35 Amendments of Monika BEŇOVÁ related to 2021/2170(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)
Citation 19 a (new)
— having regard to the resolution of 4 June of 2021 of “Old continent growing older –possibilities and challenges related to ageing policy post-2020” https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/A-9-2021-0194_EN.html
Amendment 25 #
A. whereas in the EU, the number of women in poverty remains permanently higher than that of men [1]; whereas women in the EU are disproportionally 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 ; whereas poverty rates among women vary greatly between Member States; whereas 1 in 4 children in the EU is at risk of poverty or social exclusion; [1] Living conditions in Europe - poverty and social exclusion https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=Living_conditi ons_in_Europe_- _poverty_and_social_exclusion&oldid=54 4210 _________________ 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 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas women's poverty is the result of a lifetime of discrimination; whereas gender stereotypes still influence the division of labour at home, in education, in the workplace and in society and access to power and decision marking; whereas unpaid care and domestic work, mostly carried out by women, imposes a disproportionate burden on women; whereas globally, women make up over 70% of workers in the health and care sector; whereas this kind of jobs have been systematically undervalued because they have been and still are performed for free by women within the households; whereas women have lower pay in comparison to men; where women have more part-time contracts due to time poverty; whereas women are suffering in-work poverty that leads to higher risks of poverty and social exclusion due to low labour intensity;
Amendment 34 #
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 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; whereas the measures developed to exit of the previous crisis have not worked to reduce the endemic poverty situation of women; whereas austerity measures have always been proven harmful more to women than to men, women’s rights and gender equality in previous crises due to a greater dependence on social services and allowances;
Amendment 42 #
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; whereas poverty results in social exclusion for women and lack of involvement in social life and political participation in terms of access to time, education, justice, lifelong learning, primary healthcare services, decent housing and nutrition, water and energy, digital sphere and finally condemns women in a kind of vicious circle of poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the multidimensionality of poverty affects more women than men, especially time poverty, generating a vicious circle that condemn women and their descendants to remain in poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas the COVID crisis, has widened inequalities, opening a new gender divide[1]; [1] The coronavirus crisis: An emerging gender divide https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/ etudes/ATAG/2021/679100/EPRS_ATA(2 021)679100_EN.pdf
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas a review of COVID19- recovery policy initiatives is needed to prevent the increase of the men-women gap[1]; [1] Investigating the gender divide in the aftermath of COVID-19. Eurofound publication foreseen by 2022Q3
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. whereas women outnumber men at older ages within the EU-27 population: in 2019, there were more than twice as many very old women (aged 85 years or more) as very old men; whereas ageing developments will have profound implications for governments, business and civil society, impacting especially health and social care systems, labour markets, public finances and pension entitlements; https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=Ageing_Europ e_- _statistics_on_population_developments
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas figures show that on average in the EU, 29.5 %of women with disabilities are at risk of falling victim to poverty and social exclusion, compared with 27.5 % of their male counterparts;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas investment in universal services, including care services, has a positive impact on women’s fundamental rights; whereas the establishment of high- quality social services and facilities at affordable prices for early childhood education and care, or care for other dependent persons such as the elderly, is key for avoiding the increasing poverty, especially for women who are more dependant on those services because the structural inequalities in care responsibilities between woman and men; whereas social protection measures are absolutely key for tackling female poverty not only economically but in its multidimensionality;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas poverty also makes women more vulnerable to gender-based violence; whereas this includes disproportionate vulnerability to trafficking and sexual exploitation so that women and their families end up being economically dependent of their abusers;
Amendment 87 #
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 the gender pay gap stands at 14.1 %; whereas since 2010 the gender gap in earnings has increased in 17 Member States, while the gender gap in income has gone up in 19Member States, leading to an overall increase in gender inequality in earnings and income in the EU[1] [1] Eurostat, Gender pay gap statistics, February2021.
Amendment 100 #
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 female expectancy is longer than male life expectancy, as many women end up their life in solitude deepening the consequences of poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas gender mainstreaming means taking into account the gender differences within the whole policy cycle, and to add an intersectional approach taking into account diversity within women and men when designing, implementing, evaluating policies, programmes, and projects, to enhance gender equality: whereas until now EU policies have not deployed a real mainstreamed policies nor included an intersectional approach;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)
Recital J b (new)
J b. whereas the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, has pointed out that European Union should develop a European Union-wide anti- poverty strategy that ensures a structural, broad approach to female poverty eradication, whereas a fairer social contract for the post-pandemic European Union is needed [1]including economic policies directed to decrease economic inequalities; [1] Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier DeSchutter https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/ 236628/Report%20UN%20Special%20Ra pporteur%20De%20Schutter.pdf
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas it is estimated that currently 1 in 10girls cannot afford sanitary products: whereas in its 2019 resolution(1), the European Parliament called on all Member States to eliminate the so-called care and tampon tax by making use of the flexibility introduced in the VAT Directive and by applying tax exemptions or 0 % VAT rates to these essential basic goods;
Amendment 117 #
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; whereas the focus has to be on primary distribution as well as redistribution and the eradication of structural gender inequalities;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for an implementation of a comprehensive assessment of the impact of COVID 19 pandemic on poverty and gender equality in the EU, based on an gender- sensitive approach and sex disaggregated data collected by Member States and the EU institutions according to intersectionality criteria;
Amendment 141 #
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 orientation; 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 and national recovery plans, synergies among different packages, funds and policies is deserved;
Amendment 147 #
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-sensitive and lifelong approach to care while envisaging legislative measures and investment at EU level; including legislative initiatives and financial investment, in order to set minimum standards and quality guidelines for care throughout the life cycle, and providing benefits for formal and informal carers, unpaid carers and the people they care for in the framework of the European Care Strategy;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for incorporating multidimensionality when measuring poverty, including time poverty; calls EUROSTAT to coordinate with Member States the gender sensitive design and regular periodicity for the European Time Use Survey (ETUS);
Amendment 158 #
3 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote policies that aim to eliminate precarious work and involuntary part-time work in order to improve the situation for women in the labour market;
Amendment 161 #
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; urges a feminist approach to digital transition;
Amendment 170 #
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 flexitimepromote the “equal earner – equal carer” model and to introduce time use policy in accordance with workers needs and collective bargaining in order to allow women and men to better reconcile their professional life with their private life (time use policy);
Amendment 175 #
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 flexitimea time policy in order to allow women and men to better reconcile their professional life with their private life (time use policy);
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that it is essential to invest in education, lifelong learning and vocational training to ensure that they have access to high-quality employment and opportunities to reskill and upskill for future labour market demand; stresses the importance of more equally shared unpaid care and domestic work between men and women preventing the vicious circle of gendered labour market segregation;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to propose proactive measures through the European agricultural fund for rural development to promote women’s employment, the provision of social services and socio-economic development in rural areas;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to design a special programme to fight against women’s digital poverty in order to equip women with the necessary skills to operate safely in the digital environment; and to improve women's digital literacy:
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Ask the Member States to eliminate taxes on female hygiene products and ensure all women have access to these essential products;
Amendment 257 #
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 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; urges the Member States to take specific measures to prevent and combat the risk of poverty for older and retired women in view of population ageing and the proportion of older women in disadvantaged or vulnerable positions;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Highlights that gender reporting and mainstreaming cannot be mixed with social tracking and social investments; believes that gender equality deserves its own mainstreaming methodology in the framework of the RFF and recalls that the European Institute for Gender Equality has developed a suitable methodology; calls on the Commission to closely monitor this provision and for the inclusion of gender budgeting in the mid- term review of the current Multiannual Financial Framework and the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility;
Amendment 270 #
14 b. Develop EU funds to address the social impact of both the green and digital transition and especially to design policies tailored to ensure gender equality and end women’s poverty;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines that gender mainstreaming has to be applied at all levels of the EUthe statistical development at all levels of the EU policy cycle, including budgetary process in order to transform revenues and expenditures into social investment and to achieve gender equality and eliminate women’s poverty;
Amendment 285 #
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 female poverty and does not just include deflationary bias and austerity measures;