2017/2008(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas ~~structural barriers to women’s economic empowerment are the result of multiple and intersecting forms of inequalities and discrimination in the private and public sphere~~women are often the victims of occupational segregation and exploited or forced to accept precarious posts or atypical working arrangements, which leads to differences in pay and in pensions;

Amendment 10 #

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

A b. Whereas greater economic empowerment of women and greater gender equality is an economic opportunity which would significantly boost Europe´s economic growth, competitiveness, and opportunities in employment. Emphasises that GDP would grow between 15% and 45% in the EU Member States if gender gaps in employment were eliminated.

Amendment 100 #

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Robert ROCHEFORT, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Member States to enforce laws and workplace policies that prohibit direct and indirect discrimination in the recruitment, retention and promotion of women in employment in both the public and private sectors and to improve women's labour market accessibility and career progression;

Amendment 101 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Member States to ~~enforce~~strengthen the implementation of existing laws and workplace policies t~~hat~~o pro~~hibit discrimination~~tect women from discrimination, particularly, in the recruitment, retention and promotion of women in employment in both the public and private sectors;

Amendment 102 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Member States ~~to enforce~~and the Commission to enforce already existing and establish better laws and workplace policies that prohibit discrimination in the recruitment, retention and promotion of women in employment in both the public and private sectors;

Amendment 103 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Member States to enforce laws and workplace policies that prohibit discrimination in the ~~recruitment, retention~~selection, hiring, retention, vocational training and promotion of women in employment in both the public and private sectors;

Amendment 104 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Member States to enforce laws and workplace policies that pr~~ohibi~~event discrimination in the recruitment, retention and promotion of women in employment in both the public and private sectors;

Amendment 105 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Calls on the Member States to put in place proactive policies and appropriate investment aimed and designed to support women and men entering, returning to, staying and advancing in the labour market, after periods of family and care- related types of leave, with sustainable and quality employment, in line with Article 27 of the European Social Charter; stresses in particular the need to guarantee reinstatement to the same post or to an equivalent or similar post, protection against dismissal and less favourable treatment as a result of pregnancy, applying for or taking family leave, and a protection period after their return so that they can readjust to their job;

Amendment 106 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Urges Member States to implement, where applicable, parental protection schemes comprising mandatory exclusive maternity and paternity leave for each parent, as well as parental leave that can be used in accordance with a joint decision by the parents, as a way of recognising the rights of both parents and countering any presumption on the part of employers that parenting responsibilities fall exclusively on mothers;

Amendment 107 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Encourages Member States to promote non-gender identification resumes to discourage companies and public administration of gender bias during the recruitment process and calls on the Commission to remove the gender identification in the Europass CV;

Amendment 108 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Welcomes the efforts of Member States to promote policies that prevent discrimination in recruitment, such as piloting anonymised CV projects;

Amendment 109 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Stresses that remuneration and social security contributions should continue to be paid during leave times;

Amendment 11 #

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas women and men have equal rights and duties in relation to parenthood (with the exception of recovery after giving birth), and bearing in mind that the burden of bringing up children should be shared and should therefore not be assigned exclusively to mothers;

Amendment 110 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Recalls the importance of the Women on Boards Directive and calls on the Member States to ensure equal representation and leadership in the labour market, in economic and political decision-making structures and institutions, as well as in enterprises and on corporate boards;deleted

Amendment 111 #

Evelyn REGNER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Recalls the importance of the ~~Women on Boards Directive and calls on the Member States to ensure equal representation and leadership~~directive on improving the gender balance on company boards and calls on the Member States to bring the work in the Council to a conclusion so that negotiations with Parliament can begin; also calls on the Member States to improve the gender balance in management positions in the labour market, in economic and political decision-making structures and institutions, as well as in enterprises and on corporate boards;

Amendment 112 #

Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Romana TOMC, Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA, Claude ROLIN, Anne SANDER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Recalls the importance of the Women on Boards Directive and calls on the Member States to ensure that by 2020 at least 40% of non-executive directors on listed company boards are women and guarantee equal representation and leadership in the labour market, in economic and political decision- making structures and institutions, as well as in enterprises and on corporate boards through gender quotas;

Amendment 113 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Recall~~Highlights the importance of ~~the Women on Boards Directive and calls on the Member States to ensure equal representation and leadership~~ equal representation of women and men in decision-making position in both the public and private sector; recalls the importance of the Women on Boards Directive which aims at balancing the ~~labour market, in economic and~~share of the under-represented sex in non-executive board-member polsiti~~cal decision-making structures and institutions, as well as in enterprises and on corporate board~~ons in publicly listed companies, with the exception of small and medium enterprises;

Amendment 114 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Recalls the importance of the Women on Boards Directive and calls on the Member States to ensure equal representation and leadership in the labour market, in economic and political decision- making structures and institutions, as well as in enterprises and on corporate boards, whilst pointing out that skills and training are decisive factors;

Amendment 115 #

Ádám KÓSA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6.(6) Recalls the importance of the Women on Boards Directive and calls on the Member States to ~~ensure~~seek to ensure, on a professional basis, women's equal representation and leadership in the labour market, in economic and political decision- making structures and institutions, as well as in enterprises and on corporate boards;

Amendment 116 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Recalls the importance of the Women on Boards Dir~~Points out that membership of corporate executive and calls on the Member States to ensure equal representation and leadership in the labour market, in economic and political decision-making structures and institutions, as well as in enterprises and on corporate boardsboards should be based on the professional experience and qualities of the candidates and not on their gender, and that the mandatory quotas proposed in the Women on Boards Directive undermines this principle;

Amendment 117 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Evelyn REGNER, Siôn SIMON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Recalls the importance of the Wparticipation of women on Bboards ~~Directive~~, and calls on the Member States to ~~ensure equal~~promote women's representation and leadership in the labour market, and in economic and political decision- making structures and institutions~~, as well as in enterprises and on corporate boards~~;

Amendment 118 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Emphasises that access to credit, financial services and advice is key to empowering women facing social exclusion in entrepreneurship and increasing their representation in the private sector, therefore EFSI and ESF should be examined for their more flexible and less bureaucratic use to support women entrepreneurs in the start- up phase;

Amendment 119 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Disapproves the Commission's withdrawal of the maternity leave directive; calls on the Commission to return with an ambitious proposal that will effectively enable a better work-life balance and hence the economic empowerment of women;

Amendment 12 #

Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Sofia RIBEIRO, Romana TOMC, David CASA, Georges BACH, Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA, Claude ROLIN, Jeroen LENAERS, Anne SANDER

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

A b. whereas gender equality policies have a strong impact on GDP and by 2050, improving gender equality would lead to an increase in EU GDP per capita by 6.1 to 9.6%, which amounts to €1.95 to €3.15 trillion (EIGE's estimates)

Amendment 120 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Encourages women's leadership in trade unions and workers' organizations and urges all trade union leaders to guarantee equal representation and to effectively represent the interests of women workers;

Amendment 121 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6 b. Stresses the importance of social partners and collective bargaining in the economic empowerment of women workers and encourages a revision of working categories when gender bias on employment categories can result in different job positions performing equal tasks;

Amendment 122 #

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Marian HARKIN, Robert ROCHEFORT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

~~7. Calls on the Member States to strengthen and enforce the full exercise of the right of collective bargaining in the private and public sectors;~~deleted

Amendment 123 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Member States to strengthen and enforce the full exercise of the right of collective bargaining in the private and public sectors; in this regard, social partners have high potential to support gender equality on the labour market by actively raising the issue of equal pay during collective bargaining;

Amendment 124 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Member States to strengthen and enforce the full exercise of the right of collective bargaining in the private and public sectors; calls for appointing equality representatives to raise awareness, inform and liaise about gender equality at work;

Amendment 125 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Member States to strengthen and enforce the full exercise of the right of collective bargaining in the private and public sectors, an indispensable tool for regulating labour relations, fighting wage discrimination and promoting equality;

Amendment 126 #

Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Sven SCHULZE, Romana TOMC, Heinz K. BECKER, David CASA, Georges BACH, Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA, Claude ROLIN, Jeroen LENAERS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the ~~Member States to strengthen and enforce the full exercise of the right of collective bargaining in the private and public sectors~~social partners to use collective bargaining to advance equal opportunities for women and men, to ensure that the existing equal treatment legislation is applied in practice as well as to address and combat the gender pay gap;

Amendment 127 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Evelyn REGNER, Siôn SIMON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Member States to implement and enforce public social care policies as well as to ~~provide quality childcare~~ensure the availability of and access to quality, affordable care services for children, older persons and other dependants, including facilities, and promote the equal sharing of unpaid domestic work and co- responsibility in care.; recalls the important role of public service for reaching gender equality; notes that expenditures in these fields are to be seen as investments that will bring economic returns and should be given special consideration in the frame of the EU's economic governance and budgetary surveillance rules;

Amendment 128 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Member States to implement and enforce public social care policies as well as to provide high-quality ~~childcare facilities~~, affordable and universally accessible care services to assist persons with caring responsibilities and by an upward revision of the Barcelona objectives on childcare facilities, as well as by making better use of the EU funds, and promote the equal sharing of unpaid domestic work and co- responsibility in care.;

Amendment 129 #

Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Sofia RIBEIRO, Sven SCHULZE, Romana TOMC, Ádám KÓSA, Heinz K. BECKER, David CASA, Georges BACH, Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA, Krzysztof HETMAN, Claude ROLIN, Jeroen LENAERS, Anne SANDER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Member States to ~~implement and enforce public social care policies as well as to provide quality childcare fa~~further develop care facilities for the dependent, including children and elderly, with the view of enhancing reconciliati~~es and promote the equal sharing of unpaid domestic work and co- responsibility in care.~~on of private and professional life for the working families and increasing women's participation in the labour market as a precondition for women's economic empowerment;

Amendment 13 #

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

A b. Whereas due to persisting hindering factors women are under- represented in most Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics areas and whereas it is of utmost importance to attract more women to study such subjects;

Amendment 130 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Member States to implement and enforce public social care policies a~~s well as~~nd to provide quality childcare facilities ~~and promote the equal sharing of unpaid domestic work and co- responsibility in care~~.

Amendment 131 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Member States to implement and enforce public social care policies as well as to provide quality childcare facilities and promote the equal sharing of unpaid domestic work and ~~co- responsibility in care~~household and care responsibilities between men and women.

Amendment 132 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Member States to ~~implement and enforce public social~~guarantee access to affordable, high- quality care ~~pol~~servicies ~~as well as to provide qualit~~for dependants, especially childcare facilities, and to promote the equal sharing of unpaid domestic work ~~and co- responsibility in care~~.

Amendment 133 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Member States to implement and enforce public social care policies as well as to provide high quality childcare facilities and promote the equal sharing of unpaid domestic work and co- responsibility in care.

Amendment 134 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Siôn SIMON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Stresses the need to eliminate gender inequalities in paid and unpaid work and to promote equal sharing of responsibilities, costs and care for children and for dependants between women and men, but also within society as a whole, to ensure their position as equal earners and equal carers; points in this respect to the need for specific proposals making for better work-life balance;

Amendment 135 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Calls co-legislators to put forward new effective measures to improve work- life balance, including legislative proposals as regards maternity, paternity, parental and carer's leave to promote gender equality by improving women's access to the labour market and equal sharing of domestic and care tasks between women and men;

Amendment 136 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Urges Member States to incorporate mechanisms into their labour legislation aimed at offering an incentive for the creation of flexible working patterns and distance working models that will make it easier for parents to look after their children after school hours and help strike a balance between work- related and family responsibilities;

Amendment 137 #

Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Sofia RIBEIRO, Romana TOMC, Georges BACH, Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA, Claude ROLIN, Jeroen LENAERS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Encourages the Member States based on the provisions of the Public Procurement Directive (2014/24/EU) to promote the use of social clauses in public procurement as a tool for enhancing equality between women and men where relevant national legislations exists and can act as a ground for social clauses;

Amendment 138 #

Ádám KÓSA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on the Member States to guarantee rest leave to parents of children with disabilities, paying particular attention to single mothers, based on an examination of best practices;

Amendment 139 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Stresses the importance of national initiatives that make financing for female entrepreneurs for activities in sectors where women are predominant more accessible and emphasises, in this respect, the potential of micro-loans;

Amendment 14 #

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

A b. whereas an increase in the participation of women in the labour force, or a reduction in the gap between women's and men's labour force participation, results in faster economic growth;

Amendment 140 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Calls on Member States to continue working to meet the Barcelona targets at the earliest opportunity, and no later than by 2020 and define along similar targets concerning long-term care services;

Amendment 141 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8 b. Takes note of the Commission's package on work-life balance and calls for a recast of the Maternity, Paternity and Parental Leaves' Directives into a single comprehensive Directive that enshrine equal, non-transferable and fully paid parental leaves for fathers and mothers; calls on the Commission to come forward with a proposal for carer's leave directive;

Amendment 142 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Urges Member States to invest in informal after-school play-centred learning facilities that could provide support for children after school and crèche hours in particular, as a way of responding to the gap between school and business hours;

Amendment 143 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8 b. Recalls the disastrous long term impact of austerity measures on women's economic empowerment and equality between women and men, with rising unemployment and cuts in public services and benefits resulting in a care crisis;

Amendment 144 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8 b. Stresses the importance of tax and benefit systems in Member States that are free of disincentives for second earner to work or work more, because women often are second earners;

Amendment 145 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Emphasises that the availability of childcare is a vital precondition for women's ability to fulfil their potential in the workplace;

Amendment 146 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Siôn SIMON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)

8c. Suggests that Member States draw up programmes to combat social and gender stereotypes, particularly among the youngest groups, as a way of preventing a socio-professional categorisation that frequently restricts women’s access to the highest-paid positions and jobs;

Amendment 147 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)

8 c. Calls on the Member States to mainstream the gender perspective into their national skills and labour market policies and include such measures in national action plans and/or as part of the European Semester, in line with the Employment Guidelines;

Amendment 148 #

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Robert ROCHEFORT, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)

8 c. Urges the Member States to replace household unit models by the individualisation of taxation and social security rights in order to ensure that women have individual rights and to counter dependency status through their partners or through the state;

Amendment 15 #

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)

A c. Whereas although women account for almost 60% of graduates in the EU they remain under-represented in science, mathematics, IT, engineering and related careers; highlights, as a result, inequality in occupations is taking new forms and, despite the investment in education, young women are still twice as likely as young men to be economically inactive;

Amendment 16 #

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas balancing work and family is essential in order to boost women’s professional careers, and this requires public and private childcare structures;

Amendment 17 #

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)

A c. whereas economic empowerment increases women's access to economic resources and opportunities such as employment, financial services, property and other assets, and skills development;

Amendment 18 #

Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)

Ad. whereas the European rate of female participation in scientific and technical degree courses is lower than the equivalent rate for men, and it is estimated that jobs in the area of ICT and computer sciences will play a significant role in the short term, in terms of both vacancies and earnings;

Amendment 19 #

Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)

A d. whereas an increase in gender equality and the economic empowerment of women has a positive impact on GDP growth;

Amendment 2 #

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas structural barriers to women’'s economic empowerment are the result of multiple and intersecting forms of inequalities, stereotypes and discrimination in the private and public spheres;

Amendment 20 #

Draft opinion
Recital A e (new)

A e. whereas according to the predictions, if women's productivity level would rise to match that of men's, the EU's GDP could grow by 27%;

Amendment 21 #

Draft opinion
Recital A f (new)

A f. whereas according to OECD studies companies with more women on their boards experience greater profitability compared to those with all- male boards even though in 2014 women accounted for just 20.2% of board members of the largest publicly listed companies registered in the EU countries;

Amendment 22 #

Draft opinion
Recital A g (new)

A g. whereas taking into account forgone earnings, missed welfare contributions and additional public finance costs, the total yearly cost of the lower female employment rate was €370 billion in 2013 which corresponds to 2.8% of the EU's GDP;

Amendment 23 #

Draft opinion
Recital A h (new)

A h. whereas in households where the youngest child is aged under seven men spend 41 hours per week in paid work and 15 hours in unpaid work while women spend 32 hours per week in paid work, but 39 hours in unpaid work;

Amendment 24 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that equal economic independence, and the ~~guarantee of the principle of equal pay~~elimination of all forms of direct and indirect discrimination on grounds of sex with regard to all aspects and conditions of remuneration for equal work and work ofto which equal value is attributed, as referred to in Directive 2006/54/EC, are necessary steps for women’s economic empowerment;

Amendment 25 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that equal economic independence and the guarantee of the principle of equal pay for equal work and work of equal value are necessary steps for women’s economic empowerment; points out that, in spite of all the EU's efforts, the pay gap between men and women with the same skills and carrying out the same work is still significant;

Amendment 26 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that equal economic independence and the guarantee of the principle of equal pay for equal work and work of equal value are necessary steps for women’s economic empowerment and the consolidation of their fundamental rights; considers that women's economic empowerment is crucial, not least in order to reduce poverty and promote development;

Amendment 27 #

Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Sofia RIBEIRO, Sven SCHULZE, Romana TOMC, Heinz K. BECKER, David CASA, Georges BACH, Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA, Krzysztof HETMAN, Claude ROLIN, Jeroen LENAERS, Anne SANDER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that equal opportunities for economic independence and the ~~guarantee~~implementation of the principle of equal pay for male and female workers for equal work ~~and~~or work of equal value applied by the Member States as defined in the article 157 of TFEU are necessary steps for women’'s economic empowerment;

Amendment 28 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that ~~equal~~accomplish economic independence ~~and the guarantee of the principle of equal pay for equal work and work of equal value are necessary steps for women’s economic empowerment~~is a first step for women's economic empowerment but that equality in the political, social and cultural arena are also needed to empower women in the private and public sectors;

Amendment 29 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that equal economic independence and the guarantee of the principle of equal pay for equal work and work of equal value are necessary steps for ~~women’s~~the economic empowerment of women, taking into account their role as mothers;

Amendment 3 #

Heinz K. BECKER

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas women's economic empowerment and equal opportunities in the labour market are crucial for women individually but also instrumental for EU's economic growth with positive impact on GDP, inclusiveness and competitiveness of businesses as well as the sustainability of national social security systems affected by demographic change.

Amendment 30 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Evelyn REGNER, Siôn SIMON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to guarantee the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value and combat direct and indirect discrimination in the labour market to accomplish women's economic empowerment;

Amendment 31 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Calls on the Member States to fully implement the 'Employment Equality Directive' and on the Commission to revise the directive and to promote the implementation of plans on gender equality among companies;

Amendment 32 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Evelyn REGNER, Siôn SIMON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement fully the legislation on equal treatment in employment and occupation and the Directive on the application of the principle of equal treatment between men and women who are self-employed to ensure better practical application of these directives;

Amendment 33 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1 b. Calls for a Directive for European minimum income schemes to cover basic living costs, while respecting national practices;

Amendment 34 #

Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Sofia RIBEIRO, Romana TOMC, David CASA, Georges BACH, Krzysztof HETMAN, Claude ROLIN, Jeroen LENAERS, Anne SANDER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to promote the well-being ~~of women, by tackling the pay and pension gaps and combating atypical and insecure forms of work and employment, such as temporary contracts or involuntary part-time work~~and equal opportunities for women, by tackling the pay gap, addressing and eliminating breaches of anti-discrimination legislation in employment, combating insecure forms of work and employment, such as involuntary part-time work or the use of contracts which do not correspond to the nature of the work performed in accordance with the national law;

Amendment 35 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to promote gender equality and the well- being of women, by tackling the pay and pension gaps and combating atypical and insecure forms of work and employment, such as temporary contracts, zero-hours contracts or involuntary part-time work, as well as by ensuring a right to return from voluntary part-time work to full time employment;

Amendment 36 #

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Robert ROCHEFORT, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to promote the well-being of women, by improving the general economic welfare, tackling the pay and pension gaps a~~nd combating~~s well as fighting against atypical and insecure forms of work and employment, such as ~~temporary contract~~discontinuous employment, working under non-standard arrangements, temporary jobs or involuntary part-time work;

Amendment 37 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to promote the ~~well-being~~equality of women, by tackling the pay and pension gaps ~~and combating atypical and insecure forms of work and employment, such as temporary co~~, which currently stand at 16 % and 40 % respectively; highlights the importance of the attractiveness of new forms of work by providing adequate flexibility that can promote higher employment ra~~cts or involuntary part-time work~~tes among women;

Amendment 38 #

Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to promote the well-being of women, by tackling the pay and pension gaps and combating ~~atypical and insecure~~the abuse of atypical forms of work and employment, such as t~~emporary~~he use of contracts ~~or involuntary part-time work~~which do not correspond to the nature and frequency of the work performed in accordance with the national law;

Amendment 39 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Siôn SIMON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to promote the well-being of women, by tackling the pay and pension gaps and combating ~~atypical~~precarious and insecure forms of work and employment~~, such as temporary contracts or involuntary part-time work~~;

Amendment 4 #

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas a recent study by EIGE states that improvements in gender equality would lead to an additional 10.5 million jobs in 2050 that would lead to an increase in EU GDP per capita by 6.1 to 9.6% [1] [1] European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE); "Economic benefits of gender equality in the EU", 2017

Amendment 40 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to promote the well-being of women, by tackling the pay and pension gaps and combating ~~atypical and~~ insecure forms of work and employment~~, such as temporary contracts~~ or involuntary part-time work, while maintaining freedom of choice as regards temporary contracts;

Amendment 41 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to promotect the ~~well-being~~rights of women, by tackling the pay and pension gaps and combating atypical and insecure forms of work and employment, such as the majority of temporary contracts or involuntary part- time work;

Amendment 42 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Calls on~~Encourages the Member States to promote the well-being of women, by tackling the pay and pension gaps and combating atypical and insecure forms of work and employment, such as temporary contracts or ~~involuntary~~forced part-time work;

Amendment 43 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to impro~~mot~~ve the social well-being of women, by ~~tackling the~~bridging pay and pension gaps and ~~combat~~reducing atypical and insecure forms of work and employment, ~~such as temporary contracts or~~and involuntary part-time work;

Amendment 44 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to promote the well-being of women, by tackling the pay and pension gaps and ~~combating atypical and~~limiting insecure forms of work and employment, such as temporary contracts or involuntary part-time work;

Amendment 45 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to promote the well-being of women, by tackling the pay and pension gaps and combating ~~atypical and insecure~~undesirable and atypical forms of work and employment, such as temporary contracts or involuntary part- time work;

Amendment 46 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Deplores the persistence of the gender pay gap, which constitutes an infringement of the fundamental principle of equal pay for equal work for female and male workers enshrined in Article 157 TFEU and in particular affects women having and raising children; calls on the EU and the Member States, in cooperation with the social partners and gender equality organisations, to set out and implement policies to close the gender pay gap; calls on the Member States to carry out wage-mapping on a regular basis as a complement to these efforts;

Amendment 47 #

Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Sofia RIBEIRO, Sven SCHULZE, Romana TOMC, Ádám KÓSA, Heinz K. BECKER, David CASA, Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA, Claude ROLIN, Jeroen LENAERS, Anne SANDER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Stresses that preventing and eliminating the gender pension gap and reducing women's poverty in the old age first and foremost depend on creating conditions for women to make equal pension contributions through further inclusion into the labour market and safeguarding equal opportunities in terms of pay, career advancement and possibilities to work full-time;

Amendment 48 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Recalls that the economic downturn has affected women, particularly in the field of employment, and that unemployment or under- employment has an adverse impact on the welfare of the person and her/his family, on the risk of poverty and social exclusion, and on social security entitlements, including pensions;

Amendment 49 #

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Robert ROCHEFORT, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Believes that negotiating voluntary flexible working agreements makes for better work-life balance and hence encourages people, and women in particular, to enter and/or remain on the labour market;

Amendment 5 #

Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Sofia RIBEIRO, Sven SCHULZE, Romana TOMC, Ádám KÓSA, David CASA, Georges BACH, Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA, Krzysztof HETMAN, Claude ROLIN, Jeroen LENAERS, Anne SANDER

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas women's economic empowerment and equal opportunities in the labour market are crucial for women individually but also instrumental for EU's economic growth with positive impact on GDP, inclusiveness and competitiveness of businesses as well as challenges related to the ageing population in the EU

Amendment 50 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Highlights that the causes and consequences of the gender pension gap need to be addressed, as this is an obstacle to the economic independence of women in old age, when they face a higher risk of poverty than men.

Amendment 51 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Evelyn REGNER, Siôn SIMON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses that flexible forms of work make it easier for women to balance their work and family lives and may positively contribute towards the inclusion of disadvantaged groups of women in working life;

Amendment 52 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Calls for a Directive on decent working conditions in all forms of employment, guaranteeing every worker access to a core set of labour and social rights;

Amendment 53 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Calls on Member States to improve general work conditions, including the family-friendly organisation of working time in consultation with workers;

Amendment 54 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Evelyn REGNER, Siôn SIMON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2 b. Recognises that women, young people and migrants are more likely to be working under non-standard arrangements such as on-call work (including 'zero-hours contracts'), temporary agency work and work in the 'on-demand' or 'gig' economy, which challenge women's economic empowerment and wellbeing due to the insecurity, economic instability and lower entitlements, including maternity benefits;

Amendment 55 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2 b. Stresses the importance to raise wages in sectors where women make up the majority of the workforce, such as personal care workers, cleaners and helpers, catering staff and health associate professionals among others;

Amendment 56 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2 b. Urges Member states to ensure adequate paternity leave and pay in order to ensure the same opportunities for women and men to career advancement;

Amendment 57 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses the need to eliminate occupational segregation by tackling the direct and indirect causes, addressing discriminatory social behaviours and stereotypes and promoting the equal participation of women and men in the labour market, education, training and all forms of care; calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement measures to reduce gender stereotypes and segregation in education, training and caring responsibilities to improve the future earnings and socioeconomic conditions of women;

Amendment 58 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Siôn SIMON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses the need to eliminate occupational segregation by addressing discriminatory social behaviours and stereotypes and promoting the equal participation of women and men in the labour market, education, training and all forms of carefor meritocracy and applicants' skills and qualifications to be the only criterion taken account of in the hiring process;

Amendment 59 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses the need to eliminate occupational segregation by addressing discriminatory social behaviours and stereotypes and promoting the equal participation of women and men in the labour market, quality education, formal and non-formal training and life-long training and all forms of care;

Amendment 6 #

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Robert ROCHEFORT, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

A a. Whereas the EU 2020 strategy establishes the EU's target of 75 % of men and women in employment by 2020 and, in particular, to close the gender gap in employment; whereas coordinated efforts will be required to facilitate women's labour-market participation.

Amendment 60 #

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Robert ROCHEFORT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses the need to eliminate occupational segregation by addressing discriminatory social behaviours and stereotypes, diversifying career choices of women and men, and promoting the equal participation of women and men in the labour market, education, training and all forms of care;

Amendment 61 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses the need to eliminate ~~occupati~~the horizontal ~~segregation~~and vertical gender segregation of the labour market by addressing discriminatory social behaviours and stereotypes and promoting the equal participation of women and men in the labour market, education, training and all forms of care;

Amendment 62 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses the need to eliminate occupational segregation by ~~addressing discriminatory social behaviours and stereotypes and~~ promoting ~~the~~ equal ~~participation of~~opportunities for women and men in the labour market, education, training and ~~all~~various forms of care;

Amendment 63 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses the need to ~~eliminate occupational segregation by addressing~~combat discriminatory social behaviours and ~~stereotypes and~~ promot~~ing~~e the equal participation of women and men in the labour market, education, training and all forms of care, whilst taking into account the psycho-physical circumstances of women and men;

Amendment 64 #

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Robert ROCHEFORT, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses the need to eliminate occupational segregation by addressing discriminatory social behaviours and stereotypes and promoting ~~the~~ equal ~~participation~~opportunities and equal treatment of women and men in access to the labour market, education, and training ~~and all forms of care~~;

Amendment 65 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Calls on the Commission, together with the Member States, to promote and support female entrepreneurship initiatives as it can provide women the knowledge they need to found or co-found their own businesses based on their innovative ideas. In this regard, it is crucial to provide information on access to training, to support women entrepreneurs in accessing alternative sources of funding, business networking opportunities as well as advising on the start-up, management and growth of their businesses in the early phases.

Amendment 66 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. points out that digitalisation has a profound impact on the labour market by changing value chains, conditions and nature of work as well as creating new job opportunities and more flexible working patterns; notes that opportunities for flexible and teleworking arrangements brought about by digitalisation may serve as a an effective tool for further inclusion of women into the labour market as well as better reconciliation of professional and domestic duties for both women and men;

Amendment 67 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Recalls that sustainable public funding for education is the basis for an inclusive, fair and democratic society - this priority must be reflected in budgets; calls in this regard on the Member States to increase the quality of education and training, and to set benchmarks for an inclusive education system that ensures equality, non-discrimination and civic competences;

Amendment 68 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Calls on member states to guarantee equal access of women and men to education and training programmes and to encourage women's participation in educational areas in which they are underrepresented, such as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics;

Amendment 69 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Member States to pursue specific, active employment and training policies in order to support the return to work of women who have put their careers on hold to look after dependants;

Amendment 7 #

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas women's economic participation and empowerment are fundamental to strengthening women's rights and enabling women to have control over their lives and exert influence in society;

Amendment 70 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3 b. Underlines that due to the rapid spread of digital technology, this will result in a growing demand for digital and other complementary skills to address the existing digital gap between men and women;believes further measures aimed at enhancing digital skills among women and girls should not only cover the upskilling of the workforce but the process should already begin in the early schools years with the implementation of technical, entrepreneurial and relevant soft skills in the education programmes;

Amendment 71 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3 b. Stresses the multifaceted challenges migrant and refugee women face and calls on the Member States to ensure their early and easy access to quality training, including internships, in order to ensure full integration into our societies and the labour market, taking into consideration the refugees' existing informal and formal skills and competences, talents and know-how;

Amendment 72 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3 b. highlights that improving digital skills and IT-literacy among women and boosting inclusion into the ICT, which is one of the highest paying sectors, could contribute to their economic empowerment and independence resulting in the reduction of the total gender wage gap;

Amendment 73 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Siôn SIMON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3 b. Calls on Member States to emphasize in their education systems the principle of equality between men and women and that of equal right to take part in economic life;

Amendment 74 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3 c. Points out that the demand for digital technology professionals in the EU has grown by 4% annually in the last ten years and the number of unfilled vacancies for ICT professionals is expected to double by 2020; calls therefore on the Member States and the Commission to advance their efforts to promote digital skills and e-literacy among women and girls, who remain underrepresented in this sector, from the earliest stages at school and going through the whole educational cycle as well as in the framework of life-long learning;

Amendment 75 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3 c. Stresses the need to ensure that the structural and investment funds are used to improve education and training with a view to improving labour market access and combating unemployment, poverty and social exclusion of women; highlights that the 20 % share of the ESF allocated to social inclusion measure and social innovation projects could be used more actively to support initiatives such as small local projects aimed at empowering women experiencing poverty and social exclusion;

Amendment 76 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Siôn SIMON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3 d. Encourages Member States to adapt their educational systems, with a view to promoting teaching and interest in sectors and positions where women are under-represented, such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), as well as to strengthen policies and increase investment supporting female employment in quality jobs in these sectors;

Amendment 77 #

Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Sofia RIBEIRO, Sven SCHULZE, Romana TOMC, Ádám KÓSA, Heinz K. BECKER, David CASA, Georges BACH, Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA, Claude ROLIN, Jeroen LENAERS, Anne SANDER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3 d. Encourages Member States to introduce age appropriate ICT education at early stages with a particular focus on inspiring and supporting girls to pursue their interest and talents in the digital field and safeguarding them from constraining and negative stereotyping which discourage girls from advancing their e-skills;

Amendment 78 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK, Siôn SIMON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)

3 e. Points out that the demand for new skills, particularly in the ICT field, needs to be tackled through training as well as through further education and lifelong learning, in the interests of promoting digital literacy and tackling the existing gender gap in order to enlarge the pool of highly qualified candidates;

Amendment 79 #

Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Sofia RIBEIRO, Sven SCHULZE, Romana TOMC, Heinz K. BECKER, David CASA, Georges BACH, Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA, Claude ROLIN, Jeroen LENAERS, Anne SANDER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Calls~~ Recognises that domestic work and provision of household services, which are largely feminised, are often perfor me~~asures to guarantee the economic and social dignity of feminised work, such as domestic work~~d as undeclared work; calls on the Member States to promote and further develop the formal sector of domestic services through facilitation and incentives to employ domestic workers with the aim of reducing the undeclared work and improving reconciliation of private and professional life for the working families;

Amendment 8 #

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

A a. Whereas it is essential to ensure that women and men have the same rights and opportunities to take part in economic life;

Amendment 80 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for measures to guarantee the economic and social dignity of ~~feminised work, such as domestic work~~work traditionally carried out by women, such as domestic work, while keeping in mind that the sharing of domestic tasks and family life are private matters and not the business of the European Union;

Amendment 81 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls ~~for~~on the Member States for legislative and non-legislative measures to guarantee the economic and social drig~~nity of feminised work~~hts of workers working in sectors where women are the majority and avoid over- representation of women in precarious employment, such as domestic work or caring sectors;

Amendment 82 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for measures to ~~guarantee th~~provide economic and social ~~dignity of fe~~value to undervalued sectors that are dominisated ~~work~~by women, such as domestic work;

Amendment 83 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for measures to guarantee the economic and social dignity of ~~feminised work~~work carried out primarily by women, such as domestic work;

Amendment 84 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for measures to guarantee the economic and social dignity of so-called feminised work, such as domestic work;

Amendment 85 #

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Robert ROCHEFORT, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for measures to guarantee the economic and social dignity of ~~feminised~~domestic work, suwhich ais ~~domestic work~~principally done by women;

Amendment 86 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for measures to ~~guarante~~ensure the economic and social dignity of feminised work, such as domestic work;

Amendment 87 #

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Robert ROCHEFORT, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Considers that promoting women's participation in the labour market and their economic independence is crucial for meeting the Europe 2020 target of a 75 % overall employment rate and would boost GDP; calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen policies and increase investment supporting female employment in quality jobs, particularly in sectors and positions where women are under-represented, such as the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), ICT and green economy sectors, or senior management positions across all sectors;

Amendment 88 #

Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Sofia RIBEIRO, Sven SCHULZE, Romana TOMC, Ádám KÓSA, Heinz K. BECKER, David CASA, Georges BACH, Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA, Claude ROLIN, Jeroen LENAERS, Anne SANDER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Calls on policy makers, also through the European Platform Tackling Undeclared Work, to recognise household services, family employment and home- care as a valuable economic sector which needs to be better regulated within the Member States with a view to create both secure position for domestic workers and provide families with a capacity to assume their role as employers;

Amendment 89 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Stresses also the importance to pay attention to the specific needs of groups facing particular barriers to entry to the labour market such as women in rural areas as well as women with disabilities and migrant women.

Amendment 9 #

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas maternity should not be seen as an obstacle to women’s professional development and consequently to their emancipation;

Amendment 90 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Remarks the relevance of the caring sector and its job creation potential; calls on the Member States to create decent, good quality jobs in the care economy in the public and private sectors;

Amendment 91 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Encourages the Member States to introduce parental salaries in order to reward, and recognise the contribution of, parents' contribution to domestic life;

Amendment 92 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4 b. Calls for measures to make women's informal employment in domestic work, home-based work and small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as other own-account and part-time work more economically and socially viable by extending social protection and minimum wages;

Amendment 93 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4 b. Stresses the importance of supporting female entrepreneurs and underlines the need to improve access to finance for starting a business by women and easing administrative burdens;

Amendment 94 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Points out that all parents should be free to choose to stay at home to raise their children;

Amendment 95 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4 c. Highlights the particular role that education for girls and young women plays for their future employment prospects and economic empowerment;

Amendment 96 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4 d. Highlights the importance of vocational education and training (VET) in diversifying career choices, introducing women and men to non-traditional career opportunities, and preparing them well for the labour market;

Amendment 97 #

Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Elena GENTILE, Jutta STEINRUCK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Member States to enforce existing laws and workplace policies that prohibit discrimination in the recruitment, retention and promotion of women in employment in both the public and private sectors, and to prevent the double discrimination that particularly affects disabled and ethnic minority women; emphasises how important it is that Directive 2000/78/EC on equal treatment in employment and occupation, and Directive 2000/43/EC on equal treatment irrespective of racial or ethnic origin, are implemented correctly;

Amendment 98 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Member States to enforce laws and workplace policies that prohibit discrimination in the recruitment, retention and promotion of women in employment in both the public and private sectors via the principle of gender- neutrality in job evaluation and classification systems;

Amendment 99 #

Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Sofia RIBEIRO, Romana TOMC, Ádám KÓSA, Heinz K. BECKER, David CASA, Georges BACH, Danuta JAZŁOWIECKA, Claude ROLIN, Jeroen LENAERS, Anne SANDER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Member States to en~~force laws and workplace policies that prohibit~~sure proper application of the existing equal treatment legislation in order to eliminate gender-based discrimination in ~~the~~ recruitment~~, retention and promotion of women in employment in both the public and private sectors~~ and at work in both the public and private sectors and to offer women a level-playing field in terms of pay and career advancement;

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2017/05/09 FEMM 225 amendments...

Amendment 1 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)

– having regard to the Commission proposal of 2 July 2008 for a Council directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation (COM(2008)0426),

Amendment 10 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 c (new)

– having regard the European Investment Bank Group Strategy on Gender Equality and Women's Economic Empowerment",

Amendment 100 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Urges the Member States to swiftly adopt measures in accordance with the Barcelona targets as a way to ensure a beneficial work-life balance and to further increase labour market participation of women;

Amendment 101 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the European Commission to continue and intensify its work with the Member States to identify and remove barriers to women's entrepreneurship and to encourage more women to start their own business by policies supporting and promoting them, including improving access to finance, venture capital, and markets and encouraging access to information, training and networks for business purposes, such as the WE Gate Platform and other European networks;

Amendment 102 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement policies to help families with dependents with disabilities or serious illnesses, by providing appropriate assistance and accessible facilities and services that are affordable and high-quality, so that responsibility for their care does not fall mostly on women;

Amendment 103 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls for reforms to increase gender equality both in family life and on the labour market; is convinced that individualised social security rights and a strong statutory right to full-time employment, with the possibility of part- time contracts, will contribute to women´s economic empowerment;

Amendment 104 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Recognises the value of educating, nurturing and rearing children by parents in Europe by the introduction of a "parental wage" at a national or regional level.

Amendment 105 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Recalls that investing in social infrastructure ,such as child care, does not only generate considerable employment effects, but also significant additional income for the public sector in employment taxes and savings in respect of unemployment insurance;

Amendment 106 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Is convinced that the ~~engagement of men in caring responsibilities is a precondition for changing the traditional stereotypes related to gender roles; fur~~creation of a parental wage will allow men to increase their ~~believes that both genders and the whole society will benefit from a fairer distribution of unpaid work and from more equal take-up of leave related to car~~share of caring responsibilities and strengthen freedom of choice;

Amendment 107 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Is convinced that the engagement of men in caring ~~responsibilities is a precondition for changing the traditional stereotypes related to gender roles~~for children or elderly people is a positive step on the path towards the equal sharing of responsibilities, although this should be a personal decision; further believes that both genders and the whole society will benefit from a fairer distribution of unpaid work and from more equal take-up of leave related to care;

Amendment 108 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Is convinced that the engagement of men in caring responsibilities is a precondition for changing the traditional stereotypes related to gender roles; further believes that both genders and the whole society will benefit from a fairer distribution of unpaid work and from more equal take-up of leave related to care; is convinced that an equal-earner-equal- carer model is the most effective to achieve gender equality in all areas of life;

Amendment 109 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Welcomes that the Commission responded to the European Parliament's call to improve the reconciliation of professional and private life, by non- legislative proposals and a legislative proposal which creates several types of leaves to meet the challenges of the 21st century; stresses that the proposals made by the Commission is a good start in order to meet the expectations of European citizens; calls on all institutions to deliver on this package as soon as possible;

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 27 a (new)

– having regard to the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on work-life balance for carers and working families,

Amendment 110 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Welcomes the Commission's intention to revise the Parental Leave Directive to include a paid non- transferrable parental leave of 4 months, a 10 days paternity leave and the introduction of paid careers' leave; regrets however that these leaves are not fully paid as well as the absence of a proposal to reform the Maternity Leave Directive;

Amendment 111 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Calls for the adoption of the necessary measures to promote higher participation of women in the labour market in order to meet the challenges of the 21st century; welcomes in this regard the Commission proposal on work-life balance to improve the reconciliation of professional and private life, which will allow women and men to share occupational, family and social responsibilities more evenly, especially where assistance to dependants and childcare is concerned;

Amendment 112 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Member States to step up protection against discrimination and unlawful dismissal related to work-life balance and to ensure access to justice and legal action; Calls on the European Commission to intensify monitoring, transposition and implementation of anti- discrimination EU legislation, launch infringement procedures when necessary and promote compliance through including information campaigns to increase awareness of legal rights to equal treatment;

Amendment 113 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses the importance of good, secure working conditions allowing both women and men to reconcile work and private life and calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote strengthening of labour rights, collective bargaining and increased gender equality; calls in this context for an exchange of best practices in terms of general shortening of working hours and for standard working time to be reduced to six hours without loss of pay;

Amendment 114 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Member States to promote and further develop the formal sector of domestic services through facilitation and incentives to employ domestic workers and improved national regulation with a view to create both secure position for domestic workers and to provide families with a capacity to assume their role as employers in order to enhance reconciliation of private and professional life;

Amendment 115 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to encourage companies to use teleworking, for both male and female workers, in order to improve not only the work-life balance but also the fairer distribution of unpaid work within the family;

Amendment 116 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Emphasises that better work-life reconciliation and strengthened equality between women and men are essential for supporting and enhancing the participation of women in the labour market, in particular women-carers and single mothers, and achieving the goals of women empowerment;

Amendment 117 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls for the development of a legal framework for – and the increased popularisation of – flexible employment models, accompanied by adequate social protection, in order to make it easier to reconcile responsibilities associated with caring for children and other dependants with professional responsibilities;

Amendment 118 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Strongly encourages the promoting of the individualisation of the right to leave arrangements, the non- transferability between parents of the their entitlement to parental leave, and the equal distribution of care-related tasks between both parents with a view to achieving gender-balanced reconciliation of work and private life;

Amendment 119 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Underlines the importance of offering lifelong learning for women, especially including women in rural areas, in order to strengthen the position of women and to increase the economic empowerment and tackle the inequalities both in the labour market and in society at large;

Amendment 12 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 28

– having regard to the reports of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) entitled ‘The gender employment gap: challenges and solutions’ (2016),'Work-life balance: creating solutions for everyone' (2016), ‘Social partners and gender equality in Europe’ (2014), and ‘Developments in working life in Europe: EurWORK annual review’ (2014 and 2015), and to the Sixth European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) (2016),

Amendment 120 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Believes that workers' rights and the right to safe employment must precede potential increase of flexibility on the labour market as to ensure that flexibility does not increase atypical forms of work and normalisation of part-time work currently affecting women more than men;

Amendment 121 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Insist~~Recalls that the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value is enshrined in the EU Treaty; highlights, in this context, the Commission’'s rRecommendation on strengthening the principle of equal pay between men and women through transparency and invites the Commission to launch the legislative procedure for a Directive following this Recommendation with a view to eliminating the persistent gender pay gap;

Amendment 122 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Insists~~Takes note that the principle of equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value is enshrined in the EU Treaty; ~~highlight~~notes, in this context, the Commission’s recommendation on strengthening the principle of equal pay between men and women through transparency;

Amendment 123 #

Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Insists that the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value ifor male and female workers enshrined in the EU Treaty and defined in the article 157 of TFEU needs to be effectively applied by the Member States; highlights, in this context, the Commission’s recommendation on strengthening the principle of equal pay between men and women through transparency;

Amendment 124 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Insists that the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value is enshrined in the EU Treaty; highlights, in this context, the Commission’s recommendation on strengthening the principle of equal pay between men and women through transparency which should be used to closely monitor the situation in Member States and draw up continuous reports also with the support of social partners;

Amendment 125 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Insists that the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value is enshrined in the EU Treaty; highlights, in this context, the Commission’s recommendation on strengthening the principle of equal pay between men and women through transparency; stresses that the issue of equal value needs to be addressed;

Amendment 126 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. UrEncourages Member States ~~and companie~~, companies and social partners to introduce pay transparency in order to create methods for companies to tackle the issue of the gender pay gap~~, including through pay audits and the inclusion of equal pay measures in collective bargaining~~;

Amendment 127 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Urges Member States and companies to ~~introduce pay transparenc~~respect pay parity in order to create methods for companies to tackle the issue of the gender pay gap, including through pay audits and the inclusion of equal pay measures in collective bargaining;

Amendment 128 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Urges Member States and companies to introduce binding measures with regards to pay transparency in order to create methods for companies to tackle the issue of the gender pay gap, including through pay audits and the inclusion of equal pay measures in collective bargaining;

Amendment 129 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Urges the Member States to provide incentives, also through the use of EU funds, for the establishment of women’s businesses and start-ups, with a view to achieving the economic empowerment to which every woman is entitled;

Amendment 13 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 28 a (new)

– having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the role of family policy in relation to demographic change with a view to sharing best practices among Member States (2011);

Amendment 130 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Underlines the need to ~~recognise and re-evaluate typically female- dominated work, such as that~~modify traditional stereotyped gender role models in the health, social and teaching sector, as compared to work typically ~~male-dominated work~~technology and engineering; and promoting vocational, professional and/or entrepreneurial education and training for women and girls in STEAM subjects;

Amendment 131 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Underlines the need to recognise and re-evaluate typically female-dominated work, such as that in the health, social and teaching sector, as compared to typically male-dominated work, which will demand that the sectors predominantly employing women, are better remunerated;

Amendment 132 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Recognise the benefits deriving from the caring responsibilities and households done by mothers working part-time and calculate it in the pension funds;

Amendment 133 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Encourages employers to promote flexible schedule in the workplace for the mothers wanting to work both part-time and full time jobs;

Amendment 134 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Expresses its conviction that achieving equal pay for male and female workers for equal work of equal value requires a clear framework of specific job evaluation tools with comparable indicators to assess ‘value’ in jobs or sectors; invites the Commission, therefore, to ~~deliv~~consider such a framework and to assist the Member States in implementing it;

Amendment 135 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Expresses its conviction that achieving equal pay for equal work of equal value requires a clear framework of specific job evaluation tools with comparable indicators to assess ‘'value’' in jobs or sectors; ~~invit~~urges the Commission, therefore, to deliver such a framework and to assist the Member States and social partners in implementing it;

Amendment 136 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Expresses its conviction that achieving equal pay for equal work of equal value requires a clear framework of specific job evaluation tools with comparable indicators to assess ‘value’ in jobs or sectors; invites the Commission, therefore, to deliver such a framework and to assist the Member States in implementing it; encourages all parties to adopt policies and laws to ensure equal pay for equal work and for work of equal value;

Amendment 137 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Recalls that in line with the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice, the value of ~~work~~all work, including parenting, should be assessed and compared on the basis of objective criteria, such as educational, professional and training requirements, skills, efforts and responsibility, work undertaken and the nature of the tasks involved;

Amendment 138 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. 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 139 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Highlights that improving digital skills and IT-literacy among women and boosting inclusion into the ICT, which is one of the highest paying sectors, could contribute to their economic empowerment and independence resulting in the reduction of the total gender wage gap;

Amendment 14 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 33 a (new)

– having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the role of the social partners in reconciling working, family and private life (2007);

Amendment 140 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Stresses that preventing and eliminating the gender pension gap and reducing women's poverty in the old age first and foremost depend on creating conditions for women to make equal pension contributions through further inclusion into the labour market and safeguarding equal opportunities in terms of pay, career advancement and possibilities to work full-time;

Amendment 141 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4 a (new)

Working conditions

Amendment 142 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Regrets the lack of ambition of the Commission's proposal to develop the European Pillar of Social Rights and calls on the Commission to propose a Directive on decent working conditions for all workers;

Amendment 143 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)

9c. Calls on the Member States to establish through legislation or collective bargaining a minimum wage of at least 60% of national median wage;

Amendment 144 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4 b (new)

Unemployment policies

Amendment 145 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 d (new)

9d. Stresses that women have higher unemployment rates; urges the need of benchmarking unemployment schemes highlighting that duration should at least cover the national average job seeking period and support and encourage active job search;

Amendment 146 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5

Gender ~~quotas~~balance in public and private sectors;

Amendment 147 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

Amendment 148 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Considers that equotas in the public sector may be necessary where the public institutions do not fulfil their responsibility of fair representation, and could thus improve the democratic legitimacy of decision-making institutionsal representation of women and men in decision-making positions in the public sector might alleviate the participation of women in the labour market;

Amendment 149 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Considers that quotas in the public sector ~~may b~~are necessary where the public institutions do not fulfil their responsibility of fair representation, and could thus improve the democratic legitimacy of decision-making institutions;

Amendment 15 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 33 a (new)

– having regard to the Beijing Platform for Action and the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW);

Amendment 150 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Considers that quotas in the public sector may be necessary where the public institutions do not fulfil their responsibility of fair representation, and could thus improve the democratic legitimacy of decision-making institutions; considers likewise that corporate boards with more women have been found to improve the performance of private companies;

Amendment 151 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Takes the view that initiatives are needed at both national and EU level to enhance female participation in male- dominated sectors and to increase the recognition of women's skills and economic performance at the workplace, so as to overcome horizontal and vertical exclusion and to increase the number of women in decision-making bodies in the political and business sphere;

Amendment 152 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Notes that the use of gender quotas and zipped lists in political decision making have proven most effective tools in addressing the discrimination and gender power imbalances and improving democratic representation in political decision making bodies;

Amendment 153 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Calls on the Commission to improve the collection, the analysis and the dissemination of comprehensive, comparable and reliable and regularly updated data on women's participation in decision-making;

Amendment 154 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. Calls on EU institutions to encourage women's participation in the European electoral process by including gender balanced lists in the next revision of the European Electoral Law;

Amendment 155 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

Amendment 156 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Reiterates its call on the Council for a swift adoption of the directive on gender balance among non-executive directors of listed companies, as an important first step towards equal representation in the public and private sectors; and notes that progress is most tangible (from 11.9% in 2010 to 22.7% in 2015) in Member States in which binding legislation on quotas for boards has been adopted1a; __________________ 1a http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getD oc.do?type=TA&reference=P8-TA-2017- 0073&language=EN&ring=A8-2017-0046

Amendment 157 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

Amendment 158 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Condemns gender parity on the grounds that it harms social perception of women’s professional competence;

Amendment 159 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Notes that gender equality plans on a company or sectorial level may contain multiple human resource measures addressing recruitment, pay, promotion, training and work-life balance; that they often include concrete measures such as gender-neutral language, prevention of sexual harassment, ~~appointment of the under-represented gender to top positions,~~ part-time work and fathers participating in childcare, and that a variety of approaches exist in Member States regarding mandatory introduction of such measures;

Amendment 16 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)

-A. whereas the EU is committed to promoting gender equality and ensuring gender mainstreaming in all of its actions;

Amendment 160 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Underlines the importance of promoting gender equality in education and training related initiatives, particularly initiatives taken to alleviate gender imbalances in literacy, including media and digital literacy, also reducing the digital gap as mentioned in the Europe 2020 Digital Agenda;

Amendment 161 #

Elisabeth KÖSTINGER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Stresses the importance of measures to promote inter-entreprise training courses for women in rural areas, so that long-term employment in rural areas can be guaranteed.

Amendment 162 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13b. Invites the Member States and the Commission to promote, through information and awareness-raising campaigns, the participation of women in sectors traditionally viewed as 'male', notably the sciences and new technologies, with a view to fully benefitting of the human capital represented by European women and hence enhancing the goals of the Europe 2020 strategy and mainstreaming gender equality in the digital agenda of the forthcoming years;

Amendment 163 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls for full implementation of Directive 2006/54/EC on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation, and for it to be revised with a compulsory requirement for companies to draw up plans on gender equality;

Amendment 164 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls on the Member States to prevent and combat, with active and effective policies, all forms of violence against women, including the sexual harassment and acts of sexism to which most of them are subjected in the workplace;

Amendment 165 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Observes that the adoption of gender equality plans and gender audits in the private sector may foster a positive, work-life balance-friendly image of companies and contribute to increasing employee motivation and reduced staff turnover;

Amendment 166 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13b. Invites the Commission, therefore, to introduce the obligation for companies with more than 50 employees to negotiate equality plans with a view to enhance gender equality and fight discriminations at workplace level;

Amendment 167 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls for the inclusion in gender equality plans of a strategy to address, prevent and eliminate sexual harassment in the work place;

Amendment 168 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Emphasises that ~~ensuring~~ gender balance in collective bargaining teams ~~is crucial to~~can have positive effects in view of ensuring a bn equal an~~ced~~d appropriate representation of women and men, and ~~therefore considers that~~notes in this regard the possible benefits of trade unions ~~should~~ strengthening the positions of women within the social partnership structure, in particular in decision-making roles, and ~~should~~ negotiateing gender equality plans at company and sectorial level;

Amendment 169 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Emphasises that ensuring gender balance in collective bargaining teams is crucial to ensuring a balanced representation of women and men, and therefore considers that trade unions should strengthen the positions of women within the social partnership structure~~, in particular~~ and in leading posts, especially in decision- making roles, and should negotiate gender equality plans at company and sectorial level;

Amendment 17 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas equality between women and men is a key economic asset to promote fair and inclusive economic growth, and reducing occupational inequality is not just a goal in terms of equal treatment, but also in terms of labour market efficiency and fluidity;

Amendment 170 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Expresses its conviction that social partners and collective agreements have the potential of empowering women through unity and by influencing a fairer wage-setting between the genders;

Amendment 171 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. ~~Calls on~~Encourages the Commission to work ~~closely~~ with social partners in order to strengthen them in their key role of detecting ~~invisible~~discriminatory gender bias in the setting of ~~pay~~wage scales and in providing job evaluations which are free of gender bias;

Amendment 172 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission to work closely with social partners and civil society in order to strengthen them in their key role of detecting invisible gender bias in the setting of pay scales and in providing job evaluations which are free of gender bias;

Amendment 173 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 a (new)

Women in rural areas

Amendment 174 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Stresses the high proportion of self-employed workers in rural areas with a lack of appropriate social protection and the high proportion of 'invisible' work that affects women in particular; calls therefore on the Member States and regions with legislative powers to ensure social security for both, men and women, working in rural areas;

Amendment 175 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 b (new)

Combating social exclusion and poverty

Amendment 176 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Calls on the Member States to facilitate access to land and ensure ownership rights for women that include inheritance rights following death of a spouse;

Amendment 177 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)

15c. Points out that the rates of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion are higher amongst women and stresses, therefore, that measures to combat poverty and social exclusion have a particular impact on women's economic empowerment;

Amendment 178 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 d (new)

15d. 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 reveal the true extent of women's poverty;

Amendment 179 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 e (new)

15e. Calls on the Member States to abolish all forms of criminalisation and sanctions against situations of poverty such as sanctioning homelessness, energy poverty, or other forms of material deprivation;

Amendment 18 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas across the European Union, women remain considerably underrepresented in the labour market and in management, with the overall employment rate of women still being almost 12 % lower than that of men;

Amendment 180 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 f (new)

15f. Calls for Member States to promote access to quality and affordable housing of adequate size for all, to prevent and reduce homelessness with a view to its gradual elimination; calls on the Member States to deliver on the right to adequate housing through i.e. legislation to ensure that access to social housing or adequate housing benefits are provided for those in need, including homeless people, and that people in vulnerable situation and poor households are protected against eviction; calls for greater use of the EFSI to support urban renewal and affordable housing provision; calls for targeted provisions and incentives to develop the social housing sector in macro regions where they are insufficient or non-existent;

Amendment 181 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 g (new)

15g. Considers that policy on energy poverty at EU, national, and local levels must strive to empower the most vulnerable consumers, particularly those facing gender inequalities and multiple discrimination, and guarantee equitable pricing overall; calls on the Commission to make cohesion and structural funds, including the European Social Fund, available to tackle energy poverty; calls on the Commission to extend the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived beyond 2020 and to evaluate the extent to which the most deprived and groups in vulnerable situation, such as younger women, single-parent families, the disabled and elderly women have benefited from the programme;

Amendment 182 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 h (new)

15h. 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; points at the missed opportunity by the Commission to include this proposal in its initiative on a European Pillar of Social Rights;

Amendment 183 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 i (new)

15i. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that the ESI funds as well as the European Fund for Strategic Investments contribute to reducing women's poverty in view of achieving the overall Europe 2020 poverty reduction target; calls on the Member States to make sure that the allocated 20% of ESF funding for social inclusion measures are also used to increase support to small local projects aimed at empowering women experiencing poverty and social exclusion;

Amendment 184 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 c (new)

Violence against Women

Amendment 185 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 j (new)

15j. Notes that women's economic independence plays a crucial role in their ability to escape situations of violence; calls therefore for the provision of social protection systems to support women in this situation;

Amendment 186 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 k (new)

15k. Calls on the EU and its Member States to ratify the Istanbul Convention as soon as possible and asks for an urgent initiative in order to establish a European Directive on combating violence against women and gender-based violence;

Amendment 187 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 e (new)

Combating multiple discrimination

Amendment 188 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 m (new)

15m. Stresses that women often suffer from multiple discrimination, especially LGBTI women and women belonging to groups in vulnerable situation such as migrant, asylum seekers and refugees, and women belonging to minorities;

Amendment 189 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 n (new)

15n. Strongly deplores the fact that the Council has still not adopted the 2008 proposal for a directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation; welcomes the prioritisation of this directive by the Commission; reiterates its call to the Council to adopt the proposal as soon as possible;

Amendment 19 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the rate of female active population is 11 points lower than male active population; whereas female employment rate is 10 points lower than male employment rate;

Amendment 190 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 o (new)

15o. Stresses the importance of gender mainstreaming as a fundamental tool for the design of gender sensitive policies and legislation, including in the field of employment and social affairs, and therefore ensuring women's economic empowerment;

Amendment 191 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 d (new)

Education

Amendment 192 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 l (new)

15l. Stresses the importance of education in combating gender stereotypes; calls therefore on the Commission to promote initiatives developing training programmes on gender equality for education professionals, and preventing stereotypes from being passed on through curricula and pedagogical material;

Amendment 193 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 f (new)

Gender mainstreaming tools

Amendment 194 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 p (new)

15p. Notes that gender mainstreaming is part of an overall strategy on gender equality and stresses, therefore, that the commitment of EU institutions on that area is fundamental; regrets in this context that no EU gender equality strategy 2016-2020 was adopted and, echoing the Council Conclusions on Gender Equality of the 16th of June 2016, calls on the Commission to enhance the status of its Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019 by adopting it as a Communication;

Amendment 195 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 q (new)

15q. Calls on the Commission to introduce systematic gender impact assessments as part of the fundamental rights compliance assessment;

Amendment 196 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 r (new)

15r. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement gender budgeting as a tool for ensuring budgetary decisions take into account the gender dimension and address differentiated impacts;

Amendment 197 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 s (new)

15s. Calls on the Commission to improve the collection of specific gender indicators and gender-disaggregated data in order to estimate the gender equality impact of Member States and EU policies;

Amendment 198 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Maintains that current economic models and practices do not take account of gender-based differences and are not responsive to the issue of closing gender gaps; ~~believes in this context that tax policies and spending priorities during crises must be rethought in order to take women into account as economic actors;~~

Amendment 199 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. ~~Maintains that curren~~Is of the view that economic models and practices ~~do not take account of gender-based differences and are not responsive to the issue of closing gender gaps~~should include a gender perspective and aim to close gender gaps to the benefit of both citizens, businesses and the economy as a whole; believes in this context that tax policies and spending priorities during crises ~~must be rethought in order to take women into account as economic actors~~should take gender into account;

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 b (new)

– having regard to its legislative resolution of 2 April 2009 on the proposal for a Council directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation,

Amendment 20 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas education and training are fundamental to improving women’s position in society;

Amendment 200 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Maintains that current economic models and practices do not take account of gender-based differences and are not responsive to the issue of closing gender gaps; believes in this context that ~~tax policies and~~ spending priorities during crises must be rethought in order to take ~~women into account as economic actors~~the situation of women and their families into account;

Amendment 201 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Maintains that current economic models and practices do not take account of gender-based differences or the roles that men and women play as parents in forming the next generation of citizens, and are not responsive to the ~~issue of closing gender gaps~~these vital issue; believes in this context that tax policies and spending priorities during crises must be rethought in order to take women into account as economic actors;

Amendment 202 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Maintains that current economic models and practices do not take account of gender-based differences and are not responsive to the issue of closing gender gaps; deplores the adoption of austerity measures by the EU and its Member States which were introduced as a response to the economic crisis as they contribute to increase the rate of people at risk of poverty, especially in the case of women and other groups experiencing social disadvantage; believes in this context that tax policies and spending priorities during crises must be rethought in order to take ~~women~~gender impact into account a~~s economic actors~~nd further gender equality;

Amendment 203 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Maintains that current economic models and practices do not take account of gender~~-based differenc~~ inequalities and are not responsive to the issue of closing gender gaps; believes in this context that tax policies and spending priorities ~~during crises~~ must be rethought in order to ~~take women into account~~ensure that women can participate on asn e~~conomic actors~~qual footing with men in all areas of life;

Amendment 204 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Notes that women in general have careers without significant progression; calls on the Member States to encourage and support women to have successful careers, including through positive actions such as networking and mentoring programmes, as well as creating adequate conditions and having equal opportunities with men at all ages for training, advancement, re-skilling and re-training, as well as pension rights and unemployment benefits that are equal to those applicable to men;

Amendment 205 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on the Commission to allow the Member States to introduce VAT exemptions, super reduced rates and zero rates to women's sanitary products such as tampons, towels and mooncups in the forthcoming reform of the VAT Directive; calls on the Member States to avoid gender discrimination in their tax policies and make use of the flexibility introduced by the VAT Directive and apply the lowest VAT rate possible to these products;

Amendment 206 #

Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Encourages the Member States based on the provisions of the Public Procurement Directive (2014/24/EU) to promote the use of social clauses in public procurement as a tool for enhancing equality between women and men where relevant national legislations exists and can act as a ground for social clauses;

Amendment 207 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on the Commission to finance studies on the analysis of the size and value of unpaid family care work performed by women and men and the average number of hours spent on paid and unpaid work especially elderly, childcare and disabled people.

Amendment 208 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls the European Investment Bank to mainstream gender equality and women's economic empowerment throughout its activities inside and outside the EU.

Amendment 209 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Encourages Member States to promote measures and actions to assist and advise women who decide to become entrepreneurs, stressing that financial independence is a key to equality; calls on the Member States to encourage women entrepreneurship, facilitate access to credit, cut red tape and other obstacles to women's start-ups;

Amendment 21 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas in the EU 31.5% of working women work part-time vs. 8.2% of working men and whereas just over 50% of women work full-time, compared to 71.2% of men, representing a full-time employment rate gap of 25.5%;

Amendment 210 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Underlines the crucial role of high quality public services, especially for women; underlines the importance of universal access to high-quality, affordable, conveniently located and demand-driven public services as a tool to ensure women's economic empowerment;

Amendment 211 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Recognise the monetary value of the households and caring responsibilities of stay-at-home parents;

Amendment 212 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)

16c. Reaffirms its call on the European Commission to enhance the status of its Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019 by adopting it as a Communication, thus reaffirming its commitment to the promotion and mainstreaming of gender equality in all policy areas. The Commission's Strategic engagement should also be closely linked to the Europe 2020 Strategy, and should implement and monitor the gender equality commitments created at the global level, both by the commitments of the UN Beijing Platform for Action and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; calls on the Commission to introduce gender-responsive budgeting in the next Multiannual Financial Framework and engage in increasingly rigorous scrutiny of EU budget-setting processes and expenditure, including taking steps to improve transparency and reporting around how funds are spent.

Amendment 213 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)

16c. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to advance their efforts in putting an end to the digital divide between men and women by increasing women's access to information society, boosting the acquisition of e-capacities and improving ICT literacy among women, with a particular focus on increasing female visibility in the digital sector;

Amendment 214 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

~~17. Asks for a reconsideration of macroeconomic focuses in which public spending priorities are reassessed and both women and men can benefit from investment in social infrastructure;~~deleted

Amendment 215 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Asks for a reconsideration of macroeconomic focuses in which public spending priorities are reassessed to ensure that they are contributing to social justice, poverty reduction, gender equality and both women and men ~~can~~ benefit from investment in social infrastructure;

Amendment 216 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Asks for a reconsideration of macroeconomic focuses in which public spending priorities are reassessed and both women and men can benefit from high- quality, affordable public services and investment in social infrastructure;

Amendment 217 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Asks for a reconsideration of macroeconomic focuses in which public spending priorities are reassessed and both women and men can benefit from investment in social infrastructure mainly health, care and social sectors;

Amendment 218 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Asks for a reconsideration of macroeconomic focuses in which public spending and pension priorities are reassessed and both women and men can benefit from investment in social infrastructure;

Amendment 219 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Notes that women have been most affected by austerity measures and cuts in the public sector (less and higher fees for childcare, reduced services for elderly and disabled, privatisation and closure of hospitals), in particular in areas such as education, health and social work, as they represent the 70% of work force in the sector; strongly opposes profit making by venture capital firms in the public sector and calls for more public investments;

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas women take on the role of informal carers for elderly people or dependent relatives far more frequently than men do;1a __________________ OECD (2013) ‘Closing the Gender 1a Gap’.

Amendment 220 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Reiterates that women both use and work with public services more than men and that cuts in funding of public services effects women and the society at large in a negative way and by such reproduces inequality both in access to services and on the labour market;

Amendment 221 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Highlights the importance of providing adequate training on non- discrimination legislation in employment and case-law for employees of national, regional and local authorities and law enforcement bodies and labour inspectors;

Amendment 222 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Stresses that the principle of subsidiarity must be complied with and that the strengthening of the economic position of women is a Member State matter;

Amendment 223 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Points out the role of tax revenue in financing welfare systems; calls therefore on the Commission to step up efforts to effectively fight tax avoidance and evasion;

Amendment 224 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Calls on EIGE to continue its work on putting together gender specific data and scoreboards in all relevant policy areas;

Amendment 225 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)

17b. Calls on the Commission to present another proposal for the revision of the maternity leave directive, taking account of the minimum length of maternity leave specified by the International Labour Organisation;

Amendment 23 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas caring responsibilities and difficulties arising from the combining of work and private life mean that women are far more likely to work part-time than men; whereas this situation contributes significantly to the pay gap, which becomes ever more pronounced in later stages of people’s careers; whereas this leads to a significant difference between the pensions of women and men (on average 40% in the EU) and a high risk of poverty and social exclusion among women, in particular elderly women;

Amendment 24 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas caring responsibilities are reasons for inactivity for almost 20% inactive women, while this is only the case for less than 2% of men;

Amendment 25 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)

Ad. whereas motherhood and care for the elderly represent additional or full-time work that is for the most part carried out by women; whereas that work is neither paid nor sufficiently valued by society, although it has huge social value and increases social well-being;

Amendment 26 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)

Ad. whereas participation in the labour market not only has economic implications, but it also contributes significantly to better inclusion of individuals in society;

Amendment 27 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Recital A e (new)

Ae. whereas strengthening the economic position of women should not be a goal in and of itself, but should always be carried out in the light of current EU social issues, in particular the decades-long decline of birth rates below replacement levels, the postponement of the decision to have children, growing divorce rates, growing numbers of single- parent households and families without a regular source of income and growing numbers of dependent elderly persons;

Amendment 28 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A e (new)

Ae. whereas in late 2015 the European Commission released the Gender Action Plan 2016-2020 with women's economic rights and empowerment as one of four "pivotal areas" for action;

Amendment 29 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A f (new)

Af. whereas all steps towards strengthening the economic position of women must present a satisfactory solution to the challenges faced by their families;

Amendment 3 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)

– having regard to the Communication on ''The demographic future of Europe – from challenge to opportunity" (COM (2006) 571final),'' the communication ''Promoting solidarity between the generations (COM(2007)244 final),'' adopted by the European Commission respectively in October 2006 and 10 May 2007, and the conclusions of the European Council, adopted at its meeting on 30-31 May 2007, in favour of modernizing policies supporting parenthood in that policies should be made more effective in creating conditions conductive to child-raising and in supporting women's participation in the labour force etc.,

Amendment 30 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A g (new)

Ag. whereas the shift away from large families towards nuclear families is accompanied by a change in lifestyle and the emergence of new social groups that are often at risk of social exclusion, including single-parent families, the working poor and children who are impoverished or at risk of falling into poverty;

Amendment 31 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A h (new)

Ah. whereas, while time devoted to children and the family is necessarily time taken away from one’s career, it is an investment into the care and education of people, which should be recognised and valued accordingly by the Member States;

Amendment 32 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas primary barriers to B. women’s economic empowerment include adverse social norms, discriminatory laws or lack of legal protection, failure to equally share unpaid household work and care between men and women, and lack of access to financial, digital and property assets, and can additionally be exacerbated by intersecting discrimination18 , such as on grounds of race and ethnicity, religion, disability, health, gender identity, sexual orientation and/or socio-economic conditions; __________________ 18 UN High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment: ‘Leave no one behind: A call to action for gender equality and economic women’s empowerment’ (September 2016).

Amendment 33 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas gender-based violence is an unacceptable form of discrimination and a violation of fundamental rights, whereas it not only affects women's health and well-being, but also women's access to employment, thereby negatively affecting their financial independence and the economy in general;

Amendment 34 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas in 2015 the average employment rate for women with one child under the age of six was nearly 9 % lower than for women without young children, and whereas in some countries the difference exceeded 30 %;

Amendment 35 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas many studies have clearly showed that austerity policies and cutbacks in the public sector have had a huge negative impact on women, their economic empowerment and on gender equality;

Amendment 36 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the application of the Istanbul convention on preventing and combatting violence against women is a prerequisite for women's empowerment and thus gender equality;

Amendment 37 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the majority of the recipients of care are usually children, elders, and disabled members of unpaid family caregivers;

Amendment 38 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas ‘reducing the gender pay, earnings and pension gaps and thus fighting poverty among women’ is one of the priority areas set by the Commission in its document ‘Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019’;

Amendment 39 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas the European Court of Justice, on 14 March 2014, supported private sector workplace bans on headscarves, whereas this decision and the argument of the so called neutrality policy is an open door to discrimination against Muslim women in the labour market and their chances to economic empowerment;

Amendment 4 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12

~~– having regard to its resolution of 12 March 2013 on eliminating gender stereotypes in the EU6, __________________ 6~~deleted OJ C 36, 29.1.2016, p. 18.

Amendment 40 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas economic violence is a form of gender based violence occurring in women's everyday life, hindering women of fulfilling their right to freedom, reproducing gender inequality and neglects women's role in society at large;

Amendment 41 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas women carry out at least two and a half times more unpaid household and care work than men;

Amendment 42 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)

Bc. whereas women, who work for substantially lower wages and face more uncertain and precarious employment ties, are at greater risk of poverty than men, with single mothers, older women living alone and disabled women being most affected; whereas families with three or more children also face a higher risk of poverty;

Amendment 43 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)

Bd. whereas maternity and parenthood represent unacceptable grounds for discrimination against women in relation to accessing and remaining in the labour market;

Amendment 44 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B e (new)

Be. whereas one must also take into account, when comparing the situations of men and women on the labour market, that social factors, such as pregnancy and motherhood, are natural reasons for drawing a distinction between the situations of women and men;

Amendment 45 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas economic empowerment of women is ‘right and smart’ at the same time, equality being a human right and the higher participation of women in the labour market having a positive impact on GDP growth and the economic success of companiean essential dimension of gender equality and therefore it is a matter of fundamental rights;

Amendment 46 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas economic empowerment of women is ‘'right and smart’' at the same time, equality ~~being~~is a human right and the higher participation of women in the labour market ~~having a positive impact on GDP growth and the economic success of companies~~contributes to sustainable economic development at all levels of society;

Amendment 47 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas economic empowerment of women is ‘right and smart’ at the same time, equality being a human right and the higher participation of women in the labour market having a positive impact on GDP growth, per capita income and twhe ~~economic success of companies;~~reas gender parity could increase global GDP by between 12$ trillion and 28$ trillion by 20251a; __________________ 1a Klugman and Tyson (2016)

Amendment 48 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas economic empowerment of women is ‘right and smart’ at the same time, equality being a human right and the higher participation of women in the labour market having a positive impact on GDP growth and the economic success of companies; whereas firms that value women and enable them to participate fully in the labour market and in decision- making processes are more prosperous and help to boost productivity and economic growth;

Amendment 49 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas across the 17 Sustainable Goals (SDGs) targets are set on women's economic empowerment,

Amendment 5 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)

– having regard to the European Parliament recommendation of 14 February 2017 to the Council on the EU priorities for the 61st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (2017/2001(INI)),

Amendment 50 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas education, qualifications and the acquisition of skills are essential to the empowerment of women at social, cultural and economic level, and education opportunities are recognised as a core element to combat inequalities such as underrepresentation in decision- making and manager posts, engineering and science, thus improving economic empowerment for women and girls;

Amendment 51 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas violence against women is one of the main impediments to equality between women and men and be combatted through education and subsequently social and economic empowerment; whereas workplace violence has serious negative consequences for the female and male workers affected, their co-workers and families, as well as the organisations they work in and the society as a whole;

Amendment 52 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas ~~effective work-life balance has positive health aspects and promotes economic growth, competitiveness~~the traditional male- breadwinner model needs to be challenged; effective work-life balance has positive impact on progressing towards an 'equal-earner-equal carer' model and the sharing of care between women and men, as well as on health aspects and promotes an inclusive economic environment, overall labour market participation, gender equality, reduction of the risk of poverty, and intergenerational solidarity~~, and also helps address the challenges of an aging society and positively influences birth rates in the EU~~;

Amendment 53 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas effective work-life balance ~~has~~and family-friendly policies have positive health aspects and promotes economic growth, competitiveness, overall labour market participation, gender equality, reduction of the risk of poverty, and intergenerational solidarity, and also helps address the challenges of an aging society and ~~positively influences birth rates in~~trigger positive demographic trends across the EU;

Amendment 54 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas effective work-life balance has positive health aspects and promotes economic growth, competitiveness, overall labour market participation, gender equality, reduction of the risk of poverty, and intergenerational solidarity, and also helps address the challenges of an aging society ~~and positively influences birth rates in the EU~~;

Amendment 55 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas effective work-life balance makes a positive contribution to family welfare;

Amendment 56 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas it is mostly up to women to assist children and members of the family who are elderly or ill, forcing them to choose between their working lives and private lives;

Amendment 57 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT

Motion for a resolution
Recital D c (new)

Dc. whereas in the labour market, most part-time contracts are given to women, which has a negative impact on their wages and thus, indirectly, on family and pension-related income;

Amendment 58 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas digitalisation has positive effects in shaping new job opportunities and inducing a constructive shift towards more flexible work patterns, particularly for women entering and re-entering the labour market, and also in better balancing caring and professional life for both women and men;

Amendment 59 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Mariya GABRIEL

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas a ~~public system~~framework of wage mapping, including data collection, might hasve the potential to put pressure on both private and public sectors to assess their payment structures and redress any gender- based differences that are found;

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)

– having regard to its resolution of 4 April 2017 on women and their roles in rural areas1a __________________ 1a Texts adopted, P8_TA(2017)0099

Amendment 60 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas a publicly accessible system of wage mapping including data collection has the potential to put pressure on both private and public sectors to assess their payment structures and redress any gender-based differences that are found, and to create a "culture of awareness" which makes it socially unacceptable to have a pay gap in a sector or company;

Amendment 61 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas a public system of wage mapping including data collection ~~has the potential~~, should aim to eliminate the gender pay gap, to put pressure on both private and public sectors to assess their payment structures and redress ~~any~~ gender-based differences ~~that are found~~;

Amendment 62 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas ~~quotas have been found to improve the performance of private companies and boost wider economic growth, in addition to bringing about better use of the talent pool in the labour force~~female entrepreneurship offers a way to make better use of the pool of talent among the working population whereas, according to Eurostat research, Poland ranks highly in terms of female entrepreneurship rates; whereas it has achieved this without interfering in the structure of companies;

Amendment 63 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas equ~~ota~~al representation of women and men in decision-making positions haves been found to improve the performance of private companies and boost wider economic growth, in addition to bringing about better use of the talent pool in the labour force;

Amendment 64 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas ~~quotas~~a balanced presence of women haves been found to improve the performance of private companies and boosts wider economic growth, in addition to bringing about better use of the talent pool in the labour force;

Amendment 65 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas quotas have been found to improve the performance of private companies and boost wider economic growth, in addition to bringing about better use of the talent pool in the labour force; whereas gender equality and diversity in worker representation at board level of companies is a key democratic principle with positive economic impacts, such as inclusive strategic decision-making and reducing the gender pay gap;

Amendment 66 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas acts of sexism, sexual harassment and vertical and horizontal segregation that women can suffer in the workplace are partly responsible for women dropping out of the labour market, which has a negative impact on their economic independence and on the family income;

Amendment 67 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas OECD studies have shown that companies with more women on their boards experience greater profitability compared to those with all- male boards;

Amendment 68 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas ~~typically female- dominated sectors or roles are generally characterised by lower wages than comparable sectors or roles which are male-dominated,~~gender pay gap is constituting a component of the ~~gender pay and~~ pension gaps, which ~~currently stand at 16 % and 40 % respectively~~impede women to choose part time or flexible jobs when they opt for this latter;

Amendment 69 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas typically female- dominated sectors or roles are generally characterised by lower wages than comparable sectors or roles which are male-dominated, constituting a large component of the gender pay and pension gaps, which currently stand at 16 % and 40 % respectively; the lack of equal pay for work of equal value continues to constitute a barrier to equal pay for women;

Amendment 7 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 a (new)

– having regard to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), the first global set of guidelines on business and human rights, which were unambiguously endorsed by all UN Member States at the Human Rights council in 2011; having regard to the European Commission's Communication on Corporate Social Responsibility encouraging EU Member States to adapt the UNGPs to their national context,

Amendment 70 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas ~~trade union~~social partners have the potential to strengthen women’'s economic empowerment through collective bargaining by promoting equal pay ~~and~~, investing in work-life balance ~~in their sector~~, encouraging women's career development in companies and offering information and education in worker's rights;

Amendment 71 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas trade unions have the potential to strengthen women’s economic empowerment through promoting equal pay between women and men and investing in work-life balance in their sector;

Amendment 72 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)

Ja. whereas women over 55 are at particular risk of unemployment and inactivity on the labour market;

Amendment 73 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)

Ja. whereas 24.4% of women in the EU are at risk of poverty or social exclusion;

Amendment 74 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that women’s economic participation and empowerment are key for strengthening their fundamental rights, enabling them to reach economic independence, and to exert influence in society ~~and to have control over their lives~~;

Amendment 75 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that women’s economic participation and empowerment are key for strengthening their fundamental rights, enabling them to reach economic independence, to exert influence in society and to have control over their lives, breaking down the glass ceilings that are preventing them from being equal to men in working life;

Amendment 76 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that women’s economic participation and empowerment are key for strengthening their fundamental rights, enabling them to reach economic independence, to exert influence in society and to have control over their lives; and are instrumental for EU's economic growth with positive impact on GDP, inclusiveness and competitiveness of businesses as well as challenges related to the ageing population in the EU

Amendment 77 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that women’s economic participation and empowerment are key for strengthening their fundamental rights, enabling them to reach economic independence, to exert influence in society and to have control over their lives; encourages the economic empowerment of women through political and financial means;

Amendment 78 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Points out that the strengthening of the economic position of women is also one element of the Member States’ broader family policies, which differ widely as a result of varying social attitudes and the different expectations of families and the people in them – including future families; stresses, in that connection, that if the concrete solutions put forward by the EU are to be fully effective, the EU should refrain from making ideological assumptions, and the mechanisms it proposes should be adapted to the situation in each country and the real needs of women and their families;

Amendment 79 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Emphasises that the strengthening of women´s rights and economic empowerment demands that we address the deep-rooted unequal gender power relations that give rise to discrimination and violence against women, girls, and also LGBTI persons, and that gender power structures interact with other forms of discrimination and inequalities such as race, disability, age and gender identity;

Amendment 8 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 a (new)

– having regard to the Commission's communication of 26 April 2017, 'Establishing a European Pillar of Social Rights' (COM(2017) 250),

Amendment 80 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1d. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure equality and non-discrimination in the working place for all, including Muslim women, and to implement the Employment Equality Directive, which is meant to -amongst other things- protect employees from discriminations based on religion; strongly supports Muslim women's choice to wear or not to wear the hijab; confirms all women's and girls’ rights over their own bodies and how they decide to dress;

Amendment 81 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Points out that the total yearly economic costs of the lower female employment rate, taking into account forgone earnings, missed welfare contributions and additional public finance costs, corresponded to 2.8 % of the EU’'s GDP20 or €370 billion in 2013, while the cost of a woman’'s exclusion from employment is estimated at between EUR 1.2 and 2 million, depending on her educational level; __________________ 20 In 2013 - see Eurofound: ‘The gender employment gap: Challenges and solutions’.

Amendment 82 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Points out that ~~the yearly cost of the~~ lower female employment rate ~~corresponded to 2.8 % of the EU’s GDP20 , while the cost of a~~s and woman’'s exclusion from employment ~~is estimated at between EUR 1.2 and 2 million, depending on her educational level~~have a big impact on women's economic empowerment; __________________ 20 In 2013 - see Eurofound: ‘The gender employment gap: Challenges and solutions’.

Amendment 83 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Points out that the yearly cost of the lower female employment rate corresponded to 2.8 % of the EU’s GDP20 , while the cost of a woman’s exclusion from employment is estimated at between EUR 1.2 and 2 million, depending on her educational level; highlights that gender equality policies have a strong impact on GDP and by 2050, improving gender equality would lead to an increase in EU GDP per capita by 6.1 to 9.6%, which amounts to €1.95 to €3.15 trillion (EIGE's estimates) __________________ 20 In 2013 - see Eurofound: ‘The gender employment gap: Challenges and solutions’.

Amendment 84 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Notes that women constitute 52% of the total European population, but only one third of the self-employed or of all business starters in the EU, facing more difficulties than men in access to finance, training, networking, and in maintaining a work-life balance;

Amendment 85 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Highlights that women's economic empowerment and equal opportunities in the labour market are not only crucial for women individually, but also instrumental for EU's economic growth with positive impact on GDP, inclusiveness and competitiveness of businesses; points out that, according to OECD projections, total convergence in participation rates would result in a 12.4% increase in per capita GDP by 2030;

Amendment 86 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Recalls that gender-based violence, such as rape, female genital mutilation (FGM), sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment and forced early/child marriage, has a damaging long-term impact on women's and girls' sexual and reproductive health, and on their economic empowerment;

Amendment 87 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. In order for the empowerment of women to succeed, the workplace needs to be a safe haven free from any forms of discrimination or violence;

Amendment 88 #

Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Barbara MATERA, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA, Mariya GABRIEL, Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Underlines that violence against women, including economic violence, is a serious threat towards women and is both a cause and effect of gender inequality, urges therefor both Member States and the Commission to provide guidelines and adopt measures to tackle the economic violence towards women including interlinked factors causing economic dependency;

Amendment 89 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Stresses the need to combat all forms of violence against women at the workplace; calls on the Commission and the Member States to embark on concerted action, including public awareness and information campaigns, on violence against women, and to encourage the exchange of good practices;

Amendment 9 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 b (new)

– having regard to the Commission's communication of 26 April 2017, 'An Initiative to Support Work-Life Balance for Working Parents and Carers' (COM(2017) 252),

Amendment 90 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Reiterates that economic empowerment and independency is interlinked with the right to your own body and that access to SRHR is a crucial driving force in enhancing equality for all;

Amendment 91 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Recalls that it is essential for their individual, social and economic empowerment that women have universal access to the full range of sexual and reproductive health care services;

Amendment 92 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Draws attention to the very worrying high levels of sexual harassment in the work place as highlighted in the FRA survey on violence against women;

Amendment 93 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Underlines that safeguarding and strengthening the SRHR of women, young people, and LGBTI persons is important to close gaps in society and to strengthen gender equality; Is convinced that women´s and girls’ power and decision over their own bodies and sexuality are key to gender equality and their economic empowerment, which includes access to contraception, gender sensitive and non-judgmental sexuality education, and access to safe and legal abortion;

Amendment 94 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Welcomes the CSW 61st Session Conclusions on Women's economic empowerment in the changing world of work that, for the first time, make a direct and explicit link between women's economic empowerment and their sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights; regrets, however that comprehensive sexuality education was omitted entirely from the agreement;

Amendment 95 #

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Hilde VAUTMANS, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses that a better work-life balance will ensure a fairer distribution of paid and unpaid work, increase women's participation in the labour market and, accordingly, reduce the gender pay and pension gap;

Amendment 96 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Insists that achieving the Barcelona targets, including accessible, and affordable ~~and quality~~ childcare, facilities and services is indispensable for Member States to be able to reach the Europe 2020 targets and encourages Member States to promote investment in the provision of accessible and affordable care services throughout the life cycle, including care for children, dependents and the elderly; believes that adequate child care should be available and affordable also to allow parents to achieve educational goals;

Amendment 97 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Insists that achieving the Barcelona targets, and the introduction of care targets for dependent and ageing members of society, including accessible, affordable and quality childcare and care, facilities and services and independent living policies is indispensable for Member States to be able to reach the Europe 2020 targets;

Amendment 98 #

Elisabeth KÖSTINGER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Insists that achieving the Barcelona targets, including accessible, affordable and quality childcare, facilities and services is indispensable for Member States to be able to reach the Europe 2020 targets; emphasises, in that connection, the need for childcare facilities to be available throughout rural areas;

Amendment 99 #