16 Amendments of Notis MARIAS related to 2014/2015(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
– having regard to Protocol No 1 to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) on the role of national parliaments in the European Union,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 b (new)
Citation 2 b (new)
– having regard to Protocol No 2 to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality,
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Β
Recital Β
B. whereas in 2015 the employment rate for women reached an all-time high of 64.5 %, but remained well below that for men, which stood at 75.6 %; whereasdeploring the fact that women are four times more likely than men to engage and remain in part-time work; whereas many young people remain poor despite working, especially women in the countries of southern Europe, such as Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and others;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereasdeploring the fact that the economic crisis and austerity measures have disproportionately affected women, particularly young women and women suffering from multiple discrimination, and has led them into poverty and social marginalisation;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the feminisation of poverty persists in the EU, and whereas the increasing risk ofthe very high proportions of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion ofamong women isare closely linked to budget cutthe austerity policies of the Troika and specifically to budget cuts by the Member States of southern Europe, such as Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and others in public services such as healthcare, education, social services and welfare benefits;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas three quarters of household chores and two thirds of parental care in 2015 were performed by working women, who were therefore overwhelmingly bearing a double burden of responsibilities; whereas gendered division of care and family responsibilities are detrimental to women’s economic independence in the long term, while difficulties are still being encountered in achieving a balance between professional and personal life;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas there are types of family leave where discrimination is still apparent; whereas not all Member States have statutory provisions for paternity leave, and whereas a number of those that do have such provisions allow men to take leave for only one, two or several days; whereas in eight Member States paternity leave is not accompanied by any pay, while the average take-up of parental leave by fathers is poor, with only 10 % of fathers taking at least one day of leave and 97 % of women using the parental leave that is available for both parents;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas gender segregation in employment is still a prevalent phenomenon, with women occupying mostly low-paid sectors, while in workplaces in EU Member States discrimination is also observed in the hiring process;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the pension gap, as the result of disadvantages accrued by women over time, is still persists in the EUincreasing in the EU and stands at an overwhelming 40.2 %;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas population surveys on attitudes to violence against women show a worrying prevalence of the tendency to blame the victim; deploring the fact that in some countries a significant increase has been seen in the number of victims of violence and in the severity of its effects;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T
Recital T
T. whereas sexual and reproductive health and rights are fundamental rights and an essential element of gender equality and self-determination and whereas access to them should therefore be guaranteed for all women and girls; and whereas they should be included, as basic human rights, in the EU Health Strategy in order to ensure coherence between the EU’s internal and external fundamental rights policies;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is deeply concernedDeplores the fact that the EU remains only halfway towards achieving gender equality, according to the 2015 EIGE Gender Equality Index; strongly regrets the fact that the status and profile of gender equality and the combating of gender discrimination shows signs of decreasing in importance, being marginalised as a political goal and undermined it as a policy area;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Asks the Commission for a greater assessment of and measures to address the impact of public spending cuto take immediate steps to stop public spending cuts, which are having negative effects on women’s rights and gender equality in EU Member States;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that the goals of their education systems include education in respect for fundamental rights and freedoms and in equal rights and opportunities for women and men and that their systems’ quality principles include the elimination of the obstacles to genuine equality between women and men and the promotion of full equality between them;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Is extremely concernedCondemns the fact that in more than half of the Member States the gender pension gap has increased; encourages Cyprus, Germany and the Netherlands to reduce the difference between male and female pensions, which is almost 50 %; calls on Malta, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, Greece, Italy and Austria to close the gender gap in pension coverage, as between 11 % and 36 % of women in those countries have no access to a pension;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Reiterates that the gender dimension of preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, which is now one of the most profitable activities of organised crime, must be consistently monitored in the implementation of EU anti-trafficking legislation, and repeats its call on the Commission to continue to monitor this in its assessment of Member States’ compliance with and implementation of the directive, while ensuring that the reporting obligations and timetable as outlined in the directive are met;