8 Amendments of Antonyia PARVANOVA related to 2012/2046(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. Whereas government policies that provide care services for children and dependants are an important factor in women's and men's capacity to manage the different demands between workplace and care giving activities;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. Whereas giving women better opportunities in professional life has to be seen as an asset and investment for society as a whole, especially in the context of current demographic changes and challenges in Europe;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. Whereas traditional gender roles and stereotypes continue to have a strong influence on the division of roles between women and men at home, in the workplace and in society at large, and tend to continue the status quo of inherited obstacles to achieving gender equality;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Reminds that care policies and services for older people, dependants and children, including maternity, paternity and parental leave provisions, are absolutely fundamental elements to achieve gender equality; notes therefore that women and men should have the choice to engage in paid work, and to have children and a family, without being deprived from their freedom of making the full use of their right to employment and equal opportunities;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for the better promotion of men in care and family responsibilities, in particular through incentives for men to take parental and paternity leaves;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Is concerned about the situation of female immigrant workers in the service sector, as the vast majority work without a contract in precarious work, domestic service, with very low wages and no social rights of any kind; stresses therefore the need for appropriate policies to ensure that migrant workers are entitled to basic human rights including the right to health care, to fair labour conditions, to education and training, to moral and physical integrity, to equality before the law;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to undertake decisive policy action to fight gender stereotypes and to encourage men to equally share the caring and domestic responsibilities with women; emphasise thereof that reconciliation of work and private life policies should not solely focus on the need for women to balance their work and private life commitments, but also pay particular attention to men taking up caring and domestic task responsibilities;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses the need for appropriate policies to reconcile work and family life and in particular calls for an adequate provision of affordable child care services and care for other dependents compatible with the flexible working hours that are being imposed in the service sector; stresses that the provision of care facilities will also help to facilitate a reduction in women's poverty through enabling employment and work/life balance;