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Motion for a resolution
Recital A

~~A. whereas the standard of living of most Europeans continues to decline, particularly for women, for whom the unemployment rate in the EU27 stood at 10.8 % in the last quarter of 2012.~~deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Anne DELVAUX, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the economic crisis has led to a decline in the standard of living of most EU citizens; whereas for the 26 million unemployed Europeans the male and female unemployment rates converged during the fourth quarter of 2012 to reach figures of 10.8% and 10.6% respectively; whereas this reduction in the gap between unemployment rates for workers of different sexes should not obscure the fact that many more women than men were not working in 2012 and that women are often a correcting variable for fluctuations in overall labour supply;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Anne DELVAUX, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas in Europe in 2011, 63.8 million women (25.2%) and 55.7 million men (23%) experienced poverty and social exclusion; whereas women face a greater risk of poverty than men;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Anne DELVAUX, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the EU is currently facing the most significant economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930s; whereas this crisis has been exacerbated by so-called austerity measures imposed on the Member States by the EU institutions within the framework of economic governance policies (Stability and Growth Pact, European Semester, Euro-Plus Pact, Budgetary Treaty) and ‘financial aid’ programmes;deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Anne DELVAUX, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas gender equality is a key economic asset to promote fair and inclusive economic growth, whereas reducing occupational inequality is not just a goal in terms of equal treatment, but also in terms of labour market efficiency and fluidity;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Anne DELVAUX, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas part-time work has increased during the crisis and continues to be the most common form of employment for women (32.1 % in 2012, up from 30.8 % in 2007; whereas involuntary part-time work has also increased and in 2012 accounted for 24 % of overall female part- time employment (against 20 % in 2007);deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Anne DELVAUX, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas women work more often than men on the basis of part-time, fixed-term or temporary contracts; whereas this was the most common form of employment for women in 2012 (32.1% as against 8.4% for men); whereas involuntary part-time work increased to 24% of overall female part-time employment in 2012 (as against 20% in 2007)1; whereas these contracts offer less protection against dismissal or other forms of termination of contract; whereas these contracts penalise women, inter alia as regards their career development opportunities, their training opportunities or their pension rights, but do, in some situations, present an opportunity to help men and women who decide to reconcile their work and private lives; __________________ 1 SWD(2013) 171 final.

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Anne DELVAUX, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas women are particularly affected by precarious employment, suffer wage discrimination and are more likely to be in part-time work, meaning that they also earn lower wages, enjoy less social protection and find it harder to become economically independent and pursue a career than men do;deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Anne DELVAUX, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Recital H e (new)

He. whereas household responsibilities such as maternity and caring for elderly relatives or dependents are generally assumed by women, without conferring any status on them; whereas these societal functions or tasks receive no appreciation either financially or in terms of value or rights; whereas this role of caregiver is often a barrier to employment and professional career prospects for women; whereas these functions or tasks performed by necessity or by choice mostly penalise women professionally;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Anne DELVAUX, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas a Memorandum of Understanding was signed in April 2012 between UN Women and the EU, reaffirming the partnership between the two organisations and their commitment to promote and support capacity development for the inclusion of gender mainstreaming in all policies and programmes and to ensure that national plans and budgets are sufficient to implement gender equality commitments1. __________________ 1 Memorandum of Understanding between the European Union and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Anne DELVAUX, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas a new Memorandum of Understanding between the European Union and UN Women was signed in April 2012 with the aim of strengthening cooperation between the two institutions to promote women's empowerment and gender equality throughout the world; whereas its priorities include ensuring better representation of women in economic, political and judicial decision- making, providing greater professional and social prospects for women, and combatting sexual and gender-based violence;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Anne DELVAUX, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Emphasises that flexible working hours should be the worker’s decision, and should not be imposed or enforced by the employer; rejects situations of flexibility and contractual uncertainty that do not provide for family formation and stability;deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Anne DELVAUX, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to strengthen and ensure the full use of collective bargaining in the private and public sectors as an irreplaceable instrument with which to regulate labour relations, combat wage discrimination and promote equality;deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Anne DELVAUX, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

~~5. Strongly urges the Member States to increase their investment in public services, particularly health services relating to sexual and reproductive health;~~deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Barbara MATERA, Anne DELVAUX

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Recommends that the Member States develop educational programmes in secondary schools, for teenagers from the age of 12 and above, to combat gender stereotyping. This education should be based on good practice and should educate male and female students on gender, in an attempt to destroy stereotypes relating to social roles and the representation and significance of being a woman or a man. These stereotypes – according to which, for example, women are designed to carry out certain jobs, such as looking after children, the elderly and the home, while men are designed to have an income-producing job and career – should not be included in text books;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Anne DELVAUX, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Points out that women are increasingly becoming family breadwinners; calls on the Member States to take steps to establish a ‘family caregiver’ status serving not only to prevent women from being penalised at work, but also to confer legitimacy on the vital role that they are performing in society;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Anne DELVAUX, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 e (new)

5e. Points to the vulnerability of women with disabilities and women with a disabled dependent child; urges that care facilities and services be set up in order to ensure that these women can strike a better balance between family needs and their careers and that they will not have to give up work altogether because they have no support and no one to look after their dependants from the time when they are born until they reach adulthood;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Barbara MATERA, Anne DELVAUX

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls on the Member States to promote a balanced, non-stereotyped image of women in the mass media. Television, in particular, should communicate and develop a vision of a more modern kind of woman, placing greater emphasis on her social development, constitutional rights and her role in civil society, the institutions and the working world;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Barbara MATERA, Anne DELVAUX

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Encourages the Member States to promote gender equality in the context of media information networks and to use all possible means to attempt to eliminate the tendency to use women’s bodies for profit- related or promotional purposes;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Anne DELVAUX, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Welcomes the Commission proposal for a directive aimed at boosting women’s representation on non-executive boards of quoted companies by laying down a 40% minimum target for women to be met by 2020; calls on the Commission to use awareness campaigns to promote greater representation of women in the decision- making bodies of small and medium-sized enterprises;

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

Anne DELVAUX, Barbara MATERA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Observes that increasing poverty and marginalisation, owing to so-called austerity policies, have led to an increase in female trafficking, sexual exploitation and prostitution and that there are signs that domestic violence is on the rise, as social tensions within families also increase, and that women now find themselves more economically dependent on their aggressors;deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: FEMM

21 Amendments of Barbara MATERA related to 2013/2156(INI)

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