5 Amendments of Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN related to 2021/2020(INI)
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas women’s rights are human rights and hence universal and indivisible, and whereas gender equality in the EU has not yet been achieved and progress in this direction has recently been slowing down, stagnating or even regressing in certain regions and countries; whereas the struggle for gender equality and the promotion and protection of women’s rights is a truly collective responsibility;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas there is a rising trend of misogyny, anti-gender and anti-feminist movements attacking women’s rights across Europe;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas the progress towards gender equality in the EU remains slow, and at the current progress pace it will take more than 60 years to achieve gender equality in the EU according to EIGE1a and the COVID-19 crisis’ economic impact has the risk of rolling back past decade’s progress achieved on women’s economic independence and women’s employment is falling sharper than it did during the 2008 recession; _________________ 1aEIGE Gender Equality Index 2020 Report https://eige.europa.eu/publications/gender -equality-index-2020-report
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas their role as primary caregivers within the family imposes a disproportionate burden of unpaid care and domestic work on women, who play a vital role in this respect; whereas COVID-19 crisis has revealed the shocking state of European care homes and sector as a whole, and as women tend to live longer and require more care services and most of the carers are women this is an extremely gendered issue;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Stresses the urgent need to protect women from violence offline and online, and reminds that violence against women can take many different forms and recognises the structural nature of violence against women as gender-based violence, and that violence against women is one of the crucial social mechanisms by which women are forced into a subordinate position compared with men, and this violence remains still underreported and under-reacted on;