19 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2012/2301(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Aa (new)
Recital Aa (new)
Aa. whereas the credit crisis, from which the current recession stems, was a disaster created by men, while most of the national and international responses to it, which have failed to take the gender perspective into sufficient account, have also been decided upon by men; whereas it is important that women, who are generally better qualified than men, be fully included in the decision-making process in the political, economic and financial spheres as well as social partners agreements,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ab (new)
Recital Ab (new)
Ab. whereas recent studies have shown that only 5% of those with decision- making responsibilities in the EU financial institutions are women and all 27 central bank governors in the Member States are men, and whereas gender studies have pointed out that women manage in a different way by avoiding risk and focusing more on a long-term perspective,
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas when the economic crisis first began, it had a greater impact on men than on women, whereas unemployment has risen since then at different rates for men and women: women were not hit initially by the crisis but they are now increasingly feeling its effects an(more employment in insecure and part time jobs, greater threat of redundancy, lower wages, reduced social protection cover, etc.) and will be affected more enduringly; whereas this phase is far less well documented and, consequently, the impact of the crisis on women tends to be underestimated;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas it should be noted that unemployed women are often not included in official figures because they tend to withdraw from the labour market and to perform unpaid or informal work, often in the home or caring for dependents;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas women entering working life are playing a leading role in the return to growth, whereas they enable the family income to rise which brings about a rise in consumption and helps boost the economy; whereas gender equality therefore has a positive impact on productivity and economic growth;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital La (new)
Recital La (new)
La. whereas gender equality measures have been cancelled or delayed and possible future cuts in public budgets will have a negative effect on female employment and on the promotion of equality;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Lb (new)
Recital Lb (new)
Lb. whereas the economic downturn should not be used to slow down progress on reconciliation policies and to cut budgets allocated to care services for dependents and leave arrangements, affecting in particular women’s access to the labour market;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Lc (new)
Recital Lc (new)
Lc. whereas violence against women is a widespread occurrence in every country and every social class, whereas economic stress often leads to more frequent, more violent and more dangerous abuse, and whereas studies have also shown that violence against women intensifies when men experience displacement and dispossession as a result of the economic crisis;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that gender equality is one of the core objectives of the European Union and that it has to be included as a fundamental principle in responses to the current economic and financial crisis; deplores the fact that policy responses to the crisis, including recovery packages, have failed to acknowledge, analyse and rectify the gender impact of the crisis; condemns the fact that there has been virtually no mainstreaming of the gender perspective into the post-Lisbon strategy, and hence calls on the Council, the Commission and the Member States to mainstream gender equality, via specific targets in the macroeconomic and employment guidelines;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the fact that, despite unemployment rates for men and women being comparable, the crisis affects the latter differently: working conditions for women have become considerably more insecure, their income has dropped significantly because of factors such as the persistent gap of nearly 17 % between salaries for men and women and the resultant inequality in their unemployment benefits, the rise in imposed part-time working and the rise in the number of temporary or fixed-term jobs to the detriment of more stable employment; points out that the experience of previous crises shows that the male employment rate generally recovers more quickly than that for women;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises that the crisis will have the worst effect on vulnerable groups of women: disabled women, immigrant women, women from ethnic minorities, women with few qualifications, women who are long-term unemployed, single women without means and women caring for dependents, etc.;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Emphasises that women account for a greater proportion than men of the informal economy, partly because there is greater deregulation in the sectors in which women traditionally work, for example domestic service or care work; notes, on the other hand, that the informal economy has grown as a result of the crisis, although it is very difficult to determine its particular contours in the absence of reliable data on incidence and impact;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Insists on the need to ensure that the current economic and financial crisis and the ensuing budget restrictions do not jeopardise the progress achieved by policies promoting gender equality nor serve as a pretext for reducing efforts in this respect; emphasises that gender equality policies must be viewed as part of the solution to ending the crisis, harnessing and fully exploiting the skills and abilities of all Europeans and, in the future, forging a more competitive economy;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Member States and regional and local authorities to ensure proper provision of affordable, accessible, quality care services for children and other dependents, and that these are compatible with the full-time working schedules of men and women;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the proposal for a directive on a better gender balance in management posts in businesses; calls for similar binding legislation to be adopted in other fields, such as European, national, regional and local public institutions, administrations and bodies, which should set the example as regards gender equality in decision-making;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Condemns the fact that women are under-represented on the governing boards of financial institutions and are hence virtually excluded from the decision-making process in financial fields; calls on the Council, the Commission and the Member States to improve women’s participation at all levels of decision-making, especially in the areas of budgeting and of governance arrangements for European financial systems, including the European Central Bank; in this context, stresses the need to promote financial literacy for girls and women;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses the fact that decisions taken by some Member States to cut their budgets for childcare, education and extracurricula activities, and carerschool meal and transport subsidies and assistance for those caring for dependents have direct implications for women who take on the majority of the additional tasks entailed;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. States that female poverty has not just been caused by the recent economic crisis, but by a variety of factors: stereotypes, pay gaps between men and women, lack of a work-life balance, women’s longer life expectancy and, in general, all kinds of gender-based discrimination which affect mainly women; stresses that the crisis is exacerbating this situation of perpetual inequality; highlights the need to combat stereotypes in all walks and at all stages of life, since these are one of the most persistent causes of inequality between men and women in affecting their choices in the field of education, employment and the distribution of domestic and family responsibilities, in the wage gap, in participation in public life and in representation in decision-making positions, etc.;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. ObserveConsiders that the economic crisis contributes to harassment, abuse and violence of all kinds, and against women, and in particular prostitution, with women as the victims, in breach of human right of this, the most widespread breach of human rights worldwide, in every culture and at all social and economic levels;