Activities of Siiri OVIIR related to 2012/2301(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the impact of the economic crisis on gender equality and women’s rights
Amendments (6)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Observes that, since the beginning of the crisis, the unemployment rate for women has consistently been higher than that for men, which only adds to the existing challenges women are facing in the labour market, including direct or indirect discrimination, double discrimination of women with disabilities, gender pay-gap, part-time work, precarious working conditions, in-work poverty, high concentration in the informal sector with lower earnings, less social protection and insufficient pension rights; in this respect, asks the Commission to issue a recommendation to the Member States on combating labour market segmentation leading to women's insufficient access to quality employment with decent remuneration;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Invites Commission to present as soon as possible a draft for a directive with measurements to dissolve gender pay gap for equal or equivalent work;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Invites Member States to support women's participation in the labour market by measures such as guaranteeing free access to public childcare and care services for dependent persons, increasing resources for education, and professional qualification programmesthrough demand education, qualification programs and providing childcare service;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is concerned at theimes irrational and deep cuts in public expenditure resulting from the imposition of austerity measures, leading to severe cutbacks in public-sector jobs and services which are forcing many women to shift from paid to unpaid work, exposing them to a high risk of poverty;, that in turn increases the expenses for social benefits; (Pure arithmetical subtractions to decrease expenses, has often caused a situation where indirect expenses have raised, e.g. the need for social assistance.)
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Draws the Member States' attention to the need for income-enhancing measures, including the development of minimum income schemes and social assistance programmes for persons havraising women's employment rate that would give a new impulse for economical growth in Europe by increasing the competitiveness of European enterprises to stop jobs moving to Asia, improving the quality of retraining, while encouraging also to use support for retraining provided by European Globalisation Fund (EGF) for employees of companies ing difficulty in meeting their basic needs, in particular persons with children, and especially single parents.ies. (The solution is not only raising the social benefits, above all people need a job to be guaranteed for them.)
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Concerned about the situation of women who live in rural areas, where the access to different services has deteriorated, asking the Member States to provide in rural areas a functioning public transport, medical aid and another essential services, to halter migration to large cities and to stop peripherilisation.