Activities of Gwendoline DELBOS-CORFIELD related to 2021/2170(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on women’s poverty in Europe
Amendments (30)
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas gender equality is a core value of the Union enshrined in Article 2 TEU; whereas Article 8 TFEU lays down the principle of gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 81 #
H. whereas poverty also makes women more vulnerable toexacerbates the impacts of gender-based violence on women due to increased difficulties to escape this situation; whereas gender- based violence; whereas this includes disproportionate vulnerability to is a structural problem that transcends class, origin or belief; whereas poverty puts women at a greater risk of trafficking and sexual exploitation;
Amendment 86 #
Ha. whereas gender-based violence often lead women to poverty and social exclusion, since violence has consequences on health and frequently leads to job loss and homelessness;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
I b. whereas the rate of trans people in paid employment reaches only 51%, compared to 69.3% of the general population; whereas unemployment is a particular issue for tra ns women who are nearly three times as likely to be unemployed as the general population average12a; _________________ 12a https://op.europa.eu/en/publication- detail/-/publication/7341d588-ddd8-11ea- adf7-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas the social, green and feminist agenda are interlinked and share the goal to ensure a fair distribution of resources; whereas a caring economy simultaneously ensures the achievement of gender equality, sustainability and wellbeing12b; _________________ 12b https://wbg.org.uk/commission/
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L b (new)
Recital L b (new)
L b. whereas good-quality care services, such as adult social care, healthcare and childcare are critical for a good economy; whereas a caring economy extends beyond care services and it involves fair pay and working conditions, ending discrimination, deprivation and poverty, eliminating violence and abuse, and caring about the planet on which we live together; whereas a caring economy means acting together to improve wellbeing rather than to maximise economic growth12c; _________________ 12c https://wbg.org.uk/commission
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that women’s poverty needs to be analysed from an intersectional approach, including migrant and ethnic origin, age, race and sexual or gender orientatientation, gender identity or gender expression; calls for the EIGE’s Gender Equality Index to be incorporated into the social scoreboard; calls on the EIGE to provide data disaggregated intersectionally and by gender, and calls on the Member States to use this data in order to better address country-specific challenges;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States to do a similar and regular work on collection of disaggregated data and analysis when they design or evaluate their policies and practices in order to gather information and figures on the situation of women in specific precarious conditions, such as women suffering from energy precariousness, digital divide, occupational diseases, undernutrition or malnutrition;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to put forward a ‘care deal for Europe’, which should ensure a transition towards a caring economy, should take a holistic, gender-sensitresponsive and lifelong approach to care, and should include measures to ensure fair working conditions, end discrimination, combat poverty, violence and abuse and ensure ecological sustainability while envisaging legislative measures and investment at EU level;
Amendment 162 #
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 work and ensure an equal pay for work of equal value;
Amendment 173 #
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 flexitimereinforce care services as well as work-life balance measures in order to allow women and men to better reconcile their professional life with their private life (time use policy);
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that women are disproportionately and often involuntarily concentrated in precarious work including high levels of part-time work, low-paid, fixed term and zero-hour contracts; urges the Member States to implement the International Labour Organisation (ILO) recommendations intended to reduce the scale of precarious work, such as restricting the circumstances in which precarious contracts can be used and limiting the length of time workers can be employed on such a contract;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Urges the Commission and the Members States to step up its efforts to prevent and combat discrimination against transwomen and ensure access to work without discrimination;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Stresses the high proportion of jobs in the informal economy that affect women in particular, such as in agriculture or small family businesses, which leads to a lack of appropriate social protection, including pension rights; calls therefore on the Member States and regions with legislative powers to improve the legislation regarding gender equality in the labour market, in particular regarding wages, ownership rights and decision making, as well as to ensure social security for both men and women in these sectors;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that women’s economic independence plays a crucial role in their ability to escape situations of gender- based violence; calls therefore for the provision of social protection systems to support women in this situation, the adoption of a comprehensive directive on preventing and combating all forms of gender-based violence, the addition of gender-based violence in the list of Eurocrimes, the EU ratification of the Istanbul Convention as well as the ratification by Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Stresses that climate change has a big impact on female poverty as women are more dependent on natural resources and, since they constitute a majority of world's poor, women have less resources to protect themselves of the negative effects of climate change such as health effects, droughts, natural disasters or displacement linked to environmental change;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. CDeplores that a gender perspective has not been introduced systematically in EU's climate policies; calls on the Commission to mainstream gender into the EU’s climate change policies and legislation in order to ensure that the Fit for 55 package policies and the social climate fund are designed and implemented with a clear gender dimension and benefit women as equally as men;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to mainstream gender into all transport-related legislation, policies, programmes and actions and to include a gender criteria and work-life balancperspective in the design of mobility, housing and urban planning;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the EU and its Member States to integrate a gender perspective into policies and practices that address homelessness, to develop a specific strategy to comberadicate women’s homelessness by 2030 and to ensure that services work appropriately and effectively to meet the needs of homeless women;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission to assess and propose, where appropriate, new legislation to counter the financialisation of housing markets and stop speculators from making housing unaffordable and to adapt European rules for digital platforms to give cities more control over rentals via platforms;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Points out the importance of fighting tax avoidance and the implementation of redistributive tax policies to combat poverty; regrets the tendency in some Member States to increase indirect taxes which is a regressive measure that worsens the situation of groups experiencing social disadvantage;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13 b. Stresses that tax policies have a gender dimension; calls on the Member States to avoid gender discrimination in their tax policies and apply a reduce VAT rate to women's necessity goods such as tampons;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Notes that poverty continues to be measured on accumulated household income, which assumes that all members of the household earn the same and distribute resources equally; calls for individualised rights and calculations based on individual incomes to combat the true extent of women's poverty;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 d (new)
Paragraph 13 d (new)
13d. Calls on the Commission to propose a European framework Directive on minimum income schemes as the basis for high level social protection and full participation in society across the life span and ensuring minimum income schemes above the poverty threshold of 60 % of national median income in all Member States; points at the missed opportunity by the Commission in the 2022 Work Programme which only includes a non-legislative proposal;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 e (new)
Paragraph 13 e (new)
13e. Welcomes the ongoing negotiations for the adoption of a directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union; calls for the establishment of a minimum wage per country based on a basic basket of goods and services including, among other things, the costs of adequate housing, healthy food, clothing, transport, health care and participation in culture and education;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16 b. Regrets that, overall, gender mainstreaming has not yet been applied across the EU budget as pointed out by the European Court of Auditors and calls for this situation to be reversed as a matter of urgency; underlines that the gender perspective has to be integrated at all levels of the budgetary process in order to transform revenues and expenditures to achieving gender equality goals;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Reiterates its call on the Member States to create a formal Council configuration on Gender Equality, in order to provide the Ministers and Secretaries of State in charge of gender equality with a dedicated forum for discussion, and to better facilitate gender mainstreaming across all EU policies, including employment and social policy;