Activities of Jana ŽITŇANSKÁ related to 2015/2228(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on poverty: a gender perspective
Amendments (11)
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Takes the view that the elimination of the gender pay gap requires greater transparency in the payment process, the reversal of the burden of proof in cases of discrimination against women and compliance with the principle of equal opportunities for men and women;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Notes that the gender pay gap makes women more likely to fall into poverty after retirement;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Notes that women who have a disability or stay at home to care for a family member are disproportionally at risk of falling into poverty;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the lack of affordable childcareand high-quality care and support services for children, persons with a disability and elderly persons contributes to the gender employment gap, the pay gap and related pension gap, and the disproportionate number of women who are in precarious work and in or at risk of poverty; urges the Member States to ensure access to childcarethese services by, for example, increasingoffering adequate expenditure on the provision of childcareare and support services and/or subsidies to households, incentivising employer contributions to childcare costs, making the health and social care sector more attractive to men and women and, in particular, young people, and making better use of EU funds;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that high-quality and accessible education is the most important tool for beginning to eliminate social inequalities; stresses, moreover, the need to ensure that continuous training is accessible to elderly women, with particular reference to filling in gaps in digital skills;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses the need to increase the number of social workers in the field in areas suffering from extreme poverty; stresses, in this regard, the role played by health workers and their work with mothers and children in deprived areas;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Highlights the role of entrepreneurship as one of the paths to women’s economic independence; urges the Member States to increase availability and awareness of opportunities, e.g. microloans, which represent a way to obtain funding without entering into excessive debt (usury);
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Calls on the Member States to cooperate in the fight against poverty with NGOs which operate successfully in areas afflicted by extreme poverty and which have precious know-how in local communities; calls on the Member States to support effective collaboration at the local level;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that women’s economic independence plays a crucialn important role in their ability to escape situations of domestic violence, and that women who have exhausted their paid leave are at risk of losing their jobs and economic independence; calls on the Commission and the Member States to consider introducing a statutory right to paidxtricate themselves from situations of domestic violence leave.