11 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2008/2047(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the term “violence against women” is to be understood as any act of gender-based violence which results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion, or the arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas, for both men and women, employment rates are lower in rural areas, and, additionally, a lot of women are never active in the official labour market and, therefore, are neither registered as unemployed nor included in unemployment statistics, which leads to specific financial and legal problems in relation to the right to maternity and sick leave, the acquisition of pension rights and access to social security, as well as in the event of divorce; whereas rural areas are badly affected by the lack of high- quality employment opportunities,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas gaps between women and men persist in all other aspects of work quality, e.g. reconciling professional and private life, working arrangements which do not fully exploit people’s skills and in the field of health and safety at work; whereas the employment rate for women with dependent children is only 62.4%, compared with 91.4% for men; whereas 76.5 % of part-time workers are women; whereas temporary employment contracts are also more common for women (15.1%, one point more than for men); whereas long-term unemployment is still much more common among women (4.5%) than men (3.5%),
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)
Recital J b (new)
Jb. whereas the risk of falling into poverty is higher for women than for men, especially for the over-65s (21%, or 5 points more than men),
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Community institutions and the Member States to make 22 February ‘International Equal Pay Day’;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Member States to recognise companies that take action to promote equality between women and men and facilitate work-life balance, in order to foster the spread of good practices in this area;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt and implement the necessary measures to support women with disabilities so that they may progress in those areas of social life and the world of work, culture and politics in which they are still underrepresented;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote immigrant women's access to education and employment, and to ensure adequate vocational training, adopting positive measures to combat the two-fold discrimination suffered by immigrant women on the labour market and creating favourable conditions for them to access the labour market and to balance their professional and private life;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Urges the Commission and Member States to promote male involvement in the implementation of gender equality policies, especially in the field of reconciling work and private and family life;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses the need for quantity and quality indicators as well as gender-based statistics which are reliable, comparable and available when needed, to ensure the appropriate implementation and follow-up of policies;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Asks the Commission, with the help of the European Institute for Gender Equality, to include facts and statistics from acceding and candidate countries in future annual reports on equality between women and men;