Activities of Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER related to 2012/2301(INI)
Reports (1)
REPORT on the impact of the economic crisis on gender equality and women’s rights PDF (263 KB) DOC (171 KB)
Amendments (26)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls the European Commission and Member States to integrate a general approach of equality between women and men in all employment policies, to take the necessary measures to facilitate the employment of women and to include this approach in the employment guidelines of the European Union;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Whereas the current effects of the crisis will have long-term impacts for women, due to the highly gender segregated labour-market, in which the concentration of women in sectors that are characterised by low pay, informal and part-time patterns of work, which have a direct impact on women's pension contributions;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas it should be noted that unemployed women are often not included in official figures because they tend to withdraw from the labour market and to perform unpaid or informal work, and that there are currently few studies on the impact of cuts in public expenditure allocated to gender equality;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Whereas the disparities between men and women in employment, wages, career breaks and part-time work due to family responsibilities have serious consequences for the calculation of pensions and therefore, their pension is often lower and they are more likely at risk of poverty;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Da (new)
Recital Da (new)
Da. whereas a crisis situation, such as the current one, calls for deep-seated structural reforms of the job market;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas for women a fall in the number of jobs frequently goes hand in hand with an adjustment in working hours, and whereas it is extremely likely that recovery will be felt more rapidly in the industrial sector thereby bringing about recovery in male employment, which will pick up faster than female employment; whereas economy measures in the public services will have a more lasting effect on female employment, and this could jeopardise, in the long-term, the progress achieved in the field of gender equality;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls also on the Member States to develop vocational training policies;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Stresses the need to encourage female entrepreneurship by encouraging women to set up their company and by facilitating women's access to finance;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ha (new)
Recital Ha (new)
Ha. Whereas the budget cuts in social services compromise women’s financial independence, as such services often provide a major supplement to their income and they utilise those services more frequently than men, with single mothers and women pensioners living alone being faced with the greatest aggregate losses;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Calls also on the Member States and the European Union to develop policies to promote the reconciliation of family, private and professional life;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3 d. Alert that the current situation of crisis may increase women's risk of domestic violence;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ja (new)
Recital Ja (new)
Ja. Notes that the decrease in the employment gap between men and women is more a reflection of a general degeneration in living and working conditions than of progress towards increased gender equality,
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Whereas in the current situation of economic crisis and budgetary austerity, women have fewer resources to protect themselves and their children from violence and whereas it is even more important to avert the direct financial impact that violence against women and children has on the judiciary and on health and social services;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that there are still very wide disparities between the various EU Member States, with the employment rate for women varying between 48.6 % and 77.2 %, and that the contrasts in these situations call for specific tailor-made responses as part of an overarching European approach; emphasises moreover the need to have reliable common indicators so needs can be assessed and suitable responses found;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that even before the economic crisis, women were in the majority in temporary or part-time posts and that the crisis has reinforced this trend, hence placing many already vulnerable women at a heightened risk of social exclusion;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that women have played a vital role in resisting the crisis and that, according to recent publications, they are playing a vital role in; firmly believes that they offer considerable potential for the improved competitiveness and performance of business, particularly where they are in management, and posts; considers that involving them in the drawing up of recovery plans in order to encourage social cohesion is therefore a matter of particular urgency;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Insists on the need to ensure that the current economic and financial crisis and the ensuing budget restrictions do not jeopardise the progress achieved by policies promoting gender equality nor serve as a pretext for reducing efforts in this respect, but rather must encourage Member States to incorporate that aspect into their employment policies;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 8a (new)
Article 8a (new)
8a. Stresses the importance of implementing immediately return to work policies and business sector insertion schemes for these public sector employees, the majority of whom are women whose jobs are under threat from cuts in the public sector budget;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote vocational- training policies and programmes for women, in order to increase their participation in the various business sectors, and especially in those economic and financial sectors where women employees are scarce, envisaging specific support measures so women are able to combine their workload, training and family life; recalls the important role played by the European Social Fund in assisting entry into employment through training policies and suggests the Member States and local authorities promote recourse to this fund;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on Member States to support job creation in the social economy which is dominated by unpaid work by women, and especially to seek out and implement new solutions that raise the profile of non-clandestine informal work;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission and the Council to adopt an action plan to achieve the targets that were set in Barcelona for better childcare provision with the development of company and inter- company crèches; stresses the importance of collective bargaining between management and labour in order to improve the work-life balance at sectoral, national and regional level, and of relaxing the access and attendance conditions for childcare systems associated with categories of jobs performed by women and of setting a minimum period of three month’s notice for childcare placements, so as to enable women to reconcile their family and working lives;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 18a (new)
Article 18a (new)
18a. Stresses the need for an even spread in austerity programmes, particularly as regards maintaining healthcare and caring services, in order not to aggravate the care burden on women, which would drag them back into a traditional family role;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 19a (new)
Article 19a (new)
19a. Pending EU-wide harmonisation of maternity, paternity and parental leave, calls on the Member States to maintain these and family allowances at the same levels in order not to reduce women’s income, and also to ensure that women’s maternity leave rights are not infringed;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 20a (new)
Article 20a (new)
20a. Invites the Member States and the Commission to propose solutions that help women continue in their careers and that combat in particular the wage inequalities arising from maternity periods;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 21a (new)
Article 21a (new)
21a. Calls for assistance to women’s organisations and to gender equality organisations to be maintained in order not to compromise the active participation of women in social and political life; so that those organisations and bodies can play a key role in offering support to women and their projects and actively participate in preparing future recovery measures,
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 24a (new)
Article 24a (new)
24a. Invites the Member States to adopt budgetary instruments that reflect the need for gender equality;