6 Amendments of Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN related to 2012/2301(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)
Citation 13 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 7 September 2010 on the role of women in an ageing society;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas budget cuts by governments implementing austerity plans are affecting the public sector, staffed in the and its welfare services, staffed and benefited mainly by women – approximately 70 % of the sector's employees – and women are now becoming the main victims of austerity measures;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas women are more dependent on social benefits which also are cut as part of austerity measures;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas approximately 23 % of European Union citizens were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 201015 , and this impoverishment of the population affects women most of all who are very often facing a combination of difficulties: older women living alone and single- parent families, for the most part headed by women, difficulties in keeping a job or finding a new one in this context, difficulties in finding housing and taking on responsibility for dependants (children, parents, sick or disabled people);
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recalls that cuts in public budgets willare not gender neutral but have the effect of increasing gender inequalities and female unemployment, women being in the majority in the public sector and the principal beneficiaries of social policies and, consequently, increasing the feminisation of poverty;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls for the Member States and the European Institutions to use gender impact assessment when planning austerity measures so that they would have as gender neutral effects as possible;