8 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2011/2091(INI)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas women over 50 often face twofold or multiple discrimination based on gender and age stereotypes, frequently exacerbated by their gender-specific work and life patterns (e.g. career breaks, part- time employment, the fact that they may give up their jobs in order to look after their families or work in their husbands’ businesses, especially in the distributive trades or in farming, without being paid a salary or belonging to a social security scheme, and gender pay gap); whereas, therefore, women tend to face a greater accumulation of disadvantages than men from the same groups, whereas, in addition, in times of economic recession the women concerned are in even greater danger of being reduced to poverty,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the decision to designate 2012 as the European Year of Active Ageing, and calls for appropriate steps to combat discrimination, particularly by changing the stereotypes associated with age discrimination and, promoting solidarity between generations, and taking measures aimed specifically at women;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points to the importance of taking measures to promote the integration of women in the most vulnerable categories, that is to say, immigrants, women belonging to minorities, women with disabilities, women with little education, women without work experience, women in prison, etc., in order to guarantee their right to a decent retirement;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to make full use of the existing EU instruments and programmes, including the European Social Fund and the European Regional Development Fund, to increase participation of older women in labour markets;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Asks the Member States to encourage active participation by older women in the business sector by encouraging, and providing support for, women who start new businesses and facilitating women’s access to financing, especially through microcredit;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Points to the need to make sufficient provision of an appropriately high standard for care services for children, older people, and other dependent persons, which should be offered at affordable prices and compatible with full-time working so as to ensure that women will not be obliged to interrupt, abandon, or cut short their careers in order to look after the needs of dependants in their care;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Points out that these care services for children and dependants constitute a substantial source of jobs that could be filled by older women, whose employment rate is currently one of the lowest;