9 Amendments of Sophia IN 'T VELD related to 2009/2101(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, because of gender segregation by occupation and sector, and according to the data available, the crisis initially hit men harder than women; whereas, however, the available data do not take account of part-time working, and the proportion of the female workforce in part- time employment is 31.1% as against a corresponding figure of 7.9% in the male workforce; whereas women occupy the majority of public-service jobs and account for two-thirds of the workforce in the education, health and social welfare sectors; whereas, therefore, they are likely to lose out on two fronts in the event of budget cuts with their adverse effect on public-service provision, stresses therefore the need to avoid and reduce excessive deficits and public debt,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas women – especially single mothers and women aged over 65 – are traditionally at greater risk of poverty, and their situation is liable to deteriorate in a time of recession, whereas most policies aim to support families with children, despite the fact that up to 35% of households consist of a single person, which in the majority of cases is a woman,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the sharing between women and men of domestic and family responsibilities, notably through greater recourse to parental and paternity leave, is a sine qua non for the advancement and achievement of gender equality, regrets however, that the Social Partners’ Framework Agreement on Parental Leave (July 2009) fails to address the issue of paid leave which would have a decisive impact on the take-up rate of men and the equal sharing of professional and family responsibilities between women and men,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas 58.9% of the university qualifications awarded in the Union went to women and women outnumber men in business, management and law faculties, yet they are in the minority in corporate and political positions of responsibility; whereas few women have IT, engineering or physics degrees and women are consequently under-represented in the private sector, with its crucial role in economic recovery; whereas the gender gap between women and men’s employment in the IT sector has tended to widen rather than narrow over time,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas sexual and reproductive health implies a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes, whereas recognition of the full physical and sexual autonomy of women is a precondition for any successful sexual and reproductive health rights policy, as well as for policies combating violence against women,
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to conduct gender-specific impact assessments before implementing austerity policies, so that women will not be disproportionately affected, and calls on the Commission and the Member States to prepare – using the above-mentioned statistics and impact assessments – recovery policies that reflect the specific needs and circumstances of women and men, particularly through the use of gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that the gender pay gap has remained stubbornly wide and that there are many differences among the Member States in this regard; asks the Member States, therefore, to apply Directive 2006/54/EC immediately and, in particular, to promote the principal of 'equal pay for equal work' or 'work of equal value';
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Asks the Member States to take effective steps, notably through legislation, to encourage gender balance in corporate and political positions of responsibility; considers in this regard that the proportion of women Commissioners (representing 35% of the total) - achieved with great difficulty - is the bare minimum; is of the view that the composition of the Commission should better reflect the diversity of the European population, including the gender aspect; calls on Member States in future nominations, to put forward two candidates, one of each gender, so as to facilitate the composition of a more representative Commission;