15 Amendments of Mariya GABRIEL related to 2012/2129(INI)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, in order to achieve work-life balance, women, in addition to the unpaid work of looking after their home and their family, often opt, choose flexible home- based, part-time, tempor are forced to opt, for part-time, intermittent, or atypical work, a fact duly reflected in the pension contributions that they manage to accumulatey or atypical employment, thereby compromising their career advancement, with major consequences in terms of their pension contributions, making them particularly vulnerable to situations of insecurity and poverty;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas elderly women, particularly those living in isolation, frequently find themselves in difficult social and economic situations affecting their quality of life and state of physical and mental health;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I c (new)
Recital I c (new)
Ic. notes that all these factors, including isolation, make it harder for elderly women to stay active and lead full social lives;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S
Recital S
S. whereas equal access to health services for women and men must be guaranteed and the quality of health care needs to be improved;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T
Recital T
T. whereas because of the above- mentioned inequalities in terms of income and economic circumstances, older women havethe economic situation of elderly women affected by gender-based inequalities with regard to earnings, pensions and other forms of income leaves them particularly vulnerable with regard to situations of insecurity and poverty and with less to spend on cuthe health cares and medical treatments which they need;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas prevention, and early detection andresult in improvement of the population’s physical and mental health of men and women which could lengthen lifthe expectancy of life in good health and reduce health care expenditure, thus making for sustainability in the long term;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital W
Recital W
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recognises that, although women live longer than men, they do not haveenjoy more years of good health, that is to say, without being impeded in their activities or suffering from any major incapacity (women: 62.6 years; men: 61.7 years);
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Maintains that policies aimed at promoting work-life balance put women in a better position to tackle active ageing in good health, and therefore calls on the Member States to intensify their efforts in that direction;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to publish an assessment of the impact of the economic and financial crisis on elderly women, focusing on access to preventive health care and treatment;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Reiterates the need to build and promote a European Union more sensitive to the needs and interests of elderly women and men and for gender mainstreaming with regard to all information and awareness measures and policies;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to draw up and implement a specific EU strategy on the prevention, diagnosis, and management of diabetes, also covering information and research, including a cross-cutting gender approach and equality between men and women;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to collect data, taking care to include gender-related elements, serving to identify good practice regarding access to health services, not least with a view to avoiding excessively long waiting lists and the red tape that discourages older women from using prevention systemsin particular avoiding cumbersome administrative procedures and formulating specific measures and policies improving quality of life for elderly women;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Commission to launch specific awareness campaigns, targeting elderly women, more specifically, focusing on correct nutrition and the importance of physical exercise, given that these can help reduce the incidence of heart and circulatory disorders, osteoporosis, and some types of cancer;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote women’s rights with a view to combating all forms of age- and gender-based violence and discrimination, for example through awareness and information campaigns targeted at the entire European populace from a very early age;