5 Amendments of Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ related to 2014/2217(INI)
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas there are more women than men living in poverty and exclusion, especially older women and single mothers; whereas, for family reasons, it is more common for women than for men to work part time or under fixed-term or temporary contracts, and whereas women’s poverty is due largely to the precariousness of their jobs;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas thmore effective sharing of family and domestic responsibilities between men and women, to be brought about not least through a greater uptake of parental leave and paternity leave, is essential in order to achieve gender equality; whereas a quarter of Member States do not offer paternity leave;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on Member States to invest in affordable, high-quality facilities for the care of children, the sick, the disabled, the elderly, and other dependent persons, making sure that they have flexible opening times compatible with full-time working days and are accessible so that as many people as possible can combine work with family and private life; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that men and women caring for children or other dependants receive recognition in the form of dependency allowances and are accorded individual social security and pension entitlements; calls on the social partners to put forward specific initiatives serving to validate skills acquired during care-related leave periods;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish compulsory paid paternity leave of at least ten working days and to encourage measures, legislative and otherwise, enabling men, and fathers in particularonce they have become fathers, to exercise their right to achieve work-life balance, one example being to promote parental leave, to be taken either by the father or by the mother, but without swapping between them, until their child has reached a given age;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the European Institute for Gender Equality and Eurostat to keep collecting comparable data, in particular harmonised data on violence, in order to provide Member States and the Commission with the tools needed for effective policy-making; also calls on the Commission and the Member States to direct their attention to the position in Member States regarding institutional machinery to promote gender equality, the object being to prevent this from being damaged in the future by the effects of the economic crisis and the reforms that it is entailing, bearing in mind that, without such institutional machinery, the cross- cutting priority assigned to gender equality in every policy sphere, and the specific means of addressing it, will not translate into results;