3 Amendments of Julie WARD related to 2014/2217(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 39 a (new)
Citation 39 a (new)
- having regard to the 2014 Commission report entitled 'Statistical Data on Women Entrepreneurs in Europe',
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the role of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), which include 99% of European firms, and provide two out of three private sector jobs, is crucial to the attainment of the Europe 2020 Strategy of smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth; Whereas only 31% of entrepreneurs in the EU are women; Whereas the rate of entrepreneurship among women in the EU is 10% as compared with 19% among men; Whereas there is a need to encourage and support the increase of women's entrepreneurship;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to mainstream a gender perspective into their policies supporting SMEs, and implement innovative policies to promote and support women in entrepreneurship, such as creating of a single multilingual electronic data and exchange platform for female social entrepreneurs, supporting regional and Europe-wide mentoring and peer-to-peer networks, improving gender disaggregation of data on entrepreneurship, and appointing a Women's Enterprise Director within the Commission and Member States' enterprise ministries.