11 Amendments of Maria NOICHL related to 2015/2228(INI)
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas living at risk of poverty translates into social exclusion and lack of involvement in the life of society in terms of access to public transporteducation, primary healthcare services, decent housing and culture, culture and sport and public transport;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the gender pay gap stands at 16.3 % and whereas the atypical and flexible forms of working contracts (zero hour contracts, temporary work, interim jobs, part-time working, etc.) also affect women more than men; whereas these insecure contracts put women at greater risk of poverty and result in a category of the 'working poor' being created;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas women are often employed as domestic workers, in many cases outside the scope of national labour law; whereas undocumented women in particular run the risk of being forced to work and exploited in this area;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the stereotypes widely conveyed by society contribute to the feminisation of poverty; whereas these stereotypes are developed during childhood and are reflected in the choice of training and education and on into the labour market; whereas women are still too often confined to ‘women-friendly’ tasks for which they are still not properly paid and remain under-represented in certain areas such as mathematics, science, engineering, and so on; whereas these stereotypes lead to discrimination in terms of recrimination;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas there are shortcomings in the characterisation of the concept of ‘household’ in terms both of data collection and of taxation; whereas this concept of ‘household’ does not allow the policy-making process to take into account the situation of women in terms of income or fiscal obligations; whereas the taxation systems in force influences women's access to the labour market and theirsome Member States foster the 'man-as-breadwinner' model and thus do not support women's economic independence;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that men devote only nine hours per week to caring and housework, whereas the figure for women is 26 hours;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to undertake a comprehensive and global legislative action to modernise in a coherent way the types of leave, namely maternity, paternity, parental and carers’ leave, so as to boost women'sin particular in order to help men play an active role as fathers and thus give women equal opportunities to participatione in the labour market, which will in turn make them economically more independent;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement policies to promote the employment of women and the integration into the labour market of socially marginalised groups of women, in the light of the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy, with an emphasis on life- long learning, the development of affordable and high-quality public care services, flexible working time arrangements and measures to combat thegender-specific stereotypes and the resulting segregation of men and women by occupation and sector;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that women are disproportionately and often involuntarily concentrated in precarious work; urges the Member States to consider implementing 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; notes that self-employment can also be precarious;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Reiterates its call on the Commission to revise the existing legislation and, if appropriate, introduce penalties for non- compliance, in order to reduce the pay and pension gap between men and women;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that the absence of a partner income is a major contributing factor to the poverty trap and to the social exclusion of women; notes the often precarious situation of divorced women who are heads of household, for whom an adequate level of maintenance should be defined; notes that non-payment of maintenance can plunge single mothers into poverty;