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8 Amendments of Alessandra MORETTI related to 2019/2188(INI)

Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that, although poverty rates among women vary considerably from one Member State to another, the risk of poverty in the risk groups to which older women, single women and women with children, single mothers, homosexual, bisexual and transgender women and women with disabilities belong is the same;
2020/05/11
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Notes with concern that poverty among women increases with age, with the gender pension gap remaining at around 39 % and underlines that this is caused by the wage loss of working women with children, called the "motherhood pay gap";
2020/05/11
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Is concerned that the COVID19 pandemic and the consequent economic downturn will disproportionately affect disadvantaged groups of women, including inter alia single mothers, migrant women and women with low- income, precarious and part-time and will put them at the risk of poverty, unemployment, social exclusion or homelessness;
2020/05/11
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Notes that 70% of the global health and social workforce like doctors, nurses and care workers are women; calls on the Commission and the Member States to target public investments to meet the needs of women health service providers such as protective gear including sanitary products and to level up significantly wages and working conditions in strongly female-dominated sectors;
2020/05/11
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Notes that shopkeepers, their employees and cleaners are in large majority women, often only paid the minimum wage and the COVID19pandemic has put them at even greater risk of poverty ; underlines the urgent need for extended rights to paid leave, teleworking, short time work and improved social protection for women in precarious employment or who have already lost their jobs and establishing socio-economic safety nets for women in precarious employment or with precarious contracts;
2020/05/11
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6 d. Underlines the need to ensure access to free childcare for all types of parents and family constellations working in essential services and increased support for vulnerable families including those caring for family members with disabilities;
2020/05/11
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6 e. Calls on the Commission for a European level response to extend support to small and medium-sized women-led businesses during and after the crisis;
2020/05/11
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to come forward as soon as possible with proposals to close the gender pay gap. and pension gap;
2020/05/11
Committee: FEMM