Activities of Edite ESTRELA related to 2010/2138(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Female poverty - Equality between women and men - 2010 (debate)
Female poverty - Equality between women and men - 2010 (debate)
Amendments (14)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that in countries where more progress has been made towards equal treatment of men and women in the employment market has been achieved, it has had positive repercussions on economic and social development, and therefore equality policies should not be abandonmust be further developed in times of crisis; and that despite the stated intention of the Member States and the Commission, consistently equal conditions have not yet been achieved – indeed, in some cases the situation has even deteriorated;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1a (new)
Paragraph 1a (new)
1a. Stresses that the new forms of organisation of work need to be grounded in a detailed analysis of forms and rhythms of work and leisure, ensuring the sharing of family and work responsibilities among family members;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that extending child care and professionalising home help for the elderly represent an important step towards makiimportant steps towards making it possible to combine work and family life include not only improving child care in terms of quality and quantity and professionalising home help for the elderly but also expanding maternity protection in Europe and unreserved social acceptance of the idea of mothers being employed; considers that this also requires a change it possible to combine work and family life; n corporate cultures with regard to the appointment and employment of women;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2b (new)
Paragraph 2b (new)
2b. Emphasises that the Commission and the Member States need to promote, support and reinforce the role of women in the social economy, in the light of the high level of female employment in that sector and the importance of the services it offers for the promotion of a fair work- life balance;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3b (new)
Paragraph 3b (new)
3b. Believes that, in the light of population trends in the EU, measures are needed to encourage people to have children, and that a fair work-life balance is a key condition for fighting population decline, as well as helping boost women's participation in the labour market;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the fact that almost everywhere, in many cases, women are now obtaining a higher level of edubetter final results at school and in higher and vocational qualifieducations than men; regrets, however, that this hais not led to a narrowingimproving their situation ofn the gender- related pay gap that is a factor in women beinglabour market, particularly as regards reducing precarious employment, eliminating wage disparities and reaching management posts, the result of which is at higher risk of unemployment and poverty;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Stresses that the objective of the Europe 2020 strategy of achieving a 75% employment rate for the population aged between 20 and 64 will only be met if there is a major input from women in the form of a considerable increase in female employability;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Observes that part-time employment can have an adverse impact on the individual concerned, for example placing obstacles in the way of careers and leading to poverty in old age or alternatively, on account of smaller incomes, may require supplementary State assistance for purposes of subsistence or in the event of illness or unemployment;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Calls for taxation of employment in the Member States to be reviewed in order to establish the extent to which tax incentives discourage women from taking full-time employment, so that the traditional model of the family continues to disadvantage women;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and Member States to introduce strategies and programmes in the field of education and employment and to increase their efforts to interest boys and girls at school in the whole spectrum of possiblechoosing a non-gender-specific occupations, to prevent segregation of job markets by gender and counter the trend for women often to work in worse-paidrelatively unskilled, worse-paid and less secure occupations;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to support the Member States in increasing the employment prospects of disadvantaged women and female immigrants and thus increasing their chance of leading an independent life, by improving their access to education and vocational training;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the Commission to update equality indicators, extend them to include the dimension of family status and use them to assess gender inequalities regularly;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament to comply with gender budgeting criteria when drawing up budgets; encourages Member States to follow this example when drawing up national public budgets.