9 Amendments of Viorica DĂNCILĂ related to 2015/2228(INI)
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas gender equality provides a tool for combating poverty among women as it has a positive impact on productivity and economic growth and leads to greater participation of women in the labour market, which in turn has many social and economic benefits;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)
Recital K b (new)
Kb. whereas combating poverty is one of the five measurable targets proposed for EU 2020, which encourages the adoption of national policies to protect women, in particular, from the risk of poverty;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that elderly women can be the victims of direct or indirect discrimination on the labour market and even of multiple discrimination, and that this issue should be addressed from a gender equality perspective; stresses that employment must be seen as the best means of fighting female poverty; calls for the participation of women of all ages in lifelong training programmes to be facilitated; emphasises that reconciling working and family life and continuing training also requires special attention and support from a gender equality perspective;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the crucial importance of: reforming macroeconomic, social and labour market policies by aligning these with gender equality policies in order to guarantee economic and social justice for women; of reconsidering the methods used to determine the poverty rate and of developing strategies to promote the fair distribution of wealth; of guaranteeing a minimum income and decent wages and pensions and creating more high-quality jobs, with entitlements, for women; and of enabling women and girls to benefit from public services of a high standard, including in terms of narrowing gender gaps when it comes to the improvement of social welfare services;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Reminds the Commission that elderly women are particularly affected by the gender pay gap as it also affects pensions, which increases the risk of extreme and persistent poverty once women have reached retirement age; considers women to be at greater risk of poverty than men, especially in old age;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Member States to establish national plans to combat all forms of violence against women where such plans are not already in existence, to ensure ongoing and systematic monitoring to measure progress, to ensure the highest standards of legislation with regard to combating gender violence and to provide adequate funding for the protection of victims of gender violence, as a way to prevent and reduce poverty;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Recognises, in addition, that finding meaningful solutions to tackling female poverty may be one way of reducing gender-based violence, since women in poverty are at greater risk of abuse;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Encourages the Member States and the Commission to develop exchanges of best practice on legislative and budgetary instruments for combating poverty and to introduce new individual indicators in respect of women and poverty as a tool to monitor the impact of broader social, economic and employment policies on women and poverty;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission and the national governments of the Member States to encourage more studies into gender stereotypes and to collect additional data on these, defining suitable indicators for gender stereotypes and determining the poverty rate as well as their impact on combating poverty;