71 Amendments of Monika VANA related to 2017/2008(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to the Commission proposal of 2 July 2008 for a Council directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation (COM(2008)0426),
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas structural barriers to women’'s economic empowerment are the result of multiple and intersecting forms of inequalities, stereotypes and discrimination in the private and public spheres;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 b (new)
Citation 6 b (new)
– having regard to its legislative resolution of 2 April 2009 on the proposal for a Council directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)
Citation 21 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 4 April 2017 on women and their roles in rural areas1a __________________ 1a Texts adopted, P8_TA(2017)0099
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 a (new)
Citation 25 a (new)
– having regard to the Commission's communication of 26 April 2017, 'Establishing a European Pillar of Social Rights' (COM(2017) 250),
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 b (new)
Citation 25 b (new)
– having regard to the Commission's communication of 26 April 2017, 'An Initiative to Support Work-Life Balance for Working Parents and Carers' (COM(2017) 252),
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas the EU is committed to promoting gender equality and ensuring gender mainstreaming in all of its actions;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the rate of female active population is 11 points lower than male active population; whereas female employment rate is 10 points lower than male employment rate;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to promote gender equality and the well- being of women, by tackling the pay and pension gaps and combating atypical and insecure forms of work and employment, such as temporary contracts, zero-hours contracts or involuntary part-time work, as well as by ensuring a right to return from voluntary part-time work to full time employment;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas economic empowerment of women is ‘right and smart’ at the same time, equality being a human right and the higher participation of women in the labour market having a positive impact on GDP growth and the economic success of companiean essential dimension of gender equality and therefore it is a matter of fundamental rights;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Deplores the persistence of the gender pay gap, which constitutes an infringement of the fundamental principle of equal pay for equal work for female and male workers enshrined in Article 157 TFEU and in particular affects women having and raising children; calls on the EU and the Member States, in cooperation with the social partners and gender equality organisations, to set out and implement policies to close the gender pay gap; calls on the Member States to carry out wage-mapping on a regular basis as a complement to these efforts;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas effective work-life balance has positive health aspects and promotes economic growth, competitiveness, overall labour market participation, gender equality, reduction of the risk of poverty, and intergenerational solidarity, and also helps address the challenges of an aging society and positively influences birth rates in the EU;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to eliminate occupational segregation by addressing discriminatory social behaviours and stereotypes, diversifying career choices of women and men, and promoting the equal participation of women and men in the labour market, education, training and all forms of care;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas 24.4% of women in the EU are at risk of poverty or social exclusion;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that the yearly cost of the lower female employment rate corresponded to 2.8 % of the EU’s GDP20 , while the cost of as and woman’'s exclusion from employment is estimated at between EUR 1.2 and 2 million, depending on her educational levelhave a big impact on women's economic empowerment; __________________ 20 In 2013 - see Eurofound: ‘The gender employment gap: Challenges and solutions’.
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for measures to guarantee the economic and social dignity of so-called feminised work, such as domestic work;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Considers that promoting women's participation in the labour market and their economic independence is crucial for meeting the Europe 2020 target of a 75 % overall employment rate and would boost GDP; calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen policies and increase investment supporting female employment in quality jobs, particularly in sectors and positions where women are under-represented, such as the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), ICT and green economy sectors, or senior management positions across all sectors;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Stresses the importance of supporting female entrepreneurs and underlines the need to improve access to finance for starting a business by women and easing administrative burdens;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Highlights the particular role that education for girls and young women plays for their future employment prospects and economic empowerment;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that a better work-life balance will ensure a fairer distribution of paid and unpaid work, increase women's participation in the labour market and, accordingly, reduce the gender pay and pension gap;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4 d. Highlights the importance of vocational education and training (VET) in diversifying career choices, introducing women and men to non-traditional career opportunities, and preparing them well for the labour market;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to enforceand the Commission to enforce already existing and establish better laws and workplace policies that prohibit discrimination in the recruitment, retention and promotion of women in employment in both the public and private sectors;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the Member States to put in place proactive policies and appropriate investment aimed and designed to support women and men entering, returning to, staying and advancing in the labour market, after periods of family and care- related types of leave, with sustainable and quality employment, in line with Article 27 of the European Social Charter; stresses in particular the need to guarantee reinstatement to the same post or to an equivalent or similar post, protection against dismissal and less favourable treatment as a result of pregnancy, applying for or taking family leave, and a protection period after their return so that they can readjust to their job;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Stresses that remuneration and social security contributions should continue to be paid during leave times;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Welcomes the Commission's intention to revise the Parental Leave Directive to include a paid non- transferrable parental leave of 4 months, a 10 days paternity leave and the introduction of paid careers' leave; regrets however that these leaves are not fully paid as well as the absence of a proposal to reform the Maternity Leave Directive;
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Disapproves the Commission's withdrawal of the maternity leave directive; calls on the Commission to return with an ambitious proposal that will effectively enable a better work-life balance and hence the economic empowerment of women;
Amendment 124 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States to strengthen and enforce the full exercise of the right of collective bargaining in the private and public sectors; calls for appointing equality representatives to raise awareness, inform and liaise about gender equality at work;
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to implement and enforce public social care policies as well as to provide quality childcareensure the availability of and access to quality, affordable care services for children, older persons and other dependants, including facilities, and promote the equal sharing of unpaid domestic work and co- responsibility in care.; recalls the important role of public service for reaching gender equality; notes that expenditures in these fields are to be seen as investments that will bring economic returns and should be given special consideration in the frame of the EU's economic governance and budgetary surveillance rules;
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Stresses the need to eliminate gender inequalities in paid and unpaid work and to promote equal sharing of responsibilities, costs and care for children and for dependants between women and men, but also within society as a whole, to ensure their position as equal earners and equal carers; points in this respect to the need for specific proposals making for better work-life balance;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that women are disproportionately and often involuntarily concentrated in precarious work including high levels of part-time work, low-paid, fixed term and zero-hour contracts; urges the Member States to implement 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;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4 a (new)
Subheading 4 a (new)
Working conditions
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Regrets the lack of ambition of the Commission's proposal to develop the European Pillar of Social Rights and calls on the Commission to propose a Directive on decent working conditions for all workers;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Recalls the disastrous long term impact of austerity measures on women's economic empowerment and equality between women and men, with rising unemployment and cuts in public services and benefits resulting in a care crisis;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Calls on the Member States to establish through legislation or collective bargaining a minimum wage of at least 60% of national median wage;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4 b (new)
Subheading 4 b (new)
Unemployment policies
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 d (new)
Paragraph 9 d (new)
9d. Stresses that women have higher unemployment rates; urges the need of benchmarking unemployment schemes highlighting that duration should at least cover the national average job seeking period and support and encourage active job search;
Amendment 148 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8 c. Urges the Member States to replace household unit models by the individualisation of taxation and social security rights in order to ensure that women have individual rights and to counter dependency status through their partners or through the state;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission to improve the collection, the analysis and the dissemination of comprehensive, comparable and reliable and regularly updated data on women's participation in decision-making;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls on EU institutions to encourage women's participation in the European electoral process by including gender balanced lists in the next revision of the European Electoral Law;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls for full implementation of Directive 2006/54/EC on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation, and for it to be revised with a compulsory requirement for companies to draw up plans on gender equality;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to work closely with social partners and civil society in order to strengthen them in their key role of detecting invisible gender bias in the setting of pay scales and in providing job evaluations which are free of gender bias;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 a (new)
Subheading 7 a (new)
Women in rural areas
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses the high proportion of self-employed workers in rural areas with a lack of appropriate social protection and the high proportion of 'invisible' work that affects women in particular; calls therefore on the Member States and regions with legislative powers to ensure social security for both, men and women, working in rural areas;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 b (new)
Subheading 7 b (new)
Combating social exclusion and poverty
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Calls on the Member States to facilitate access to land and ensure ownership rights for women that include inheritance rights following death of a spouse;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Points out that the rates of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion are higher amongst women and stresses, therefore, that measures to combat poverty and social exclusion have a particular impact on women's economic empowerment;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 d (new)
Paragraph 15 d (new)
15d. Notes that poverty continues to be measured on accumulated household income, which assumes that all members of the household earn the same and distribute resources equally, calls for individualised rights and calculations based on individual incomes to reveal the true extent of women's poverty;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 e (new)
Paragraph 15 e (new)
15e. Calls on the Member States to abolish all forms of criminalisation and sanctions against situations of poverty such as sanctioning homelessness, energy poverty, or other forms of material deprivation;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 f (new)
Paragraph 15 f (new)
15f. Calls for Member States to promote access to quality and affordable housing of adequate size for all, to prevent and reduce homelessness with a view to its gradual elimination; calls on the Member States to deliver on the right to adequate housing through i.e. legislation to ensure that access to social housing or adequate housing benefits are provided for those in need, including homeless people, and that people in vulnerable situation and poor households are protected against eviction; calls for greater use of the EFSI to support urban renewal and affordable housing provision; calls for targeted provisions and incentives to develop the social housing sector in macro regions where they are insufficient or non-existent;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 g (new)
Paragraph 15 g (new)
15g. Considers that policy on energy poverty at EU, national, and local levels must strive to empower the most vulnerable consumers, particularly those facing gender inequalities and multiple discrimination, and guarantee equitable pricing overall; calls on the Commission to make cohesion and structural funds, including the European Social Fund, available to tackle energy poverty; calls on the Commission to extend the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived beyond 2020 and to evaluate the extent to which the most deprived and groups in vulnerable situation, such as younger women, single-parent families, the disabled and elderly women have benefited from the programme;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 h (new)
Paragraph 15 h (new)
15h. Calls on the Commission to propose a European framework Directive on minimum income schemes as the basis for high level social protection and full participation in society across the life span; points at the missed opportunity by the Commission to include this proposal in its initiative on a European Pillar of Social Rights;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 i (new)
Paragraph 15 i (new)
15i. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that the ESI funds as well as the European Fund for Strategic Investments contribute to reducing women's poverty in view of achieving the overall Europe 2020 poverty reduction target; calls on the Member States to make sure that the allocated 20% of ESF funding for social inclusion measures are also used to increase support to small local projects aimed at empowering women experiencing poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 c (new)
Subheading 7 c (new)
Violence against Women
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 j (new)
Paragraph 15 j (new)
15j. Notes that women's economic independence plays a crucial role in their ability to escape situations of violence; calls therefore for the provision of social protection systems to support women in this situation;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 k (new)
Paragraph 15 k (new)
15k. Calls on the EU and its Member States to ratify the Istanbul Convention as soon as possible and asks for an urgent initiative in order to establish a European Directive on combating violence against women and gender-based violence;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 e (new)
Subheading 7 e (new)
Combating multiple discrimination
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 m (new)
Paragraph 15 m (new)
15m. Stresses that women often suffer from multiple discrimination, especially LGBTI women and women belonging to groups in vulnerable situation such as migrant, asylum seekers and refugees, and women belonging to minorities;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 n (new)
Paragraph 15 n (new)
15n. Strongly deplores the fact that the Council has still not adopted the 2008 proposal for a directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation; welcomes the prioritisation of this directive by the Commission; reiterates its call to the Council to adopt the proposal as soon as possible;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 o (new)
Paragraph 15 o (new)
15o. Stresses the importance of gender mainstreaming as a fundamental tool for the design of gender sensitive policies and legislation, including in the field of employment and social affairs, and therefore ensuring women's economic empowerment;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 d (new)
Subheading 7 d (new)
Education
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 l (new)
Paragraph 15 l (new)
15l. Stresses the importance of education in combating gender stereotypes; calls therefore on the Commission to promote initiatives developing training programmes on gender equality for education professionals, and preventing stereotypes from being passed on through curricula and pedagogical material;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 f (new)
Subheading 7 f (new)
Gender mainstreaming tools
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 p (new)
Paragraph 15 p (new)
15p. Notes that gender mainstreaming is part of an overall strategy on gender equality and stresses, therefore, that the commitment of EU institutions on that area is fundamental; regrets in this context that no EU gender equality strategy 2016-2020 was adopted and, echoing the Council Conclusions on Gender Equality of the 16th of June 2016, calls on the Commission to enhance the status of its Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019 by adopting it as a Communication;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 q (new)
Paragraph 15 q (new)
15q. Calls on the Commission to introduce systematic gender impact assessments as part of the fundamental rights compliance assessment;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 r (new)
Paragraph 15 r (new)
15r. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement gender budgeting as a tool for ensuring budgetary decisions take into account the gender dimension and address differentiated impacts;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 s (new)
Paragraph 15 s (new)
15s. Calls on the Commission to improve the collection of specific gender indicators and gender-disaggregated data in order to estimate the gender equality impact of Member States and EU policies;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Maintains that current economic models and practices do not take account of gender-based differences and are not responsive to the issue of closing gender gaps; deplores the adoption of austerity measures by the EU and its Member States which were introduced as a response to the economic crisis as they contribute to increase the rate of people at risk of poverty, especially in the case of women and other groups experiencing social disadvantage; believes in this context that tax policies and spending priorities during crises must be rethought in order to take womengender impact into account as economic actorsnd further gender equality;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Commission to allow the Member States to introduce VAT exemptions, super reduced rates and zero rates to women's sanitary products such as tampons, towels and mooncups in the forthcoming reform of the VAT Directive; calls on the Member States to avoid gender discrimination in their tax policies and make use of the flexibility introduced by the VAT Directive and apply the lowest VAT rate possible to these products;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Underlines the crucial role of high quality public services, especially for women; underlines the importance of universal access to high-quality, affordable, conveniently located and demand-driven public services as a tool to ensure women's economic empowerment;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Asks for a reconsideration of macroeconomic focuses in which public spending priorities are reassessed and both women and men can benefit from high- quality, affordable public services and investment in social infrastructure;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Points out the role of tax revenue in financing welfare systems; calls therefore on the Commission to step up efforts to effectively fight tax avoidance and evasion;