9 Amendments of Regina BASTOS related to 2012/2301(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls the European Commission and Member States to integrate a general approach of equality between women and men in all employment policies, to take the necessary measures to facilitate the employment of women and to include this approach in the employment guidelines of the European Union;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Whereas the current effects of the crisis will have long-term impacts for women, due to the highly gender segregated labour-market, in which the concentration of women in sectors that are characterised by low pay, informal and part-time patterns of work, which have a direct impact on women's pension contributions;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Whereas the disparities between men and women in employment, wages, career breaks and part-time work due to family responsibilities have serious consequences for the calculation of pensions and therefore, their pension is often lower and they are more likely at risk of poverty;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls also on the Member States to develop vocational training policies;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Stresses the need to encourage female entrepreneurship by encouraging women to set up their company and by facilitating women's access to finance;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Calls also on the Member States and the European Union to develop policies to promote the reconciliation of family, private and professional life;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3 d. Alert that the current situation of crisis may increase women's risk of domestic violence;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Whereas in the current situation of economic crisis and budgetary austerity, women have fewer resources to protect themselves and their children from violence and whereas it is even more important to avert the direct financial impact that violence against women and children has on the judiciary and on health and social services;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that the falling birth rate in the European Union has been exacerbated by the crisis, given that unemployment, precarious situations and uncertainty regarding the future and the economy have led couples, and younger women in particular, to delay having children, thereby adding further to demographic ageing in the European Union;