14 Amendments of Anna HEDH related to 2016/2061(INI)
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the aim of pension policies is to make sure that pension systems give all EU citizens a decent income that safeguards them against the risk of social exclusion and means they can continue to be part of society because they are guaranteed an acceptable standard of living;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the pension gap tends to leave women more at risk of economic vulnerability and dependence than exacerbate the situation of women with regard to economic vulnerability and dependence, and whereas this begins long before retirement;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the lack of comparable, comprehensive, reliable and regularly updated data on the basis of which to gauge the size of the pension gap and the relative importance of the factors that contribute to it make it difficult to determine how best to tackle the problem;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the average pension gap for the European Union as a whole in 2012 concealed major disparities between Member States, and whereas this should be a reason for dialogue among the Member States to be stepped up with a view to identifying ways of solving the problem;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the full extent of the pension gap, which is the product of all gender imbalances and inequalities that arise throughout people’s working lives, may be– in terms of, for example, access to power and economic resources – that arise throughout people’s working lives, and whereas there is a negative impact for women because this is masked by corrective mechanisms;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas there appears to be a positive correlation between the pension gap and the number of children brought up; whereas, in view of this, the inequalities suffered by single moth inequalities suffered by single mothers are likely to be exacerbated when they retire as a result of exclusion from the labour market and poor childcare in the Member States; whereas single mothers are vulnerable in numerous ways, and whereas this vulnerability is also continuously being exacerbated by conservative and traditional gender patterns are likely to be exacerbated when they retirethat encourage women to stay at home rather than playing an active role in the labour market after pregnancy;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas, despite the effortsalthough some efforts have been made to improve the situation in this area, the employment rate among women still falls short of the Europe 2020 strategy targets and is still lower than that among men;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas women are more likely than men to be obliged to take career breaks and, work on a part-time basis and take on non-standard forms of employment as a result of their disproportionate responsibility for providing care within their households, or because employers, for example, expect them to take on that responsibility at a later stage of life;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that this strategy should, within the framework of EU legislation, seek to address not only the impact of the pension gap, in particular on the most vulnerable groups, but also its underlying causes, and calls for intergovernmental dialogue in areas that fall within national areas of responsibility;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to work together with the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) to develop reliable indicators on the basis of which to identify the various factors behind the pension gap, as well as to monitor that gap and, flag up changes and report to the European Parliament;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Supports efforts to tackle horizontal and vertical segregation on the labour market by encouraging women to take up jobs and careers in innovative growth sectors which are currently dominated mainly by men as a result of the persistence of stereotypes, and to overhaul and oppose norms according to which, for example, wages are structured so as to place a premium on traditionally male- dominated jobs;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission swiftly to deliver on the commitments it gave under both the Roadmap and the Strategic Engagement, in order to enable anyone wishing to do so to strike a bettermore equal work-life balance;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to make it easier for employees to negotiate voluntary flexible working arrangements in line with national practice, giving them a better balance between their working and private lives, so that they do not have to favour one over the other when they are obliged to take on greater responsibility for looking after homes and families;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13