32 Amendments of Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ related to 2011/2244(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas equality between men and women is a fundamental principle of the European Union, enshrined in the Treaty on European Union, and whereas the Union has set itself the specific task of mainstreaming gender equality in all its activities; and despite the gradual progress in this area, yet many inequalities between women and men remain;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas initially the economic crisis mainly hit male employment, but cuts in public spending are expected to have a disproportionate impact on female employment, as many more women than men are employed in the public sector; particularly critical sectors dominated by women are health sector, education field and social care;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas more women than men work on temporary contracts, and therefore can more easily be released from employment as the crisis progresses;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas comparatively more women than men work in part-time jobs or on temporary contracts in order to care after children, elderly and dependent persons, and also work longer paid and unpaid hours than men;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas full integration of women in the labour market requires access to services providing care for children, elderly and dependent persons;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas the European Parliament adopted in October 2011 its position on the proposal for a new Directive on Maternity Leave extending the maternity leave to 20 weeks with full pay also establishing paid paternity leave of at least 2 weeks;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas more women than men suffer from poverty and low-level pensions mostly due to ageing or single parent status;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas more women than men in senior age live in single household due to longer life expectancy, and therefore are in higher risk of senior poverty;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
Gc. whereas differences between salaries of women and men are not becoming smaller but rather stagnate;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G d (new)
Recital G d (new)
Gd. whereas many women suffer from double discrimination such as disabled women, women caring for children, elderly and disabled, old women, female members of ethnic minorities and immigrant women;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G e (new)
Recital G e (new)
Ge. whereas female immigrants are often overqualified for the jobs they have in another country;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G f (new)
Recital G f (new)
Gf. whereas female immigrants suffer from particularly strong social exclusion;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G g (new)
Recital G g (new)
Gg. whereas women in rural areas suffer from even greater discrimination and gender stereotypes than women in urban areas and the employment rate of those women is much lower than of those in the cities;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G h (new)
Recital G h (new)
Gh. whereas victims of human trafficking are mostly women and girls;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G i (new)
Recital G i (new)
Gi. whereas the number of female vice- presidents of the European Parliament has decreased in the second half of the parliamentary term 2009-2014;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Regrets that economic recovery projects still focus mainly on male dominated employment, which results in an increase rather than a decrease of gender inequality, and insists that gender equality must be mainstreamed in European, national and international plans for economic recovery;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Stresses that the economic and financial crisis is threatening the most vulnerable groups of our society including women and thus urges the Council, Commission and Member States to defend social rights and to guarantee that the crisis will not lead to cuts in social benefits and social services such as child care and care for elderly;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls strongly on the Member States to maintain gender balance when taking austerity measures in the times of the economic and financial crisis, in particular when it comes to the public sector;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that, despite countless campaigns, targets and measures in recent years, the gender pay gap remains stubbornly wide, women across the EU earn 17.5% less on average than men and there has only been a marginal reduction of the gender pay gap in the last few years; thus women are exposed to a higher risk of poverty;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Concerned that the economic crisis and budget cuts will exacerbate the problem, as women will be disproportionately affected, calls on Member States’ governments as well as on social partners to devise an action plan and concrete, ambitious targets to tackle the full range of causes of the gender pay gap;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes also that lower salaries lead to lower pensions and a higher risk of poverty in older age and thus suggests that appropriate measures should be taken in order to reduce pension disparities between women and men; considering that women carry family responsibilities often resulting in interruptions of their careers and are less professionally involved than men;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Welcomes the initiative of the European Commission to launch a European Equal Pay Day (EEPD) and invites all the Member States to join others who have already been raising awareness of the existence of the gender pay gap by this means;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Welcomes the significant increase in the numbers of female chairs of parliamentary committees and the number of female MEPs in the legislative term 2009-2014 but regrets the decrease of female EP vice-presidents in the second half of the term; therefore proposes measures for absolute gender balance regarding the vice-presidents’ posts;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Member States to promote female entrepreneurship and to provide financial support, vocational guidance and training to encourage women setting up their own companies;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls onUrges the Commission to include homophobic and transphobic violence and harassment in its action programmes against gender-based violence;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Points out that domestic violence claims many deadly victims across the EU each year, so it should bethus it calls for adequate measures to be taken so that it is treated as a public security issue rather than as a private, domestic issue;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Expresses satisfaction with the recent adoption of the European Protection Order Directive, which aims to protect victims of, for instance, gender violence and invites the Member States to its early transposition into national law;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Repeatedly calls on the Commission to establish a European Year for combating violence against women;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to pay special attention to more vulnerable groups of women such as disabled women, women with dependants, elderly women, minority and immigrant women and women prisoners as they suffer from double discrimination, and to develop targeted measures to meet their needs;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Welcomes the recent decision of the United Nations to create an International Day of the Girl Child on 11 October, which is a powerful way to highlight the particular needs and rights of girls, and to advocate greater action and investment to enable girls to reach their full potential in line with international human rights standards and obligations, including the Millennium Development Goals;