16 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2011/2035(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. having regard to the significant impact of gender equality on economic, social and economicterritorial cohesion in Europe, which is affected by, inter alia, women’s participation in the labour marketin order to build a fair and equitable society guaranteeing that women and men have the same opportunities as regards access to high-quality education, decent work and the development of a professional career, which will also boost the active population and improve the skills available, thereby helping to raise growth and improve competitiveness,
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas only 7% of ESF funding for the period 2000-2006 was used to finance measures to promote equality between women and men; whereas, over the same period, measures providing (direct or indirect) support for equal opportunities subsidised by the ERDF made up 21% of total funding,
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas significant regional differences exist in female participation in the labour market, and whereas on average the participation of women is usually lower than that of men; whereas this circumstance can be partially explained by the fact that women find it more difficult to reconcile work and family, since it is generally women who are responsible for looking after children and other dependents,
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas women form a majority of the population with higher-education qualifications, butand this trend has nevertheless not yet translated into a levelling-out of employment rates; whereas, at the same time, women far outnumber men in the worst-educated population groups, even though this situation has been changing markedly over time,
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas, on average, half of the people participating in activities organised by the ESF within the framework of active employment policies are women,
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Insists, in the context of the cohesion policy, on the need to increase financial support for action to facilitate a work-life balance for women and men, which benefits social cohesion by promoting the role of the family and parenthood and also economic cohesion by increasing the participation of women in the labour marketin particular more flexible working conditions and sufficient provision of high-quality child- care services and care services for other dependents at affordable prices, which will enable fathers, and especially mothers, to combine work and family, which benefits social cohesion by promoting equal opportunities and also economic cohesion by increasing the participation of women in the labour market; stresses that those Member States which have implemented work-life balance policies have succeeded in increasing both the labour market participation rates for men and women and the birth rate;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that increased rates of employment are one of the main factors for growth; points out, likewise, that if the objective of a 75 % employment rate among people aged between 20 and 64 fixed in the Europe 2020 Strategy is to be achieved, it is necessary not only to reduce unemployment but also to integrate people who are currently inactive, many of them women, into the labour market;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Regrets that the progress made towards achieving equality between men and women in the labour market has been very limited and stresses that most EU countries are still falling far short of implementing gender mainstreaming in their policies and carrying out systematic assessments of the impact of their policies from the gender perspective, as the Commission points out in the Fifth Cohesion Report;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that European Social Fund support should continue to focus primarily on raising employment levels, fincluding ancing measures targeted at disadvantaged groups (women, young people, long-term unemployed, immigrants, minorities, people with disabilities, etc.) who need support to find a job, promoting continuing vocational training, combating gender discrimination in the choice of career and occupation, backing women's participation in scientific and technological activities and helping them to set up businesses, as well as by cofunding individual economic initiatives by people outside the labour market, including in particular women over the age of 45;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the important contribution made by the ERDF towards gender mainstreaming in all the relevant areas, in particular the granting of aid for training and education, for women entrepreneurs and for investment in facilities providing care for children, the elderly and other dependents;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls for the EAFRD Regulation to be amended to enable, as happens with the ESF, proactive measures to be taken in support of women in the 2014-2020 programming period, which was feasible in previous periods but not in the current one, and which will have very beneficial effects on female employment in rural areas;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to give appropriate consideration, in the context of the cohesion policy, to the vocational education of women and the fight against professional stereotypes, and on the Member States to create ‘lifelong learning programmes’ and to favour women's participation in sectors in which they are less represented;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Member States and regional and local authorities to uphold their commitment to gender equality, non- discrimination and access for people with disabilities to all stages of implementation of the programmes; expresses its concern at the fact that, even though all the programmes explicitly mention equality, it is not always taken into consideration when programmes are implemented, as has become clear when their application and results have been assessed;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States and regional and local authorities to ensure effective implementation of all financial instruments available at European level whichto support inclusion in the labour market for everyone, particularly the most vulnerable groups of women (women with disabilities, emigrants, women who belong to minorities, women who have been victims of gender violence, women with little training, etc.).
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Sees macroregional strategies as affording a major opportunity to harness forms of trans-regional potential and adopt a joint approach to challenges stemming from the natural environment, e.g. in relation to environmental protection; considers that better coordination of existing support mechanisms can create scope for more targeted use of the EU structural funds, without this entailing an increase in the allocation of resources earmarked for these fields of inter- regional cooperation;
Amendment 458 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Recognises the leverage effect of new financial instruments and their potential to mobilise investment, subject to administrative simplification and the provision of legal certainty regarding their creation and termination, supports increased financing from credit in principle, and calls for the use of revolving financial instruments to be extended to more areas eligible for funding (including research and infrastructure); calls for procedures to be simplified to that end and for a greater degree of legal certainty throughout the entire funding period; takes the view that at the end of a funding period, at the latest, responsibility for how the funds are spent should transfer to national level or project level;