20 Amendments of Christine ANDERSON related to 2021/2020(INI)
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, although female employment rates have risen, gender inequality on the labour market remains a fact of life; whereas the employment gap is particularly high in the case of single mothers, female caregivers, women with disabilities, women from ethnic minorities, migrant and refugee women, LBTIQ+ women and young and elderly women and women and men tend to make very diverse career choices ;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing gender inequalities inmeasures accros the EU have impacted almost every walk of life for women and men;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas violence against women may be of differing appearance, intensity and form; whereas a society free of where violence must be acknowledged as an absolute prerequisite for equalityis strongly addressed is ideal for women and men to thrive;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas women in the EU are more severely affected by poverty or social exclusion than men, being systematically placed at a disadvantage by structural and cultural factors, especially mothers who raise their children alone, can be severely affected by poverty or social exclusion;
Amendment 85 #
F. whereas the EU gender pay gap is 16%, with variations between the Member Stat, for reasons such as different career choices;, whereas this gender pay gap has a number of implications, not least a 37% difference in corresponding pension entitlements, placing older women at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas the right to equal pay for equal work is not always guaranteed and remains one of the biggest challenges to be met in efforts to combat pay discriminationorking hours and other specific factors, the EU registers a difference in male and female workers' salaries of 16%, with variations between the Member States;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that respect for the right to work is an essential precondition if women are effectively to enjoy equal rights,engaging in the Labor market, attaining economic independence and career fulfilment and therefore insists that precarious employis a choice that men and woment should be eradicated through mandatory compliance with the principle that every permanent job must entail an effective employment relationship with recognition and enhancement of rights at the workplaceable to make freely, and in the most optimal conditions;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to take practical measures to ensure that women who so wish have equal access to work with rights and decent pay; stresses the need to promotesupport collective bargaining as a determining factor in reversing and overcoming inequality and tackling discrimination against women and calls for de jure and de facto compliance with the principle of equal pay for equal work of equal valuend calls for ideology-free respect of the principle of equal pay for equal work of equal value, in all clarity and taking the specific workers context into account;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges Member States to impose firm measures, including sanctions, where businesses fail to comply with labour legislation and where they actually encourage gendeunfair discrimination;
Amendment 145 #
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for measures to achieve work, employee and pay enhancement, effectively combat joblessness and promote full employment; calls for the creation and promotion of employment with rights, the defence of collective bargaining, the revitalisation of public sector employment and an end to job insecurity; calls in addition foroptimal working conditions without excessive State interference with the employers' freedom where the best options for their businesses and employees a reduction in working hours without loss of pay concerned;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the urgent need to counter the exploitation of women at workfemale workers where it exists and combat the inequalijustices, discrimination and violence affecting them;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for women who suffer domestic violence to be afforded proper protection, ensuring the deployment of increased resources and more effective responses by the Statecompetent authorities;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that prostitution constitutes a serious form of violence and exploitation affecting mostly women and children; notes that the root causes of prostitution are inextricably intertwined withinclude social and economic realities, particularly unemployment, financial need and poverty; stresses the need for Member States to increasallocate fundings for social support and access to public services for victims of trafficking or sexual exploitation;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need to create a public crèche and pre-schopromote family-friendly policies, enabling mothers and fathers who so wish, to be invol veducation network; points out that the provision of a universal public service that is genuinely accessible to all children and families wishing to avail themselves of it is an overarching social responsibilit in their children's early years on a full-time basis; stresses that strong and healthy families make strong and healthy societies at all levels, including the economy;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges the Member States to take specific family-friendly measures to combat the risk of povertyaloneness in old age and retirement, increasing pen, which is a cause of poverty, depressions and bpoosting social benefitsr health;