2021/2170(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas parental poverty often leads to child poverty; whereas the EU and Member States must respect, protect and fulfil the rights of children in line with the Treaty of the European Union; whereas the rights of children are jeopardised in situations of poverty;

Amendment 100 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

Amendment 101 #

Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Agnes JONGERIUS, Aurore LALUCQ, Manuel PIZARRO, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Lina GÁLVEZ, Milan BRGLEZ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Alex AGIUS SALIBA, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Marc ANGEL, Heléne FRITZON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Notes, that one of the areas in which women have been disproportionately affected vis-a-vis men is an equal access to the economy since in Europe women tend to be overrepresented in the frontline of the pandemic and also in the services sector , which has been particularly affected by the current crisis and this has translated into an increase in the female unemployment rates and thus a high likelihood of poverty for women in the EU;

Amendment 102 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls for an obligatory EU framework establishing minimum wages, that allows for a decent standard of living for workers and their families, benchmarked at 60% of median wage and 50% of the gross average wage for all groups of workers and without variations or discrimination;

Amendment 103 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Member States to promote flexibility for men as well as for women, in terms of working hours and in terms of work organisation in order to promote reconciliation of family life and work;

Amendment 104 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Underlines the need to promote policies that boost the economy, helping business owners to contribute to the growth of a labour market that creates decent jobs;

Amendment 105 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Highlights that in-work poverty discriminates women; urges the Commission to come forward with EU legislation to guarantee a minimum income for those most at risk of exclusion; calls on the European Commission and Member States in the upcoming Recommendation on Minimum Income to ban all discrimination in minimum income schemes in order to break the poverty-cycle of vulnerable families;

Amendment 106 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Underlines, that even if overall women encounter a higher likelihood of poverty throughout their life courses, the COVID-19 pandemic has increased such likelihood since the governmental measures to halt the pandemic have had the most indirect impact on the economic sectors (such as gastronomy , hospitality, retail , care, domestic work etc.) in which women tend to be overrepresented;

Amendment 107 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Calls to prioritise and examine more systematically the in-work poverty rate, in relation to gender and specific groups, and calls to increase wages, increase employment security and against involuntary part-time work, countering discrimination in pay rates, including closing the gender pay gap, in order to ensure that decent work is a sustainable route out of poverty;

Amendment 108 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Notes with concern, that economic segregation and the disadvantages women face to enter and remain on the labour market are translated into lower wages, vulnerable working conditions , lower pensions and a greater likelihood of suffering from poverty and social exclusion during the life course;

Amendment 109 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4d. Calls on Member States, not least through the European Semester instruments, to build inclusive labour markets, with pathway approaches for vulnerable groups to quality jobs and employment, with decent wages and employment and social protection;

Amendment 11 #

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas the COVID-19 crisis has increased the amount of unpaid housework and childcare, which has not been equally shared by men and women, but has fallen mostly on women, especially in countries characterized by traditional gender norms;

Amendment 110 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)

4e. Welcomes the proposal for the Pay Transparency Directive, aiming at reducing the gender pay gap and therefore improving women’s financial stability, which could allow them to escape situations of domestic violence. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that such proposal covers as many workers as possible without discrimination. Reminds that higher participation into the labour market does not automatically close the gender pay gap. Stresses that the segregation of the labour market undervalues feminised sectors and leads to precarious working conditions for women in those sectors;

Amendment 111 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

Amendment 112 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Recogni~~Stresses the crucial role of all European funds and programmes in the social area, particularly the European Social Fund Plus and the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers~~; calls on the Member States to make full use of these funds~~ , the Just Transition Fund, the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund; calls on the Member States to make full use of these funds and ensure that the most vulnerable groups, including young women, women with disabilities, women with migration background, Romani women, women of religious or ethnic minorities as well as LBTIQ women are specifically targeted in the designing and planning of the national plans and the implementation of funded projects; reminds the Members States that all EU-funded projects must comply with EU law, including the Charter of Fundamental Rights, as well as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD);

Amendment 113 #

5. Recognises the crucial role of all European funds and programmes in the social area, particularly the Recovery and Resilience Facility, European Social Fund Plus and the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers; ~~calls on the Member States to make full use of these funds~~highlights that through the ESF+, Member States and the Commission should aim to increase the participation of women in employment as well as conciliation between working and personal life, combat the feminisation of poverty and gender discrimination in the labour market and in education and training as well as to support the most vulnerable and combat child poverty; calls on the Member States to make full, effective and transparent use of these funds to mitigate the socio-economic impacts of the crisis, particularly on women and mainstream gender equality objectives throughout their national recovery and resilience plans (NRRPs);

Amendment 114 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Recognises the crucial role of all European funds and programmes in the social area, particularly the European Social Fund Plus and the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers; calls on the Member States to make full use of these funds, to minimise bureaucracy and administrative burden and to make sure to support the use of these funds closest to the people, thus to entrust the regional and local authorities with the decision-making process as well as the application of the funds;

Amendment 115 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. stresses, that not only women disproportionately lost their jobs at the onset of the pandemic ,but they have also encountered greater obstacles to re-enter and remain on the labour market in the period between the first two waves of COVID-19 pandemic and while employment prospects rose by 1.4 % for men, they merely increased by0.8 % for women during that period; stresses that young people, especially young women, lost disproportionately more jobs during the first wave of the pandemic; notes that previous crises have shown that entering the labour market during a recession can negatively affect young people’s labour market outcomes for a decade or more;

Amendment 116 #

Daniela RONDINELLI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to include specific, cross- cutting and binding targets on gender equality, women’s access to the labour market and equal opportunities in the RRPs, accompanied by clear and transparent monitoring of the funds allocated in order to verify the effectiveness of the measures adopted;

Amendment 117 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Notes that from a household perspective, measures to incentivise employment of women through the involvement of men in caring responsibilities, e.g. effective paternity leave schemes, stopping tax incentives that favour the single breadwinner model, can contribute directly or indirectly to lowering gender gaps both in employment and wages; Calls on the Member States to ensure an equally shared take up of parental leave by both parents which would allow women to increasingly engage in full-time employment and equally share household and childcare responsibilities;

Amendment 118 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to submit ~~initiativ~~specific, targeted and measurable initiatives within funding programmes to promote women’s empowerment through education, vocational training and lifelong learning, as well as access to finance, female entrepreneurship and women’s representation in future-oriented sectors with a view to ensuring access to high- quality employment; calls for greater promotion of STEM subjects, digital education, artificial intelligence and financial literacy at all education levels in order to ensure that more women enter these sectors and contribute to their development.; calls on Member States to use EU funds and programmes to support lifelong learning and training in the specific areas of new digital skills and capacities including in particular STEM subjects;

Amendment 119 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to submit initiatives to promote women’s empowerment through education, vocational training and lifelong learning, as well as access to finance, female entrepreneurship and women’s representation in future-oriented sectors with a view to ensuring access to high- quality employment; calls on the Member States to expand and improve childcare provision so that women are more employable on the job market and increasing numbers of women are employed in more highly paid full-time jobs; calls for greater promotion of STEM subjects, digital education, artificial intelligence and financial literacy in order to ensure that more women enter these sectors and contribute to their development.

Amendment 12 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Abir AL-SAHLANI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas gender-sensitive data regarding poverty is still insufficient in the EU and the Member States, hindering the analysis and the policy-making process at all levels;

Amendment 120 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to submit initiatives to promote women’s empowerment through education, vocational training and lifelong learning, as well as access to finance, female entrepreneurship and women’s representation in future-oriented sectors with a view to ensuring access to high- quality employment; calls on the Member States to implement policies that contribute to the skilling, up-skilling and re-skilling of women, especially with regard to the green and digital transitions; calls for greater promotion of STEM subjects, digital education, artificial intelligence and financial literacy in order to ensure that more women enter these sectors and contribute to their development.

Amendment 121 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to submit initiatives in line with the Commission’s recommendation on Effective Active Support to Employment and to promote women’s empowerment through accessible and inclusive education, vocational training and lifelong learning with specific attention to the most marginalised, as well as access to finance, female entrepreneurship and women’s representation in future-oriented sectors with a view to ensuring access to high- quality employment; calls for greater promotion of STEM subjects, digital education, artificial intelligence and financial literacy in order to ensure that more women enter these sectors and contribute to their development.

Amendment 122 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to submit initiatives to promote women’s empowerment through formal, non formal and informal education, vocational training and lifelong learning, as well as access to finance, female entrepreneurship and women’s representation in future-oriented sectors with a view to ensuring access to high- quality employment; calls for greater promotion of STEM subjects, digital education, artificial intelligence and financial literacy in order to ensure that more women enter these sectors and contribute to their development.; highlights also the need to adopt measures to involve men in caring careers;

Amendment 123 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to submit initiatives to promote women’s empowerment through education, vocational training and lifelong learning, as well as access to finance, female entrepreneurship and women’s representation in future-oriented sectors with a view to ensuring access to high- quality employment; calls for greater promotion of STEM subjects, digital education, artificial intelligence and financial literacy as well as other cross- cutting skills in order to ensure that more women enter these sectors and contribute to their ~~development~~professional and personal development as well as the one of the entire society.

Amendment 124 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the ~~Commission and the Member States to submit initiativ~~Member States to promote women’s empowerment through education, vocational training and lifelong learning, ~~as well as~~ access to finance, female entrepreneurship and women’s representation in future-oriented sectors with a view to ensuring access to high- quality employment; calls for greater promotion of STEM subjects, digital education, artificial intelligence and financial literacy in order to ensure that more women enter these sectors and contribute to their development.

Amendment 125 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to submit initiatives to promote women’s ~~empower~~development through education, vocational training and lifelong learning, as well as access to finance, female entrepreneurship and women’s representation in future-oriented sectors with a view to ensuring access to high- quality employment; calls for greater promotion of STEM subjects, digital education, artificial intelligence and financial literacy in order to ensure that more women enter these sectors and contribute to their development.

Amendment 126 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on Member States to increase their efforts to effectively address the gender pay gap in the interest of improving the economic situation of women and ensuring their economic independence; calls for a fundamental focus to ensure that men and women become equal earners and equal carers; calls on all Member States to eliminate the ‘care and tampon tax’ by making use of the flexibility introduced in the VAT Directive and applying exemptions or 0% VAT rates to these essential basic goods;

Amendment 127 #

Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Agnes JONGERIUS, Aurore LALUCQ, Manuel PIZARRO, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Lina GÁLVEZ, Milan BRGLEZ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Alex AGIUS SALIBA, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Marc ANGEL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Member states to fully implement the European Pillar of Social Rights with a special focus on the headline targets of reduction of at least 15 million people at risk of poverty and social exclusion and of at least 78% of the population aged 20 to 64 in employment by 2030; calls on the Member States to be ambitious in their implementation of the Work-Life Balance directive, the European Child Guarantee and the Pay Transparency Directive, as well as the future Directive on Minimum Wages and Recommendation on Minimum Income;

Amendment 128 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Highlights that skilling, upskilling and re-skilling play a key role to reduce the gender gap in employment and calls on the EU and the member states to ensure that women access quality lifelong learning and training, particularly after periods of absence for care reasons, taking strong measures to overcome the lack of time and resources, as well as the digital gap, addressing gender stereotypes and increasing women’s representation in education, training and employment in STEM subjects and occupations;

Amendment 129 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Looks forward to the European care strategy and the upward revision by Member States of the Barcelona targets for childcare; urges Member States to prioritise the ambitious revision of the target of children under 3 years old in childcare and to invest in accessible, affordable and quality childcare for all; calls on the Member States to address the shortage of afterschool care and holiday childcare;

Amendment 13 #

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas, in relation to poverty data, the statistical household unit defines poverty within households, and does not consider the gender inequalities in the internal distribution of resources, making it difficult to obtain reliable gender disaggregated data;

Amendment 130 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the European Council to unblock the Women on Boards Directive; stresses that women in leadership representation conditions girls and young women’s school and career choice and contributes to ending inequalities in certain sectors of the job market where women are less represented, as well as improving the working conditions of feminised sectors;

Amendment 131 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Emphasises that national efforts to ensure Roma inclusion should be accelerated in all EU Member States; calls on the Commission to create a programme that contains measures to promote inclusion and thus ensures the participation of Romani girls and women at all levels, including those working at local, regional and EU level; points out that this should take into account equality between men and women and focus on the elevation of Member State good practices to Union level, such as the Family Home Creation Discount (CSOK) programme, personal income tax exemption for workers younger than 25, tax exemption for mothers with a large number of children, and baby shower loans, thus providing support for the conditions for starting and sustaining a family;

Amendment 132 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Recalls that narrow definitions of homelessness exclude women experiencing homelessness and housing exclusion as they use informal and often unsafe arrangements, such as rough sleeping and emergency accommodation, and only try to access homelessness support services when those other options are exhausted; points out that, as a result, women are not considered and are underestimated in homelessness data and therefore their experiences and needs are overlooked;

Amendment 133 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Underlines, that low-income women , older women, migrant women and single mothers encounter greater inequalities that exist for women in general; calls on the Member States to adopt an intersectional approach to public policies, which will recognize the plurality of identities and realities existent in the EU;

Amendment 134 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to supplement the EU financial aid with study programmes and projects that give talented Romani girls and women the opportunity to use continuing education to free themselves from intergenerational poverty, promoting their social integration and developing their knowledge, with a view to improving the situation of the Romani; calls on the Member States to indicate the level of support they would need to implement the recommended measures to integrate the Romani population;

Amendment 135 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. Calls on the Member States to introduce in their national homelessness strategies comprehensive, evidence-based and gendered approaches; highlights the link between discrimination, poverty and gender-based violence and calls on the Commission and the Member States to invest in programs that address homelessness together with women’s housing needs and gender-based violence;

Amendment 136 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. Calls on the Member States to eliminate taxes on sanitary products which jeopardizes the dignity of lower- income women disproportionately; deeply regrets that despite the proposed changes to VAT rules in 2018, a number of Member states have not reduced the VAT to sanitary products;

Amendment 137 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)

6d. Stresses, that women are not merely the largest recipients of care during older age, but also the largest providers of care during the life course; calls on the Member States to consider and address the implications of the care economy on older women; calls on the Commission and Member States to speed up process of reaching the Barcelona targets everywhere in the EU to enable women’s participation in the labour market and quality, accessible and affordable care services for children;

Amendment 138 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)

6d. Welcomes the establishment of the European Platform on Combatting Homelessness and its person-centred, housing-led and integrated approach; asks to implement gender mainstreaming throughout its work, to include women's rights organisations and to carry out a study on the situation of women’s homelessness in Europe;

Amendment 139 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)

6e. Highlights that, given the higher share of women in low-wage jobs and sectors, improvements in the adequacy of minimum wages not only reduce in-work poverty but also support gender equality and reduce the gender pay gap; insists thus on the need to set poverty-proof minimum wages at a level above a decency threshold; calls for a coordinated approach at EU level in order to achieve real wage growth;

Amendment 14 #

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas poverty is female and is the result of a lifetime discrimination; whereas in Europe, more than 65 million women live in poverty compared to 57 million men, and women’s poverty creates child poverty;

Amendment 140 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)

6e. Notes, that all the Member States have increased care packages during the pandemic and introduced special provisions for single-parent households; urges the Member states to extend such provisions during the recovery period;

Amendment 141 #

Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Agnes JONGERIUS, Aurore LALUCQ, Manuel PIZARRO, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Lina GÁLVEZ, Milan BRGLEZ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Alex AGIUS SALIBA, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Marc ANGEL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 f (new)

6f. Recalls that the proposal on adequate minimum wages aims at improving the income situation of working people, and women in particular; welcomes the proposal for a Pay Transparency Directive, which aims at reducing the gender pay gap and thereby improving women’s financial stability and economic independence in general, as well as enabling the women affected to escape poverty and situations of domestic violence;

Amendment 142 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 f (new)

6f. Highlights that the European Green Deal and the Just Transition have to pay particular attention to energy poverty, supporting adequate income, promoting fair prices, decent and affordable housing and affordable access to essential goods and services, including energy and water, and increasing public investment in social affordable and energy efficient housing;

Amendment 143 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 g (new)

6g. Underlines the gender dimension of energy poverty, which disproportionately affects single women, single-parent and female-headed households, as well as the need to pay attention to the specific situation of women when analysing the increasing risk of inequalities and poverty deriving from climate policies; points out to the need to better account for gender justice in the field of housing and urban renewal, and regrets that the implementation of the Green Deal, through the Renovation Wave Initiative, the Commission Recommendation on Energy Poverty and the revision of the Energy Efficiency Directive does not consider the gender impact of energy poverty; reiterates its call on the Commission and the Member States to establish a definition of energy poverty which takes into account gendered aspects of the phenomenon, as well as to ensure a more ambitious action to tackle energy poverty1a; calls on this regard for Member States to report on the gender dimension of energy poverty in their National Energy and Climate Plans; _________________ 1aEuropean Parliament resolution on Poverty: a gender perspective. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/TA-8-2016-0235_EN.pdf

Amendment 144 #

Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Agnes JONGERIUS, Manuel PIZARRO, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Lina GÁLVEZ, Milan BRGLEZ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Alex AGIUS SALIBA, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Marc ANGEL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 g (new)

6g. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage labour market participation of women by lowering income tax and submitting initiatives to promote women’s empowerment, through education, vocational training and lifelong learning, as well as access to finance and female entrepreneurship and women’s representation in future-oriented sectors with a view to ensuring access to high- quality employment, decent working and employment conditions across all ages;

Amendment 145 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 h (new)

6h. Believes it to be important for gender policies to address the gender imbalance in both paid and unpaid care work, to increase women’s participation in male-dominated sectors and to promote men’s employment in female-dominated sectors to address gender segregation of sectors; emphasises that the persistence of gender job segregation suggests that more needs to be done via education and training systems and other incentives to encourage young men and women to engage in occupations identified with the other gender;

Amendment 146 #

6h. Recalls its resolution of 21 January 2021 on access to decent and affordable housing for all and points out that women are particularly exposed to the housing crisis1a; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a gendered approach in their housing policies, particularly by supporting women who face specific situations such as single parenthood; _________________ 1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/TA-9-2021-0020_EN.pdf

Amendment 147 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Abir AL-SAHLANI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 i (new)

6i. Regrets that the current poverty data reveals only a part of the gender gap, as at-risk-of-poverty indicators are measured through household data that don’t reveal the intra-household distribution and access to resources; reiterates its calls on the Commission and the Member States to further develop and improve the collection of gender- disaggregated data, statistics, research and analysis, as well as support for and measures to improve institutional and civil society organizations capacity- building as regards data collection and analysis; calls in particular to the EU Energy Poverty Observatory to offer gender-disaggregated data in its publicly accessible set of indicators;

Amendment 148 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 i (new)

6i. Calls for greater promotion of STEM subjects, digital education, vocational training, lifelong learning, artificial intelligence and financial literacy in order to ensure that more women enter in future-oriented sectors and contribute to their development;

Amendment 149 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 j (new)

6j. Points out that women are particularly exposed to the housing crisis; emphasises that women’s homelessness is often less visible, and that it needs to be specifically addressed; calls on the Commission and Member States to develop a gendered approach in their National Homelessness Strategies in order to support women experiencing homelessness, who have often suffered complex trauma and face re- traumatisation, such as through domestic violence and abuse, separation from their children, stigmatisation and the lack of safe and secure spaces; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a gendered approach in their housing policies, particularly by supporting women who face specific situations such as single parenthood;

Amendment 15 #

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas the COVID-19 crisis has had a severe impact on labour income and wealth and is halting improvements in AROPE; whereas ~~support measures have cushioned the negative effects of the crisis in the short ru~~women are more at risk of COVID-19 contamination due to their overrepresentation in essential frontline and more exposed occupations; whereas the pandemic disproportionately affects them in the socio-economic sphere, deepens existing discrimination and results in even more inequalities between women and men in the labour market, considering that women are more at risk of unemployment or reducing their working hours as a result of the health crisis and resulting care responsibilities; whereas support measures have cushioned the negative effects of the crisis in the short run; whereas the full economic, employment and social consequences of the pandemic are still unknown;

Amendment 150 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 k (new)

6k. Recalls that social distancing and quarantine due to COVID-19 have had a dramatic impact on the number of cases of violence against women, including increased incidences of domestic violence and child abuse; recalls that women’s economic independence has been proved to be a key tool for tackling gender-based violence; calls therefore on the Commission and the Member States to provide financial support for women victims of gender-based violence moving to independent living, and enhanced access to information on funding for affordable housing, as ways to improve their economic independence and standard of living;

Amendment 151 #

Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Agnes JONGERIUS, Aurore LALUCQ, Manuel PIZARRO, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Lina GÁLVEZ, Milan BRGLEZ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Alex AGIUS SALIBA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 l (new)

6l. Echoes the Commission prediction that, in the context of recovery from the COVID-19 outbreak, fighting against extreme poverty, and especially tackling child poverty will become even more important in the coming years; consequently, insists that total of at least EUR 20 billion is invested in the European Child Guarantee in the period 2021-2027; calls on the Member States to make full use of the ESF+, in particular the funds available to support the most deprived persons, to address the forms of extreme poverty with the greatest social exclusion impact, such as homelessness, child poverty and food deprivation;

Amendment 152 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 m (new)

6m. Calls for an overarching European anti-poverty strategy, with ambitious targets for reducing poverty and homelessness and ending extreme poverty in Europe by 2030, especially among children, in line with the principles laid down in the EPSR and the UN SDGs and building on the headline targets set out in the EPSR Action Plan;

Amendment 16 #

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas the COVID-19 crisis has had a severe impact on labour income and wealth and is halting improvements in AROPE; whereas ~~support measures have cushioned the negative effects of the crisis in the short run~~vulnerable groups in precarious employment conditions such as sex workers and undocumented migrants were not taken into account for the implementation of the Covid19 recovery support measures; whereas the burden of the pandemic will be disproportionately borne by low-wage earners which will increase poverty and inequality across Europe;

Amendment 17 #

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas the COVID-19 crisis has had a severe impact on labour income and wealth and is halting improvements in AROPE; whereas the pandemic has increased the pressure on mothers, who have grappled with an increase in "double shifts/double burdens"; whereas support measures have cushioned to some extent the negative effects of the crisis in the short run;

Amendment 18 #

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas the COVID-19 crisis exacerbated structural inequalities, has had a severe impact on labour income and wealth, has aggravated the situation of people experiencing poverty, impacting disproportionally on women, and is halting improvements in AROPE; whereas support measures have cushioned the negative effects of the crisis in the short run;

Amendment 19 #

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas according to Eurofound low-paid female workers were hit most by employment losses during the COVID-19 pandemic and were more likely to be on furlough 1a ; whereas young women aged 18-34 were most likely to lose their job in the wake of the pandemic (11%, compared to 9% of young men)1aa ; whereas the COVID-19 crisis has had a severe impact on labour income and wealth and is halting improvements in AROPE; whereas support measures, such as short- time work or similar schemes, have1b cushioned the negative effects of the crisis in the short run; _________________ 1a Eurofound (2021), COVID-19: Implications for employment and working life, COVID-19 series, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg. Eurofound (2021), COVID-19: Implications for employment and working life, COVID-19 series, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg. 1aa https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/def ault/files/ef_publication/field_of_docume nt/ef20068en.pdf 1b Eurofound (2021), COVID-19: Implications for employment and working life, COVID-19 series, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

Amendment 2 #

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas equality and non- discrimination are founding values of the European Union, as expressed in the Treaty of the European Union and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; whereas equality between men and women is an EU priority and is addressed at EU and national level in all policies; whereas women are evidently more at risk of poverty and social exclusion than men; whereas in 2019 there were nearly 91.3 million persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) in the EU; whereas the EU did not reach its 2020 target to reduce AROPE by at least 20 million; whereas one of the new EU headline targets is to reduce AROPE by at least 15 million by 2030;

Amendment 20 #

Daniela RONDINELLI

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the latest EIGE report states that the progress made on gender equality over the past decade has been more or less undone in the 2 years of the pandemic;

Amendment 21 #

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas inequalities may increase when the support measures are progressively phased out; whereas the medium-term impact of the crisis will depend on the degree of inclusiveness of the recovery; whereas social protection policies are vital elements of national development strategies to reduce poverty and vulnerability across the life cycle and to support inclusive and sustainable growth; whereas gender mainstreaming has to be fully implemented to ensure gender equality and to support the recovery for the most vulnerable women;

Amendment 22 #

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas inequalities ~~may increase when the support measures are progressively phased out~~will continue to increase; whereas the medium-term impact of the crisis will depend on the degree of inclusiveness of the recovery; whereas social protection policies are vital elements of national development strategies to reduce poverty and vulnerability across the life cycle and to support inclusive and sustainable growth; whereas the recovery must include targeted strategies to support the most vulnerable and marginalised women in our societies in order to leave no one behind;

Amendment 23 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Abir AL-SAHLANI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas ~~inequalities~~poverty may increase when the support measures are progressively phased out; whereas the medium-term impact of the crisis will depend on the degree of ~~inclusiveness of~~political commitment to the recovery; whereas social protection policies and economic growth are vital elements of national development strategies to reduce poverty and vulnerability across the life cycle and to support ~~inclusive and sustainable growth~~prosperity;

Amendment 24 #

Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas, according to Eurostat, the risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU was higher for women than for men (22.9 % compared with 20.9 %) in 2020; whereas in the same year there were 96.5 million people in the EU at risk of poverty or social exclusion and that was equivalent to 21.9% of the EU population1a; whereas the poverty rate among working women could decrease if women were paid equally to men; _________________ 1ahttps://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=Living_conditi ons_in_Europe_- _poverty_and_social_exclusion#Key_findi ngs3

Amendment 25 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Abir AL-SAHLANI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas according to the recent data from the European Institute for Gender Equality only 62,5% of the women in the EU are employed, compared to 72,8% of men 2a; whereas the participation of women in the labour market has grown in the last decades but several gender gaps still exist; whereas in 2019 women's gross hourly earnings were on average 14,1% below those of men in the EU 3a; whereas women in the EU aged over 65 received a pension that was on average 29% lower than of men 4a and effective actions are needed to close the gender employment, care, pay and pension gaps; _________________ 2ahttps://eige.europa.eu/gender- statistics/dgs/indicator/ta_wrklab_lab_em plrate_gen__lfst_r_ergau/bar/year:2020/g eo:EU28,EU27_2020,EU15,EA19,BE,BG ,CZ,DK,DE,EE,IE,EL,ES,FR,HR,IT,CY, LV,LT,LU,HU,MT,NL,AT,PL,PT,RO,SI, SK,FI,SE,UK,IS,NO,CH,ME,MK,RS,TR/ age:Y15- 64/unit:PC/deg_urb:TOTAL/sex:M,W 3ahttps://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=Gender_pay_g ap_statistics 4a https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/prod ucts-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20210203-1

Amendment 26 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)

Cc. whereas the risk of poverty rises sharply along the life course, revealing the gradually accumulating impact of pay inequalities; whereas poverty among those aged 75 years and over is consistently concentrated among women, mainly as a result of the impact of gendered unpaid care duties, life-long differences in pay and working time with the lower pensions that result, different retirement ages for men and women in some Member States, and the fact that more older women live alone;

Amendment 27 #

Draft opinion
Recital D

D. whereas women are over- represented in non-standard forms of work, in the hardest-hit sectors and among frontline workers in health and social care; whereas more women than men are in occupations that cannot be carried out remotely; whereas more women than men lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic; and whereas more women than men reduced working hours to ensure continued care for children and to provide for family members in need;

Amendment 28 #

Draft opinion
Recital D

D. whereas women are over- represented in non-standard forms of work, in the hardest-hit sectors and ~~among frontline workers in healthcare~~whereas the workforce in the health and care sectors is predominantly female ; whereas more women than men are in occupations that can be carried out remotely; whereas families are the cornerstone of our society which requires that there is a balance between professional and private life;

Amendment 29 #

Draft opinion
Recital D

D. whereas women are over- represented in non-standard and often precarious, underpaid and undervalued forms of work, in the hardest- hit sectors and among frontline workers in healthcare and essential sectors, such as care and retail; whereas more women than men are in occupations that can be carried out remotely;

Amendment 3 #

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas in 2019 there were nearly 91.3 million persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) in the EU; whereas the EU did not reach its 2020 target to reduce AROPE by at least 20 million; whereas one of the new EU headline targets is to reduce AROPE by at least 15 million by 2030; whereas to achieve these goals, the most important issue is economic growth and increased European competitiveness;

Amendment 30 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Abir AL-SAHLANI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Draft opinion
Recital D

D. whereas women are ~~over- represented~~more likely to work in non-standard forms of work, in the hardest-hit sectors and among frontline workers in healthcare; ~~whereas more women than men are in occupations that can be carried out remotely;~~

Amendment 31 #

Draft opinion
Recital D

D. whereas women, who constitute 76% of the healthcare workers in the EU5a, are over- represented among frontline workers, in non-standard forms of work, and in the hardest-hit sectors ~~and among frontline workers in healthcare; whereas more women than men are in occupations that can be carried out remotely;~~by the pandemic; _________________ 5ahttps://eige.europa.eu/covid-19-and- gender-equality/essential-workers

Amendment 32 #

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas fewer women are in full time employment than men (48% of women comparing to 64% of men) and marginalised women are even more excluded from full time employment 1a, whereas only 20,7% of women with disabilities and 28,6% of men with disabilities are in full-time employment; whereas persons with disabilities are systematically denied their right to work in the open labour market and are employed in sheltered workshops where they often do not have employee status, neither labour rights, nor a guaranteed minimum wage; whereas this is effectively a violation of both the UNCRPD and the Charter of Fundamental Rights; _________________ 1ahttps://eige.europa.eu/gender-equality- index/2021/domain/work/disability

Amendment 33 #

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas women are nearly four times more likely to work on a part-time basis than men and a fifth of women living in poverty are not active in the labour market due to caring and domestic responsibilities; whereas the overall employment rate of women is almost 12% lower than that of men and one third of women who are employed work part time compared to 8% of working men;

Amendment 34 #

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas women are over- represented among informal carers who gave up on their employment and provide care to elderly or relatives with disabilities; whereas in many Member States they do not get an adequate support from the authorities and social security systems and thus are at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion;

Amendment 35 #

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. Whereas women account only for 34% of STEM graduates and only 17% of ICT specialists, while earning 19% less than men in the information and communication sector in Europe;

Amendment 36 #

Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas women are over- represented in non-standard forms of work, notably part-time work due to ongoing care responsibilities; whereas the largest growth in female employment over the last decade has occurred in female- dominated jobs and jobs held mainly by women already, including in the healthcare sector; whereas among frontline workers, 75% of workers working in the health sector in the EU are women; whereas Eurofound research shows that despite closing gender employment gaps, jobs are not becoming more gender mixed and that the share of EU employment in gender-mixed jobs (where neither gender share is >60%) declined from 27% to 18% between1998 and 20191a among frontline workers, 75% of workers working in the health sector in the EU are women; _________________ 1aEurofound (2021), European Jobs Monitor 2021: Gender gaps and employment structure, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

Amendment 37 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Abir AL-SAHLANI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas women often face multiple discrimination mainly on the basis of their socio-economic background, disabilities, health state, age or ethnicity; whereas multiple discrimination has a serious impact on the risk of poverty or social exclusion;

Amendment 38 #

Draft opinion
Recital D c (new)

Dc. whereas one third of women in the EU do not have a paid job; whereas women earn 14.1% less per hour than men, constitute the majority of minimum wage earners in Europe and are as well one of the main sub-minimum wage earner; whereas the main contributing factors to the gender pay gap are the sectoral segregation of women and men and, the prevalence of women in part-time employment; whereas the gender pay gap ranged from a high of around 20% in Estonia, Latvia, Austria and Germany to a low of less than 5% in Italy, Romania and Luxembourg 1a ; _________________ 1aEurofound,2021: Understanding the gender pay gap: What difference do sector and occupation make?

Amendment 39 #

Draft opinion
Recital E

E. whereas across the EU women receive disproportionately lower earnings than men; whereas low pay and low career prospects are barriers to achieving equal economic independence for women and men and can lead to higher risks of poverty and social exclusion; whereas non- discriminative remuneration is an essential requisite for women; whereas women's economic empowerment is key to achieve gender equality and combat women's poverty;

Amendment 4 #

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas women, in particular those in vulnerable situation, such as young women, women with disabilities, women with migration background, Romani women, women of religious or ethnic minorities as well as LBTIQ women, are at higher risks of poverty than men and other women; whereas they face additional and intersecting forms of discrimination when accessing education, healthcare, employment and social services and are thus exposed to a higher risk of poverty;

Amendment 40 #

Draft opinion
Recital E

E. whereas the burden of domestic unpaid labour, the discrimination in access to the labour market, low pay and low career prospects are barriers to achieving equal economic independence for women and men and can lead to higher risks of poverty and social exclusion; whereas the gender pay gap within the EU remains persistently at 14%; whereas there is no country where full gender equality is achieved;

Amendment 41 #

Draft opinion
Recital E

E. whereas ~~low pay and low career prospects~~the gender and pension gap in the EU, low pay and low career prospects, as well as the burden of unpaid care and domestic work are barriers to achieving equal economic independence for women and ~~men and~~ can lead to higher risks of poverty and social exclusion for them;

Amendment 42 #

Draft opinion
Recital E

E. whereas low pay and low career prospects are barriers to achieving equal economic ~~independ~~solvencey for women and men within their families and can lead to higher risks of poverty and social exclusion;

Amendment 43 #

Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas women may be especially affected by economic inequalities due to income disparities between men and women, due to the low proportion of highly paid women, and because the income of women consists mainly of salaries and to a lesser extent capital income; whereas the risk of period poverty may also have a negative impact on the situation of women; whereas it is regrettable that female hygiene products, and care products and services for children, elderly people or people with disabilities, are still not considered to be basic goods in all Member States;

Amendment 44 #

Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas the COVID-19pandemic and its associated economic crisis have impacted women differently than men in the Union and the effects of the COVID- 19 crisis are putting in jeopardy the progress achieved in the past decades on the reduction of poverty and gender inequalities in the EU Member States; whereas according to EIGE young women were disproportionately hit by the Covid- 19 pandemic, with employment decreasing more than 10% for young women compared to 2.4% overall;

Amendment 45 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Abir AL-SAHLANI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas work is increasingly not a viable route out of poverty and in-work poverty is rising, currently at 9.6% (2018) 1b; whereas poorer workers are often trapped in low-paid jobs, with insecure working conditions; whereas the rise of gig economy and platform working has exacerbated this development, leaving people vulnerable and on low wages; whereas sectors that face low wages, are predominated by women, especially racialized women; _________________ 1b https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/product s-eurostat-news/-/DDN-20180316-1

Amendment 46 #

Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas the digital and the green transition require action to ensure that no one is left behind; whereas women are under-represented at all levels in the digital and STEM sectors in Europe and work less, compared with the men, in innovative technologies, such as artificial intelligence;

Amendment 47 #

Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas some women prefer not to work outside the home temporarily or permanently; whereas Member States’ social policies should respect and support that choice;

Amendment 48 #

Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas the alarming high rate of the gender pension gap in the EU results in higher poverty rates among older women;

Amendment 49 #

Draft opinion
Recital E b (new)

Eb. whereas a significant section of the Romani population in Europe live in extremely precarious conditions in both rural and urban areas, and in very poor socio-economic circumstances; whereas deep-rooted, permanent and structural anti-gypsyism, often institutionalised and governmental, continues to exist at all levels of European society, forming a significant barrier in all areas of life, including housing, education, healthcare and employment, which leads to poverty; whereas poverty is inherited, forcing the communities in question to face intergenerational difficulties;

Amendment 5 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Abir AL-SAHLANI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the ‘at-risk-of-poverty rate’ is the main indicator used by the EU to measure poverty; whereas, according to the EU’s definition, an individual is deemed at risk of poverty if their net monthly income is below the average for all households;

Amendment 50 #

Draft opinion
Recital E b (new)

Eb. whereas low pay and low career prospects are barriers to achieving equal economic independence for women and men and can lead to higher risks of poverty and social exclusion, as well as higher gender pension gaps; whereas according to Eurofound’s research across the EU as a whole between 2010and 2019, the proportion of female pensioners aged over 65 who were at risk of poverty was around 3 to 4 percentage points higher than the rate for male pensioners1a ; _________________ 1a https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/product s-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20210203-1

Amendment 51 #

Draft opinion
Recital E b (new)

Eb. whereas gender equality in the labour market is an important instrument for eliminating poverty among women that benefits not only women but the economy as a whole with a positive impact on GDP, employment levels and productivity; whereas improving gender equality would lead to an increase in EU GDP per capita by 6,1 to 9,6% and an additional 10.5 million jobs which would benefit both women and men by 20501a; _________________ 1ahttps://eige.europa.eu/gender- mainstreaming/policy-areas/economic- and-financial-affairs/economic-benefits- gender-equality

Amendment 52 #

Draft opinion
Recital E b (new)

Eb. whereas poverty increases the risks of violence against women; whereas women faced with risks of poverty are more vulnerable and violence increases the risks of social exclusion; whereas the lack of economic resources creates dependency and deters women from leaving their abusers; whereas violence is one of the key reasons for women’s homelessness;

Amendment 53 #

Eb. whereas women's experience of homelessness is differentiated by gender; whereas women suffer homelessness and precarious housing as a result of discrimination, poverty and gender-based violence;

Amendment 54 #

Draft opinion
Recital E c (new)

Ec. whereas the multiple gender gaps such as the so called "dream gap" or the "entitlement gap" and lack of women representation in leadership position condition girls career and education choices from an early age and therefore contribute to increasing inequality in certain sectors of the job market between men and women, in particular STEM careers;

Amendment 55 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Abir AL-SAHLANI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Draft opinion
Recital E c (new)

Ec. whereas Romani people face discrimination in accessing employment initiatives such as the Youth Guarantee; whereas public employment services often lack capacity to reach them or apply indirect discrimination practices;

Amendment 56 #

Draft opinion
Recital E c (new)

Ec. Whereas Eurofound highlights the importance of policies that promote gender balance in (paid and unpaid)care work, including parental leave policies that increase male participation in unpaid care work, as well as the improvement of pay and working conditions in female- dominated sectors such as care;

Amendment 57 #

Draft opinion
Recital E c (new)

Ec. whereas investing in policies to support women also improves their families' living conditions, in particular those of their children; whereas eradicating child poverty is included in Principle 11 of the European Pillar of Social Rights;

Amendment 58 #

Draft opinion
Recital E d (new)

Ed. whereas sector and working time are the main contributing factors to the one-third portion of the gender pay gap that can be explained; whereas women tend to work in lower-paid sectors and are much more likely to work part-time and to suffer the ‘part-time pay penalty’ as a result, and are also less likely to have supervisory responsibilities than their male counterparts, a third significant factor contributing to pay differences 1a ; _________________ 1aEurofound 2021: Understanding the gender pay gap: What difference do sector and occupation make?

Amendment 59 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Abir AL-SAHLANI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Draft opinion
Recital E d (new)

Ed. whereas women, especially living in rural areas, often have limited access to education, training and digital skills improvement programmes that are essential for both transitions, providing them with the opportunity to continue their professional life successfully; whereas education, vocational training and lifelong learning are at utmost importance for all;

Amendment 6 #

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas gender mainstreaming is an important tool in the integration of gender equality in EU policies related to labour market and social policies in order to promote equal opportunities and combat all forms of discrimination against women;

Amendment 60 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls for an overarching European anti-poverty strategy that integrates the gender perspective, with ambitious targets for reducing poverty and a focus on breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty risks; underlines that women’s poverty is closely linked to child poverty, that single-parent households are at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion and that those headed by women are the majority;

Amendment 61 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Calls for an overarching European anti-poverty strategy, with ambitious targets for reducing poverty and a focus on breaking the intergenerational cycle of~~Notes that the EU uses the ‘at- risk-of-poverty rate’ as an indicator to measure progress in reducing poverty; points out that this indicator measures income inequality rather than poverty; calls on the EU to use an alternative indicator instead of the misleading ‘at- risk-of-poverty rate’ so that assistance and help can better be prov~~erty risk~~ided to the truly poor in the EU Member States;

Amendment 62 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Abir AL-SAHLANI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls for an overarching European anti-poverty strategy, with ambitious targets for reducing poverty and a focus on breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty risks; stresses that root causes of poverty and impact on children’s rights have to be considered in that strategy to ensure sustainable and long-standing effects and EU level added value;

Amendment 63 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls for an overarching European anti-poverty strategy, with ambitious targets for reducing poverty and a focus on breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty risks; stresses the importance of ensuring an intersectional approach so that all women, including those from minority and vulnerable groups, benefit from its objectives and actions;

Amendment 64 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls for an overarching European anti-poverty strategy, with ambitious targets for reducing poverty and a focus on breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty risks; calls for such a strategy to integrate an intersectional analysis and approach and set out targeted measures to support the most marginalised.

Amendment 65 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls for an overarching European anti-poverty strategy, with ambitious targets for reducing poverty, coherent measurements and a focus on breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty risks; highlights that said strategy should be in line with the EU’s commitment towards SDGs 1and 10 and the Agenda 2030;

Amendment 66 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls for a~~n overarching~~ European anti-poverty strategy~~, with~~ that takes into account the specific situation of each country and safeguards the competences of the Member States, and that has realistic and ambitious targets for reducing poverty and a focus on ~~breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty risk~~ensuring equal opportunities;

Amendment 67 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls for an overarching European anti-poverty strategy, with ambitious targets for reducing poverty and a focus on breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty risks, with respect for national competences and the principle of subsidiarity;

Amendment 68 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Recalls that, according to EIGE, the intersection between gender and other characteristics, such as age, household status, disability, ethnicity and migration status can put some women at much greater risk of poverty and social exclusion, and that the intersectional approach has to be incorporated in anti- poverty measures;

Amendment 69 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses the importance of encouraging an equal share of caring responsibilities between women and men through a combination of minimum non- transferable paid and transferable paid leave periods between the parents; calls on the Member States for the rapid and proper implementation of the Work-life balance directive;

Amendment 7 #

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas, according to Eurostat, the risk of poverty and social exclusion in the EU was, in 2020, higher for women than for men, affecting 51,4 million women (22.9 %) compared to 45 million men (20.9 %)1a; _________________ 1aEurostat. Living conditions in Europe. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=Living_conditi ons_in_Europe_- _poverty_and_social_exclusion&oldid=54 4210

Amendment 70 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Points out that, to prevent and tackle poverty among women, adequate minimum income schemes should be an integral part of an EU multidimensional, integrated anti-poverty strategy; takes note of Commission’s commitment to propose a Council Recommendation on minimum income in 2022, but underlines the need for a Framework Directive with a strong gender dimension to combat the feminization of poverty;

Amendment 71 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Recalls its resolution of 21 January 2021 on the EU Strategy for Gender Equality1a and asks the Commission to put forward a Care Deal for Europe, taking a comprehensive approach towards all care needs and services, and setting minimum standards and quality guidelines for care throughout the life cycle, including for children, elderly persons and persons with long-term needs; _________________ 1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/TA-9-2021-0025_EN.pdf

Amendment 72 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to reduce the burden ~~of women~~and responsibilities of women and actively support informal care-providers, the majority of them being women, by providing adequate income for carers and by ensuring accessible, affordable and adequate quality care and services for children, people with disabilities, the elderly and other dependants; calls on the Commission and the Member States to adequately fund public as well as not-for- profit social services and other social infrastructures and to ensure universal access to essential services for women, especially for vulnerable groups, as this would allow more women to participate in the labour market and would also contribute to reducing the risk of women and their dependents falling into poverty;

Amendment 73 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to reduce the burden of women by ensuring affordable and quality care and services for people with disabilities, the elderly and other dependants; calls on the Commission and the Member States to adequately fund public services and social infrastructure, as this would allow more women to participate in the labour market and would also contribute to reducing the risk of women falling into poverty; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the EU legislation on gender equality with a direct impact on women participation in the labour market is implemented and its progress closely monitored;

Amendment 74 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to reduce the burden of women by ensuring affordable and quality care and services for ~~people~~children, persons with disabilities, the elderly and other dependants as well as support for informal carers including psychosocial support or relief services; calls on the Commission and the Member States to adequately fund public services and social infrastructure, as this would allow more women to ~~participate in the labour market and~~live a dignified life and have a possibility, if they so decide, to take an active part in the labour market and reach work-life balance; it would also contribute to reducing the risk of women falling into poverty;

Amendment 75 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Abir AL-SAHLANI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ~~reduce the burden of women by ensur~~support those with responsibilities, via economic support and fiscal incentives, promoting affordable and quality care and services for people with disabilities, the elderly, children and other dependants; calls on the Commission and the Member States to adequately fund public or private services and social infrastructure, as this would allow more women to choose to participate in the labour market and/or stay at home, and would also contribute to reducing the risk of women and their families falling into poverty; when providing care;

Amendment 76 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve opportunities for the women in the labour market and to reduce the burden of women by ensuring affordable and quality care and services for people with disabilities, the elderly and other dependants; calls on the ~~Commission and the~~ Member States to adequately fund affordable public services and social infrastructure, as this would allow more women to participate in the labour market and would also contribute to reducing the risk of women falling into poverty; stresses the role of the social partners, in efforts to improve gender employment, pay and pension gaps;

Amendment 77 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to reduce the burden of women by ensuring affordable formal child care , especially for children under age of three and quality care and services for people with disabilities, the elderly and other dependants; calls on the Commission and the Member States to adequately fund public services and social infrastructure, as this would allow more women to participate in the labour market and would also contribute to reducing the risk of women falling into poverty;

Amendment 78 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to reduce the burden of unpaid care and domestic work carried out mainly by women by ensuring ~~affordable and~~high- quality public care ~~and~~ services for ~~people with disabilities, the elderly and other dependant~~dependent people and by increasing men's take-up of caring responsibilities; calls on the Commission and the Member States to adequately fund public services and social infrastructure, as this would allow more women to participate in the labour market and would also contribute to reducing the risk of women falling into poverty;

Amendment 79 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to reduce the burden of women by ensuring affordable and quality care and services for pe~~ople~~rsons with disabilities, ~~the elderly and other dependant~~persons in need of care and support, including older persons; calls on the Commission and the Member States to adequately fund public services and social infrastructure, as this would allow more women to participate in the labour market and would also contribute to reducing the risk of women falling into poverty;

Amendment 8 #

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas women in the EU make up most of the ageing population and the gender gap in poverty levels affecting women is the highest in the 75 and older age group;2a _________________ 2aEIGE (2016), Poverty, gender and intersecting inequalities in the EU.

Amendment 80 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the ~~Commission and the~~ Member States to reduce the burden of women by ensuring affordable and quality care and services for people with disabilities, the elderly and other dependants; calls on the ~~Commission and the~~ Member States to adequately fund public services and social infrastructure, as this would allow more women to participate in the labour market and would also contribute to reducing the risk of women falling into poverty;

Amendment 81 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

Amendment 82 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses the need for Member States to implement well-designed labour market policies that aim to eradicate the gender gaps that put women at more risk of poverty, in particular the gender employment, pay and pension gaps; Welcomes the Commission's proposal for a directive to strengthen the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms; Highlights that while a lot has been achieved there are still gender inequalities in the labour market that have to be tackled; Calls on the Commission to implement and closely monitor the key objectives set out in the Gender Equality Strategy through concrete actions;

Amendment 83 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses the need to ensure universal access to quality early childhood education and care to support gender equality in the labour market as well as children’s healthy development in the early years. Recognises that efforts are needed to address existing inequalities in access to quality early childhood education and care services and to facilitate access for those most in need, including single parent households – the majority of which are women – who usually have lower income and therefore are more prone to poverty due to high costs for childcare;

Amendment 84 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to present a revision of the Barcelona targets on early childhood education and care in 2022; calls on the Commission and Council to develop similar targets for long-term care as part of the forthcoming initiative on long- term care in 2022 to ensure sustainable long-term care that ensures better access to quality services for those in need as well as ensuring women’s continued participation in the labour market unhindered by unequal caring responsibilities;

Amendment 85 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights that universal access to public, solidarity-based and adequate retirement and old age pensions must be granted to all; underlines the importance of public and occupational pension systems that provide an adequate retirement income above the poverty threshold and allow pensioners to maintain their standard of living; asks the Member States to consider factoring child-raising responsibilities into pension schemes when women are not able to work and make suitable contributions during such periods; underlines the importance of survivors’ pensions and minimum pensions to tackle social exclusion and poverty among older women; stresses the importance of addressing the need to ensure the adequacy of minimum pensions in the planned Council recommendation on minimum income in 2022; calls on the Member States to further break down data regarding old-age pensions by gender and different age groups;

Amendment 86 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights that universal access to public, solidarity-based and adequate retirement and old age pensions must be granted ~~to all; underlines the importance of public and occupational pension systems~~and accessible to all, particularly to women as the average gender pension gap within the EU remains persistently at 35%; underlines the importance of public and occupational pension systems that take into account women’s contribution in unpaid care responsibilities and that provide an adequate retirement income above the poverty threshold and allow pensioners to maintain their standard of living; ~~asks~~calls on the Member States to consider ~~factoring~~ child-raising and other informal care responsibilities into pension schemes when women and persons are not able to undertake paid work and make suitable contribution~~s during such period~~ payments due to their caring tasks;

Amendment 87 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights that universal access to public, solidarity-based and adequate retirement and old age pensions must be granted to all and particularly to women considering that the average gender pension gap in the EU is 30% ; underlines the importance of public and occupational pension systems that provide an adequate retirement income above the poverty threshold and allow pensioners to maintain their standard of living; asks the Member States to consider factoring child-raising and other care responsibilities into pension schemes when women are not able to undertake paid work and make suitable contributions during such periods, such as in the form of care credits;

Amendment 88 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights that universal access to public, solidarity-based and adequate retirement and old age pensions must be granted to all; underlines the importance of public and occupational pension systems that provide an adequate retirement income above the poverty threshold and allow pensioners to maintain their standard of living; asks the Member States to consider factoring c~~hild-rais~~aring responsibilities into pension schemes ~~when women are not able to work~~ and make suitable contributions during such periods to address the fact that women are most often required to take career breaks to fulfil such responsibilities due to entrenched gender roles;

Amendment 89 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

Amendment 9 #

Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Agnes JONGERIUS, Aurore LALUCQ, Manuel PIZARRO, Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS, Lina GÁLVEZ, Marc ANGEL, Milan BRGLEZ, Gabriele BISCHOFF, Alex AGIUS SALIBA, Alicia HOMS GINEL, Heléne FRITZON

Aa. whereas women across the Union are at a higher risk of poverty, primarily due to gender inequalities in the labour market experienced during the life course;

Amendment 90 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights th~~at universal access to public, solidarity-based and~~e importance of access to adequate retirement and old age pensions ~~must be granted to all~~; underlines the importance of public and occupational pension systems that provide an adequate retirement income above the poverty threshold and allow pensioners to maintain their standard of living; asks the Member States to consider factoring child-raising responsibilities into pension schemes when women are not able to work and make suitable contributions during such periods;

Amendment 91 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights that universal access to public, solidarity-based and adequate retirement and old age pensions must be granted to all; underlines the importance of public and occupational pension systems that provide an adequate retirement income ~~above the poverty threshold and~~that allows pensioners to maintain their standard of living and live a dignified life; asks the Member States to ~~consider factoring child-raising responsibilities into pension schemes when women are not able to work and make suitable contributions during~~take into account the periods of child-raising responsibilities during the maternity or parental leave and include them adequately into their pension such ~~period~~emes;

Amendment 92 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Notes, that the impact of lifelong limited economic dependence of women and gender inequalities in the labour market becomes most apparent among older age groups, especially if women are widowed or live alone; notes, that the gender gap in poverty levels to the detriment of women is highest in the 75 and older age group which is of particular concern given that women in the EU make up most of the ageing population;

Amendment 93 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the recovery efforts should ~~boost jobs and growth,~~invest in the care sector, boost quality jobs and growth, decent work, skills and training and the resilience and fairness of our societies, and should be complemented by a strong social dimension, paying attention to people, in particular young women, w~~ho have a~~omen with disabilit~~y or who stay at home to care for a family member~~ies, women with migration background, Roma women, women of religious or ethnic minorities as well as LBTIQ+ women who care for dependents, as they are particularly at risk of falling into or remaining in poverty;

Amendment 94 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the recovery efforts should boost jobs and growth, and the resilience and fairness of our societies, and should be complemented by a strong social dimension, paying attention to women who have a disability or who stay at home to care for a family member, as they are particularly at risk of falling into poverty; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to put forward a system of formal recognition of the skills gained informally during the periods of providing care to elderly or relatives with disabilities as such system would improve the employability of women after their care duties end;

Amendment 95 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Member States to ensure equal economic opportunities for women during and after the COVID- 19crisis; Stresses that the recovery efforts should boost quality jobs and growth, and the resilience and fairness of our societies, and should be complemented by a strong social dimension~~, paying attention to women who have a disability~~ with inter-sectional approach, paying attention to more vulnerable groups, such as women who have a disability ,single mothers , older women, migrant women, young women or who stay at home to care for a family member, as they are particularly at risk of falling into poverty;

Amendment 96 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the recovery efforts should ~~boost jobs and growth~~take a gender-sensitive approach, invest in the care sector, promote sustainable growth, decent work, and the resilience and fairness of our societies, and should ~~be complemented by~~have a strong social dimension, paying attention to women who ~~have a disability or who stay at home to car~~are particularly at risk of poverty, such as women in single for ~~a family member, as they are particularly at risk of falling into poverty~~no-earner households, women with disproportionate care and other household responsibilities or women with disabilities;

Amendment 97 #

Atidzhe ALIEVA-VELI, Samira RAFAELA, Dragoş PÎSLARU, Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE, Sylvie BRUNET

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the recovery efforts should boost jobs and growth, and the resilience and fairness of our societies, and should be complemented by a strong social dimension, paying attention to women who have a disability or who stay at home to care for a family member, as they are particularly at risk of falling into poverty; stresses that female entrepreneurship constitutes a strong driving force in today's economy and should be promoted;

Amendment 98 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the recovery efforts should boost jobs and growth, and the resilience and fairness of our societies, and should be complemented by a strong social dimension~~, paying attention to~~ for all women, with an intersectional approach to support women who have a disability or, minority background, who stay at home to care for a family member and/or from different vulnerable groups, as they are particularly at risk of falling into poverty;

Amendment 99 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the recovery efforts should boost jobs and growth, and the resilience and fairness of our societies, and should be complemented by a strong social dimension, which also respects business freedom, paying attention to women who have a disability or who stay at home to care for a family member, ~~as they are particularly at~~in order to avoid the risk of them falling into poverty;

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2022/01/13 FEMM 301 amendments...

Amendment 1 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5

— having regard to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the principle of ‘leaving no one behind’, and, in particular, Goal 1 which seeks to end poverty, Goal 5 which seeks to achieve gender equality and improve living conditions for women, and Goal 8 which seeks to achieve sustainable economic growth,deleted

Amendment 10 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Citation 17

~~— having regard to its resolution of 15 November 2018 on care services in the EU for improved gender equality9, _________________ 9 OJ C 363, 28.10.2020, p. 80.~~deleted

Amendment 100 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the pension entitlements gap averages at almost 30 % as a result of the imbalances created by persistent lifelong inequalities; whereas this pension gap means that women fall below the poverty line as they get older; whereas female expectancy is longer than male life expectancy, as many women end up their life in solitude deepening the consequences of poverty and social exclusion;

Amendment 101 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the pension entitlements gap averages at almost 30 % as a result of the imbalances created by persistent lifelong inequalities; whereas this pension gap means that women fall below the poverty line as they get older; whereas eliminating the pension gap will lead to greater social inclusion throughout the whole life cycle;

Amendment 102 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the pgen~~sion entitlements~~der pension gap averages at ~~almost 30 %~~29.4 % in 20194a as a result of the imbalances created by persistent lifelong inequalities; whereas this pension gap means that women are more likely to fall below the poverty line as they get older; _________________ 4a https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/product s-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20210203-1

Amendment 103 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the pension entitlements gap averages at almost 30 % as a result of the imbalances created by persistent lifelong inequalities; whereas this pension gap means that ~~wome~~in some cases women can fall below the poverty line as they get older;

Amendment 104 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the pension entitlements gap averages at almost 30 % as a result of the i~~mbalances created by persistent lifelong inequalities~~nadequate recognition of the social value of women’s work when caring for children; whereas this pension gap means that women fall below the poverty line as they get older;

Amendment 105 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)

Ja. whereas gender mainstreaming means taking into account the gender differences within the whole policy cycle, and to add an intersectional approach taking into account diversity within women and men when designing, implementing, evaluating policies, programmes, and projects, to enhance gender equality: whereas until now EU policies have not deployed a real mainstreamed policies nor included an intersectional approach;

Amendment 106 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)

J b. whereas the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, has pointed out that European Union should develop a European Union-wide anti- poverty strategy that ensures a structural, broad approach to female poverty eradication, whereas a fairer social contract for the post-pandemic European Union is needed [1]including economic policies directed to decrease economic inequalities; [1] Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier DeSchutter https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/ 236628/Report%20UN%20Special%20Ra pporteur%20De%20Schutter.pdf

Amendment 107 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas the current EU and national taxation policies reinforce existing gender gaps; whereas these schemes reproduce traditional gender roles and disincentivise women from entering, remaining and in particular returning to the labour market;deleted

Amendment 108 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

Amendment 109 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 18

~~— having regard to its resolution of 30 January 2020 on the gender pay gap10, _________________ 10 OJ C 331, 17.8.2021, p. 5.~~deleted

Amendment 110 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

Amendment 111 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas the current EU and national taxation policies ~~reinforce existing gender gaps; whereas these schemes reproduce traditional gender roles and~~ disincentivise women from entering, remaining and in particular returning to the labour market;

Amendment 112 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas ~~the current EU and~~some national taxation policies reinforce existing gender gaps; whereas ~~thes~~some schemes ~~reproduce traditional gender roles and~~ disincentivise women from entering, remaining and in particular returning to the labour market;

Amendment 113 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas it is estimated that currently 1 in 10girls cannot afford sanitary products: whereas in its 2019 resolution(1), the European Parliament called on all Member States to eliminate the so-called care and tampon tax by making use of the flexibility introduced in the VAT Directive and by applying tax exemptions or 0 % VAT rates to these essential basic goods;

Amendment 114 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

Amendment 115 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

Amendment 116 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

Amendment 117 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas the current EU model of socio-economic governance is harmful to the EU’s commitment to reduce inequalities and eradicate poverty, in particular women’s poverty resulting from a lifetime of discrimination; whereas the focus has to be on primary distribution as well as redistribution and the eradication of structural gender inequalities;

Amendment 118 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas ~~the current EU model of socio-economic governance is harmful to the EU’s commitme~~it is important to reduce inequalities and eradicate poverty, in particular women’s poverty resulting from a lifetime of discrimination;

Amendment 119 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas the current EU model of socio-economic governance is harmful to the EU’s commitment to reduce inequalities and eradicate poverty, in particular women’s poverty ~~resulting from a lifetime of discrimination~~;

Amendment 12 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Citation 19

~~— having regard to its resolution of 21 January 2021 on the gender perspective in the COVID-19 crisis and post-crisis period11, _________________ 11 OJ C 456, 10.11.2021, p. 191.~~deleted

Amendment 120 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas the discussions on the review of the current EU model of socio- economic governance ~~is harmf~~should toake into consideration the EU’'s commitment to reduce inequalities and eradicate poverty, in particular women’' s poverty ~~resulting from a lifetime of discrimination~~;

Amendment 121 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

La. whereas women are an integral part of the European economy and its functioning, representing nearly 80% of the total workforce in the health, education and welfare sectors, which is a pillar of success and the reason why Europe can cope with the current COVID-19crisis, while these professions frequently do not have the remuneration entitlement to which they are entitled;

Amendment 122 #

Cindy FRANSSEN, Christine SCHNEIDER, Frances FITZGERALD, Maria da Graça CARVALHO

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

La. whereas the social, green and feminist agenda are interlinked and share the goal to ensure a fair distribution of resources; whereas a caring economy simultaneously ensures the achievement of gender equality, sustainability and wellbeing12b; _________________ 12b https://wbg.org.uk/commission/

Amendment 123 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

La. Whereas the Action Plan of the European Social Pillar has the specific aim to reduce the number of people at risk of poverty by at least 15 million, of which 5 million children, by 2030.

Amendment 124 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

La. whereas support for entrepreneurial initiatives and initiatives by the self-employed can create an environment of economic prosperity, which reduces poverty;

Amendment 125 #

Cindy FRANSSEN, Christine SCHNEIDER, Frances FITZGERALD, Maria da Graça CARVALHO

Motion for a resolution
Recital L b (new)

L b. whereas good-quality care services, such as adult social care, healthcare and childcare are critical for a good economy; whereas a caring economy extends beyond care services and it involves fair pay and working conditions, ending discrimination, deprivation and poverty, eliminating violence and abuse, and caring about the planet on which we live together; whereas a caring economy means acting together to improve wellbeing rather than to maximise economic growth12c; _________________ 12c https://wbg.org.uk/commission

Amendment 126 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L b (new)

L b. Whereas the European Social Charter recognises the right of all workers, and thus also female workers, to a fair remuneration sufficient for a decent standard of living for themselves and their families, and the right to equal pay for work of equal value. It establishes the right to protection against poverty and social exclusion, and it contributes to reducing the existing pay gap between men and women.

Amendment 127 #

Cindy FRANSSEN, Christine SCHNEIDER, Frances FITZGERALD, Maria da Graça CARVALHO

Motion for a resolution
Recital L b (new)

Lb. whereas social and labour policies are the competence of the Member States;

Amendment 128 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L c (new)

Lc. whereas only 20.7 % of women with disabilities and 28.6 % of men with disabilities are in full-time employment; whereas in some Member States, persons with disabilities often lose their disability entitlements upon taking up employment, which increases their risk of in-work poverty;

Amendment 129 #

Cindy FRANSSEN, Christine SCHNEIDER, Frances FITZGERALD, Maria da Graça CARVALHO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Points out that, according to Eurostat, there are currently 64.6 million women and 57.6 million men living in poverty in the Member States, which shows that the impact of poverty on women and men is different. Calls on the Commission to develop an ambitious 2030 European anti- poverty strategy, with concrete targets for reducing poverty and a focus on ending women’s poverty and the risk of intergenerational poverty;.

Amendment 13 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 19

~~— having regard to its resolution of 21 January 2021 on the gender perspective in the COVID-19 crisis and post-crisis period11 , _________________ 11 OJ C 456, 10.11.2021, p. 191.~~deleted

Amendment 130 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to develop an ambitious ~~2030~~ European ~~anti- poverty strategy, with~~strategy to encourage economic prosperity, while respecting the sovereignty of the Member States, thereby combating poverty by 2030, with realistic concrete targets for reducing poverty and a focus on ending women’s poverty, and ~~the risk of~~measures to ensure intergenerational ~~pover~~economic stability;

Amendment 131 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to develop an ambitious 2030 European anti- poverty strategy, with concrete targets for reducing poverty and a focus on ending women’s poverty and ~~the risk of~~breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty risks;

Amendment 132 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to ~~develop an ambitious 2030 European anti-poverty strategy, with concrete targets for reducing poverty and a focus on ending~~reduce poverty, especially women’s poverty and the risk of intergenerational poverty;

Amendment 133 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to develop an ambitious 2030 European anti- poverty strategy, with concrete targets for reducing poverty ~~and a focus on ending women’s poverty~~, taking into account the particular situation of women and the risk of intergenerational poverty;

Amendment 134 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Underlines the importance that we need to stand for policies that take into account the demographic challenge and promote equal opportunities for all, particularly those that are most hit by the crisis, such as vulnerable groups, families, the young generation, and the elderly and that all business opportunities offered by the current technological and digital revolution should focus on women;

Amendment 135 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls for an implementation of a comprehensive assessment of the impact of COVID 19 pandemic on poverty and gender equality in the EU, based on an gender- sensitive approach and sex disaggregated data collected by Member States and the EU institutions according to intersectionality criteria;

Amendment 136 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls on the Commission to promote equal participation and opportunities for women and men in the labour market and to introduce initiatives to promote women’s access to finance, female entrepreneurship and women’s economic independence;

Amendment 137 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Underlines that women’s poverty needs to be analysed from an intersectional approach, including migrant and ethnic origin, age, race and sexual or gender orientation; calls for the EIGE’s Gender Equality Index to be incorporated into the social scoreboard; calls on the EIGE to provide data disaggregated intersectionally and by gender, and calls on the Member States to use this data in order to better address country-specific challenges;deleted

Amendment 138 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

Amendment 139 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Underlines that women’s poverty needs to be analysed from an intersectional approach, including migrant and ethnic origin, age, race and sexual or gender orientation; c~~Calls for the EIGE’s Gender Equality Index to be incorporated into the social scoreboard; ~~calls on the EIGE to provide data disaggregated intersectionally and by gender, and~~ calls on the Member States to use this data in order to better address country-specific challenges;

Amendment 14 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)

— having regard to the resolution of 4 June of 2021 of “Old continent growing older –possibilities and challenges related to ageing policy post-2020” https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/A-9-2021-0194_EN.html

Amendment 140 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Underlines that women’s poverty needs to be analysed from an intersectional approach, including migrant and ethnic origin, age, race and sexual or gender orientation; calls for the EIGE’s Gender Equality Index to be incorporated into the social scoreboard; calls on the EIGE to provide data disaggregated intersec; calls on the Member States to take into consideration all~~y and by gender, and calls on the Member States to use this data~~ data on women´s poverty in order to better address country-specific challenges;

Amendment 141 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

Amendment 142 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Underlines that women’s poverty needs to be analysed from an intersectional approach, including migrant and ethnic origin, age, race and sexual or ~~gender orientat~~ientation, gender identity or gender expression; calls for the EIGE’s Gender Equality Index to be incorporated into the social scoreboard; calls on the EIGE to provide data disaggregated intersectionally and by gender, and calls on the Member States to use this data in order to better address country-specific challenges;

Amendment 143 #

2. Underlines that women’s poverty needs to be as well analysed from an intersectional approach, including migrant and ethnic origin, age, race and sexual or gender orientation; calls for the EIGE’s Gender Equality Index to be incorporated into the social scoreboard; calls on the EIGE to provide data disaggregated intersectionally and by gender, and calls on the Member States to use this data in order to better address country-specific challenges;

Amendment 144 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Urges the Commission and Member States to effectively address inequalities women face, tackling their main components thus barriers in the labour market, as well as access to affordable quality services such as child care and long term care services and to promote access to public pension schemes for self-employed people, inactive persons, the unemployed (either short or long term), or those in ‘atypical’ employment;

Amendment 145 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Member States to do a similar and regular work on collection of disaggregated data and analysis when they design or evaluate their policies and practices in order to gather information and figures on the situation of women in specific precarious conditions, such as women suffering from energy precariousness, digital divide, occupational diseases, undernutrition or malnutrition;

Amendment 146 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

Amendment 147 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to put forward a ‘care deal for Europe’, which should take a holistic, gender-sensitive and lifelong approach to care while envisaging legislative measures and investment at EU level; including legislative initiatives and financial investment, in order to set minimum standards and quality guidelines for care throughout the life cycle, and providing benefits for formal and informal carers, unpaid carers and the people they care for in the framework of the European Care Strategy;

Amendment 148 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to put forward a ‘care deal for Europe’, which should ensure a transition towards a caring economy, should take a holistic, gender-~~sensit~~responsive and lifelong approach to care, and should include measures to ensure fair working conditions, end discrimination, combat poverty, violence and abuse and ensure ecological sustainability while envisaging legislative measures and investment at EU level;

Amendment 149 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to put forward a ‘care deal for Europe’, which should take a holistic, gender-sensitive and lifelong approach to care while envisaging legislative measures and investment at EU level; Believes that this 'care deal' should promote fair working conditions and adequate wages in order to maintain the attractiveness of the care sector;

Amendment 15 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)

— having regard to its resolution of 10 February 2021 on reducing inequalities with a special focus on in- work poverty1a _________________ 1a OJ C 465, 17.11.2021, p. 62.

Amendment 150 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Call~~Points onut th~~e Commission to put forward a ‘care deal for Europe’, which should take~~at public care policies are the competence of the Member States; Calls on the European Commission to present studies on a holistic, gender- sensitive and lifelong approach to care ~~while envisaging legislative measure~~as well as best practices in this area, so that these elements can~~d investment at EU level~~ help the Member States to develop their care policies;

Amendment 151 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to put forward a ‘care ~~deal~~strategy for Europe’, which should take a holistic, gender-sensitive and lifelong approach to care while envisaging ~~legislative measures and investment at EU level~~investment at EU level and, if necessary, legislative measures in line with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;

Amendment 152 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Calls on~~Welcomes the Commission ~~to put forward a ‘care deal for Europe~~announcement for a ‘European Care Strategy’, which should take a holistic, gender-sensitive and lifelong approach to care ~~while envisaging legislative measures and investment at EU level~~; calls on Member States to create incentives for employers to promote a better work-life balance;

Amendment 153 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to ~~put forward a ‘care deal for Europe’, which should take a holistic, gender-sensitive~~analyse the care situation in the various Member States in order to provide inspiration for a holistic and lifelong approach to care while envisaging ~~legislative measures and~~ investment at EU level;

Amendment 154 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Underlines that an increase in women's poverty has a greater impact on wider society as women tend to be mainly responsible for the purchase of basic goods and are key for the sustenance of the household; expresses concern about the impact this will have in terms of child poverty; welcomes, in this regard, the adoption of the Council Recommendation (EU) 2021/1004 of 14 June 2021 establishing a European Child Guarantee;

Amendment 155 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses the importance of gender mainstreaming and tailoring the economic policy response to the COVID- 19 pandemic to adapt it to the specific needs of women, to the structure of their economic activities, such as for example by boosting microfinancing for female entrepreneurs;

Amendment 156 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls for incorporating multidimensionality when measuring poverty, including time poverty; calls EUROSTAT to coordinate with Member States the gender sensitive design and regular periodicity for the European Time Use Survey (ETUS);

Amendment 157 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3 b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to guarantee sufficient financial protection, not only for people with life-long employment, but also for those who provide unpaid care work for dependants and household and educational care services, who are in precarious employment or who experience long periods of unemployment;

Amendment 158 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

3 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote policies that aim to eliminate precarious work and involuntary part-time work in order to improve the situation for women in the labour market;

Amendment 159 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses the pivotal role of women working in the social, care and retail sectors that keep our societies functioning, as shown by the COVID-19 crisis; ~~calls for typically female-dominated work to be reassessed and revaluated and for cross- sector gender-neutral job evaluation tools to be developed and applied in order to better assess and more~~and emphasises the importance of fairly remunerat~~e female-dominated work~~ion;

Amendment 16 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20

~~— having regard to the Council conclusions of 10 December 2019 entitled ‘Gender-Equal Economies in the EU: The Way Forward’,~~deleted

Amendment 160 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

Amendment 161 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses the pivotal role of women working in the social, care and retail sectors that keep our societies functioning, as shown by the COVID-19 crisis; calls for typically female-dominated work to be reassessed and revaluated and for cross- sector gender-neutral job evaluation tools to be developed and applied in order to better assess and more fairly remunerate female-dominated work; urges a feminist approach to digital transition;

Amendment 162 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

Amendment 163 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses the pivotal role of women working in the social, care and retail sectors that keep our societies functioning, as shown by the COVID-19 crisis; calls for work that has a high socioeconomic impact and is underpaid, especially typically female-dominated work, to be reassessed and revaluated ~~and for cross- sector gender-neutral job evaluation tools to be developed and applied in order to better assess and more fairly remunerate female-dominated~~so that the Member States can put in place policies to ensure fairer pay for this work;

Amendment 164 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses the pivotal role of women working in the social, care and retail sectors that keep our societies functioning, as shown by the COVID-19 crisis; calls for typically female-dominated work to be reassessed and revaluated ~~and for cross- sector gender-neutral job evaluation tools to be developed and applied in order to better assess and more fairly remunerate female-dominated work~~in order to better assess and fairer remunerate female- dominated work while at the same time strengthening women's entrepreneurship in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs);

Amendment 165 #

Cindy FRANSSEN, Christine SCHNEIDER, Frances FITZGERALD, Maria da Graça CARVALHO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses the pivotal role of women working in the social, care cleaning, education and retail sectors that keep our societies functioning, as shown by the COVID-19 crisis; calls for typically female-dominated work to be reassessed and revaluated and for cross- sector gender- neutral job evaluation tools to be developed and applied in order to better assess and more fairly remunerate female- dominated work;

Amendment 166 #

Cindy FRANSSEN, Christine SCHNEIDER, Frances FITZGERALD, Maria da Graça CARVALHO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Notes that the vast majority of retail workers and cleaners are women and are often only paid the minimum wage, and the COVID-19 pandemic has put them at even greater risk of poverty; stresses the urgent need to improve wages and combat precarious employment; urges the Member States to raise the status of health professionals by means of decent wages and working conditions and, in particular, by concluding proper employment contracts;

Amendment 167 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Highlights that in order to tackle the multidimensionality of women’s poverty, it is necessary to overcome the segregation of unpaid domestic care work mainly performed by women and to introduce flexitime in order to allow women and men to better reconcile their professional life with their private life (time use policy);. Stresses that in-work poverty needs to be addressed at its root causes, such as but not limited to education and training. Calls on the Commission to urge Member States to invest in qualitative education and training, to share good practices and to have specific attention for life-long learning.

Amendment 168 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

5. Highlights that in order to tackle the multidimensionality of women’s poverty, it is necessary to overcome the segregation of unpaid domestic ~~care work~~work and care responsibilities mainly performed by women and ~~to introduce flexitime~~strengthen the fight against stereotypes, as well as to introduce family- friendly working arrangements, such as adaptable working hours and the possibility of teleworking, in order to allow women and men to better reconcile their professional life with their private life ~~(time use policy)~~;

Amendment 169 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Highlights that in order to tackle ~~the multidimensionality of women’s poverty, it is necessary to overcome the segregation of unpaid domestic care work mainly performed by women and~~poverty, it is necessary to introduce flexitime in order to allow women and men to better reconcile their professional life with their private life (time use policy);

Amendment 17 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Citation 21

— having regard to the report of 5 March 2020 by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) entitled ‘Beijing +25: the fifth review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the EU Member States’,deleted

Amendment 170 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Highlights that in order to tackle the multidimensionality of women’s poverty, it is necessary to overcome the segregation of unpaid domestic care work mainly performed by women and to ~~introduce flexitime~~promote the “equal earner – equal carer” model and to introduce time use policy in accordance with workers needs and collective bargaining in order to allow women and men to better reconcile their professional life with their private life ~~(time use policy)~~;

Amendment 171 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Highlights that in order to tackle the multidimensionality of women’s poverty, it is necessary to overcome the segregation of unpaid domestic care work mainly performed by women and to ~~introduce flexitime~~enhance its status, particularly as regards pensions; notes that it is also important to promote flexitime in the professions that allow it, in order to allow women and men to better reconcile their professional life with their private life (time use policy);

Amendment 172 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

Amendment 173 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Highlights that in order to tackle the multidimensionality of women’s poverty, it is necessary to overcome the segregation of unpaid domestic care work mainly performed by women and to ~~introduce flexitime~~reinforce care services as well as work-life balance measures in order to allow women and men to better reconcile their professional life with their private life (time use policy);

Amendment 174 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Highlights that in order to tackle the multidimensionality of women’s poverty, it is necessary to ~~overcome the segrega~~ensure greater recognition ofor unpaid domestic care work, mainly performed by women and to introduce flexitime in order to allow women and men to better reconcile their professional life with their private life (time use policy);

Amendment 175 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

Amendment 176 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Stresses that women are disproportionately and often involuntarily concentrated in precarious work including high levels of part-time work, low-paid, fixed term and zero-hour contracts; urges the Member States to implement the International Labour Organisation (ILO) recommendations intended to reduce the scale of precarious work, such as restricting the circumstances in which precarious contracts can be used and limiting the length of time workers can be employed on such a contract;

Amendment 177 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Insists on mandatory respect for collective bargaining in the private sector, state-owned enterprises and public administration, this being the form of worker protection that best guarantees equal rights for men and women in the workplace; rejects, therefore, measures aimed at making labour relations more flexible and weakening the role played by trade unions in guaranteeing labour rights;

Amendment 178 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Points out that it is essential to invest in education, lifelong learning and vocational training to ensure that they have access to high-quality employment and opportunities to reskill and upskill for future labour market demand; stresses the importance of more equally shared unpaid care and domestic work between men and women preventing the vicious circle of gendered labour market segregation;

Amendment 179 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Urges the Member States to swiftly and fully transpose and implement the Work-Life Balance Directive so as to ensure a fair division of work and family life, and invites them to go beyond the Directive’s minimum standards;

Amendment 18 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Citation 23

~~— having regard to report of 15 July 2021 by Eurofound entitled ‘Upward convergence in gender equality: How close is the Union of equality?’,~~deleted

Amendment 180 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. stresses the importance to raise and increase awareness about consequences of women’s choices in the labour market and the importance of their economic independence to prevent from poverty and social exclusion;

Amendment 181 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls for respect for the privacy of family relationships and how domestic tasks are organised depending on their circumstances;

Amendment 182 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Calls on the Member States to implement active and effective policies to prevent and combat harassment in the workplace, including sexual and psychological harassment; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure proper and adequate funding mechanisms for programmes and actions to combat harassment in the workplace, including mechanisms to support women in reporting cases of harassment; calls on the Member States and the EU to ratify International Labour Organization Convention No 190 on eliminating violence and harassment in the world of work;

Amendment 183 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Takes the view that the participation of women in all sectors must be increased; takes the view that investment in public services and welfare provision is a means of ensuring access, on an equal basis, to healthcare, education, culture, social security and justice; urges the Member States to take specific measures to tackle the risk of social exclusion and poverty, focusing especially on access to affordable housing, transport and energy;

Amendment 184 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Emphasises that empowering women as citizens and economic actors is critical to our economies and our societies, and to tackling poverty; stresses in this regard the necessity to facilitate the combination of work and family life, as women in particular seek to adjust their careers for family life and care responsibilities;

Amendment 185 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Urges the Commission and the Members States to step up its efforts to prevent and combat discrimination against transwomen and ensure access to work without discrimination;

Amendment 186 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Stresses the high proportion of jobs in the informal economy that affect women in particular, such as in agriculture or small family businesses, which leads to a lack of appropriate social protection, including pension rights; calls therefore on the Member States and regions with legislative powers to improve the legislation regarding gender equality in the labour market, in particular regarding wages, ownership rights and decision making, as well as to ensure social security for both men and women in these sectors;

Amendment 187 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Expresses its concern that women with children are discriminated against in the workplace because they are mothers and not because their job performance is inferior to that of their peers; urges the Member States to actively promote a positive image of mothers as employees;

Amendment 188 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Stresses the importance of incentives for employers to promote a better work-life balance during the entire period of employment;

Amendment 189 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Underlines the crucial role of high- quality public services in combatting women’s poverty, in particular services for early childhood education and care, or care for other dependent persons such as elderly people; calls on Member States to establish appropriate mechanisms to recognise this life achievement;

Amendment 19 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Citation 24

— having regard to the study of December 2017 by Policy Department C: Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs of the Directorate-General for Internal Policies entitled ‘Gender perspective on access to energy in the EU’,deleted

Amendment 190 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Underlines the crucial role of high- quality ~~public~~and affordable universal services in combatting women’s poverty, in particular services for early childhood education and care, or care for other dependent persons such as elderly people and people with disabilities;

Amendment 191 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Underlines the crucial role of high- quality public or private services in combatting women’s poverty, in particular services for early childhood education and care, or care for other dependent persons such as elderly people;

Amendment 192 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Notes that women’s economic independence plays a crucial role in their ability to escape situations of gender- based violence; calls therefore for the provision of social protection systems to support women in this situation, the adoption of a comprehensive directive on preventing and combating all forms of gender-based violence, the addition of gender-based violence in the list of Eurocrimes, the EU ratification of the Istanbul Convention as well as the ratification by Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia;

Amendment 193 #

Rovana PLUMB

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Notes that the poverty intersects with different forms of discrimination, more attention needs to be paid to the barriers that specific vulnerable groups face in accessing education; emphasises the necessity to tackle the perceptions and social attitudes about women and gender at an early stage of life, starting with young girls in schools, in order to avoid long-term discrimination; highlights the necessity to be more ambition infighting stereotypes in education and training to tackle the harmful social norms;

Amendment 194 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls for a public transport policy that takes account of gender equality, in particular by expanding and improving the public transport service and offering effective mobility so that women can find work and participate more actively in the labour market (and achieve a better work- life balance);

Amendment 195 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Points out the importance of promoting women’s empowerment through women’s education, training, life-long learning, which are of vital importance in order to fight stereotypes and combat persisting inequalities together with addressing women’s employment rate and underrepresentation in certain sectors like STEM and AI;

Amendment 196 #

Angelika WINZIG, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Christine SCHNEIDER, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Underlines the importance of offering economic support to those who are responsible for other family members requiring care so that they can care for them in their home and do not face hardship;

Amendment 197 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on Member States to ensure the reconciliation of work and family life for parents by providing high-quality and viable childcare services with flexible opening hours in cities as well as rural areas;

Amendment 198 #

Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Christine SCHNEIDER, Frances FITZGERALD

6 b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote and increase the visibility of female role models in stereotypically male professions and STEM-professions (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) in order to make these professions more accessible and attractive to girls and young women; thus combating the risk of poverty among women and benefiting from their innovative power;

Amendment 199 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6 b. Stresses that climate change has a big impact on female poverty as women are more dependent on natural resources and, since they constitute a majority of world's poor, women have less resources to protect themselves of the negative effects of climate change such as health effects, droughts, natural disasters or displacement linked to environmental change;

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7

~~— having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention),~~deleted

Amendment 20 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Citation 25

~~— having regard to the 2019 and 2020 Gender Equality Index of the EIGE,~~deleted

Amendment 200 #

6 b. Calls on the Commission to strengthen EU education programs while at the same time aligning training and education with the needs of the economy and society of the future; Calls on the Commission to improve access to upskilling and lifelong learning for women;

Amendment 201 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Stresses the importance of making it genuinely possible to combine work, private and family life, which will have the positive effect of increasing the participation of women from all sections of society in social and political life;

Amendment 202 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. Stresses the fact that decisions taken by some Member States to cut their budgets for childcare, education and preschool activities, and carers, largely as a result of the so-called austerity measures that have been imposed on Member States by the European Union, have direct implications for women who take on the majority of the additional tasks entailed; points out that this means that the public network of day nurseries, crèches and public recreational activity services for children needs to be expanded, along with the public support network for the elderly and people with special needs, and a public network of hospitals;

Amendment 203 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 d (new)

6d. Stresses the need for Member States to adopt a public health policy that places special emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention by guaranteeing free, universal and high- quality healthcare and ensuring the availability of the necessary resources to combat the main public health problems;

Amendment 204 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Commission to mainstream gender into the EU’s climate change policies in order to ensure that the Fit for 55 package policies and the social climate fund are designed and implemented with a clear gender dimension and benefit women as equally as men;deleted

Amendment 205 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

Amendment 206 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. CDeplores that a gender perspective has not been introduced systematically in EU's climate policies; calls on the Commission to mainstream gender into the EU’s climate change policies and legislation in order to ensure that the Fit for 55 package policies and the social climate fund are designed and implemented with a clear gender dimension and benefit women as equally as men;

Amendment 207 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Commission to ~~mainstream gender into the~~have a holistic approach in its EU’s climate change policies in order to ensure that the Fit for 55 package policies and the social climate fund are designed and implemented with a ~~clear gender~~ dimension ~~and~~that benefit women as equally as men;

Amendment 208 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls for the EU and the Member States to protect ~~women~~people living in energy poverty by providing a timely and coordinated response to address the long- term impact of the energy crisis; highlights that access to affordable utilities must be guaranteed to low-income households, and in particular older women ~~and~~, disabled women, single mothers and children;

Amendment 209 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls for the EU and the Member States to pro~~tect women living in energy poverty by providing a timely and coordinated response to address the long- term impact of the energy crisis~~mote policies that guarantee access to energy at an affordable price, as an essential good that must be paid for; highlights that access to affordable utilities must be guaranteed to low-income households, and in particular older women and single mothers;

Amendment 21 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 29

~~— having regard to the study of 14 June 2021 of the European Parliamentary Research Service entitled ‘Gender equality: Economic value of care from the perspective of the applicable EU funds’,~~deleted

Amendment 210 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls for the ~~EU and the~~ Member States to protect women living in energy poverty by providing a timely and coordinated response to address the long- term impact of the energy crisis; highlights that access to affordable utilities must be guaranteed to low-income households, and in particular older women and single mothers;

Amendment 211 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Urges the Member States to take specific measures to tackle the risk of social exclusion and poverty, focusing on access to affordable housing, transport, justice and energy;

Amendment 212 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to mainstream gender into all transport-related legislation, policies, programmes and actions and to include gender criteria and work-life balance in the design of mobility, housing and urban planning;deleted

Amendment 213 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

Amendment 214 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

Amendment 215 #

Cindy FRANSSEN, Christine SCHNEIDER, Frances FITZGERALD, Maria da Graça CARVALHO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

Amendment 216 #

Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Christine SCHNEIDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to mainstream gender into ~~all~~ transport-related legislation, policies, programmes and actions and to include gender criteria and work-life balance in the design of mobility, housing and urban planning;

Amendment 217 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to mainstream gender into all transport-related legislation, policies, programmes and actions and to include a gender ~~criteria and work-life balanc~~perspective in the design of mobility, housing and urban planning;

Amendment 218 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Highlights that there is still a misconception that homelessness amongst women is a relatively minor social problem in Europe; points at the lack of basic data on the nature and extent of women’s homelessness making this problem less visible; stresses the importance to recognize gender-based violence and the gendered experiences of trauma as a root cause of women’s homelessness, as well as to look at wider societal problem intersecting with broader socio-economic and structural barriers, such as poverty, the lack of affordable housing and other structural factors;

Amendment 219 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Notes in particular the difficult situation of single parents, the majority of whom are women, and calls on the Member States to develop effective mechanisms to support these persons, but without encouraging the artificial break- up of families in order to obtain higher benefits;

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 32

~~— having regard to the report of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and the opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (A9-0000/2021),~~deleted

Amendment 220 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Stresses the need to enhance the responsibility of states and employers for maternity and paternity rights, which include the right of women to be both mothers and workers without forfeiting labour rights;

Amendment 221 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Underlines the importance to enable women, particularly those most at risk of poverty, to pursue their careers on a full-time basis or, if they prefer, to have access to part-time work or work with flexible hours;

Amendment 222 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Points out that measures to achieve a work-life balance are important in ensuring an equal division of care- giving responsibilities between women and men and addressing income and employment disparities; notes that the achievement of a work-life balance depends on the availability and accessibility of high-quality public care services, which should be provided free of charge; notes that all maternity benefits should be ensured and upheld, with an increase in fully paid leave entitlements; stresses that public policies for the protection and promotion of nursing and breastfeeding are needed;

Amendment 223 #

Cindy FRANSSEN, Christine SCHNEIDER, Frances FITZGERALD, Maria da Graça CARVALHO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)

9c. Notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a drastic impact on the lives of all women, especially working women; notes that a disproportionate share of the burden was borne by teleworking women whose lives were made harder by the need to combine work, childcare and domestic chores; points out that many women were faced with increased expenses on lower pay;

Amendment 224 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Urges the EU and its Member States to integrate a gender perspective into policies and practices that address homelessness, to develop a specific strategy to combat women’s homelessness and to ensure that services work appropriately and effectively to meet the needs of homeless women; . Calls on all actors to integrate this gender perspective in the EU Platform against homelessness. Is convinced that the principle of housing first can play an important role in fighting homelessness and calls for the roll-out of these projects in all Members States.

Amendment 225 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Urges the EU and its Member States to integrate ~~a gender perspective into~~ policies and practices that address ~~homelessness, to develop a specific strategy to combat women’s~~ homelessness and to ensure that services work appropriately and effectively to meet the needs of homeless ~~women~~people;

Amendment 226 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Urges the EU and its Member States to integrate a gender perspective into policies and practices that address homelessness, access to affordable and adequate housing and energy, and to develop a specific strategyies to combat ~~women’s homelessnes~~these problems and to ensure that services work appropriately and effectively to meet the needs of homeless women;

Amendment 227 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission to design a special programme to fight against women’s digital poverty in order to equip women with the necessary skills to operate safely in the digital environment and foster their ability to become entrepreneurs and founders of SMEs contributing to the twin transition;

Amendment 228 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Urges the ~~EU and its~~ Member States to ~~integrate a gender perspective into policies and practices that address~~combat homelessness, to develop a specific strategy to combat women’s homelessness and to ensure that services work appropriately and effectively to meet the needs of homeless women;

Amendment 229 #

Cindy FRANSSEN, Christine SCHNEIDER, Frances FITZGERALD, Maria da Graça CARVALHO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Urges the EU and its Member States to integrate a gender perspective into policies and practices that address homelessness, to develop a specific strategy to ~~comb~~eradicate women’s homelessness by 2030 and to ensure that services work appropriately and effectively to meet the needs of homeless women;

Amendment 23 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 32 a (new)

— having regard to the work of the EU Platform on Combatting Homelessness, launched in June 2021.

Amendment 230 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Notes that the worsening social and economic situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has increased all forms of abuse and violence towards women, as well as prostitution, in violation of their human rights; underlines the need to increase public, financial and human resources in order to support groups at risk of poverty and tackle situations posing a risk to children and young people, the elderly, people with disabilities and the homeless;

Amendment 231 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Calls on the Commission to assess and propose, where appropriate, new legislation to counter the financialisation of housing markets and stop speculators from making housing unaffordable and to adapt European rules for digital platforms to give cities more control over rentals via platforms;

Amendment 232 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. Considers prostitution to be a serious form of violence and exploitation affecting mostly women and children; calls on the Member States to take specific action to combat the economic, social and cultural causes of prostitution so that women in a situation of poverty and social exclusion do not fall victim to such exploitation; calls on the Member States to take specific action to help prostitutes with their social and professional reintegration;

Amendment 233 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Commission to propose proactive measures through the European agricultural fund for rural development to promote women’s employment and socio-economic development in rural areas; Encourages the Member States, in cooperation with regional and local authorities, to help improve the quality of life of women in rural areas in order to reduce the risk of poverty while providing quality educational programmes aimed at empowering rural women, as well as quality employment conditions including teleworking possibilities and decent incomes for this group;

Amendment 234 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Commission to propose proactive measures through the European agricultural fund for rural development to promote women’s employment, the provision of social services and socio-economic development in rural areas;

Amendment 235 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls for positive discrimination measures to be introduced for women farmers, encouraging them to remain in rural areas; calls, in addition to support for women, for measures promoting associative structures that can provide technical advice and assistance to keep farms operating as tools to help the sector survive, and encourage young people to invest in agriculture and livestock for the future;

Amendment 236 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11b. Stresses the importance of combating inequalities and injustices against women; calls on the Commission and Member States to take urgent action to address poverty and increasing inequalities among women, especially among vulnerable groups, including single mothers, women with disabilities, Roma women, LGBTIQ+ women, migrant and refugee women, older women and women in rural or depopulated areas;

Amendment 237 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)

11c. Points out that the situation of women in rural areas is heavily influenced by the agricultural situation and that unfair measures under the common agricultural policy have resulted in the increasing abandonment of small and medium-sized holdings and family agriculture; stresses the need to increase support in order to maintain family agriculture and ensure rural development, with particular emphasis on the work of women, including women migrants who work in agriculture;

Amendment 238 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 d (new)

11d. Highlights the major contribution of women in the fields of employment, culture, education, science, and research; recognises the profound deterioration in the living conditions of women employed in arts and culture, and in micro and small agricultural and rural businesses resulting from the suspension of economic and cultural activities during the pandemic period;

Amendment 239 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

Amendment 24 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)

-A. whereas gender equality is a core value of the Union enshrined in Article 2 TEU; whereas Article 8 TFEU lays down the principle of gender mainstreaming;

Amendment 240 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission to design a special programme to fight against ~~women’s~~ digital poverty in order to equip European citizens, especially women, with the necessary skills to operate safely in the digital environment;

Amendment 241 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission to ~~design a special programme~~use existing programmes and funding to fight against women’s digital poverty in order to equip women with the necessary skills to operate safely in the digital environment;

Amendment 242 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the ~~Commission~~Member States to design a special programmes to fight against women’s digital poverty in order to equip women with the necessary skills to operate safely in the digital environment;

Amendment 243 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote women’s empowerment through education, vocational training and lifelong learning, as well as female entrepreneurship and women’s representation in future-oriented sectors; calls, in particular, for greater promotion of STEM subjects, digital education, artificial intelligence and financial literacy in order to combat prevailing stereotypes and ensure that more women enter these sectors and contribute to their development;

Amendment 244 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to systematically examine and address women’s in-work poverty in all its forms and causes and stresses that work poverty can be addressed at some of its root causes and components, such as education, training, care services which are determinant and have thus to be considered in policy making;

Amendment 245 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Stresses that in-work poverty can be addressed at some of its root causes and components, such as education, training and care services, which are determinant and must therefore be considered in policy-making;

Amendment 246 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU

~~13. Calls on the Member States to ensure that all new gender-fair fiscal policy, including taxation, tackles and eliminates socioeconomic and gender inequalities in all their dimensions;~~deleted

Amendment 247 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

~~13. Calls on the Member States to ensure that all new gender-fair fiscal policy, including taxation, tackles and eliminates socioeconomic and gender inequalities in all their dimensions;~~deleted

Amendment 248 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States to ensure that all new gender-fair fiscal policy, including taxation, tackles and eliminates socioeconomic and gender inequalities in all their dimensions; stresses however that tax policies lies within the competence of each Member State.

Amendment 249 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States to ensure that all new ~~gender-fair~~ fiscal policy, i~~ncluding taxation, tackles and eliminates socioeconomic and gender inequalities in all their dimensio~~s applied equally to all citizens;

Amendment 25 #

A. whereas in the EU, the number of women in poverty remains permanently higher than that of men [1]; whereas women in the EU are disproportionally more affected by poverty and the risk of social exclusion than men, in particular women who experience intersectional forms of discrimination; whereas in 2020, the risk of poverty and social exclusion (AROPE) in the EU was higher for women (22.9 %) than men (20.9 %); whereas since 2017, the gender- poverty gap has increased in 21 Member States12 ; whereas poverty rates among women vary greatly between Member States; whereas 1 in 4 children in the EU is at risk of poverty or social exclusion; [1] Living conditions in Europe - poverty and social exclusion https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=Living_conditi ons_in_Europe_- _poverty_and_social_exclusion&oldid=54 4210 _________________ 12 European Institute for Gender Equality, ‘Gender Equality Index 2020: Digitalisation and the future of work’, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020.

Amendment 250 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States to ensure that all ~~new gender-fair fiscal policy, including taxation, tackles and eliminates socioeconomic and~~policies take into account the gender perspective and to introduce specific measures such as credits for caring periods, to eliminate gender inequalities in all their dimensions;

Amendment 251 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Points out the importance of fighting tax avoidance and the implementation of redistributive tax policies to combat poverty; regrets the tendency in some Member States to increase indirect taxes which is a regressive measure that worsens the situation of groups experiencing social disadvantage;

Amendment 252 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Ask the Member States to eliminate taxes on female hygiene products and ensure all women have access to these essential products;

Amendment 253 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13 b. Stresses that tax policies have a gender dimension; calls on the Member States to avoid gender discrimination in their tax policies and apply a reduce VAT rate to women's necessity goods such as tampons;

Amendment 254 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)

13c. Notes that poverty continues to be measured on accumulated household income, which assumes that all members of the household earn the same and distribute resources equally; calls for individualised rights and calculations based on individual incomes to combat the true extent of women's poverty;

Amendment 255 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 d (new)

13d. Calls on the Commission to propose a European framework Directive on minimum income schemes as the basis for high level social protection and full participation in society across the life span and ensuring minimum income schemes above the poverty threshold of 60 % of national median income in all Member States; points at the missed opportunity by the Commission in the 2022 Work Programme which only includes a non-legislative proposal;

Amendment 256 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 e (new)

13e. Welcomes the ongoing negotiations for the adoption of a directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union; calls for the establishment of a minimum wage per country based on a basic basket of goods and services including, among other things, the costs of adequate housing, healthy food, clothing, transport, health care and participation in culture and education;

Amendment 257 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Member States to take the gender dimension into account when reforming pension systems and adapting the retirement age and to consider the differences between the work patterns of women and men and the higher risk of discrimination of women in the labour market, in particular older women; urges the Member States to take specific measures to prevent and combat the risk of poverty for older and retired women in view of population ageing and the proportion of older women in disadvantaged or vulnerable positions;

Amendment 258 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Member States to take the gender dimension into account when reforming pension systems and adapting the retirement age, to enhance the status, especially as regards pension entitlements, of the time devoted by informal caregivers, in particular women raising their children, and to consider the differences between the work patterns of women and men and the higher risk of discrimination of women in the labour market, in particular older women;

Amendment 259 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

Amendment 26 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas women in the EU ~~are disproportionally~~can be more affected by poverty and the risk of social exclusion ~~than men, in particular women who experience intersectional forms of discrimination~~; whereas in 2020, the risk of poverty and social exclusion (AROPE) in the EU was higher for women (22.9 %) than men (20.9 %); whereas since 2017, the gender- poverty gap has increased in 21 Member States12; _________________ 12 European Institute for Gender Equality, ‘Gender Equality Index 2020: Digitalisation and the future of work’, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020.

Amendment 260 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Member States to take the gender dimension into account when reforming pension systems and adapting the retirement age and to consider the differences between the work patterns of women and men and the higher risk of discrimination of women in the labour market, in particular older women; stresses however that pension systems lies within the competence of each Member State.

Amendment 261 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Member States to take ~~the gender dimension~~ into account, when reforming pension systems and adapting the retirement age, situations where people have not been able to pay their contributions in order to meet family responsibilities, and to consider the differences between the work patterns of women and men and the higher risk of discrimination of women in the labour market, in particular older women;

Amendment 262 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Highlights that gender reporting and mainstreaming cannot be mixed with social tracking and social investments; believes that gender equality deserves its own mainstreaming methodology in the framework of the RFF and recalls that the European Institute for Gender Equality has developed a suitable methodology; calls on the Commission to closely monitor this provision and for the inclusion of gender budgeting in the mid- term review of the current Multiannual Financial Framework and the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility;

Amendment 263 #

Rovana PLUMB

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Calls on the European Commission to adopt a European framework favouring an increase in minimum wages to a level allowing for a decent standard of living that partially help reduce in-work poverty; calls on for fair and decent minimum wages, as a necessary safeguard, in order to ensure fairer wage distribution and to guarantee a wage floor protecting women and men on the labour market;

Amendment 264 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Calls on the Commission to refrain from promoting any policy recommendation that would lead to an increase in precarious working relations, the deregulation of working hours, a reduction in salaries, an attack on collective bargaining or the privatisation of public services and social security;

Amendment 265 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Urges the Commission to keep in mind when analysing poverty that the income obtained by family members can be considered to be household income, and may be sufficient to cover their responsibilities and maintain a decent standard of living, including during retirement;

Amendment 266 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Calls on Member States to include in their pension retribution credit periods of unpaid care work to the carer’s pension contribution, irrespective of whether the care is provided to underage children, elderly persons, or sick or disabled persons;

Amendment 267 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Calls on the Member States to establish tax incentives for families in order to compensate for the direct and indirect financial impact of the care provided by parents, especially women;

Amendment 268 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Urges the Member States to implement specific measures to combat the risk of poverty for older women, by increasing retirement and other pensions and boosting social benefits; considers it imperative to eliminate income disparities between men and women on retirement, which requires retirement and other pensions to be increased, and public, universal and common social security systems to be improved and maintained so that incomes after a life of work are balanced, fair and decent; points out that, in order to overcome pension inequalities and safeguard and increase pensions in general, it is imperative that social security systems continue to exist within the public sphere and integrate the principles of solidarity and redistribution, and that the most strenuous efforts are made to combat precarious and deregulated work and increase wages;

Amendment 269 #

Rovana PLUMB

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14 b. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to seize the window of opportunity created by the pandemic to speed up a green and socially just transition to ensure that no one is left behind;

Amendment 27 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas women in the EU are ~~disproportionally~~ more affected by poverty and the risk of social exclusion than men~~, in particular women who experience intersectional forms of discrimination~~; whereas in 2020, the risk of poverty and social exclusion (AROPE) in the EU was higher for women (22.9 %) than men (20.9 %); whereas since 2017, the gender- poverty gap has increased in 21 Member States12; _________________ 12 European Institute for Gender Equality, ‘Gender Equality Index 2020: Digitalisation and the future of work’, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020.

Amendment 270 #

14 b. Develop EU funds to address the social impact of both the green and digital transition and especially to design policies tailored to ensure gender equality and end women’s poverty;

Amendment 271 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Calls on the Member States not to put too low a cap on the survivors’ pensions paid to surviving partners, particular widows;

Amendment 272 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

Amendment 273 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

Amendment 274 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Uunderlines thate importance of gender mainstreaming ~~has to be applied at all levels of the EU budgetary process in order to transform revenues and expenditures into social investment and to achieve gender equality and eliminate women’s poverty;~~ in all relevant programmes in the 2022 budget and of the implementation of gender-responsive budgeting to achieve gender equality and eliminate women’s poverty; calls, in this context, on the Commission to accelerate the introduction of an effective, transparent and comprehensive methodology, in close cooperation with Parliament, to measure relevant gender expenditure, as set out in the Interinstitutional Agreement, in order to be able to show tangible results for the 2022 budget and in view of the extension of the methodology to all MFF programmes; calls, furthermore, for the swift implementation of the EU gender equality strategy 2020-2025 and the need for additional actions, in particular training and initiatives to foster gender equality and fight gender bias;

Amendment 275 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Underlines that gender mainstreaming has to be applied at ~~all levels of the EU~~the statistical development at all levels of the EU policy cycle, including budgetary process in order to transform revenues and expenditures into social investment and to achieve gender equality and eliminate women’s poverty;

Amendment 276 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Urges the Commission to ensure respect for market freedom, which increases the chance of a decent job, enabling people with sufficient income to meet their needs and contribute to the common social good;

Amendment 277 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Recognises the crucial role of all European funds and programmes in the social area, particularly the European Social Fund Plus; Calls on the Member States to make full use of these funds with a gender perspective;

Amendment 278 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Urges the Commission to encourage the Member States to implement policies to protect and support the family as the main social nucleus of stability in the face of poverty;

Amendment 279 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)

15c. Calls on the Commission to avoid adopting directives that entail additional bureaucratic complexity and economic burdens for businesses in Europe, compromising their viability and jeopardising the jobs they create;

Amendment 28 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas ~~women in the EU are disproportionally more affected by poverty and the risk of social exclusion than men, in particular women who experience intersectional forms of discriminatio~~despite a reduction in poverty in the EU among both women and men, women continue to be more affected by poverty and the risk of social exclusion than men; whereas in 2020, the risk of poverty and social exclusion (AROPE) in the EU was higher for women (22.9 %) than men (20.9 %), though in both cases it has fallen since 2015 (24.9% and 23.1%, respectively); whereas since 2017, the gender- poverty gap has increased in 21 Member States12; _________________ 12 European Institute for Gender Equality, ‘Gender Equality Index 2020: Digitalisation and the future of work’, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020.

Amendment 280 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 d (new)

15d. Calls on the Union to adopt policies that promote new initiatives and projects enabling women to express their professional talent and natural vocation in a self-employed capacity, allowing them to make a basic income themselves with flexibility that is compatible with their personal lives;

Amendment 281 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Points out that the EU’s fiscal capacity urgently requires the revision of the current economic and social governance so that it contributes to reaching gender equalities and ending female poverty and does not just include austerity measures;deleted

Amendment 282 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

Amendment 283 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Points out that the EU’s fiscal capacity ~~urgently requires the revision of the current economic and social governance so that it contributes to reaching gender equalities and ending femal~~must not serve ideological interests and must always respect the psovereignty and ~~does not just include austerity measur~~competences of the Member States;

Amendment 284 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. ~~Points out that the EU’s fiscal capacity urgently requires the revision of the current~~Calls for the economic and social governance sto ~~that it contributes to reaching~~be consistent with the achievement of gender equalitiy objectives and ending female poverty ~~and does not just include austerity measures~~;

Amendment 285 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

Amendment 286 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Points out that the EU’s fiscal capacity ~~urgently~~ requires ~~the~~a revi~~sion~~ew of the current economic and social governance ~~so that it~~regarding its ability to contributes to reaching gender equalities and ending female poverty ~~and does not just include austerity measures~~;

Amendment 287 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Recalls that cuts in public budgets resulting from the European Union’s macro-structural economic policies, in particular the implementation of ‘economic governance’ measures, are causing and will continue to cause increasing gender inequalities and female unemployment, women being in the majority in the public sector and the principal beneficiaries of social policies, and greater feminisation of poverty; stresses that a change in policy is therefore required;

Amendment 288 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Stresses that the COVID-19 crisis and its consequences have clear gender perspectives and has highlighted existing inequalities and shortcomings with regard to gender equality and women’s human rights exacerbating in particular the feminisation of poverty; calls for all recovery measures to include a gender perspective, in particular, through the national recovery plans to avoid a recovery thought by and for men that focuses on investments basically on male dominated sectors;

Amendment 289 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Stresses that combating violence against women is necessary to achieve the goal of equality between women and men in Europe and that a life free from violence is fundamental for more women to participate in the labour market, reach their full potential within their work and to be financially independent.

Amendment 29 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas women's poverty is the result of a lifetime of discrimination; whereas gender stereotypes still influence the division of labour at home, in education, in the workplace and in society and access to power and decision marking; whereas unpaid care and domestic work, mostly carried out by women, imposes a disproportionate burden on women; whereas globally, women make up over 70% of workers in the health and care sector; whereas this kind of jobs have been systematically undervalued because they have been and still are performed for free by women within the households; whereas women have lower pay in comparison to men; where women have more part-time contracts due to time poverty; whereas women are suffering in-work poverty that leads to higher risks of poverty and social exclusion due to low labour intensity;

Amendment 290 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on the Council to establish a dedicated configuration on gender equality in order to deliver common and concrete measures to address the challenges in the field of women’s rights and gender equality and ensure that gender equality issues are discussed at the highest political level;

Amendment 291 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to investigate the barriers to female entrepreneurship and especially conduct a comprehensive analysis of women’s access to finance, helping to end women’s poverty in Europe by empowering them to become founders and entrepreneurs;

Amendment 292 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16 b. Regrets that, overall, gender mainstreaming has not yet been applied across the EU budget as pointed out by the European Court of Auditors and calls for this situation to be reversed as a matter of urgency; underlines that the gender perspective has to be integrated at all levels of the budgetary process in order to transform revenues and expenditures to achieving gender equality goals;

Amendment 293 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16 b. Calls on all Member States and the EU as a whole to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention).

Amendment 294 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)

16c. Reiterates its call on the Member States to create a formal Council configuration on Gender Equality, in order to provide the Ministers and Secretaries of State in charge of gender equality with a dedicated forum for discussion, and to better facilitate gender mainstreaming across all EU policies, including employment and social policy;

Amendment 295 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)

16c. Condemns deliberate disinformation about tools and initiatives to combat violence against women in the EU; Considers that it is extremely serious that this disinformation is gaining a foothold in Europe and thus contributing to the difficulty of protecting women from violence.

Amendment 296 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 d (new)

16d. Calls on the Member States to combat harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, early and forced marriage and so-called ‘honour-related violence’, which specifically injures and limits young women and girls.

Amendment 297 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 e (new)

16e. Highlights that women's entrepreneurship is important for increasing women's financial position; Notes that it creates jobs, strengthens the internal market and reduces unemployment.

Amendment 298 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 f (new)

16f. Emphasizes that the EU needs a business-friendly climate that makes it easy to start and run companies; notes that reduced bureaucratic burden for entrepreneurs lowers barriers for more women to start businesses.

Amendment 299 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 g (new)

16g. Highlights the importance of better access to education in financial literacy from an early age; with gender differences in financial literacy, the private financial conditions are affected; with better knowledge of sound personal finances, more women can have greater financial influence over their lives.

Amendment 3 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7

~~— having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention),~~deleted

Amendment 30 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the technological and digital revolution we are witnessing increases the digital progress and new business opportunities and whereas this technological and digital revolution changes economic patterns, social systems and the labour market and whereas everyone in our society, especially women, must have the chance to participate in this prosperity;

Amendment 300 #

Cindy FRANSSEN, Frances FITZGERALD, Maria da Graça CARVALHO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 h (new)

16h. Emphasizes the importance of knowledge about entrepreneurship from an early age; with better education and practical experience of entrepreneurship in schools, more opportunities can be created for women as barriers to starting a business are lowered.

Amendment 301 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Is convinced that the axiom that ‘work is the best cure for poverty’ no longer applies today in the face of low- wage sectors, atypical and precarious working conditions and the dismantling of social security systems and that effective collective agreements and minimum wage systems are needed to realise a poverty- free society.

Amendment 31 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

A b. whereas gender equality in the labour market, achieved by increasing social and economic wellbeing, benefits not only women but the economy and society as a whole;

Amendment 32 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas gender mainstreaming is an important tool for the integration of gender equality in all EU policies, measures and actions to promote equal opportunities and combat all forms of discrimination against women;

Amendment 33 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)

Ad. whereas recalling the recommendations of the European Pillar of Social Rights on gender equality, equal opportunities and active support to employment;

Amendment 34 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

Amendment 35 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic women have been disproportionately affected in the socio- economic sphere, the employment rate of women has even fallen more sharply than it did during the 2008 recession and has also resulted in a lower labour intensity, leading to significant increases in women’s poverty; whereas according to estimates for 2019 in the EU-27, women are particularly affected by the risk of poverty (AROP), with the poverty rate standing at 2517.1 % ~~before~~after social transfers ~~and 17.1 % after such transfe~~; whereas the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are not yet fully comprehended and the socio- economic impact will continue to be experienced in the coming years;

Amendment 36 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

Amendment 37 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the employment rate of women has even fallen more sharply than it did during the 2008 recession due to the increase of unpaid care work for dependants and household and educational care services, and has also resulted in a lower labour intensity, leading to significant increases in women’s poverty; whereas according to estimates for 2019 in the EU-27, women are particularly affected by the risk of poverty (AROP), with the poverty rate standing at 25.1 % before social transfers and 17.1 % after such transfers;

Amendment 38 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the employment rate of women has ~~even fallen more sharply than it did during the 2008 recessio~~fallen and has also resulted in a lower labour intensity, leading to significant increases in women’s poverty; whereas according to estimates for 2019 in the EU-27, women are particularly affected by the risk of poverty (AROP), with the poverty rate standing at 25.1 % before social transfers and 17.1 % after such transfers;

Amendment 39 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the COVID-19 situation has significantly increased the unemployment rate in Member States; whereas the effects of this situation are particularly serious for women who are affected directly through loss of their jobs or job security and indirectly through budget cuts in public services and welfare assistance; whereas it is therefore essential that the dimension of female poverty in the handling of this situation and the development of solutions be examined;

Amendment 4 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7

~~— having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention),~~deleted

Amendment 40 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic will have great economic and financial consequences, which will have a direct impact in terms of increasing poverty, especially among women and the most vulnerable groups in society, as its effects will be felt most keenly by workers in the service sector, the self-employed, temporary and seasonal workers, etc., among whom a higher proportion are women;

Amendment 41 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas poverty in general, and thus also women’s poverty, is multidimensional, and ~~therefore~~for this reason we need to combat all causes and consequences of all facets of women's poverty includesing not only material deprivation, but also a lack of access to many different resources and even an inability to fully exercise the rights of citizenship; whereas synergies between various actions carried out and political measures supporting gender equality, employment, education, taxation and housing can help combat deep-rooted causes of poverty and social exclusion more efficiently; whereas the impact of poverty on women and men is different and that therefore other indicators (such as age, life expectancy, income inequalities, gender pay gap, type of household, social transfers) need to be considered as well;

Amendment 42 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas poverty in general, and thus also women’s poverty, is multidimensional, and therefore includes not only material deprivation, but also a lack of access to many different resources and even an inability to fully exercise the rights of citizenship; whereas poverty results in social exclusion for women and lack of involvement in social life and political participation in terms of access to time, education, justice, lifelong learning, primary healthcare services, decent housing and nutrition, water and energy, digital sphere and finally condemns women in a kind of vicious circle of poverty and social exclusion;

Amendment 43 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas ~~poverty in general, and thus also~~ women’s poverty, is multidimensional, and therefore includes not only material deprivation, but also a lack of access to many different resources and ~~even an inability to fully exercise the rights of citizenship;~~ services; whereas it is directly influenced by the lack of fair valuation of work typically carried out by women, career breaks due to maternity leave or care responsibilities, unequal sharing of unpaid caring responsibilities and domestic work and segregation in education and subsequently in the labour market;

Amendment 44 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

Amendment 45 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas poverty in general, and thus also women’s poverty, is multidimensional, and therefore includes not only material deprivation, but also a lack of access to ~~many different resources and even an inability to fully exercise the rights of citizenship~~certain resources;

Amendment 46 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

Amendment 47 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas the increasing risk of poverty is closely and directly linked to the destruction of significant social functions performed by the state, as seen, for example, with the dismantling of public social security systems, along with, in a number of Member States, cuts to key social benefits (family allowance, unemployment benefit, sickness benefit, social integration minimum income);

Amendment 48 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas the multidimensionality of poverty affects more women than men, especially time poverty, generating a vicious circle that condemn women and their descendants to remain in poverty and social exclusion;

Amendment 49 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas women's poverty increases the risk of homelessness, the access to adequate housing and energy poverty, emphasizes as well the need for tailored policy measures specifically for single parents;

Amendment 5 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)

— having regard to the International Labour Organization Convention No. 190 on eliminating violence and harassment in the world of work,

Amendment 50 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

C b. whereas synergies between various actions carried out and political measures supporting gender equality, employment, training, taxation, family and housing can help combat deep-rooted causes of poverty and social exclusion more efficiently;

Amendment 51 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

C b. whereas the COVID crisis, has widened inequalities, opening a new gender divide[1]; [1] The coronavirus crisis: An emerging gender divide https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/ etudes/ATAG/2021/679100/EPRS_ATA(2 021)679100_EN.pdf

Amendment 52 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)

Cc. whereas a review of COVID19- recovery policy initiatives is needed to prevent the increase of the men-women gap[1]; [1] Investigating the gender divide in the aftermath of COVID-19. Eurofound publication foreseen by 2022Q3

Amendment 53 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)

Cd. whereas women outnumber men at older ages within the EU-27 population: in 2019, there were more than twice as many very old women (aged 85 years or more) as very old men; whereas ageing developments will have profound implications for governments, business and civil society, impacting especially health and social care systems, labour markets, public finances and pension entitlements; https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=Ageing_Europ e_- _statistics_on_population_developments

Amendment 54 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas ~~although~~ work in highly female- dominated sectors is essential and of high socioeconomic value, it is undervalued and lower paid than work in male-dominated sectors; whereas there is an urgent need to reassess the adequacy of wages in female-dominated sectors related to their social and economic value and to advance on minimum wages, minimum income and pay transparency in EU regulationsand it should therefore be valued and receive fair pay;

Amendment 55 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas although work in highly female-dominated sectors is essential and of high socioeconomic value, it is undervalued and lower paid than work in male-dominated sectors; whereas there is an urgent need to reassess the adequacy of wages in female-dominated sectors ~~related to their social and economic value and to advance on minimum wages, minimum income and pay transparency in EU regulations~~and to ensure adequate pay for all, to eliminate unfair practices and a downgrading of social protection standards and to promote equal opportunities while respecting the principle of subsidiarity;

Amendment 56 #

Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Christine SCHNEIDER

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas although work in highly female-dominated sectors is essential and of high socioeconomic value, it is undervalued and lower paid than work in male-dominated sectors; whereas there is an urgent need to reassess the adequacy of wages in female-dominated sectors related to their social and economic value and to advance on minimum wages, minimum income and pay transparency in EU regulations; while respecting national competence and subsidiarity;

Amendment 57 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

Amendment 58 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas ~~although work in highly female-dominated sectors is essential and of high socioeconomic value, it is undervalued and lower paid than work in male-dominated sectors~~work in sectors of high socioeconomic value, some of which are highly female-dominated, is undervalued and underpaid; whereas there is an urgent need to reassess the adequacy of wages ~~in female-dominated sectors~~ related to their social and economic value ~~and to~~, particularly in female-dominated sectors and to ensure that the Member States advance on minimum wages, minimum income and pay transparency ~~in EU regulations~~;

Amendment 59 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas although work in highly female-dominated sectors is essential and of high socioeconomic value, it is undervalued and lower paid ~~than work in male-dominated sectors~~; whereas there is an urgent need to reassess the adequacy of wages in female-dominated sectors related to their social and economic value and to advance on minimum wages, minimum income and pay transparency in EU regulations;

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 b (new)

— having regard to the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan,

Amendment 60 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas although work in highly female-dominated sectors, is essential and of high socioeconomic value, it is undervalued and lower paid than work in male-dominated sectors; whereas there is an urgent need to reassess the adequacy of wages in female-dominated sectors related to their social and economic value and to advance on minimum wages~~, minimum income~~ and pay transparency in EU regulations;

Amendment 61 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the right to work is an essential precondition if women are to enjoy economic independence, professional fulfilment and effective equal rights; whereas precarious employment should thus be eradicated through the mandatory application of the principle that for every actual job there should be a permanent post, and by recognising and enhancing the right to work with rights;

Amendment 62 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas people do not live in isolation and are part of a family;

Amendment 63 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas the importance of combating discrimination between men and women in access to employment and work, and promoting equality in careers and professional categories, in vocational training and in salaries is essential, at the same time as strengthening work with rights and protecting collective bargaining and union rights;

Amendment 64 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas people’s family responsibilities determine their level of poverty;

Amendment 65 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas there is an increased risk of poverty and social exclusion among some groups of women such as single mothers, women above the age of 65, women with disabilities, women with low levels of education and women from migrant backgrounds who increasingly suffer under honour culture and honour related violence;

Amendment 66 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas there is an increased risk of poverty and social exclusion among some groups of women such as single mothers, ~~women above the age of 65, women with disabilities, women with low levels of education and women from migrant backgrounds~~older or disabled women, or those with low levels of education;

Amendment 67 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas policies targeted at increasing the participation of women in the fields related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and AI, and the adoption of a multi-level approach to address the gender gap in all levels of education and employment in the digital sector need to be further promoted;

Amendment 68 #

Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Christine SCHNEIDER, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas Europe’s low demographic indicators and the urgent need for generational replacement highlight the importance of promoting policies to support families and, in particular, the many families that are at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion;

Amendment 69 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas in some Member States women are largely unemployed or work part-time due to child care responsibilities and other forms of long-term care and are thus exposed to a higher risk of poverty among seniors;

Amendment 7 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10

~~— having regard to the Commission communication of 5 March 2020 entitled ‘A Union of Equality: Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025’ (COM(2020)0152),~~deleted

Amendment 70 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)

E b. whereas women who live in rural areas are particularly affected by poverty; whereas many women who live in rural areas are not even registered on the labour market or as unemployed; whereas the rate of unemployment among women in rural areas is extremely high, and those who are employed have very low incomes; whereas women in rural areas have limited access to education;

Amendment 71 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)

Ec. whereas girls outperform boys in school but often encounter greater difficulties or are prevented from translating this educational success into professional accomplishment by familial and other pressures;

Amendment 72 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas according to Eurostat’s definition, individuals are at risk of in- work poverty when they work for over half the year and when their yearly equivalised disposable income is below 60 % of the national household median income level (after social transfers); whereas women are more at risk of in-work poverty as they are more likely to be in temporary, part- time and precarious employment than men;2a _________________ 2a EIGE Research note, Gender equality and the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, p14.

Amendment 73 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas figures show that on average in the EU, 29.5 %of women with disabilities are at risk of falling victim to poverty and social exclusion, compared with 27.5 % of their male counterparts;

Amendment 74 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas the natural family is a source of stability and economic support, which has a positive impact on the safety and well-being of its members;

Amendment 75 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)

Fb. whereas the impact of crises can be reduced by the support and benefits of stable family units;

Amendment 76 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas ~~investment in universal services, including care service~~a common European approach in addition to Member States policies in the care sector would create an important added value; whereas women are responsible for the majority of caring duties; whereas caring for children or relatives is named by women in the EU as the most common reason for reducing working hours or withdrawing from the labour market; whereas women often take short-term, part time or precarious, and even informal employments, tha~~s a positive impact on women’s fundamental rights~~t can be adapted to a caregiving schedule, what affects their short and long-term earnings and contributions to pension funds; whereas career choices profoundly affect a carer’s economic independence in old age, affecting the gender pension gap and the risk of poverty;

Amendment 77 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas investment in universal services, including care services, has a positive impact on women’s fundamental rights; whereas the establishment of high- quality social services and facilities at affordable prices for early childhood education and care, or care for other dependent persons such as the elderly, is key for avoiding the increasing poverty, especially for women who are more dependant on those services because the structural inequalities in care responsibilities between woman and men; whereas social protection measures are absolutely key for tackling female poverty not only economically but in its multidimensionality;

Amendment 78 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas investment in universal services, including care services, has a positive impact on women’s ~~fundamental rights~~economic independence and their ability to participate in the labour market;

Amendment 79 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas women more often than men take the responsibility for the care of elderly or ill family members as well as for children and put their careers on hold more regularly, which prevents them making pension plans, forging a career and fully participating in the market, thereby diminishing their overall income;

Amendment 8 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)

— having regard to its resolution of 31 May 2011 on women entrepreneurship in small and medium-sized enterprises;

Amendment 80 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas poverty also makes women more vulnerable to gender-based violence; whereas this includes the inability to leave an abusive partner and disproportionate vulnerability to trafficking and sexual exploitation; whereas gender-based violence contributes to poverty as it leads to social isolation of women subject to violence;

Amendment 81 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

H. whereas poverty ~~also makes women more vulnerable to~~exacerbates the impacts of gender-based violence on women due to increased difficulties to escape this situation; whereas gender- based violence~~; whereas this includes disproportionate vulnerability to~~ is a structural problem that transcends class, origin or belief; whereas poverty puts women at a greater risk of trafficking and sexual exploitation;

Amendment 82 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas poverty also makes women more vulnerable to gender-based violence; whereas this includes disproportionate vulnerability to trafficking and sexual exploitation so that women and their families end up being economically dependent of their abusers;

Amendment 83 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas poverty also makes women more vulnerable to gender-based violence; whereas this includes disproportionate vulnerability to trafficking and sexual exploitation, honour related violence and female genital mutilation;

Amendment 84 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas poverty also makes women more vulnerable to gender-based violence; whereas this includes disproportionate vulnerability to domestic violence, trafficking and sexual exploitation;

Amendment 85 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas poverty also makes women more vulnerable to ~~gender-based~~sexual violence; whereas this includes disproportionate vulnerability to trafficking and sexual exploitation;

Amendment 86 #

Lina GÁLVEZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Maria NOICHL

Ha. whereas gender-based violence often lead women to poverty and social exclusion, since violence has consequences on health and frequently leads to job loss and homelessness;

Amendment 87 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas women have a lower employment rate and are disproportionally highly represented in low-paid, precarious and dead-end job sectors; whereas the gender pay gap stands at 14.1 %; whereas since 2010 the gender gap in earnings has increased in 17 Member States, while the gender gap in income has gone up in 19Member States, leading to an overall increase in gender inequality in earnings and income in the EU[1] [1] Eurostat, Gender pay gap statistics, February2021.

Amendment 88 #

Cindy FRANSSEN, Christine SCHNEIDER, Frances FITZGERALD, Maria da Graça CARVALHO

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas ~~women have a low~~the average gender employment ~~rate~~ gap stands aret 11,5% with women disproportionally highly represented in low-paid, precarious and dead-end job sectors; whereas women are more affected by flexible work forms, atypical and flexible contracts(part-time work, temporary work).whereas the gender pay gap stands at 14.1 %;

Amendment 89 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas women have a lower employment rate and are disproportionally highly represented in low-paid, precarious and dead-end job sectors; whereas women face pregnancy and maternity discrimination; whereas the gender pay gap stands at 14.1 %;

Amendment 9 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13

~~— having regard to its resolution of 26 May 2016 on poverty: a gender perspective5, _________________ 5 OJ C 76, 28.2.2018, p. 93.~~deleted

Amendment 90 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

Amendment 91 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas women have a lower employment rate and are disproportionally highly represented in low-paid, and precarious ~~and dead-end job sector~~jobs; whereas the gender pay gap stands at 14.1 %; in 2019 although this varies significantly between Member States;3a _________________ 3a https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=Gender_pay_g ap_statistics

Amendment 92 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas women have a lower employment rate and are disproportionally highly represented in low-paid, precarious and dead-end job sectors; whereas the ~~gender pay gap stands at 14.1 %~~Member States must make progress in achieving equal pay for equal work, regardless of a worker’s gender;

Amendment 93 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Pernille WEISS, Frances FITZGERALD, Arba KOKALARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas women can have a lower employment rate and are ~~disproportionally highly~~more represented in low-paid~~, precarious~~ and dead-end job sectors; whereas the gender gap in pay stands at 14.1 %;

Amendment 94 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas women have been working in the frontline of the pandemic and also in the services sector, which has been particularly affected by the current crisis; whereas this has led to an increase in female unemployment rates and thus a higher likelihood of poverty for women in the EU; whereas women have also tended to partake a disproportionate amount of uncompensated childcare work, even if enforced lockdowns have meant that men increased their household participation in comparison to the years prior to the pandemic;

Amendment 95 #

Sylvie BRUNET, Hilde VAUTMANS, Karen MELCHIOR, Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, Irène TOLLERET

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas harassment at the workplace, including sexual and psychological harassment, of which women are the majority of victims, has a deterrent effect on women including increased absenteeism, reduced productivity and consequently loss of income and contributes to driving them out of the labour market, which has a negative impact on an individual’s career and economic independence; whereas reporting harassment at the workplace can lead to dismissal or isolation of the victim;

Amendment 96 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas about 10 percent of the working population in Europe lives in poverty and it is mainly women who are paid below a living wage, rendering many unable to provide for themselves and their families; whereas the establishment of a minimum wages would contribute to reducing poverty and closing the gender pay gap;

Amendment 97 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas some women may choose to devote themselves to their family responsibilities at home, and their choices should be respected and supported given that those tasks are of significant social benefit;

Amendment 98 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)

I b. whereas the rate of trans people in paid employment reaches only 51%, compared to 69.3% of the general population; whereas unemployment is a particular issue for tra ns women who are nearly three times as likely to be unemployed as the general population average12a; _________________ 12a https://op.europa.eu/en/publication- detail/-/publication/7341d588-ddd8-11ea- adf7-01aa75ed71a1/language-en

Amendment 99 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the pension entitlements gap averages at almost 30 % as a result of the imbalances created by persistent lifelong inequalities; whereas the time devoted to care work by informal caregivers, especially mothers raising their children, is undervalued in terms of pension entitlements; whereas this pension gap means that women fall below the poverty line as they get older;

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Amendment 1 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas ~~women in the EU ar~~in the EU, the number of women in poverty is still higher than the number of men in poverty1a; whereas despite a reduction in poverty in the EU among both women and men, women continue to be disproportionally more affected by poverty and the risk of social exclusion than men, in particular women who experience intersectional forms of discrimination; whereas in 2020, the risk of poverty and social exclusion (AROPE) in the EU was higher for women (22.9 %) than men (20.9 %), though in both cases it has decreased since 2015 (24.9 % and 23.1 % respectively); whereas since 2017, the gender- poverty gap has increased in 21 Member States12 ~~; _________________~~ ; whereas according to the data, poverty rates among women vary greatly between Member States; whereas owing to the strong correlation between female poverty and child poverty, 1 in 4 children in the EU are at risk of poverty or social exclusion; _________________ 1a Eurostat webpage entitled ‘Living conditions in Europe – poverty and social exclusion’, accessed on 30 May 2022. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=Living_conditi ons_in_Europe_- _poverty_and_social_exclusion&oldid=54 4210 12 European Institute for Gender Equality, ‘Gender Equality Index 2020: Digitalisation and the future of work’, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020.

Amendment 10 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. CPoints out that, according to Eurostat, there are currently 64.6 million women and 57.6 million men living in poverty in the Member States, which shows that the impact of poverty on women and men is different; calls on the Commission to develop an ambitious 2030 European anti- poverty strategy, with concrete targets for reducing poverty and a focus on ending women’s poverty and ~~the risk of~~ breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty risks;

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Underlines that women’s poverty also needs to be analysed from an intersectional approach, ~~including migrant and ethnic origin, age, race and sexual or gender orientat~~which entails a gender-sensitive analysis that takes into account intersecting forms of discrimination on the grounds of characteristics such as social-economic background, migrant and ethnic origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression; calls for the EIGE’s Gender Equality Index to be incorporated into the social scoreboard; calls on the EIGE to provide data disaggregated intersectionally and by gender, and calls on the Member States to use this data in order to better address country-specific challenges and develop national recovery plans, as well as to improve synergies among different packages, funds and policies;

Amendment 12 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Calls on~~Welcomes the Commission ~~to put forward a ‘care deal for Europe’, which should~~’s announcement of a ‘European care strategy’, but calls on it to go beyond measures in the care sector and ensure a transition towards a caring economy that takes a holistic, gender-~~sensit~~responsive and lifelong approach to care ~~while envisaging legislative measures and~~ , including measures to promote ecological sustainability, fair working conditions and adequate wages in order to maintain the attractiveness of work in the care sector, end discrimination, combat poverty, violence and abuse, set minimum standards and adequate quality guidelinves~~tment at EU level~~ for care throughout a person’s lifetime and provide support for formal and informal carers, unpaid carers and the people they care for; calls on the Member States to create incentives for employers to promote a better work-life balance;

Amendment 13 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses the pivotal role of women working in the social, care, cleaning, education, health and retail sectors that keep our societies functioning, as shown by the COVID-19 crisis; calls for typically female-dominated work to be reassessed and revaluated and for cross- sector gender- neutral job evaluation tools to be developed and applied in order to better assess and more fairly remunerate female- dominated work and ensure equal pay for equal work and work of equal value, while at the same time strengthening women’s entrepreneurship in small and medium-sized enterprises;

Amendment 14 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Highlights that in order to tackle the multidimensionality of women’s poverty, it is necessary to overcome the segregation of unpaid domestic ~~care work~~work and care responsibilities mainly performed by women and ~~to introduce flexitime in order to allow women and men to better reconcile their professional life with their private life (time use policy);~~ strengthen the fight against stereotypes in order to reinforce care service work-life balance measures and family-friendly working arrangements, such as adaptable working hours and the possibility of teleworking to promote the ‘equal earner-equal carer’ model (time use policy)1e,so as to allow women and men to better reconcile their professional life with their private life; urges the Member States to fully transpose and implement the Work-Life Balance Directive so as to ensure a fair division of work and family life, and invites them to go beyond the directive’s minimum standards; stresses that in-work poverty needs to be addressed at its root causes, for example by promoting education and training, establishing minimum wages and ensuring social protection; calls on the Commission to urge the Member States to invest in qualitative education and training and support them in doing so, to share good practices and to pay specific attention to lifelong learning; _________________ 1e EIGE Gender Statistics Database, accessed on 30 May 2022. Available at: https://eige.europa.eu/gender- statistics/dgs/browse/ta/ta_timeuse

Amendment 15 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. CStresses that climate change also has a big impact on female poverty as women are more dependent on natural resources and, since they constitute the majority of poor people in the EU, have fewer resources to protect themselves against the negative effects of climate change; regrets that a gender perspective has not been consistently introduced in the EU’s climate policies; calls on the Commission to mainstream gender equality into the EU’s climate change policies ~~in order to ensure~~and legislation; is of the opinion that the Fit for 55 package ~~policies~~ and the social climate fund arshould be designed and implemented with a clear gender dimension and benefit women as equally as men;

Amendment 16 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to mainstream gender ~~into all transport-related legislation, policies, programmes and actions and to include gender criteria and work-life balance in the design of mobility, housing and urban planning~~equality into all policies, programmes and actions and establish better work-life balance policies and adequate measures to guarantee women’s participation in the labour market, such as better maternity leave, significantly longer paternity leave periods, paid and non-transferable parental leave, flexible working hours, on-site childcare facilities, care services and remote working policies; stresses the importance of gender mainstreaming and tailoring the economic policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic to the specific needs of women and the structure of their economic activities;

Amendment 17 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to mainstream gender equality into all transport-related legislation, policies, programmes and actions and to include a gender perspective in the design of mobility, affordable housing and urban planning;

Amendment 18 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. UHighlights that homelessness among women should not be underestimated and misperceived as a minor social problem in the EU; points at the lack of comprehensive disaggregated data on the nature and extent of women’s homelessness, which makes this problem less visible; urges the EU and its Member States to integrate a gender perspective into policies and practices that address homelessness, and the lack of access to affordable and adequate housing and energy, and to develop a specific strateg~~y to combat women’s homelessness and to ensure that services work appropriately and effectively to meet the needs of homeless women~~ies aimed at eradicating these problems by 2030, while ensuring that services work appropriately and effectively to meet the needs of homeless women; stresses the importance of recognising gender-based violence as one of the root causes aggravating the risk of homelessness among women, and stresses the need to look at how women’s needs intersect with broader socio-economic and structural barriers; calls on all actors to integrate a gender perspective into the European Platform on Combatting Homelessness; is convinced that the ‘housing first’ principle can play an important role in fighting homelessness and calls for these projects to be rolled out in all Member States;

Amendment 19 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Commission to propose proactive measures through the European social funds and the European agricultural fund for rural development to promote women’s employment ~~and socio-economic development in rural areas~~, the facilitation of access to social services and socio-economic development in rural areas; encourages the Member States, in cooperation with regional and local authorities, to reduce the risk of poverty among women in rural areas by empowering them and improving their quality of life through the provision of quality educational programmes and quality employment conditions, including teleworking and a decent income; calls for positive action encouraging women farmers in particular to stay in rural areas, including the promotion of community centres that can provide technical advice and assistance to keep farms operating and help them to survive and encourage young people to invest in agriculture and livestock to ensure its long-term survival;

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the employment rate of women has even fallen more sharply than it did during the 2008 recession and has also resulted in a lower labour intensity, leading to significaccording to estimates for 2019 in the EU-27, women are particularly affected by the risk of poverty (AROPE), with the poverty rate standing at 17.1 % after social transfers; whereas since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, women have been disproportionately affected in the socio-economic sphere, including, in some cases, by loss of employment; whereas the employment rate of women has even fallen more sharply than it did during the 2008 recession; whereas this is, among other things, due to the increase of unpaid care, domestic and educational work carried out mainly by women, and has also resulted in ant increases in women’s poverty; whereas ~~according to estimates for 2019 in the EU- 27, women are particularly affected by the risk of poverty (AROP), with the poverty rate st~~even before the COVID- 19 pandemic, the majority of people in temporary and part-time posts were women, especially in the service sector, and whereas the pandemic has reinforced this trend; whereas the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are not yet fully comprehended and whereas the socio- economic impact will continue to be experienced in the coming years; whereas it is therefore essential to examine female poverty in context of the handling a~~t 25.1 % before social transfers and 17.1 % after such transfers;~~ nd aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis; whereas measures taken to exit the financial crisis of 2008 have not been sufficient to reduce women’s poverty; whereas reductions in funding for social public services and lower wages disproportionality affect women, owing to their greater reliance on social public services and allowances;

Amendment 20 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. Stresses the crucial role of all EU social funds and programmes, particularly the European Social Fund Plus, the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers, the Just Transition Fund, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, and the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund; highlights that through the ESF+, the Member States and the Commission should aim to mitigate the socio-economic impacts of the crisis, particularly on women, to increase the numbers of women in employment and help them to reconcile their work and personal lives, to combat poverty and its gender dimension, the feminisation of poverty and gender discrimination in the labour market and in education and training, to support the most vulnerable and to combat child poverty; calls on the Member States to make full use of funds with a gender perspective;

Amendment 21 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls ~~on the Commission to design a special programme~~for a gender-sensitive approach to the digital transition; urges the Commission to use existing programmes and funding and make available additional funding where needed to fight against women’s digital poverty in order to equip women with the necessary skills to operate safely in the digital environment, and to improve their digital literacy;

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to investigate barriers to female entrepreneurship and in particular to conduct a comprehensive analysis of women’s access to finance, helping to end female poverty in the European Union by empowering women to become entrepreneurs and founders of small and medium-sized enterprises contributing to the twin transition; notes that women’s entrepreneurship creates jobs, strengthens the single market and reduces unemployment; notes that a reduced bureaucratic burden for entrepreneurs removes barriers to ensure more women can start businesses; emphasises the importance of knowledge about entrepreneurship and practical experience in schools; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote women’s empowerment through education, vocational training and lifelong learning; calls, in particular, for greater promotion of STEM subjects and digital, artificial intelligence and financial literacy, in order to combat prevailing stereotypes and ensure that more women enter these sectors and contribute to their development;

Amendment 23 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States to ensure that all new ~~gender-fair~~ fiscal policy, including taxation which has a clear gender dimension, tackles and eliminates socioeconomic and gender inequalities in all their dimensions; 1f; calls on the Member States to avoid gender discrimination in their tax policies and eliminate VAT on women’s sanitary goods, which disproportionally jeopardises the dignity of lower-income women, and thereby ensure that all women have access to these essential products; _________________ 1f Report by Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs of April 2017 entitled ‘Gender equality and taxation in the European Union’.

Amendment 24 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Member States to take the gender dimension into account when reforming pension systems and adapting the retirement age and to consider the differences between the work patterns of women and men ~~and~~, including all unpaid employment practices, taking into account the higher risk of discrimination of women in the labour market, in particular older women; urges the Member States to take specific measures to prevent and combat the risk of poverty for older and retired women resulting from population ageing and the proportion of older women in disadvantaged or vulnerable positions; calls on the Member States to include compensation for unpaid care work in their pension systems, for example through care credits or other measures added to the carer’s pension, irrespective of whether the care is provided to underage children, elderly persons or sick or disabled persons, while at the same time encouraging men to become carers;

Amendment 25 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14 a. Welcomes the ongoing negotiations for the adoption of a directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union; calls on the EU institutions to adopt an EU framework favouring the establishment or adaptation of a minimum wage per country based inter alia on a national basket of goods and services at real prices, including, among other things, adequate housing, healthy and balanced food, clothing, sustainable transport and energy, health and care and resources enabling people to meaningfully participate in society, culture and education, which would ensure a decent standard of living that would partially help to reduce in-work poverty, in particular for women; calls for fair and adequate minimum wages in the Member States as a necessary safeguard to ensure fairer wage distribution and to guarantee a wage floor protecting women and men in the labour market; is of the opinion that the creation of a minimum wage framework must be achieved and preserved through clear rules, transparent procedures and effective practices, using criteria and guiding indicators to assess adequacy and with the contribution of consultative bodies, among others, and the involvement of social partners;

Amendment 26 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Underlines that gender mainstreaming has to be applied at all levels of the EU budgetary process in order to transform revenues and expenditures into social investment and to achieve gender equality and eliminate women’s poverty; Regrets that overall, gender mainstreaming has not yet been applied across the EU budget, as pointed out by the European Court of Auditors, and calls for this situation to be reversed as a matter of urgency; underlines that gender mainstreaming has to be applied at all levels of the policy cycle and must be based on reliable data; highlights the importance of the implementation of gender-responsive budgeting, including in all programmes in the 2022 budget, in order to achieve gender equality and eliminate women’s poverty; calls on the Commission, in this context, to accelerate the introduction of an effective, transparent and comprehensive methodology and to closely cooperate with Parliament in measuring relevant gender expenditure, as provided for in the Interinstitutional Agreement 1g, in order to be able to show tangible results for the 2022 budget and with a view to extending the methodology to all multiannual financial framework programmes; _________________ 1g Interinstitutional Agreement between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on Better Law-Making, OJ L 123, 12.5.2016, p. 1.

Amendment 27 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Points out that the EU’s fiscal capacity ~~urgently requires the~~requires a potential revision of the current economic and social governance sto ~~that it contributes to re~~reduce inequalities and female poverty and achingeve gender equalit~~ies and ending female poverty and does not just include austerity measures~~y; calls for economic and social governance to be consistent with the achievement of gender equality objectives and for the ending of female poverty;

Amendment 28 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16 a. Notes that women’s economic independence plays a crucial role in their ability to escape situations of gender- based violence; calls, therefore, for the provision of support and protection measures to support women in these situations, the adoption of a comprehensive directive on preventing and combating all forms of gender-based violence, the addition of gender-based violence in the list of EU crimes, the EU ratification of the Istanbul Convention and the ratification thereof by Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia; stresses that a life free from violence is fundamental if women are to participate in the labour market, reach their full potential and be financially independent; condemns deliberate disinformation about tools and initiatives to combat gender-based violence in the EU; expresses concern that this disinformation is gaining a foothold in Europe and thus making it even more difficult to protect women from violence;

Amendment 3 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas women’s poverty i~~n gener~~s multidimensional, and ~~thus also women’s poverty, is multidimensional, and therefore~~for this reason we need to combat all causes and consequences of all facets of women’s poverty, including material deprivation, but also the lack of access to different resources and services, which limits their ability to fully enjoy their citizenship; whereas female poverty is directly incflu~~des not only material deprivation, but also a lack of access to many different resources and even an inability to fully exercise the rights of citizenship~~enced by the lack of fair valuation of work mainly carried out by women, career breaks due to maternity leave or care responsibilities, unequal sharing of unpaid caring responsibilities and domestic work and segregation in education and subsequently in the labour market; whereas women’s poverty results in their exclusion from certain social and political aspects of life; whereas at the same time, the lack of adequate access to resources and services increases women’s risk of falling into or remaining in poverty, which shows the mutual interdependence between poverty and social and political exclusion;

Amendment 4 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. whereas the impact of poverty on women and men differs and therefore indicators to better understand the feminisation of poverty such as age, life expectancy, income inequality, the gender pay gap, type of household and social transfers also need to be considered; whereas synergies between various actions carried out and political measures supporting gender equality in employment, education, taxation policies and housing can help to combat deep- rooted causes of poverty and social exclusion more effectively;

Amendment 5 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas ~~investment in universal services, including care services, has a positive impact on women’s fundamental rights;~~ a common EU approach to the care sector, in addition to Member State policies, would create significant added value; whereas women take on unpaid care work more often than men, and caring for children or dependents is therefore one of the most common reasons for women to reduce their working hours or withdraw from the labour market; whereas women more regularly put their careers on hold or take on short-term, part-time, precarious or even informal employment that can be adapted to a caregiving schedule, which affects their earnings, their contributions to their pension funds and thus has an impact on their economic independence in old age; whereas universal access to high- quality healthcare and social services and facilities at affordable prices, such as early childhood care and education or care for other dependent persons, is not only key for avoiding increasing poverty, especially for women, but is also critical for an economy that serves the public interest; whereas investment in these services therefore has a positive impact on women’s economic independence and their ability to participate in the labour market; whereas social protection measures are absolutely key for tackling female poverty, not only economically but also in its multidimensionality;

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas poverty ~~also makes women more vulnerable to gender-based violence; whereas this includes disproportionate vulnerability to trafficking and sexual exploitation;~~ exacerbates the impacts of gender-based violence on women as increased economic difficulties make it hard for women in abusive relationships to leave their partner; whereas gender-based violence is a structural problem that can be found across all socio-economic groups and is independent of origin or belief; whereas poverty puts women at greater risk of trafficking and sexual exploitation as it makes them and their families economically dependent on their abusers; whereas gender-based violence also contributes to poverty and social exclusion as violence has consequences for health and can lead to the loss of one’s job and homelessness;

Amendment 7 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas ~~women have a low~~the average gender employment ~~rate~~ gap stands aret 11.5 %, with women disproportionally highly represented in low-paid, precarious ~~and dead-end job sectors; whereas the gender pay gap stands at 14.1 %;~~ job sectors; whereas women are more represented in flexible work forms, atypical and flexible contracts (part-time work, temporary work, etc.); whereas women face pregnancy and maternity discrimination; whereas the gender pay gap stood at 14.1 % at EU level in 2019, though there were significant differences between Member States 1b; whereas the gender gap in earnings has increased in 17 Member States since 2010, while the gender gap in income has gone up in 19 Member States, leading to an overall increase in gender inequality in earnings and income in the EU1c; whereas about 10 % of the working population in the EU is at risk of poverty, and it is mainly women who are paid minimum wage or less than a living wage, owing, among other things, to the greater involvement of women in the informal economy; whereas combating undeclared work and setting adequate and fair levels of minimum wages that provide for a decent standard of living can help to reduce wage inequality, the gender pay gap and female poverty; _________________ 1b Eurostat webpage entitled ‘Gender pay gap statistics’, accessed on 30 May 2022. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=Gender_pay_g ap_statistics 1c ‘Gender pay gap statistics’.

Amendment 8 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the gender pension ~~entitlements gap averages at almost 30 %~~gap averaged 29.4 % in 20191d as a result of the imbalances created by persistent lifelong inequalities; whereas this pension gap means that women are more likely to fall below the poverty line as they get older; , also bearing in mind that female life expectancy is longer than male life expectancy, deepening the consequences of poverty and social exclusion; whereas greater labour inclusion throughout a person’s lifetime will help to close the gender pension gap; _________________ 1d 1d Eurostat article of 3 February 2021 entitled ‘Closing the gender pension gap?’.

Amendment 9 #