view to identifying innovative actions and practices that favour solidarity between generations in Europe in all areas that relate to the day-to-day lives of families,

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the national statistical institutes in the Member States to develop measures to include in their SNA the value, broken down by gender, of invisible work in the field of inter-generational solidarity and its contribution to national GDP;deleted

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Member States to take measures ~~to recognise invisible and informal work~~ in the field of inter- generational solidarity ~~carried out by women/mothers and men/fathers at a legal,~~at a social and economic level (particularly as regards social security~~, professional status, earnings~~ and equal opportunities for men and women);

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the European Economic and Social Committee to undertake work on defining criteria and standards to record and evaluate the manifold aspects of informal non market work by women and men, on the basis of a uniform method for assessing and assigning a value to this work and the long-term economic and social usefulness of this activity and its contribution to GDP;deleted

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on experts in the social sciences, economics and law, alongside those in philosophy, anthropology, neuroscience, child development science and geriatrics and gerontology, to draw up a clearer definition of the different terms to make them easier to understand and reduce the scope for misuse; calls for a comprehensive pan-European investigation into the nature, level and internal mechanisms of involvement in informal non market work which is not yet officially recognised, running inter- generational networks and funding for this purpose;deleted

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Member States to support and promote the operational programmes launched by the Commission the context of the European Alliance for Families; asks the Commission to step up the development of tools for the systematic exchange of best practices and research in this field;deleted

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

~~8. Calls on the public authorities to take the necessary steps to enable women/mothers and men/fathers to make better choices as to how they wish to reconcile work and family life;~~deleted

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Encourages the Member States to provide in their national policies for the introduction of maternity leave of one year, allowing mothers who so wish to foster the fundamental bonding relationship with their children;

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Insists that all persons wishing to interrupt their formal careers or reduce the number of hours they work for the sake of inter-generational solidarity should be able to benefit from flexible working arrangements; calls therefore on small and medium-sized enterprises to cooperate more willingly and on the public authorities to exhibit greater financial flexibility in their State aid budget forecasts;deleted

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Calls on the Commission, in collaboration with the Member States and the social partners, to launch a review of work-life balance policies, particularly by: - guaranteeing that the cost of maternity is not borne by the employer, but by the public purse, in order to eliminate discriminatory behaviour within companies and to support demographic renewal, - improving accessibility to care and assistance services for dependent people (children, people with disabilities and the elderly) and the flexibility of such services, including services in the home, in the framework of solidarity between generations, by defining a minimum number of structures that are open at night, in order to meet the requirements of both work and private life;

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Member States to ensure that all persons who have temporarily interrupted their careers to ~~look after~~bring up children or care for elderly or dependent persons can (re)enter the labour market and retain the right to return to their former position and level of career advancement;

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

Claire GIBAULT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Reminds the Commission and the Member States that it is necessary to adopt affirmative measures for the benefit of women and men to facilitate their return to employment after a period of carrying out family duties (bringing up children and/or caring for a sick or handicapped parent), by promoting policies of (re)integration into the employment market with a view to enabling them to regain financial independence;

2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM

29 Amendments of Claire GIBAULT related to 2008/2118(INI)

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