7 Amendments of Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA related to 2015/2228(INI)
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas women often take the responsibility for the care of elderly or ill family members as well as for children, resulting in their lower participation in the labour market, which consequently diminishes their overall income; whereas the establishment of high-quality childcare services and facilities for the care of children and the elderly at affordable prices reduces the risk of impoverishment; whereas few Member States have achieved or surpassed the Barcelona objectives;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas there is a need for learning programmes that encourage women to choose scientific careers, which offer them the greatest employability;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the lack of affordable high- quality care, whether for children or for, the sick orand the elderly, contributes to the gender employment gap, the pay gap and the related pension gap; emphasises that equal access to childcare and free, high- quality education is central to securing equal opportunities and breaking poverty cycles;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to undertake a comprehensive and global legislative action to modernise in a coherent way the types of leave, namely maternity, paternity, parental and carers’ leave, so as to boost women’s participation in the labour market, bearing in mind that some Member States have already passed legislation on this issue that goes beyond the provisions of EU law;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement policies to promote the employment of women and the integration into the labour market of socially marginalised groups of women, in the light of the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy, with an emphasis on life- long learning, the development of affordable and high-quality public care services, flexible working time arrangements that benefit both women and men, and measures to combat the segregation of men and women by occupation and sector;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that in all Member States the risk of poverty and social exclusion among children is strongly linked to their parents’ level of education, and in particular to that of their mothersvailable to them, and their parents’ situation in the labour market and their social conditions; stresses the need to establish a framework of support for teenage mothers, for whom leaving school early is a first step towards poverty;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that the absence of a partner income ismay be a major contributing factor to the poverty trap and to the social exclusion of women; notes the often precarious situation of divorced women who are heads of household, for whom an adequate level of maintenance proper public policy should be defined;