Activities of Sandra PEREIRA related to 2023/2152(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the 2022 discharge: European Institute for Gender Equality
Amendments (15)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the European Union's neoliberal policies are contributing to inequality between men and women, with women disproportionately affected by increasing unemployment, deregulation of the labour market and working hours, increasing precariousness and low salaries, as well as the many forms of inequality and discrimination arising from funding cuts to public services, including health, education and social benefits;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the rising cost of living have impacted both men and women; whereas a permanent victim mentality is counter-productive to gender equality; whereas equality of opportunity should be the EU’s goal;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas prices have risen, in general, 11.5 % in the European Union since October 2021 and food has been particularly affected, with inflation climbing to 17.8 % in October 2022; whereas, in line with the ECB's September 2023 macroeconomic projections for the euro area, average inflation for 2023 is estimated at 5.6 %, which is an upward revision of previous projections;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. 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; whereas their role as primary carers in the family puts a disproportionate amount of unpaid care and domestic work on women, who play an essential role in this regard;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas the EU gender pay gap is 16 %, with variations between the Member States; whereas the gender pay gap has a number of implications, including a 37 % gap in pension entitlements, which places elderly women at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas the right to equal pay for equal work is not always upheld and remains one of the biggest challenges in efforts to overcome pay discrimination;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. whereas the importance of combating discrimination between men and women in access to employment and work, and promoting equality in careers and professional categories, in vocational training and in salaries is essential, at the same time as strengthening work with rights and protecting collective bargaining and union rights;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
Ce. whereas the Member States should increase public investment in policies that, directly or indirectly, aim to counteract the negative effects of the cost of living crisis on women in all their diversity, to guarantee access to high- quality, free public services for care, education, health, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, and housing, and to protect victims of gender- based violence;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. Points out that cuts in public budgets ensuing from the European Union’s macro-structural economic policies, in particular the implementation of ‘economic governance’ measures, are increasing and will continue to increase gender inequalities and female unemployment, women being in the majority in the public sector and the principal beneficiaries of social policies, and furthering yet more the feminisation of poverty, and therefore a change in policy is required;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that the European Institute for Gender Equality was set up to help the European institutions and the Member States to mainstream gender equality in all their policies and combat gender-based discrimination by supplying up-to-date studies, and thus makes an important contribution to efforts to achieve genuine gender equality; calls, therefore, in light of the rising inequalities seen in recent years, for greater amounts to be allocated in the budget so that the Institute can fully achieve the goal for which it was set up;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Emphasises the need for stronger and more efficient integration of gender equality policies and gender mainstreaming tools;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Stresses the need for increased funding for gender equality actions in terms of employment and growth in order to tackle horizontal and vertical gender segregation, to combat the pay gap between men and women, the pension pay gap between men and women and the increasing poverty rate among women, as well as in terms of rights and democracy;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Stresses the importance of combating inequalities and injustices against women; calls on the Commission and Member States to take urgent action to address poverty and increasing inequalities among women, especially among vulnerable groups, including single mothers, women with disabilities, Roma women, LGBTQI+ women, migrant women and refugees, elderly women, women in rural or depopulated areas;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is of the opinion that discharge shall not be granted to the Director of the EIGE in respect of the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2022.