10 Amendments of Mariya GABRIEL related to 2012/2301(INI)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas it should be noted that unemployed women are often not included in official figures because they tend to withdraw from the labour market and to perform unpaid or informal work, and that there are currently few studies on the impact of cuts in public expenditure allocated to gender equality;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas for women a fall in the number of jobs frequently goes hand in hand with an adjustment in working hours, and whereas it is extremely likely that recovery will be felt more rapidly in the industrial sector thereby bringing about recovery in male employment, which will pick up faster than female employment; whereas economy measures in the public services will have a more lasting effect on female employment, and this could jeopardise, in the long-term, the progress achieved in the field of gender equality;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ha (new)
Recital Ha (new)
Ha. Whereas the budget cuts in social services compromise women’s financial independence, as such services often provide a major supplement to their income and they utilise those services more frequently than men, with single mothers and women pensioners living alone being faced with the greatest aggregate losses;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ja (new)
Recital Ja (new)
Ja. Notes that the decrease in the employment gap between men and women is more a reflection of a general degeneration in living and working conditions than of progress towards increased gender equality,
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote vocational- training policies and programmes for women, in order to increase their participation in the various business sectors, and especially in those economic and financial sectors where women employees are scarce, envisaging specific support measures so women are able to combine their workload, training and family life; recalls the important role played by the European Social Fund in assisting entry into employment through training policies and suggests the Member States and local authorities promote recourse to this fund;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission and the Council to adopt an action plan to achieve the targets that were set in Barcelona for better childcare provision with the development of company and inter- company crèches; stresses the importance of collective bargaining between management and labour in order to improve the work-life balance at sectoral, national and regional level, and of relaxing the access and attendance conditions for childcare systems associated with categories of jobs performed by women and of setting a minimum period of three month’s notice for childcare placements, so as to enable women to reconcile their family and working lives;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 18a (new)
Article 18a (new)
18a. Stresses the need for an even spread in austerity programmes, particularly as regards maintaining healthcare and caring services, in order not to aggravate the care burden on women, which would drag them back into a traditional family role;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 19a (new)
Article 19a (new)
19a. Pending EU-wide harmonisation of maternity, paternity and parental leave, calls on the Member States to maintain these and family allowances at the same levels in order not to reduce women’s income, and also to ensure that women’s maternity leave rights are not infringed;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 21a (new)
Article 21a (new)
21a. Calls for assistance to women’s organisations and to gender equality organisations to be maintained in order not to compromise the active participation of women in social and political life; so that those organisations and bodies can play a key role in offering support to women and their projects and actively participate in preparing future recovery measures,
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 24a (new)
Article 24a (new)
24a. Invites the Member States to adopt budgetary instruments that reflect the need for gender equality;