12 Amendments of Antonyia PARVANOVA related to 2010/2275(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas it is important to recognise that in general working women require greater flexibility due to their continued primary care role and that therefore it is necessary to ensure a work-life balance in conformity with their multi-task lifestyle, which can lead some women to start up their own business to secure their independence at work, but because of their disrupted careers they often lack the necessary financial resources,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas women may face barriers in accessing informational support and financial and technological tools and services, that could limit their ability to expand their businesses and compete for government and municipal contracts,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas businessesthose women, who have less knowledge about available options of financing and financial management experience, caused by societal factors, have a need for support not only during the start-up phase, but also throughout the business cycle, since there is a difference in the type of support required for business planning in the start-up and growth phases,
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas women entrepreneurs are a heterogeneous group, varying in terms of age, background and education, and they are active in a wide range of sectors and businesses; whereas, due to sex stereotyping, women are often perceived to lack entrepreneurial characteristics and propensities such as self-confidence, assertiveness and risk- taking; whereas in many cases financial service providers offer different terms to women, because of their gender and the perceived attitude towards their abilities,
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges Member States to ensure that women who have become insolvent or bankrupthave experienced career breaks, have access to financial recovery assistance and support in order that they may continue with their business aspirations;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to investigate the barriers to female entrepreneurship and especially conduct a comprehensive analysis of women’s access to finance;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Insists that Member States reinforce their efforts for improving the access to childcare facilities as their lack of affordability, availability and quality creates additional obstacles for women to launch an entrepreneurship;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Asks Member States to encourage female one-year entrepreneurship or apprenticeship programmes at universitiesnd exchanges at universities around Europe, where students conduct development projects based on real business concepts with the objective to already start a viable and profitable company during the years of education; considers furthermore that alumni and student association activities should form an integral part of this process to instil confidence and a ‘role model’ mentality in students;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission to set up advice councils with specific expertise on the challenges and barriers of women entrepreneurs as part of the Enterprise Europe network, which could also serve as single contact points for cases of discrimination by financial service providers for access to credit;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to collect comparable and comprehensive data on female entrepreneurship in the European Union (such as female entrepreneurs' ethnicity, age, area of business, size of business, length of business) with the help of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and the European Gender Institute in a way that does not pose an extra burden on SMEs and analyse these data in the annual report on EU SMEs of the SME Performance Review;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for measures to be taken by Member States to improve the social, cultural and legal position of female co- entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs in SMEs, especially in science, engineering and industrial sectors in urban and rural areas; insists that Member states promote equal access to procurement contracts for women-owned businesses;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Member States to offer support to women who want to start, buy or take over companies, such as family- owned businesses; considers that the support should be targeted on the specific requirements of these women, such as strengthening self-esteem and skills that will enable women to successfully navigate an acquisition situation; in particular appraisals, valuing a company, banking and legal issues, acknowledges that particular attention should be given to women under age of 25 and over the age of 50, as they are more affected by the financial crisis;