16 Amendments of Linnéa ENGSTRÖM related to 2014/2160(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or, sexual orientation or sexual identity is prohibited by EU law;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the practical application of provisions on equal pay in the Member States was acknowledged as one of the most problematic areas; whereas, according to the latest figures, the gender pay gap still exists, standing at 16.4 %, and despite existing EU legislation and soft-law recommendationsdespite the significant body of legislation in force for almost 40 years, the actions taken and the resources spent, progress in this area is extremely slow and the gender pay gap still exists, standing at 16.2 %;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas relative progress has been made as regards women’s employment rates, but despite the existing framework at EU and national level, the level of occupational and sectoral segregation of women and men into different types of jobs remains relatively high, a situation which also has an impact on the gender pay gap over the course of a lifetime; whereas vertical segregation, whereby women feature predominantly in part-time work, lower-paid occupations or are in lower- level positions in the hierarchy, also contributes to the pay gap;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas broadening women's career prospects and changing educational patterns could have a positive influence on addressing the gender pay gap, for example by increasing the numbers of female scientists and engineers; whereas education can and must contribute to eradicating gender stereotypes from society; whereas women's skills and competences are often undervalued, as are the professions and jobs in which women predominate, without this necessarily being justified by any objective criteria;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas a large majority of mothers participating on the labour market bear the main responsibility for supporting their families as primary breadwinners; whereas the rate of single parents is higher for women than for men; whereas the gender pay gap has thus serious impact on living conditions, nutrition, and life opportunities of many European families;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas motherhood and care for the elderly represent additional work that is for the most partalmost exclusively carried out by women; whereas this work is neither paid nor valued by society, even though it contributes to social welfare and canould be measured by economic indicators such as GDP; whereas this results in the widening of the income gaps that exist between women and men through the ‘costs’ of the years spent out of the labour market or of reduced hours due to part-time arrangements; whereas the impact of these elements on lifetime earnings varies across the Member States depending on the level of support given to parents, by either legislative measures or collective agreements;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas pay gap between women and men widens after retirement, pension gaps being thus considerably higher than pay gaps; whereas women receive on average 39 % less than men in pensions; whereas this situation could be the result differentis caused by social and economic factors, such as the level of participation of women in paid labour, the employment structure of various sectoccupational and highly segregated labour markets, undervaluing of women's worsk, the time spent in work, and the gender pay gaphigher proportion of women working part-time, lower hourly wages, and less years in employment; whereas this increases the risk of poverty for women in retirement;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas Parliament has repeatedly called on the Commission to review existing legislation in order to tackle the gender pay gap; whereas closing the gender pay gap would represent a means of increasing employment rates among women, improving the situation of many European families, and decreasing the risk of poverty for women, especially at pension age;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas closing the gender gap would represent a means of reaching the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy in terms of employment and reduction of poverty, and ensuring the free movement of workers as a basic European freedom; whereas, according to the European Added Value Assessment conclusions, a one-percentage-point decrease in the gender pay gap will increase economic growth by 0,1%;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Reiterates the importance for the Member States to clearly include in their national legislation the prohibition of any discrimination based on sexual identity or gender reassignment;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Points out that access to justice in this field is limited due to several causes, such as the length orand costs of the procedures, the absence of free legal aid, the absence of dissuasive penalties for employers who do not respect wage equality, or the fear of victim stigmatisation in the workplace; underlines the fact that the application of the burden of proof rule also poses problems in several Member States; calls on the Member States to support equality bodies, trade unions and NGOs in taking an active role in providing assistance to victims of discrimination;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. calls on the Member States to strengthen the obligations for large and medium-sized enterprises to ensure the systematic promotion of equal treatment and to provide the appropriate information on a regular basis to their employees, including on issues of equal pay; reiterates that the introduction of financial penalties for employers who do not respect wage equality is likely to be a relevant means to close the gender pay gap;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Member States to act in an exemplary manner themselves in regard to combating unequal pay for women in government, public institutions and public companies in general;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to oppose inequality in pay between the sexes in all relevant EU policies and national programmes, in particular in those geared towards the fight against poverty;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25b. Calls on the Commission to fix precise objectives and deadlines to reduce the gender pay gap;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Calls on the Member States to provide Eurostat with annual high-quality gender pay gap statistics (broken down by gender, economic sector, working time, economic control and age) so that it is possible to assess developments throughout the European Union;