Activities of Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN related to 2021/2170(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on women’s poverty in Europe
Amendments (62)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas inequalitiespoverty may increase when the support measures are progressively phased out; whereas the medium-term impact of the crisis will depend on the degree of inclusiveness ofpolitical commitment to the recovery; whereas social protection policies and economic growth are vital elements of national development strategies to reduce poverty and vulnerability across the life cycle and to support inclusive and sustainable growthprosperity;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas women in the EU are disproportionallycan be 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 30 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas women are over- representedmore likely to work in non-standard forms of work, in the hardest-hit sectors and among frontline workers in healthcare; whereas more women than men are in occupations that can be carried out remotely;
Amendment 38 #
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 recessiofallen 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 42 #
Draft opinion
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas low pay and low career prospects are barriers to achieving equal economic independsolvencey for women and men within their families and can lead to higher risks of poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 46 #
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 citizenship;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas some women prefer not to work outside the home temporarily or permanently; whereas Member States’ social policies should respect and support that choice;
Amendment 54 #
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 it should therefore be valued and receive fair pay;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas people do not live in isolation and are part of a family;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas people’s family responsibilities determine their level of poverty;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for an overarching European anti-poverty strategy, with that takes into account the specific situation of each country and safeguards the competences of the Member States, and that has realistic and ambitious targets for reducing poverty and a focus on breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty riskensuring equal opportunities;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas Europe’s low demographic indicators and the urgent need for generational replacement highlight the importance of promoting policies to support families and, in particular, the many families that are at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the natural family is a source of stability and economic support, which has a positive impact on the safety and well-being of its members;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to reduce the burden of women by ensursupport those with responsibilities, via economic support and fiscal incentives, promoting affordable and quality care and services for people with disabilities, the elderly, children and other dependants; calls on the Commission and the Member States to adequately fund public or private services and social infrastructure, as this would allow more women to choose to participate in the labour market and/or stay at home, and would also contribute to reducing the risk of women and their families falling into poverty; when providing care;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas the impact of crises can be reduced by the support and benefits of stable family units;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas poverty also makes women more vulnerable to gender-basedsexual violence; whereas this includes disproportionate vulnerability to trafficking and sexual exploitation;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights that universal access to public, solidarity-based and adequate retirement and old age pensions must be granted to all; underlines the importance of public and occupational pension systems that provide an adequate retirement income above the poverty threshold and allow pensioners to maintain their standard of living; asks the Member States to consider factoring caring and child-raising responsibilities into pension schemes when women are not able to work andof women who have not worked outside the home and, consequently, have not makde suitable contributions during such periods;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas women can have a lower employment rate and are disproportionally highlymore represented in low-paid, precarious and dead-end job sectors; whereas the gender gap in pay stands at 14.1 %;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas some women may choose to devote themselves to their family responsibilities at home, and their choices should be respected and supported given that those tasks are of significant social benefit;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the recovery efforts should boost jobs and growth, and the resilience and fairness of our societies, and should be complemented by a strong social dimension, which also respects business freedom, paying attention to women who have a disability or who stay at home to care for a family member, as they are particularly atin order to avoid the risk of them falling into poverty;
Amendment 103 #
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 womein some cases women can fall below the poverty line as they get older;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Underlines the need to promote policies that boost the economy, helping business owners to contribute to the growth of a labour market that creates decent jobs;
Amendment 111 #
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 market;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the current EU model of socio-economic governance is harmful to the EU’s commitment to reduce inequalities and eradicate poverty, in particular women’s poverty resulting from a lifetime of discrimination;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas support for entrepreneurial initiatives and initiatives by the self-employed can create an environment of economic prosperity, which reduces poverty;
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to submit initiatives to promote women’s empowerdevelopment through education, vocational training and lifelong learning, as well as access to finance, female entrepreneurship and women’s representation in future-oriented sectors with a view to ensuring access to high- quality employment; calls for greater promotion of STEM subjects, digital education, artificial intelligence and financial literacy in order to ensure that more women enter these sectors and contribute to their development.
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L b (new)
Recital L b (new)
Lb. whereas social and labour policies are the competence of the Member States;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to develop an ambitious 2030 European anti- poverty strategy, withstrategy to encourage economic prosperity, while respecting the sovereignty of the Member States, thereby combating poverty by 2030, with realistic concrete targets for reducing poverty and a focus on ending women’s poverty, and the risk ofmeasures to ensure intergenerational povereconomic stability;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to put forward a ‘care deal for Europe’, which should take a holistic, gender-sensitiveanalyse the care situation in the various Member States in order to provide inspiration for a holistic and lifelong approach to care while envisaging legislative measures and investment at EU level;
Amendment 160 #
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;
Amendment 169 #
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 andpoverty, it is necessary to introduce flexitime in order to allow women and men to better reconcile their professional life with their private life (time use policy);
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for respect for the privacy of family relationships and how domestic tasks are organised depending on their circumstances;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the crucial role of high- quality public or private services in combatting women’s poverty, in particular services for early childhood education and care, or care for other dependent persons such as elderly people;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Underlines the importance of offering economic support to those who are responsible for other family members requiring care so that they can care for them in their home and do not face hardship;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for the EU and the Member States to protect women living in energy poverty by providing a timely and coordinated response to address the long- term impact of the energy crisismote policies that guarantee access to energy at an affordable price, as an essential good that must be paid for; highlights that access to affordable utilities must be guaranteed to low-income households, and in particular older women and single mothers;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 225 #
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 combat women’s homelessness and to ensure that services work appropriately and effectively to meet the needs of homeless womenpeople;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States to ensure that all new gender-fair fiscal policy, including taxation, tackles and eliminates socioeconomic and gender inequalities in all their dimensios applied equally to all citizens;
Amendment 261 #
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, situations where people have not been able to pay their contributions in order to meet family responsibilities, 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 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Urges the Commission to keep in mind when analysing poverty that the income obtained by family members can be considered to be household income, and may be sufficient to cover their responsibilities and maintain a decent standard of living, including during retirement;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Urges the Commission to ensure respect for market freedom, which increases the chance of a decent job, enabling people with sufficient income to meet their needs and contribute to the common social good;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Urges the Commission to encourage the Member States to implement policies to protect and support the family as the main social nucleus of stability in the face of poverty;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 d (new)
Paragraph 15 d (new)
15d. Calls on the Union to adopt policies that promote new initiatives and projects enabling women to express their professional talent and natural vocation in a self-employed capacity, allowing them to make a basic income themselves with flexibility that is compatible with their personal lives;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Points out that the EU’s fiscal capacity urgently requires the revision of the current economic and social governance so that it contributes to reaching gender equalities and ending femalmust not serve ideological interests and must always respect the psovereignty and does not just include austerity measurcompetences of the Member States;