Activities of Ilda FIGUEIREDO related to 2010/2138(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Female poverty - Equality between women and men - 2010 (debate)
Amendments (15)
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4a (new)
Paragraph 4a (new)
4a. Regrets the absence of binding measures to combat the persisting pay gap between men and women; stresses the need for urgent action to improve the situation of women employed in insecure conditions, especially migrant women and members of ethnic minorities, who are even more vulnerable at a time of economic and social crisis; insists on the need for further action to reduce gender inequalities in public health systems and that equal access to those systems must prevail;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4e (new)
Paragraph 4e (new)
4e. Reminds the Commission and the Member States of the need to adopt positive measures for both women and men, notably in order to facilitate returning to work after a period devoted to the family (bringing up children and/or caring for a sick or disabled relative), promoting policies for (re)integration in the labour market and, therefore, recovery of financial independence;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Considers that women as a population group are vulnerable to poverty, thanks to unemployment, failure to share family responsibilities, insecure and ill-paid employment, wage discrimination and lower pensions;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that women form a large part of the population at risk of poverty, due to unemployment, sole responsibility for family care, precarious and low-paid work, wage discrimination and lower pensions;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6g (new)
Paragraph 6g (new)
6g. Believes that women are at greater risk than men of falling into extreme poverty;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6h (new)
Paragraph 6h (new)
6h. Believes that priority must be given to the eradication of poverty by reviewing the macroeconomic, monetary, social and employment policies that underlie it with a view to ensuring economic and social fairness for women; considers it necessary to re-examine the methods used to calculate the poverty rate and develop strategies to promote equitable income distribution, guarantee a minimum income and decent wage and pension levels, create more quality jobs with rights for women, ensure access to quality public services for women and girls, improve social protection and the associated neighbourhood services, especially crèches, nurseries, kindergartens, day centres, and community centres offering leisure facilities and support services for families;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6j (new)
Paragraph 6j (new)
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6l (new)
Paragraph 6l (new)
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6m (new)
Paragraph 6m (new)
6m. Calls on public and private employers to incorporate equality plans into their internal procedures, backing them up with clear objectives (short-term, medium- term and long-term), and to undertake annual assessments of real compliance with those objectives;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6n (new)
Paragraph 6n (new)
6n. Regrets the low representation of women at decision-making level, both in the business world and in the democratic processes; insists on the need for more ambitious measures to promote women's membership of company boards and in the administrations of public bodies at local, regional, national and European level;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6o (new)
Paragraph 6o (new)
6o. Calls for enhanced action, including awareness-raising and workplace inspection, with a view to ensuring better working conditions for women, in terms of working hours, observance of maternity and paternity entitlements, longer maternity leave on full pay, introduction of paid parental and paternity leave, introduction of family leave for the purpose of caring for dependent relatives, and action to fight gender stereotypes concerning the division of labour and care and counter the undermining of the above rights;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Believes that one priority should be the fight to eradicate poverty, by revising the macroeconomic, monetary, social and labour policies that are at its root, in order to ensure economic and social justice for women; believes that the methods used to determine poverty rates should be re- examined and that strategies should be developed to promote a fair distribution of income, guarantee minimum income, pay and decent pensions, create more high- quality jobs with rights for women, ensure access to high-quality public services for all women and young girls, and improve social welfare and respective local services, particularly crèches, nurseries, day centres, community and leisure centres, and family support services;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses the importance of negotiation and collective bargaining to combat discrimination against women, particularly in access to employment, pay, working conditions, career progression and vocational training;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls on public and private establishments to introduce equality plans in their internal rules and regulations, together with strict short-, medium- and long-term objectives, and to evaluate annually the achievement of these objectives;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls for more action, awareness- raising and inspection of workplaces to ensure better working conditions for women, by drawing attention to working hours, compliance with maternity and paternity rights, and reconciliation of work and family life, and by calling for the extension of maternity leave with full pay, the creation of paid family leave to be used mainly to care for dependent family members, measures to combat gender stereotypes in the division of labour and provision of care, and action to combat attempts to threaten these rights;