Activities of Beatrix von STORCH related to 2016/2061(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the need for an EU strategy to end and prevent the gender pension gap PDF (401 KB) DOC (85 KB)
Amendments (12)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)
Citation 21 a (new)
– having regard to the international study by Make Mothers Matter (MMM), entitled ‘What Matters to Mothers in Europe’ carried out in the context of the 7th EU framework research project ‘Family Platform’ in 2011,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas the real scandal lies not in a possible pay gap but in the failure to recognise the housework, child rearing, care and family work carried out equally by women and men, and the lack of opportunities to reconcile, and choose freely between, family and working life, which affects women and men equally;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, owing to their longer life expectancy, women are likely, on average, to require more pension capital than men to cover their retirement and whereas this capital may be available to them from the inheritance left by their deceased husband;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the lack of comparable, comprehensive, reliable and regularly updated data on the basis of which to gauge the size of the pension gap and the relative importance of the factors that contribute to it make it difficult to determine how best to tackle the problemean that the assertion that there is a ‘gender pension gap’ does not stand up to scrutiny;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas statistics conflate the gross salaries of men and women of all sectors, qualifications, positions and family situations, resulting in a highly simplistic figure which does not reflect reality;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U a (new)
Recital U a (new)
Ua. whereas people who devote their time and abilities to bringing up children or caring for an old person should receive the recognition of society;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Urges Eurostat to develop measures to highlight the economic value of invisible work in the field of raising and caring for children and looking after families and its contribution to the Member States’ 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);
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Suggests to the Member States that they draw up national strategies on recognising informal domestic, childcare and family work by men and women, strategies which include incorporating the economic value of the invisible work carried out both by men and women in the area of solidarity between the generations and its contribution to the Member States’ GDP in national accounts, as Parliament has already proposed (resolution of 3 February 2009 on non-discrimination based on sex and intergenerational solidarity, resolution of 13 October 2005 on women and poverty in the European Union);
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Member States to put forward specific initiatives to validate the skills acquired in bringing up, caring for dependent persons and carrying out household management so that these skills are taken into account when individuals re-enter the labour market; points out that the assessment of soft skills is central to the ‘skills passport’, in accordance with the best traditions of national efforts to match supply and demand on the labour market;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Points out that a proper work-life balance cannot be achieved unless decent childcare facilities are available; calls on Member Statesparents are free to decide whether they want to meeput the Barcelona targets at the earliest opportunity, and no later than by 2020ir children in child care or look after them at home;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Points out that a proper work-life balance cannot properly be achieved unless decent childcare facilities are available; calls on Member States not only to meet the Barcelona targets at the earliest opportunity, and no later than by 2020, but at the same time to offer families which prefer a different child-rearing model the freedom to choose;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Points out that families are a source of social cohesion and should be seen as pillars of society as a whole and that women and mothers, by bringing up and caring for their children, are working for the future of society;