Activities of Raül ROMEVA i RUEDA related to 2009/2204(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Gender aspects of the economic downturn and financial crisis - Assessment of the results of the 2006-2010 Roadmap for Equality between women and men and forward looking recommendations - Charter for Women’s Rights - follow up (debate)
Gender aspects of the economic downturn and financial crisis - Assessment of the results of the 2006-2010 Roadmap for Equality between women and men and forward looking recommendations - Charter for Women’s Rights - follow up (debate)
Reports (1)
REPORT Report on gender aspects of the economic downturn and financial crisis PDF (236 KB) DOC (138 KB)
Amendments (17)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas much attention has been focused on the male-dominated construction and car industry, in contrast to thethe first wave of the crisis hit mostly the male-dominated financial sector as well as the construction and car industries, this way gaining more attention, however the second wave of the crisis equally negatively affected the mostly female-dominated retailing, general services sector and tourism sectors; whereas it is urgent; therefore it is necessary to address the gender dimension of the impact of and solution to the economic and social crisis in national and European recovery plans,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas mainstream economists have pointed out that the credit crunch, which started the recession, was quite literally a man-made disaster; whereas responses at state and international level – none of which awere not sufficiently gender-sensitinclusive – have also been decided upon mainly 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 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas, according to the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working conditions, women spend three times as much time as men on caring for children, dealing with domestic issues and looking after dependent relatives, whereas the sharing of family and domestic duties between men and women, not least by developing the use of parental leave and paternity leave, is a precondition for promoting and achieving gender equality; and whereas not counting periods of maternity and parental leave towards aggregate working times is discriminatory and places women in a worse situation on the labour market,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas in times of economic recession particularly, people who are already at risk of falling into poverty become even more vulnerable, the majority of whom are women, become even more vulnerable, especially female migrant workers and those belonging to a minority group; whereas efforts and complete solutions to eradicate poverty as agreed upon by the Lisbon European Council as long ago as 2000 have become a matter of urgency; whereas special attention should be paid to protecting those groups facing multiple disadvantages, especially the Roma, and to ensure their inclusion into society,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas quality full-time employment with quality jobs is the bestrights is a safeguard against poverty and social exclusion; whereas it is crucial to design and implement policies as well as springboard to financial and psychological independence; whereas by addressing universal access to quality public services, it is crucial to design and implement policies, that respond to the needs of women and men respectively, including access to affordable and, accessible and quality care services, that respond to the needs of women and men respectively for children, the elderly and other dependents,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas domestic violence, which mainly affects women, is a widespread problem in every country and every social class; whereas studies have shown that violence against women intensifies when men experience displacement and dispossession as a result of the economic crisis; whereas economic stress often leads to more frequent, more violent and more dangerous abuse; whereas the cost of domestic violence to the EU is in the region of EUR 16 million per annum,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. DeploNotes with regrest the fact that policy responses to the crisis, including recovery packages, have failed to acknowledge, analyse and rectify the gender impact of the crisis; criticiseregrets the fact that gender mainstreaming in the post-Lisbon strategy is basically non-existent;, calls on the Council, the Commission and the Member States to integrate a gender chapter on gender equality with specific targets into the employment and macro-economic guidelines and the EU 2020 Strategy, and to introduce gender budgeting in all policies;,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Member States to develop affordable, accessible and quality care services for children and other dependants, in line with the European targets; underlines the fact that, and to ensure that the availability of those services is compatible with women and men’s full-time working schedules; urges the Commission and the Member States to fully capitalise on the potential of the Structural Funds and of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development forand to facilitate the access to the financing of quality services should be fully utilised; urges the Commission to propose a directive on paternity, adoption and filial leave;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Asks the European institutions and, the Member States and the local and regional authorities to take effective steps, notably through legislation, to encourage gender balance in corporate and political positions of responsibility, including on boards of directors, and in local, regional, national and European public institutions, administrations and organisations which should set an example; therefore calls for binding targets to ensure the equal representation of women and men;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. UNotes that, in the light of the EU 2020 Strategy, the 'green economy' is crucial, underlines the fact that ‘green jobs’ have the potential to become a key growth segment of the future European labour market, that today more than 20 million jobs in the European Union can be considered as ‘green’ and that recent evidence shows that jobs in the renewable energy sector alone have a potential to double to 2.8 million by 2020;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Encourages the European Institute for Gender Equality to undertake an gender impact analysis of the gender impact of the economiceconomic and financial crisis; considers that this impact assessment should be performed with the aid of precise indicators taking account of the specific context of the crisis and; calls on the other European institutions, such as the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, to addresspropose responses to gender issues in their ongoing work;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas women accounted for 59% of first-degree graduates at universities in 2006, whereas women’s share of PhDs decreases to 43% and is lowest at full professor level, whereas only 15% of grade A full professors are women,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas women outnumber men in business, management and law faculties, however they are in the minority in corporate and political positions or responsibility, whereas few women have IT, engineering or physics degrees and women are consequently under-represented in the private sector, which is crucial in economic recovery,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the gender pay gap across the 27 EU has remained very high over the past 35 years since Directive 75/117/EEC was implemented, raising up to 18% on average in 2010 in the EU and in some Member States up to 30%, whereas the gap is greater in the private sector than in the public reflecting ongoing inequalities in the labour market, which in practice mainly affect women,
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Urges the Commission to submit a legislative proposal on the revision of the existing legislation relating to the application of the principle of equal pay for men and women Directive 75/117/EEC as already requested by the Parliament in 2008, welcomes the Commission’s recent initiative on improving the provisions on sanctions in case of a breach of the right to equal pay, to ensure that they are dissuasive and proportional (for instance, higher sanctions in case of repeated offence);
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Council and the Commission to set up a European "Wise Women Committee" that critically evaluates the reform initiatives following the EU2020 and G-20 Global Plan for Recovery and Reform and its gender implications, reiterates its demand to make gender mainstreaming mandatory for the design of all future fiscal consolidation measures, all new financial initiatives and policy proposals;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls on the Council and the Commission to create a European Think- Tank on Gender and Financial governance with a mandate to work on alternative knowledge and models of financial governance that serve society best in terms of overall welfare, equity and fairness;