5 Amendments of Catherine BEARDER related to 2015/0000(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas equality is a founding value of the EU and a necessary condition for achieving the Europe 2020 employment and poverty reduction targets, which can only be attained if Member States icomplement new policies to promotey with national gender equality legislation in place and properly implement the EU gender equality directives;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas austerity measures and unbalanced structural reforms oriented towards depursued as a regsulation and the lowering of social and environmental standards have caused severe social hardship and a backlash againstt of the crisis together with the situation of several EU economies has had an impact on levels of inequality, contributing to a growth of social hardship and a reprioritisation of political and social aims that has been at the expense of improving gender equality;
Amendment 27 #
2. Welcomes those country-specific recommendations (CSR) intended to advance gender equality, but considers it regrettable that the CSR on the whole have no gender dimension, specifically as regards labour market reforms; calls on the Commission to ensure that the CSR in the European Semester on strengthening the principle of equal pay between men and women through transparency and addressing the gender pay gap are implemented by the Member States and for specific equality policy guidance to be included in the annual growth survey;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Reiterates its call on the Commission to facilitate the monitoring of the employment and poverty reduction headline targets by requesting that the Member States use gender-segregated data and to define additional gender-specific indicators; calls for social indicators, including on gender inequalities, to be incorporated into the scoreboard of macroeconomic imbalances;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers it regrettable that the Investment Plan for Europe is not ambitious enough in terms of job creation and investing in real needs such as childcare, care of dependent persons, including the elderly, care infrastructure and servicealls on the Commission to support the Member States in the increasing use of structural funds for investment in public care structures and services for children, the elderly and other dependents.