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19 Amendments of Hiltrud BREYER related to 2008/2118(INI)

Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1
- having regard to the work carried out by the winner of the 1992 Nobel Price in Economics, Gary Becker, particularly on human capital,deleted
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation (new)
- having regard to the resolution of the Council and of the Ministers for Employment and Social Policy, meeting within the Council of 29 June 2000 on the balanced participation of women and men in family and working life,
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the Lisbon Strategy aims to ensure that 60% of women able to work are in employment; whereas efforts relating to the demographic challenge seek to promote higher birth rates to meet future requirements; whereas these two public policies target the same pivotal population group of women aged between 18 and 49, who are viewed both as workers and as mothers carrying life and bringing children into the world as well as taking care of the elderly; whereas the different policies now need to be built not just around the professional performance of workers but also around their role in society as human beinggender equality and work/life balance remains central to the debate on demographic change, recognising the diversity of 21st century family patterns,
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas gaps between women and men persist in all other aspects of work quality, for instance reconciling professional and private life, and whereas the employment rate for women with dependent children is only 62,4 %, compared with 91,4 % for men, whereas 76,5 % of part-time workers are women,
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the various alternatives involved in the choice between formal employment and informal non market work do not have the same economic consequences, and the manifold but latent discrimination against women and men who would opt for informal non market work thus takes the form of having to chose between two alternatives which are not recognised as being equivalent in economic terms,deleted
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas the work of Gary Becker, the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics, uses economic and mathematical models to highlight the economic value of household production by women, particularly in terms of housework, educating children, looking after dependents regardless of their age or state of dependency, or running intergenerational solidarity networks,deleted
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas attention should be drawn to the aforementioned 1995 UNDP Report which notes that if more human activities in the field of non-market informal work devoted to inter-generational solidarity were seen as market transactions in the same way as the prevailing wages, they would yield gigantically large monetary valuations for the work carried out by women/mothers and men/fathers; whereas this same report states that if national statistics fully reflected the 'invisible' contribution of women/mothers and men/fathers, it would become impossible for policy-makers to ignore them in their decisions on, particularly, policies to reconcile family life and 'formalised' working life,deleted
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas the manifold but latent discrimination against women/mothers and men/fathers in this field is primarily manifested in the obligation of having to chose between two alternatives which are not recognised as being equivalent in economic terms (formal or informal work),deleted
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
J. whereas the manifold discrimination against women/mothers and men/fathers in the official recognition of their informal work is linked to a number of legal, social and economic factors which go beyond the single issue of equal pay for the same job and is due in particular to the fact that women/mothers or men/fathers are obliged to choose formal work simply because of the non- recognition of household work, even though formal work is burdened with the pay gap and upsets the balance between pursuing family plans and professional ambitions,deleted
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
K. whereas systems of national accounts (SNAs) in the Member States do not recognise the value of non-market informal work in its different forms even though, according to mathematical models, it accounts for one-third of national wealth in GDP,deleted
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on Eurostat to develop measures to highlight the value of invisible work in the field of inter-generational solidarity and its contribution to the Union's GDP and, for this purpose, to work closely with the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Labour Office (ILO)visualise childcare and care for dependents, broken down by gender ;
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to conduct an awareness-raising campaign and introduce pilot projects to facilitate the balanced participation of women and men in professional and family life;
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to launch a new directive concerning specific rights and safeguards in relation to reconciliation of working and family life where there are dependent family members (children, elderly and disabled people), also calls on the Member States to consider flexible working hours for parents (as a result of free choice) and flexible times for children's care institutions, to help both women and men to combine work and family life more successfully;
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Refers to the growing number of teenage mothers and in this context to UK studies revealing that girls as young as 13 are making their "career choice" by deciding to have children, since they see parenting as preferable to working in a "dead-end job";
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Points out that women's income remains the key to their economic autonomy and to greater equality between women and men in society as a whole;
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Points out that pension schemes in Member States still leave many women with only derived rights based on their husband's employment record, with the consequence that the majority of older people living in poverty are women;
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Calls on the Member States to address the structural factors contributing to inequality in pension schemes including the organisation of care and combining family and work life, inequalities in the labour market, the gender pay gap and direct discrimination in second and third pillar pensions;
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Member States to review their tax systems and set tax rates based on individual rights and consequently demands the individualisation of pension rights as well as social security system rights;
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls on the Member States to re- evaluate and reform their tax and benefit systems in order to facilitate the return of women to the workforce, underlines priority to be given to the abolishment of discriminatory tax systems, for example the "Ehegattensplitting";
2008/11/13
Committee: FEMM