Activities of Barbara MATERA related to 2009/2204(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Gender aspects of the economic downturn and financial crisis - Assessment of the results of the 2006-2010 Roadmap for Equality between women and men and forward looking recommendations - Charter for Women’s Rights - follow up (debate)
Amendments (15)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas much attention has been focused on the male-dominated construction and car industries, in contrast to the equally negatively affected retailing, services and tourism sectors; whereas it is urgent to address the gender dimension of the impact of and solution to the economic and social crisis in national and European recovery plans,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas quality full-time employment with quality jobs is the bestrights is a safeguard against poverty and social exclusion; whereas it is crucial to design and implement policies as well as springboard to financial and psychological independence; whereas by addressing universal access to quality public services, it is crucial to design and implement policies, that respond to the needs of women and men respectively, including access to affordable and, accessible and quality care services, that respond to the needs of women and men respectively for children, the elderly and other dependents,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. DeploNotes with regrest the fact that policy responses to the crisis, including recovery packages, have failed to acknowledge, analyse and rectify the gender impact of the crisis; criticiseregrets the fact that gender mainstreaming in the post-Lisbon strategy is basically non-existent;, calls on the Council, the Commission and the Member States to integrate a gender chapter on gender equality with specific targets into the employment and macro-economic guidelines and the EU 2020 Strategy, and to introduce gender budgeting in all policies;,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. UNotes that, in the light of the EU 2020 Strategy, the 'green economy' is crucial, underlines the fact that ‘green jobs’ have the potential to become a key growth segment of the future European labour market, that today more than 20 million jobs in the European Union can be considered as ‘green’ and that recent evidence shows that jobs in the renewable energy sector alone have a potential to double to 2.8 million by 2020;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas mainstream economists have pointed out that the credit crunch, which started the recession, was quite literally a man-made disaster; whereas, in terms of responses at state and international level – (none of which are particularly gender-sensitive – have also been decided upon mainly by men; whereas it is important that women be fully included), women are not included at all in the decision-making process in the political, economic and financial spheres,
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas quality full-time employment with quality jobs is the best safeguard against poverty and social exclusion, and whereas work is the only real springboard to psychological independence for women who have been victims of domestic violence; whereas it is crucial to design and implement policies, including access to affordable and accessible care services, that respond to the needs of women and men respectively,
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas studies have shown that violence against women intensifies when men experience displacement and dispossession as a result of the economic crisis; whereas economic stress ofeconomic stress often leads to tensions and violent reactions that also spill over into the privaten leads to more frequent, more violent and more dangerous abuseives of those hit by the crisis,
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that women’s integration into the workplace in recent decades means not only a greater direct impact of the crisis on women themselves but also on households, where incomes will be significantly affected by female job losses;Emphasises the impact of the crisis on women, and calls on the European Union institutions and the Member States to take into account the hidden cost of the crisis, including the different and often unacknowledged gendered consequences;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Deplores the factRegrets that policy responses to the crisis, including recovery packages, have so far failed to acknowledge, analyse and rectify the gender impact of the crisis; criticises the fact that gender mainstreaming in the post-Lisbon strategy is basically non-existent; calls on the Council, the Commission and the Member States to integrate a gender chapter into the employment and macro-economic guidelines and the EU 2020 Strategy, and to introduce gender budgeting in all policies;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Asks the European institutions and the Member States to take effective steps, notably through legislation, to encourage gender balance in corporate and political positions of responsibility; therefore calls for binding targets to ensurmeasures to promote the equal representation of women and men in every sector;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses that women are under- represented in financial decision-making, in fact women are one of the groups currently excluded from financial decision-making that are adversely affected by financial risk;and calls on the Council, the Commission and the Member States to improve women’s participation at all levels of decision-making, especially in the areas of budgeting and of governance arrangements for European financial systems, including the European Central Bank;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Underlines the fact that ‘green jobs’ have the potential to become a key growth segment of the futurNotes that, in the light of the EU 2020 Strategy, the ‘green economy’ is crucial for the future growth of the European labour market, that today more than 20 million jobs in the European Union can be considered as ‘green’ and that recent evidence shows that jobs in the renewable energy sector alone have a potential to double to 2.8 million by 2020;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Invites the Council, the Commission and the Member States to set up a financial reserve within each Fund for equal opportunity activities, with additional support for across-the-board programmes and other special initiatives being funded separately under technical assistance; calls on the Member States to develop mechanisms for equality governance to include gender expertise within governmental departments and other agencies that implement measures under the Cohesion and Structural Funds and promote women’s organisations and networks;