8 Amendments of Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN related to 2011/2091(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas women over 50 often face twofold or multiple discrimination based on gender and age stereotypes, frequently exacerbated by their gender-specific work and life patterns (e.g. career breaks, part- time employment, re-employment after a period of unemployment and gender pay gap); whereas, therefore, women tend to face a greater accumulation of disadvantages than men from the same groups,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to implement the gender equality approach in the preparation and implementation of pension reform, to promote use of the samemore equality enhancing actuarial calculation of pensions for men and women, to promote decreasing the risk of poverty and to end the practice of compulsory retirement;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to create conditions encouraghelping older women to remain and/or return to the labour market under the European Year of Active Ageing, so that their potential is not wasted;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the fact that Member States have already acknowledged that patterns and causes of gender inequality in the labour market are strictly related to the life- cycle stage, and stresses that a life-cycle approach to work must therefore be promoted; urges the Member States, however, – in order to address the challenges of life cycle adequately – to compatackle with focused measures the disadvantaged position of young and older women withcompared to men of the same age in their active labour market policies and not just address the latter to women and men in adulthood;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission and Member States to take effective measure to promote the principle of equal pay for equal work (e.g. by mandatory job evaluation scheme and equality action plan at work place), which can also help to close the pension gap, and to reduce the higher risk of poverty faced by – mainly older – women;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Member States to encourage companies to integrate ’senior planning’ into their policy, and to consider the adoption of an ’age-friendly’ policy in work places; enhances the need to include these policies into the Small Business Act;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Asks the Member States to facilitatenhance the provision of quality care services, including home care for the elderly, to improve recognition of the value of the work undertaken by professional caregivers and to support families providing care to older dependent persons;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Encourages the Member States to extend access to parental leave for grandparents and children taking care of their parents, to recognise caring for dependent persons, and to provide services, training and counselling for care-givers;