20 Amendments of Annika BRUNA related to 2021/2170(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7
Citation 7
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas women in the EU are disproportionally more affected by poverty and the risk of social exclusion than men, in particular women who experience intersectional forms of discrimination; whereas in 2020, the risk of poverty and social exclusion (AROPE) in the EU was higher for women (22.9 %) than men (20.9 %); whereas since 2017, the gender- poverty gap has increased in 21 Member States12; _________________ 12 European Institute for Gender Equality, ‘Gender Equality Index 2020: Digitalisation and the future of work’, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020.
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas poverty in general, and thus also women’s poverty, is multidimensional, and therefore includes not only material deprivation, but also a lack of access to many different resources and even an inability to fully exercise the rights of citizenshipcertain resources;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas although work in highly female-dominated sectors is essential and of high socioeconomic value, it is undervalued and lower paid than work in male-dominated sectorswork in sectors of high socioeconomic value, some of which are highly female-dominated, is undervalued and underpaid; whereas there is an urgent need to reassess the adequacy of wages in female-dominated sectors related to their social and economic value and to, particularly in female-dominated sectors and to ensure that the Member States advance on minimum wages, minimum income and pay transparency in EU regulations;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas there is an increased risk of poverty and social exclusion among some groups of women such as single mothers, women above the age of 65, women with disabilities, women with low levels of education and women from migrant backgroundsolder or disabled women, or those with low levels of education;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas poverty also makes women more vulnerable to gender-based violence; whereas this includes disproportionate vulnerability to domestic violence, trafficking and sexual exploitation;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas women have a lower employment rate and are disproportionally highly represented in low-paid, precarious and dead-end job sectors; whereas the gender pay gap stands at 14.1 %Member States must make progress in achieving equal pay for equal work, regardless of a worker’s gender;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the pension entitlements gap averages at almost 30 % as a result of the imbalances created by persistent lifelong inequalities; whereas the time devoted to care work by informal caregivers, especially mothers raising their children, is undervalued in terms of pension entitlements; whereas this pension gap means that women fall below the poverty line as they get older;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the current EU and national taxation policies reinforce existing gender gaps; whereas these schemes reproduce traditional gender roles and disincentivise women from entering, remaining and in particular returning to the labour markettaxation policies applied to households are the competence of the Member States alone;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to develop an ambitious 2030 European anti-poverty strategy, with concrete targets for reducing poverty and a focus on endingreduce poverty, especially women’s poverty and the risk of intergenerational poverty;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. CallPoints onut the Commission to put forward a ‘care deal for Europe’, which should takeat public care policies are the competence of the Member States; Calls on the European Commission to present studies on a holistic, gender- sensitive and lifelong approach to care while envisaging legislative measureas well as best practices in this area, so that these elements cand investment at EU level help the Member States to develop their care policies;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the pivotal role of women working in the social, care and retail sectors that keep our societies functioning, as shown by the COVID-19 crisis; calls for work that has a high socioeconomic impact and is underpaid, especially typically female-dominated work, to be reassessed and revaluated and for cross- sector gender-neutral job evaluation tools to be developed and applied in order to better assess and more fairly remunerate female-dominatedso that the Member States can put in place policies to ensure fairer pay for this work;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights that in order to tackle the multidimensionality of women’s poverty, it is necessary to overcome the segregation of unpaid domestic care work mainly performed by women and to introduce flexitimeenhance its status, particularly as regards pensions; notes that it is also important to promote flexitime in the professions that allow it, in order to allow women and men to better reconcile their professional life with their private life (time use policy);
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for the EU and the Member States to protect womenpeople living in energy poverty by providing a timely and coordinated response to address the long- term impact of the energy crisis; highlights that access to affordable utilities must be guaranteed to low-income households, and in particular older women and, disabled women, single mothers and children;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to design a special programme to fight against women’s digital poverty in order to equip European citizens, especially women, with the necessary skills to operate safely in the digital environment;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Member States to take the gender dimension into account when reforming pension systems and adapting the retirement age, to enhance the status, especially as regards pension entitlements, of the time devoted by informal caregivers, in particular women raising their children, and to consider the differences between the work patterns of women and men and the higher risk of discrimination of women in the labour market, in particular older women;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Member States to establish tax incentives for families in order to compensate for the direct and indirect financial impact of the care provided by parents, especially women;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Calls on the Member States not to put too low a cap on the survivors’ pensions paid to surviving partners, particular widows;