Activities of Marie PANAYOTOPOULOS-CASSIOTOU related to 2008/2118(INI)
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Amendments (10)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Lisbon Strategy aims to ensure that 60% of women able to work are in employment; whereas efforts relating to the demographic challenge seek to promote higher birth rates to meet future requirements; whereas these two public policies target the same pivotal population group of women aged between 18 and 49, who are viewed both as workers and as mothers carrying life and, bringing children into the world and raising them mainly, together with their fathers, as well as taking care of the elderly and dependent or disabled persons; whereas the different policies now need to be built not just around the professional performance of workers but also around their role in society as human beings,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the various alternatives involved in the choice between formal employment and informal non market work do not have the same economic consequences, and the manifold but latent discrimination against women and men who would opt for informal non market work-costable work involving family care thus takes the form of having to chose between two alternatives which are not recognised as being equivalent in economic terms,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the concept of inter- generational solidarity is not just limited to childcare but also extends to responsibility for the elderly and dependent and to nurturing the human capital of our citizens, particularly of, contributing to respect for human dignity and its promotion among future generations,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the monetisation of non- market informalthe valuation of informal, non-costable, work carried out by women/mothers and men/fathers is more than a question of justice, and economic science now attaches increasing importance to the creation of national wealth by the household economy,
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas attention should be drawn to the aforementioned 1995 UNDP Report which notes that if more human activities in the field of non-market informal work devoted to inter-generational solidarity were seen as market transactions in the same way as the prevailing wages, they would yield gigantically large monetary valuations for the work carried out by women/mothers and men/fathers; whereas this same report states that if national statistics fully reflected the 'invisible' contribution of women/mothers and men/fathers, it would become impossible for policy-makers to ignore them in their decisions on, particularly, policies to reconcile family life and 'formalised' working life or periods of training or retraining study,
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the manifold but latent discrimination against women/mothers and men/fathers in this field is primarily manifested in the obligation of frequently having to chose between two alternatives which are not recognised as being equivalent in economic terms (formal or informal work),
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas systems of national accounts (SNAs) in the Member States do not recognise the value of non-marketcostable informal work in its different forms even though, according to mathematical models, it accounts for one-third of national wealth in GDP,
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the European Economic and Social Committee to undertake work on defining criteria and standards to record and evaluate the manifold aspects of informal non market-costable work by women and men, on the basis of a uniform method for assessing and assigning a value to this work and the long-term economic and social usefulness of this activity and its contribution to GDP;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on experts in the social sciences, economics and law, alongside those in philosophy, anthropology, neuroscience, child development science and geriatrics and gerontology, to draw up a clearer definition of the different terms to make them easier to understand and reduce the scope for misuse; calls for a comprehensive pan-European investigation into the nature, level and internal mechanisms of involvement in informal non market-costable work which is not yet officially recognised, running inter- generational networks and funding for this purpose;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the public authorities to take the necessary steps to enable women/mothers and men/fathers to make better choices as to how they wish to reconcile, without suffering discrimination, as to how they wish to reconcile studying, training, retraining and work and family life;