17 Amendments of Daniela AIUTO related to 2014/2217(INI)
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the existing taxation systems in some Member States are predicated on a narrow view of the family to the extent that they are biased towards families in which only one of the two parents is workingsingle-income families inasmuch as, in many cases, they deter women from going out to work and fail to provide sufficient support to single- parent families;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the female employment rate is 63%, whereas the gender pay gap stands at 16.4%, whereas 73% of the members serving in national parliaments and 63% of Members of the European Parliament are men, and whereas women make up 17.8% of the membership of large company boards and every week spend three times as long as men on household chores;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas many women work in companies free of charge, or as figureheads, which seriously harms their career opportunities and has an adverse effect on their pension entitlements;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas women are often forced to work in administrative positions in which they have no career development prospects and there is frequently a glass ceiling;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas if the present trends continue, the target of 75% of women in employment will not be reached until 2038 and equal pay will not become a reality before 2084; whereas equal representation in national parliaments, in the EU institutions and on European company boards could be achieved by 2034, but whereas it would take until 2054 before housework was shared equally;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the sharing of family and domestic responsibilities between men and women, to be brought about not least through a greater uptake of parental leavematernity and paternity leave, is essential in order to achieve gender equality; whereas a quarter of Member States do not offer paternity leave;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas one woman in three in the EU has been physically and/or sexually assaulted and half of all women in the EU (53%) avoid certain situations or places, at least occasionally, for fear of being physically or sexually assaulted; whereas, on the contrary, surveys into victimisation and fear of crime show that far fewer men restrict their movements for that reason26 ; __________________ 26 Violence against women: an EU-wide survey, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, March 2014.
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to mainstream genderequality between men and women’s rights into their policy- making and budget procedures, especially in connection with stimulus packages, by carrying out gender impact analyses in every case;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to allow for changes in the family unit when drawing up their taxation and compensation policies, in particular by providing support to large families, one- parent families and older people in the form of tax credits or health care assistance;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Congratulates Sweden, Belgium, France, Slovenia, Denmark, and the United Kingdom on achieving the Barcelona objectives and calls on the other Member States to continue their efforts; calls on the Member States to go beyond the Barcelona objectives by adopting a more systematic and integrated approach, to be implemented jointly by national and local authorities, to education and preschool care services, in particular for very young children under 3; calls on the Commission to provide continuing financial support to Member States so that they can offer childcare systems that parents can afford;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish paid paternity leave of at least ten working days and to encourage measures, legislative and otherwise, enabling men, and fathers in particular, to exercise their right to achieve work-life balance, one example being to promote parental leave, to be taken either by the father or by the mother, but without swapping between them, until their child has reached a given age;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for the adoption of policies to safeguard and guarantee a suitable period of maternity leave, including for mothers who work as freelancers or are self- employed and who are not classified as waged workers;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Deplores the deadlock in the Council regarding the Maternity Leave Directive; urges the Member States to resume the negotiations; and reiterates its willingness to cooperate; and suggests that the Directive may be re-examined, while keeping its most important point which is minimum maternity leave, on the basis of the standards established by the International Labour Organisation (ILO)1 a; __________________ 1aInternational Labour Organisation, Maternity Protection Recommendation, 2000 (No. 191), Recommendation concerning the revision of the Maternity Protection Recommendation, 1952
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Recalls in this respect that longer maternity leave is seen as a way to encourage women to breastfeed their babies, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO)2 a; __________________ 2aWHO Statement, Exclusive breastfeeding for six months best for babies everywhere, 15 January 2011
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Council to state its position on the directive on genderthe balance between men and women among non-executive directors of listed companies so as to enable the legislative process to be continued as soon as possible;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Maintains that women must have control over their sexual and reproductive rights, not least by having ready access to contraception and abortion; accordingly supports measures and actions to improve women’s access to sexual and reproductive health services and inform them more fully about their rights and the services available; calls on the Member States and the Commission to implement measures and actions to make men aware of their responsibilities for sexual and reproductive mattersaccess to high quality maternal healthcare;