4 Amendments of Viorica DĂNCILĂ related to 2014/2160(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas employment levels are lower in rural areas and, moreover, many women are not included on the official employment market and are therefore not registered as unemployed or included in unemployment statistics, causing specific financial and legal problems in terms of maternity and sick leave, the acquisition of pension rights and access to social security, as well as problems in the event of divorce; whereas rural areas are disadvantaged by the lack of high-quality employment opportunities;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas Parliament has repeatedly called on the Commission to review existing legislation in order to tackle the gender pay gap; whereas there are still very wide disparities (in some cases of over 25 %) between women’s salaries and men’s salaries, and whereas despite the efforts and progress made, that gap has not diminished but remained the same; whereas closing the gender pay gap would represent a means of increasing employment rates among women and decreasing the risk of poverty for women at pension age;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Underlines the fact that only the effective implementation of the equality treatment principle would lead to a real improvement of the situation of women in the labour market and that this requires strategic cooperation between different actors at European, national, sectoral and organisational level; urges the Commission and the Member States to help promote a strategy that leads to job creation for women in rural areas and hence ensures decent pensions for retired women in the EU who are living in fragile circumstances and many of whom work or have worked in agriculture and have little or no pension;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Invites the Member States and the Commission to take appropriate measures to reduce the gender gap in pensions, which is a direct consequence of the gender pay gap, and to assess the impact of new pension systems on various categories of women, focusing in particular on part-time contracts and atypical employment;