21 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2015/2228(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas there are 12 million more women than men living in conditions of poverty in the EU; whereas, furthermore, poverty rates among women vary greatly between the Member States; whereas regardless of how specific the groups at risk are such as older women, lone parents, women with disabilities, the poverty rates among migrant women and women from ethnic minorities are the same throughout the European Union;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas women are a key force for economic and social development and education is one of the most effective strategies available for breaking out of the poverty cycle;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas in times of economic recession such as these, people who already at risk of living in poverty – who are more likely to be women – are even more vulnerable, especially groups facing multiple disadvantages (people with disabilities, immigrants, single mothers, minorities, etc.);
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas living at risk of poverty translates into social exclusion in terms of access to public transport, primary healthcare services, decent housing water and energy, education, training and culture;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas women often take the responsibility for the care of elderly or ill, ill or dependent family members as well as for children, resulting in their lower participation in the labour market, which consequently diminishes their overall income; whereas the establishment of high- quality childcare services and facilities for the care of children or other dependent persons at affordable prices reduces the risk of impoverishment; whereas few Member States have achieved or surpassed the Barcelona objectives;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the stereotypes widely conveyed by society are rooted in patriarchy and leave women in a subordinate role in society, contributeing to the feminisation of poverty; whereas these stereotypes are developed during childhood and are reflected in the choice of training and education and on into the labour market; whereas women are still too often confined to ‘women-friendly’ tasks and remain under-represented in certain areas such as mathematics, science, engineering, and so on; whereas these stereotypes lead to discrimination in terms of recrimination;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas poverty is a factor associated with an increased risk of gender-based violence; whereas, furthermore, many women suffering this form of violence continue to live with their abusers because they are economically dependent on them;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)
Recital K b (new)
Kb. whereas women at risk of poverty and social exclusion are disproportionately vulnerable to people trafficking and sexual exploitation;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K c (new)
Recital K c (new)
Kc. whereas the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reports that women form the majority of the world’s poorest people and the number of women living in rural poverty has increased by 50% since 1975, that women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours and produce half of the world’s food, yet they earn only 10% of the world’s income and own less than 1% of the world’s property, that violence against women throughout the world and in all cultures prevails on an unimaginable scale, and women’s access to justice is often paired with discriminatory obstacles – in law as well as in practice, that multiple forms of discrimination based on gender and other factors such as race, ethnicity, caste, disability, persons affected by HIV/AIDS, sexual orientation or gender identity further compound the risk of economic hardship, exclusion and violence against women;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the lack of affordable high- quality care, whether for children or for the sick, dependent persons or elderly, contributes to the gender employment gap, the pay gap and the related pension gap; emphasises that equal access to childcare and free, high-quality education is central to securing equal opportunities and breaking poverty cycles;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to develop and utilise the available financial instruments, including the Social Investment Package, to meet the Barcelona objectives; calls, in this context, for the Social Fund and the ERDF to be improved, for priority to be given, in the use of social investments and the EFSI regulation, to the establishment of public and private childcare facilitiefacilities for the care of children and other dependent persons, and for the flexibility mechanism introduced in the context of the Stability and Growth Pact to be used for financing of childcare facilities; proposes the creation of a specific line in the EU budget to fund, through a co- financing mechanism, incentives for specific areas where there is a shortage of childcare facilitiefacilities for the care of children and other dependent persons and where the female employment rate is extremely low;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take the necessary measures to promote the reconciliation of work and private life, in order to enable women, particularly those most at risk of poverty, to pursue their careers on a full- time basis or, if they prefer, to have access to part-time or flexible-time work;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes with concern that women often receive pensions that are worth barely more than the minimum subsistence level, there being various reasons for this such as their having taken a break in or stopped their working life to care for the family, the predominance of part-time contracts throughout their working life, or because they worked unpaid for their spouse, mainly in commerce or in farming, and did not contribute to a social security scheme;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that people living in poverty often pay a higher unit cost compared to the better-off for the same goods and services that are essential to their social and economic survival, particularly with regard to telecommunications and energy; calls on the Member States to work closely with suppliers and operators on the development of support schemes and social pricing for the most deprived in society, particularly in regard to water and power supplies so as to eradicate energy poverty in households;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on Member States to include investments in education on girls and women as an integral part of their economies and recovery plans as well as programmes sensitisations actions aimed at enabling parents and society in general to understand the importance of the role of education in empowering women and girls in social, economic, cultural and political fields to break out of the cycle of poverty;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Stresses the need for all educational institutions to impart democratic values with a view to encouraging tolerance, active citizenship, social responsibility and respect for differences of gender, minorities, ethnical and religion groups and to include an holistic gender- perspective, in particular in the fields of continuing education and vocational training, in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, as well as the role of the arts in intercultural exchanges;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. NEmphasises that violence against women continues to be a significant problem in the European Union, affecting both the victims and the perpetrators thereof irrespective of their age, education, income level or social position, and its impact on the danger of marginalisation, poverty and social exclusion is constantly growing; notes that women’s economic independence plays a crucial role in their ability to escape situations of being able to flee a situation involving gender-violence; calls for the provision of social protection systems guaranteeing the social rights of women who are victims of violence;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls once more for the Commission to present a European strategy against gender violence and to establish a European Year for combating gender- based violence;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Emphasises the importance of the Member States and regional and local authorities taking action to aid reintegration into the labour market for women who have suffered gender-based violence, using instruments such as the European Social Fund (ESF) or the Progress Programme;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Reports that disabled women often suffer discrimination within the family environment and in education, their employment opportunities are restricted and the social benefits they receive are not sufficient to stop them falling into poverty; stresses in this respect that Member States and regional and local authorities shall grant disabled women the specialist care they need to exercise their rights and shall propose actions to aid their integration in the labour market through additional support measures, in particular as regards education and training;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Emphasises the importance of the EU’s policies, programmes and actions on development cooperation and aid being gender sensitive so that women may be empowered and achieve independence through education and training, and in order to combat gender discrimination and all forms of violence against women, including trafficking and female genital mutilation;