7 Amendments of Raül ROMEVA i RUEDA related to 2010/2157(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that care policies and the provision of care services are intrinsically related to the achievement of equality between women and men, underlines that the lack of affordable, accessible and high quality care services in most European Union countries and the fact that care work is not equally shared between women and men which have a direct negative impact on women’s ability to participate in all aspects of social, economic, cultural and political life;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the competent regional authorities to promote an SME culture in order to prevent a ‘brain drain’ of young people from rural areas to urban areas, especially young women with good university and professional trainingCouncil, the Commission, the Member States and the competent regional authorities to financially increase innovative measures for women in rural areas, calls on the Commission to set up LEADER networking projects for an exchange of experiences and best practice;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the competent regional authorities to put in place measures to enable people to reconcile work and family life, by giving them the opportunity to choose freely between genuine, equivaleCouncil and the Member States to renew and fulfil their commitments related to the Barcelona targets for the provision of accessible, affordable and high quality child care and to develop new targets for the care of dependent persons, also calls on the Member States and competent regional authorities to take into alternatives, with a view to increasing the birth rateccount flexible working hours for parents (as a result of free choice) and flexible times for children's care institutions, to help both women and men to combine work and family life more successfully;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on Eurostat to include in the regional human develop ment index (HDI) factors relating to unpaid invisible work performed by women in the absence of established regional social infrastructureasures to visualise childcare and care for dependents, broken down by gender;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Refers to the huge imbalance between men and women in sharing of domestic and family responsibilities, leading mainly women to opt for flexible working arrangements or even give up work altogether, with an impact on women's career development, on the continuing wage gap between women and men and on the accumulation of pension rights;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Asks Eurostat to develop indicators to measure and value women's and men's involvement in voluntary activities in order to show what women and men contribute to social cohesion, by region;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to propose specific initiatives within the context of the European Year of Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity 2012 dedicated to the activities of older women, in order to enhance their contribution to social and territorial cohesion; emphasisunderlines that the principle of solidarity between generations is one of the structural keys tones of regional social cohesion and the European social model the European social model, demands that in order to maintain this principle, an active approach must be taken by public authorities at various levels to be involved in guaranteeing high-quality social services of general interest;