32 Amendments of Arba KOKALARI related to 2021/2170(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)
Citation 12 a (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 31 May 2011 on women entrepreneurship in small and medium-sized enterprises;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the technological and digital revolution we are witnessing increases the digital progress and new business opportunities and whereas this technological and digital revolution changes economic patterns, social systems and the labour market and whereas everyone in our society, especially women, must have the chance to participate in this prosperity;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the employment rate of women has even fallen more sharply than it did during the 2008 recession due to the increase of unpaid care work for dependants and household and educational care services, and has also resulted in a lower labour intensity, leading to significant increases in women’s poverty; whereas according to estimates for 2019 in the EU-27, women are particularly affected by the risk of poverty (AROP), with the poverty rate standing at 25.1 % before social transfers and 17.1 % after such transfers;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic will have great economic and financial consequences, which will have a direct impact in terms of increasing poverty, especially among women and the most vulnerable groups in society, as its effects will be felt most keenly by workers in the service sector, the self-employed, temporary and seasonal workers, etc., among whom a higher proportion are women;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas poverty in general, and thus also women’s poverty, is multidimensional, and thereforefor this reason we need to combat all causes and consequences of all facets of women's poverty includesing not only material deprivation, but also a lack of access to many different resources and even an inability to fully exercise the rights of citizenship; whereas synergies between various actions carried out and political measures supporting gender equality, employment, education, taxation and housing can help combat deep-rooted causes of poverty and social exclusion more efficiently; whereas the impact of poverty on women and men is different and that therefore other indicators (such as age, life expectancy, income inequalities, gender pay gap, type of household, social transfers) need to be considered as well;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas synergies between various actions carried out and political measures supporting gender equality, employment, training, taxation, family and housing can help combat deep-rooted causes of poverty and social exclusion more efficiently;
Amendment 55 #
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 sectors; 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 advance on minimum wages, minimum income and pay transparency in EU regulationsand to ensure adequate pay for all, to eliminate unfair practices and a downgrading of social protection standards and to promote equal opportunities while respecting the principle of subsidiarity;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas policies targeted at increasing the participation of women in the fields related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and AI, and the adoption of a multi-level approach to address the gender gap in all levels of education and employment in the digital sector need to be further promoted;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas girls outperform boys in school but often encounter greater difficulties or are prevented from translating this educational success into professional accomplishment by familial and other pressures;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas women more often than men take the responsibility for the care of elderly or ill family members as well as for children and put their careers on hold more regularly, which prevents them making pension plans, forging a career and fully participating in the market, thereby diminishing their overall income;
Amendment 89 #
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 women face pregnancy and maternity discrimination; whereas the gender pay gap stands at 14.1 %;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas women have been working in the frontline of the pandemic and also in the services sector, which has been particularly affected by the current crisis; whereas this has led to an increase in female unemployment rates and thus a higher likelihood of poverty for women in the EU; whereas women have also tended to partake a disproportionate amount of uncompensated childcare work, even if enforced lockdowns have meant that men increased their household participation in comparison to the years prior to the pandemic;
Amendment 101 #
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 this pension gap means that women fall below the poverty line as they get older; whereas eliminating the pension gap will lead to greater social inclusion throughout the whole life cycle;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the current EU model of socio-economic governance is harmful to the EU’s commitmeit is important to reduce inequalities and eradicate poverty, in particular women’s poverty resulting from a lifetime of discrimination;
Amendment 164 #
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 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-dominated workin order to better assess and fairer remunerate female- dominated work while at the same time strengthening women's entrepreneurship in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs);
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. stresses the importance to raise and increase awareness about consequences of women’s choices in the labour market and the importance of their economic independence to prevent from poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Emphasises that empowering women as citizens and economic actors is critical to our economies and our societies, and to tackling poverty; stresses in this regard the necessity to facilitate the combination of work and family life, as women in particular seek to adjust their careers for family life and care responsibilities;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Expresses its concern that women with children are discriminated against in the workplace because they are mothers and not because their job performance is inferior to that of their peers; urges the Member States to actively promote a positive image of mothers as employees;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Stresses the importance of incentives for employers to promote a better work-life balance during the entire period of employment;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Points out the importance of promoting women’s empowerment through women’s education, training, life-long learning, which are of vital importance in order to fight stereotypes and combat persisting inequalities together with addressing women’s employment rate and underrepresentation in certain sectors like STEM and AI;
Amendment 200 #
6 b. Calls on the Commission to strengthen EU education programs while at the same time aligning training and education with the needs of the economy and society of the future; Calls on the Commission to improve access to upskilling and lifelong learning for women;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Underlines the importance to enable women, particularly those most at risk of poverty, to pursue their careers on a full-time basis or, if they prefer, to have access to part-time work or work with flexible hours;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Stresses that combating violence against women is necessary to achieve the goal of equality between women and men in Europe and that a life free from violence is fundamental for more women to participate in the labour market, reach their full potential within their work and to be financially independent.
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to investigate the barriers to female entrepreneurship and especially conduct a comprehensive analysis of women’s access to finance, helping to end women’s poverty in Europe by empowering them to become founders and entrepreneurs;
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16 b. Calls on all Member States and the EU as a whole to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention).
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 d (new)
Paragraph 16 d (new)
16d. Calls on the Member States to combat harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, early and forced marriage and so-called ‘honour-related violence’, which specifically injures and limits young women and girls.
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 e (new)
Paragraph 16 e (new)
16e. Highlights that women's entrepreneurship is important for increasing women's financial position; Notes that it creates jobs, strengthens the internal market and reduces unemployment.
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 f (new)
Paragraph 16 f (new)
16f. Emphasizes that the EU needs a business-friendly climate that makes it easy to start and run companies; notes that reduced bureaucratic burden for entrepreneurs lowers barriers for more women to start businesses.
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 g (new)
Paragraph 16 g (new)
16g. Highlights the importance of better access to education in financial literacy from an early age; with gender differences in financial literacy, the private financial conditions are affected; with better knowledge of sound personal finances, more women can have greater financial influence over their lives.
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 h (new)
Paragraph 16 h (new)