12 Amendments of Mary HONEYBALL related to 2008/2118(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Lisbon Strategy aims to ensure that 60% of women able to work are in employment; whereas efforts relating to the demographic challenge seek to promote higher birth rates to meet future requirements; whereas these two public policies target the same pivotal population group of women aged between 18 and 49, who are viewed both as workers and as mothers carrying life and bringing children into the world as well as taking care of the elderlycarers; whereas the different policies now need to be built not just around the professional performance of workers but also around their role in society as human beings,
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas non-discrimination based on gender, prima facie and generally, relates not just to women/mothers but also to men/fathers; whereas political action in this field should no longer focus solely on women, and European and national policies should henceforth take into consideration the needs and abilities of men/fathersof men in this area,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the concept of inter- generational solidarity is not just limited to childcare but also extends to responsibility for the elderly and dependent and to nurturing the human capital of our citizens, particularly of future generations,
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the monetisation of non-market informal work carried out by women/mothers and men/fathcarers is more than a question of justice, and economic science now attaches increasing importance to the creation of national wealth by the household economy,
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas attention should be drawn to the aforementioned 1995 UNDP Report which notes that if more human activities in the field of non-market informal work devoted to inter-generational solidarity were seen as market transactions in the same way as the prevailing wages, they would yield gigantically large monetary valuations for the work carried out by women/mothers and men/fathers and men; whereas this same report states that if national statistics fully reflected the 'invisible' contribution of women/mothers and men/fathers and men, it would become impossible for policy-makers to ignore them in their decisions on, particularly, policies to reconcile family life and 'formalised' working life,
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas the educational role played by women/mothers or men/fathcarers towards future generations and, the elderly and dependent persons is essential for the advancement of the common good and should be recognised as such by cross- cutting policies, including policies for women and men who make a free choice to devote all or part of their time to this activityshould be recognised,
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas there is a key role to be played by men/fathers in achieving genuine equality that respects the differences and complementary skills of women and men,
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas it is preferable to create thea situation where women/mothers and men/fathers are free how to look after their children, under equal conditions, and public funds allocatedfamilies are free to choose how to looking after youngtheir children should, therefore, be directed towards a single straightforward allowance granted to each household depending on the number of children, which these households could use in whichever way they want: for example, to pay for a place in a crèche, pay for a child minder or compensate one of the parents who stops working, free from politicians' definitions of how these families are structured,
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States to talke measures to recognise invisible and informal work in the field of inter- generational solidarity carried out by women/mothers and men/fathcarers at a legal, social and economic level (particularly as regards social security, professional status, earnings and equal opportunities for men and women);
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the public authorities to take the necessary steps to enable women/mothers and men/fathers and men to make better choices as to how they wish to reconcile work and family life;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Member States to give priority to leave arrangements (parental leave, maternityadoption leave, solidarity leave) applicable to persons wishing to interrupt their careers for the sake of a child or to look after a dependent;