Activities of Silvia COSTA related to 2010/2027(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION Opinion on the demographic challenge and solidarity between generations
Amendments (14)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas in times of demographic change the role of women is especially significant, as they are needed both as employees and as mothers, and this double burden on mothers needs to be adequately addressed; whereas today there exists a generation of working women who in many cases combine the two roles of mother and daughter, having to care for dependent elderly parents,
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital Ca (new)
Recital Ca (new)
Ca. whereas demographic change has impacted strongly on personal and working life, especially in the case of women, while insufficient services, inadequate welfare payments, the slow and difficult nature of integration into the labour market proper, long periods spent in insecure or temporary employment, and lack of support for young couples are among the reasons for young people postponing forming a family and having children,
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital Da (new)
Recital Da (new)
Da. whereas in Member States and regions where there is a high level of female employment and there are effective, flexible and integrated welfare systems, birth rates are higher,
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital Db (new)
Recital Db (new)
Db. whereas all European countries are suffering from a lack of craft specialists in the younger generations, while the experience and skills of older people are undervalued, and the risk therefore exists of crafts disappearing, especially for those traditionally practised more by women,
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital Dc (new)
Recital Dc (new)
Dc. whereas ageing is a process of evolution, not decline, and measures to encourage active ageing on the basis of scientific and medical knowledge should be oriented towards everyone rather than being seen as an individual matter related only to the participation in society and the economy of specific persons,
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1a (new)
Paragraph 1a (new)
1a. Considers it essential to encourage intergenerational solidarity, especially in the context of the gender dimension, by means of targeted tax policies, measures to encourage active ageing, housing policy, and the creation of integrated networks of services for children, old people and the disabled and dependent, with a view to impacting favourably on the work-life balance;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3a (new)
Paragraph 3a (new)
3a. Stresses the need to ensure that families, and therefore especially women, do not bear the brunt of the current challenges and changes, in order to maintain what is the main social safety- net against unemployment, illness and disability;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3b (new)
Paragraph 3b (new)
3b. Recognises the need for action to improve the arrangements governing not only maternity leave but also paternity leave and parental leave for working fathers, recalling that in all Member States the percentage of men who take up those entitlements is still low;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4a (new)
Paragraph 4a (new)
4a. Calls for measures to encourage voluntary work by retired women and older women who would thus make use of their professional skills;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7a (new)
Paragraph 7a (new)
7a. Calls for the recognition of initiatives to help young and old people who wish to create an intergenerational business together;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7b (new)
Paragraph 7b (new)
7b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to re-examine welfare systems where they still entail considerable inequalities between men's and women's pension levels, and to introduce corrective factors taking account of the gaps in contributions arising from temporary employment or maternal responsibilities;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7c (new)
Paragraph 7c (new)
7c. Considers that home services for the elderly could be promoted and organised by encouraging autonomous and cooperative forms of activity, on the basis of agreements with local authorities and the introduction of dedicated vouchers for families;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7d (new)
Paragraph 7d (new)
7d. Considers that one means of tackling the digital divide, a phenomenon that particularly affects women, especially older women, and leads to professional and social exclusion, would be for schools to organise experimental initiatives for IT literacy, on the basis of cultural interchange with the local community and using pupils as instructors;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7e (new)
Paragraph 7e (new)