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European Parliament
2019-2024
Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
2021/2080(INI)
14.3.2022
COMPROMISE AMENDMENTS
1 - 27
Draft report
Pernille Weiss
(PE699.289v01-00)
Reaching women's economic independence through entrepreneurship and
self-employment

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Amendment 1
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 17, 45
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
-A
whereas gender equality is a
fundamental value and key objective of
the EU and a basic precondition for the
full enjoyment of human rights by women
and girls, which is essential for their
empowerment, the development of their
full potential and the achievement of a
sustainable and inclusive society; whereas
gender based discrimination based on
stereotypes and inequalities, combined
with intersectional discrimination among
others due to their sex, race, ethnic or
social origin or disability, sexual
orientation, gender identity or gender
expression has negative social and
economic consequences and impacts the
way women experience challenges,
including in pursuing entrepreneurship
and becoming self-employed;

Or. en
Amendment 2
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 18, 73, 78
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
-A a
whereas female entrepreneurship
boosts women’s emancipation and
empowerment; whereas in the 2014-2018
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time entrepreneurs was equal for men and
women1a; whereas women’s economic
independence and empowerment is

central to realizing women’s rights and
gender equality and includes the ability to
participate equally in existing labour
markets, access to and control over
productive resources, control over their
own time, lives and bodies, self-fulfilment,
and meaningful participation in economic
decision-making at all levels; whereas the
promotion of economic independence
requires boosting women
entrepreneurship and self-employment
and accompanied by adequate measures

to ensure women’s equal participation in
the labour markets, equal pay for equal
work or work of equal value, access to
decent work, sharing and recognition of
domestic and care responsibilities;

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1a OECD, 2019. The Missing
Entrepreneurs - Policies for Inclusive
Entrepreneurship. Paris: OECD
Publishing.

Or. en
Amendment 3
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 81
Motion for a resolution
Recital A

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
A.
whereas female entrepreneurs and
A.
whereas women are the most
self-employed are an under-utilised source
valuable and largest untapped
of economic growth and job creation;
entrepreneurial and leadership potential
whereas supporting this group can
in Europe; whereas from 2014-2018
strengthen EU competitiveness;
women across the OECD were twice as
likely to start their own businesses than
those in the EU1a; whereas women

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entrepreneurs and self-employed women
are an under-utilised source of sustainable
economic growthjob creation and
innovation potential and its promotion is

an important tool in fostering women’s
economic empowerment and

independence; whereas women’s
economic empowerment boosts
productivity, increases economic
diversification and income equality;
whereas self-employment needs to be
recognised as a form of work which helps
to create jobs and reduce unemployment;
whereas studies show that women often
have a different management and
leadership style than men and that gender
diversity in teams is beneficial for society
and economy1b
; whereas supporting
women entrepreneurs and women self-
employed would also 
strengthen EU
competitiveness and, therefore, all
entrepreneurial activity that creates jobs
and incomes and thus added value for
business and society should be promoted
by the EU and its Member States
;
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1a OECD, 2019. The Missing
Entrepreneurs - Policies for Inclusive
Entrepreneurship. Paris: OECD
Publishing.

1bhttps://www.researchgate.net/publicatio
n/337534934_Gender_Differences_in_Le
adership_Styles_Who_Leads_more_Destr
uctively

Or. en
Amendment 4
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 82, 86
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

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Motion for a resolution
Amendment
A a.
whereas women in rural and
disadvantaged regions are more likely to
engage in entrepreneurship and self-
employment than those in urban and
economically prosperous regions1a;
whereas the employment opportunities of
women in rural areas are worse than
those of men in rural areas and of women
in urban areas in the EU; whereas the
share of self-employed women in rural
areas is slightly higher than that in total
areas; whereas 30% of farms in the EU
are run by women, as self employed1b;

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1ahttps://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegDat
a/etudes/STUD/2019/608868/IPOL_STU(
2019)608868_EN.pdf

1b European Parliament, 2019. The
professional status of rural women in the
EU. Brussels: Policy Department for
Citizens' Rights and C
onstitutional
Affairs.

Or. en
Amendment 5
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 27, 29
Motion for a resolution
Recital B

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
B.
whereas the relative scarcity of
B.
whereas the relative scarcity of
women entrepreneurs should be considered
women entrepreneurs should be considered
an untapped source for innovation and
an untapped source for innovation and
development, especially in the context of
development, especially in the context of
Europe’s green and digital transformations
Europe’s green and digital transformations
and its economic recovery following the
and its economic recovery following the
COVID-19 crisis; whereas the European
COVID-19 crisis: whereas the COVID-19
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economy has the potential to benefit from a
crisis disproportionately affected women,
growth in GDP of EUR 16 billion by
particularly those working in precarious
encouraging more women to enter the
employment, feminised sectors and the
digital jobs market;
informal economy, having significant
economic and employment impacts on
them, because of an increase in care and
domestic responsibilities, restricted access
to sexual and reproductive health and
rights (SRHR) as well as in gender-based
violence and harassment; whereas the
European economy has the potential to
benefit from a growth in GDP of EUR 16
billion by encouraging more women to
enter the digital jobs market; whereas
improving gender equality and
empowering female entrepreneurship are
key to accelerating and fortifying
European recovery;

Or. en
Amendment 6
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 32, 33, 85
Motion for a resolution
Recital C

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
C.
whereas women only constitute
C.
whereas women only constitute
34.4 % of the self-employed in the EU and
34.4 % of the self-employed in the EU and
30 % of its start-up entrepreneurs;
30 % of its start-up entrepreneurs
confirming that the largest gender gaps
within entrepreneurial activity are found
in Europe & North America1a; whereas
only 34% of managerial positions in the
EU are held by women1b; whereas
previous experience in management
positions provides individuals with the
necessary skills and confidence to engage
in business ownership1c; whereas the lack
of social protection such as paid sick,
maternity, paternity leave and parental
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employed women in several Member
States; whereas self-employed women are
more likely to fall into poverty;

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1a https://gemconsortium.org/report/gem-
202021-womens-entrepreneurship-report-
thriving-through-crisis

1b Eurostat, 2020. Women in
Management. Luxembourg: Publications
Office of the European Union.

1c Foss, L., Henry, C., Ahl, H. and
Mikalsen, G., 2019. Women’s
entrepreneurship policy research: a 30-
year review of the evidence. Small
Business Economics, 53(2), pp.409-429.

Or. en
Amendment 7
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 36, 41, 79, 80, 83, 87
Motion for a resolution
Recital D

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
D.
whereas women face more
D.
whereas starting and running a
difficulties in pursuing entrepreneurship
business is complex in the EU because of
than men; whereas barriers include a lack
the different bureaucratic and
of specific training, a lower level of self-
administrative requirements and
confidence, less access to social and
procedures which is an obstacle to
business networks and difficulties in
encourage more women to become
reconciling work and family life;
entrepreneurs; whereas women face
different barriers namely of economic,
legislative and social nature 
in pursuing
entrepreneurship than men; whereas these
barriers are constructed around gender
stereotypes which contribute to gender
segregation in education, 
a lack of specific
training, a lower level of entrepreneurial
confidence
, less access to information,
financial and government support and

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less tools for social and business networks,
gender biases 
and difficulties in
reconciling work and family life, due to
the lack of care infrastructures, specially
childcare and because of the stereotyping
of women to carry out most of care and
domestic work
whereas women are more
likely than men to report flexible working
hours as their motivation to engage in
entrepreneurship and self-employment1a;
whereas female entrepreneurship and
self-employment can also be a valuable
instrument to reconcile work and personal
life; whereas from 2014 to 2018 only
34.5% of women in the EU and 37.7% of
women in the OECD felt like they had the
necessary skills and knowledge to start
their own business; whereas women are
nearly 10% more likely to report a fear of
failure than men1b; whereas there is a
financial literacy gap between men and
women; whereas this gap acts as a barrier
for women when accessing funding and
overall impedes them from participating
confidently in economic and financial
activities1c;

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1a OECD, 2019. The Missing
Entrepreneurs - Policies for Inclusive
Entrepreneurship. Paris: OECD
Publishing.

1b OECD, 2019. The Missing
Entrepreneurs - Policies for Inclusive
Entrepreneurship. Paris: OECD
Publishing.

1c OECD, 2020. OECD/INFE 2020
International Survey of Adult Financial
Literacy. Paris: OECD Publishing.

Or. en
Amendment 8
Pernille Weiss

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Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 47, 48
Motion for a resolution
Recital E

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
E.
whereas promoting women
E.
whereas access to networks,
entrepreneurs as role models can be useful
mentoring and promoting women
in encouraging women to consider
entrepreneurs as role models, are
entrepreneurship as a career;
important in encouraging women to
consider entrepreneurship as a career and
in increasing women’s economic
empowerment
whereas the diversity of
role models can appeal to women from
diverse backgrounds;

Or. en
Amendment 9
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 50, 51, 54
Motion for a resolution
Recital F

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
F.
whereas statistics show that female
F.
whereas statistics show that women
entrepreneurs have more difficulties than
entrepreneurs have more difficulties than
men in raising finance; whereas women-led
men in raising finance and capital;
companies still account for a very small
whereas women-led companies still
portion of investment recipients; whereas
account for a very small portion of
all-male founding teams received 93 % of
investment recipients; whereas all-men
all capital invested in European tech in
founding teams received 93 % of all capital
20188 ;
invested in European tech in 20188 ;
whereas only 32% of the venture capital
funding was allocated to companies with
at least one female executive8a; whereas

women’s innovations are less often
identified and acknowledged as
innovations and promising ideas; whereas
despite receiving lower financial backing
women-led businesses in the CEE Region
outperform in capital productivity by

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96%8b;
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8 Skonieczna, A. and Castellano, L.,
8 Skonieczna, A. and Castellano, L.,
'Gender Smart Financing. Investing In and
'Gender Smart Financing. Investing In and
With Women: Opportunities for Europe',
With Women: Opportunities for Europe',
European Economy Discussion Papers, No
European Economy Discussion Papers, No
129, July 2020, Publications Office of the
129, July 2020, Publications Office of the
European Union, Luxembourg.
European Union, Luxembourg.
8a European Commission and European
Investment Bank, Funding women
entrepreneurs: How to empower growth,
2018

8b Women in VC, Experior Venture Fund
and Unvconventional, 2021. Funding in
the CEE Region Through the Lens of
Gender Diversity and Positive Impact.

Or. en
Amendment 10
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 63, 64
Motion for a resolution
Recital H

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
H.
whereas only 10 % of business
H.
whereas only 10 % of business
angels in Europe are women9 and only 10
angels in Europe are women9 and women
% all senior positions in private equity and
are especially underrepresented among
venture capital firms globally10 are
private equity investors on digitalization;
occupied by women; whereas several
whereas only 10 % of all senior positions
studies show that investment managers
in private equity and venture capital firms
tend to provide capital to those who are
globally10 are occupied by women;
similar to themselves; whereas developing
whereas several studies show that
the ecosystem is key to improving funding
investment managers tend to provide
conditions sustainably for women-led
capital and to hire those who are similar to
companies and creating a reliable network
themselves, leaving women and especially
of female investors;
those from diverse backgrounds and
facing intersectional discrimination
among others due to their racial, ethnic or
socio economic backgrounds in a clear

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position of disadvantage; whereas venture
capital firms with women partners are
twice to three times more likely to invest
in female-led businesses10a; whereas the
lack of women in decision-making roles at
venture capital firms is one of the primary
sources of the persistent funding gap for
women-driven enterprises in the EU10b;
whereas another major cause for the
persistent funding gap for women-driven
enterprises in the EU is that women are
less likely than men to seek external
funding such as bank loans, venture
capital or funding from state
programmes, and instead resort to self-
funding through personal savings or
funding from family members10c; whereas
implementing measures to achieve a fair
representation of women and develop a
gender-balanced financial 
ecosystem and
creating more favourable environment at
the EU level and providing adequate
budgetary allocations is fundamental to
create both the necessary 
funding
conditions and the essential network of
women investors 
for women-led
companies to thrive;
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9 EBAN, Statistics Compendium –
9 EBAN, Statistics Compendium –
European Early Stage Market Statistics,
European Early Stage Market Statistics,
EBAN, Brussels, 2019.
EBAN, Brussels, 2019.
10 International Finance Corporation,
10 International Finance Corporation,
Moving Towards Gender Balance in
Moving Towards Gender Balance in
Private Equity and Venture Capital,
Private Equity and Venture Capital,
International Finance Corporation,
International Finance Corporation,
Washington DC, 2019.
Washington DC, 2019.
10a Women in VC, Experior Venture Fund
and Unvconventional, 2021. Funding in
the CEE Region Through the Lens of
Gender Diversity and Positive Impact.
Online.

10b European Commission, 2020. Gender
Smart Financing. Investing In and With
Women: Opportunities for Europe.
Luxembourg: Publications Office of the

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European Union.
10c OECD, 2021. The Missing
Entrepreneurs - Policies for Inclusive
Entrepreneurship. Paris: OECD
Publishing.

Or. en
Amendment 11
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 66, 67
Motion for a resolution
Recital I

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
I.
whereassix Member States have
I.
whereas six Member States have
created 11 private funds to fill the gap in
created 11 private funds to fill the gap in
funding for female entrepreneurs and these
funding for women entrepreneurs and these
funds use gender considerations in their
funds use gender considerations that
investment criteria; whereas some of these
support diversity in their investment
funds have received national or EU
criteria; whereas some of these funds have
support, which shows the important role of
received national or EU support, which
public policies in promoting
shows the important role of public policies
entrepreneurship11 ;
in promoting entrepreneurship11;
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11 Eurofound, Female entrepreneurship:
11 Eurofound, Female entrepreneurship:
Public and private funding, Publications
Public and private funding, Publications
Office of the European Union,
Office of the European Union,
Luxembourg, 2019.
Luxembourg, 2019.
Or. en
Amendment 12
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 76, 84
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

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Motion for a resolution
Amendment
K a.
whereas it is crucial that Europe
has an equal amount of women and men
as entrepreneurs to ensure diversification
of content and products; whereas between
2014 and 2018 female-led start-ups were
as likely to offer new products and
services than those led by men in the EU1a
showing that women and men must been
seen as equally performing regarding
innovation; whereas encouraging more
women to become entrepreneurs can
improve the quality and diversity of
innovations, products and services;

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1a OECD, 2019. The Missing
Entrepreneurs - Policies for Inclusive
Entrepreneurship. Paris: OECD
Publishing.

Or. en
Amendment 13
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 19, 89
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
K b.
whereas entrepreneurship requires
knowledge and skills; whereas increasing
women’s and girls’ educational
attainment contributes to women’s
economic empowerment and more
inclusive economic growth; whereas
education, upskilling and re-skilling over
the life course, especially to keep pace
with rapid technological and digital
transformations increases their
professional opportunities and is

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important for women and girls’ health,
well-being and quality of life;

Or. en
Amendment 14
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 28, 88, 90
Motion for a resolution
Recital K c (new)

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
K c.
whereas entrepreneurship should
be accessible for all women including
women with disabilities, elderly and those
with a minoritised racial or ethnic
background; whereas women with
disabilities can find it more difficult to
start their own businesses; whereas
entrepreneurship among elderly is not
being promoted despite the fact that
elderly women should be seen as a
valuable and unused potential to
economic growth; whereas the promotion
of entrepreneurship among migrant
women can offer great opportunities for
their integration in labour market and
foster their economic independence and
empowerment;

Or. en
Amendment 15
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 93, 118, 194 part 2
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)

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Motion for a resolution
Amendment
-1.
Underlines that women’s
entrepreneurship contributes to increase
women’s economic independence, and
their empowerment which is an essential
precondition to reach gender equal
societies and should be encouraged and
promoted across the EU; notes that

women’s economic independence
reinforces their equal participation in the
labour market, offers control over
productive resources and enhanced
participation in economic decision-
making at all levels as well as economic
empowerment and self-determination

which is crucial to realising women’s
rights and gender equality; highlights that
every woman who wants to pursue
entrepreneurial activity should be
encouraged to take this step, since the
running of a business creates jobs and
incomes and thus added value for
business and the entire society; calls on
the Commission to step up its efforts to
increase the employment rate of women in
Europe and facilitate their access to the
labour market, including by providing
more incentives to promote women
entrepreneurship;

Or. en
Amendment 16
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 99, 100, 117
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
1.
Welcomes Commission initiatives
1.
Welcomes Commission initiatives
such as Women TechEU and the European
such as Women TechEU and the European
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Innovation Council Women Leadership
Innovation Council Women Leadership
Programme and the creation of various
Programme and the creation of various
European networks for female
European networks for women
entrepreneurs; urges the Commission to
entrepreneurs; urges the Commission and
promote such initiatives more actively by
the Member States to promote such
focusing on the EU growth potential and to
initiatives more actively by focusing on the
support the achievements of women
EU sustainable growth potential and to
entrepreneurs;
support the achievements of women
entrepreneurs in all their diversity;
encourages the European Commission to
strengthen various networks focusing on
women entrepreneurship on European
level to boost innovation and cooperation
between national, EU and international
networks; notes that further cross-border
cooperation between women
entrepreneurs can strengthen the internal
market of the European Union;

Or. en
Amendment 17
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 103, 134, 146
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
2.
Calls on the Commission to include
2.
Calls on the Commission and the
public-private partnerships in their
Member States to include public-private
initiatives because private companies can
partnerships in their initiatives because
play a valuable role as advisors and impart
private companies can play a valuable role
relevant and specialised skills to women
as advisors and impart relevant and
entrepreneurs;
specialised skills to women entrepreneurs;
urges the Commission to facilitate pan-
European networking of women
entrepreneurs and to support their
cooperation; calls on the Commission to
establish programmes that foster
creativity in innovation, to ensure
entrepreneurship in the labour market,
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added value to society;
Or. en
Amendment 18
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 105, 106, 108
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
3.
Highlights the necessity and
3.
Highlights the necessity and
importance of recognising and promoting
importance of recognising and promoting
women entrepreneurs as role models;
women entrepreneurs and investors as role
notes, in this regard, the European Network
models and mentors and to ensure that
of Female Entrepreneurship Ambassadors,
these role models represent women in all
which encourages women to consider
their diversity; notes, in this regard, the EU
entrepreneurship as a career;
Prize for Women Innovators 2021 and the
European Network of Female
Entrepreneurship Ambassadors, which
encourages women to consider
entrepreneurship as a career; calls on the
European Commission to highlight
prominent women entrepreneurs and
investors as role models by launching a
Europe-wide campaign raising awareness
about the potential of entrepreneurship
targeting predominantly women and
conducting case studies of women
entrepreneurs;

Or. en
Amendment 19
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 113, 114, 115, 116, 132
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

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Motion for a resolution
Amendment
4.
Welcomes public and private
4.
Welcomes public and private
women entrepreneurship programmes in
women entrepreneurship programmes in
the Member States that include elements of
the Member States that include elements of
networking, mentoring and training to
networking, mentoringtraining, coaching
support and advise women entrepreneurs;
and consultancy services and professional
notes that publicly available reports and
advice on legal and fiscal matters to
testimonials in seven Member States
support and advise women entrepreneurs,
suggest the positive impact of these
and promote their economic
programmes; urges the Commission to
independence; notes that publicly available
collect data from all Member States and
reports and testimonials in seven Member
analyse the impact of female
States suggest the positive impact of these
entrepreneurship programmes; calls the
programmes; urges the Commission and
Commission to share best practices to
the EIGE to collect gender-disaggregated
strengthen and increase the share of
data from all Member States and analyse
women entrepreneurs and self-employed in
the impact of women entrepreneurship
the Member States;
programmes; calls the Commission and
Member States 
to share best practices to
strengthen and increase the share of
women entrepreneurs and self-employed
within the EU; calls on the Member States
to promote a well-developed training
strategy to provide different levels of
training, from awareness raising and
information to specialised and advanced
training and recognise the various
opportunities and constraints of the
specific business environment and the
wide range of characteristics and needs of
women entrepreneurs with specific
attention to work–life balance
highlights
the need for one stop shops who offer e.g.
courses and training within a wide range
of disciplines e.g. accounting and
marketing to entrepreneurs with both a
little or no experience or qualifications;
notes this initiative can encourage more
women to become entrepreneurs;

Or. en
Amendment 20
Pernille Weiss

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Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 95, 120
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
5.
Calls the Commission to make up-
5.
Calls the Commission and the
to-date and comparable statistics available
EIGE to make up-to-date and comparable
for the purpose of analysing the economic
statistics available for the purpose of
significance of entrepreneurs and self-
analysing the economic significance of
employed, and the various categories
entrepreneurs and self-employed, and the
within entrepreneurship and self-employed
various categories within entrepreneurship
with respect to industry and gender to
and self-employed with respect to industry
identify the share of women entrepreneurs
and gender to identify the share of women
and self-employed;
entrepreneurs and self-employed; reiterates
its calls on the Commission and the
Member States to improve the collection
of gender-disaggregated data, statistics,
research and analysis, in particular
regarding the participation of women in
the labour market and in areas such as
informal employment, entrepreneurship,
access to financing and to healthcare
services, unpaid work, poverty and the
impact of social protection systems;
recalls the role of EIGE in this respect
and calls on the Commission to use these
data to effectively implement gender
impact assessments of its policies and
programmes, and those of other EU
agencies and institutions;

Or. en
Amendment 21
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 101, 111, 121, 122, 123
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
6.
Calls, in particular, for greater
6.
Calls, in particular, for greater
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women-focused promotion of STEM
women-focused promotion and awareness-
subjects, digital education and financial
raising of STEM subjects, digital
literacy in order to combat prevailing
education and financial literacy in order to
stereotypes and ensure that more women
combat prevailing stereotypes in
enter these sectors and contribute to their
education, training, school curricula and
development; highlights the importance of
career guidance and ensure that more
promoting education and careers in finance
women enter these sectors which would
to women to support the development of a
allow for more diverse management and
reliable network of female investors;
leadership styles that would bring an
added value to these sectors and would
contribute to their development; stresses
the importance of broadening the horizon
of women entrepreneurship to include
more sectors than STEM and IT and to
promote various forms of
entrepreneurship; calls on the
Commission and Member States to
implement measures to improve the
diversification of entrepreneurship and to
promote social and collective forms of
women entrepreneurship; welcomes
specific training, research and studies in
entrepreneurship; 
highlights the
importance of promoting education and
careers in finance to women to support the
development of a reliable network of
women investors and emphasises at the
same time the need to empower women to
be economically independent and thrive
as entrepreneurs
;
Or. en
Amendment 22
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 127, 131, 133, 136, 195
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
6 a.
Regrets the fact that women are
under-represented in leadership positions,
and highlights the need to promote

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equality between men and women at all
levels of decision-making in business and
management; calls for a swift negotiation
process of the Women on Boards
Directive; highlights the necessity to
provide more and better information
about entrepreneurship as an attractive
career option, both for young women in
school and for women outside the labour
force who are considering starting or
getting back into work; calls on the
Commission to promote entrepreneurship
support programmes for elderly people
and notes that this can reach women who
are left out of the labour market;
emphasises the necessity to promote
policies for stimulating high-growth firms
as well as growth and development in
medium-sized and larger businesses to
ensure more women becoming
entrepreneurs and support sustainable
growth; calls on Member States and the
Commission to further increase
awareness of support policies among
women entrepreneurs and to decrease
bureaucratic and administrative barriers
in accessing programs aimed at fostering
entrepreneurship; welcomes the efforts to
promote support from experts and
consultants who as mentors can build up

women entrepreneurs’ confidence and
guide them through all stages of the
entrepreneurship process, taking account
of all the aspects involved, including
issues relating to legislation, tax,
administration, economics, and
accounting, as well as legal, formal,
labour and recruitment issues;

Or. en
Amendment 23
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 128, 129, 130
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Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
6 b.
Calls for the need to recognize the
entrepreneurial potential of women in all
sectors and education fields including the
female-dominated as for example in
healthcare and teaching; highlights the
need to provide further training and
retraining opportunities to employees and
those moving from employment to self-
employment; calls on the Commission to
promote lifelong learning for all;
highlights that the entrepreneurial
dimension shall also be recognized in all
youth programmes on the European level;
encourages Member States and regional
and local authorities to invest in reskilling
and upskilling programmes targeted at
self-employed women and female
entrepreneurs with a specific focus on
financial literacy re-skilling;

Or. en
Amendment 24
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 139, 140, 141, 142, 147
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
8.
Calls on Member States and the
8.
Calls on Member States and the
Commission to facilitate access to funds
Commission to boost awareness and to
for women entrepreneurs and self-
facilitate easier access to finance for
employed; urges the Commission to
women entrepreneurs and self-employed
establish a European network of gender-
including alternative forms of financing
conscious investors; considers that such a
making sure finance is available and
network will be able to provide women-led
reach the women entrepreneurs and self-
companies with relevant connections,
employed; notes that women
entrepreneurs are more likely to use

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networks and funding opportunities;
alternative sources such as crowd lending
and funding platforms; notes that in
certain cases microcredits have proven to
be successful in motivating more women
to start their own business;
acknowledging the impact of funding
policies and the positive impact it can
bring to women; encourages Member
States and regional and local authorities
to make use of the existing European
Structural Funds to target and promote
women entrepreneurs and self-employed
women
; urges the Commission to establish
a European network of gender-conscious
investors; considers that such a network
will be able to provide women-led
companies with relevant connections,
networks and funding opportunities;
stresses the need for awareness-raising
and information campaigns regarding
existing and future EU funding
possibilities for women entrepreneurs, to
provide tailored support to women
business owners and women
entrepreneurs and increase the visibility
of women leaders to establish stronger
role models and break existing
stereotypes; urges the Commission to
establish a Female Entrepreneurship
Action Plan as a part of Small Business
Act and as a part of it, a pan-European
entrepreneurship, innovation and
investment event gathering scientists,
entrepreneurs, start-ups and above all,
private equity investors, to accelerate new
female business opportunities;

Or. en
Amendment 25
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 154
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

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Motion for a resolution
Amendment
10 a.
Highlights the important role of
microcredits in order to improve financial
inclusion of women by overcoming
market and social barriers in the financial
market; notes that the advantage of
microfinance offers the possibility for
women entrepreneurs to have strong
incentives for creating a sustainable
business since they must repay the loan
and this instrument is designed
specifically for the needs of people who
experience difficulties in obtaining access
to conventional credit;

Or. en
Amendment 26
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 158, 159, 160
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
11.
Calls on the Commission and
11.
Calls on the Commission and
Member States to systematically track and
Member States to systematically track and
monitor gender-disaggregated data across
monitor gender-disaggregated data across
the whole Union to ensure high-quality
the whole Union to ensure high-quality
data on EU and national funding
data on EU and national funding
programmes; highlights that this could
programmes; reminds as well the
serve as a basis for more informed policy
importance to collect equality data in
decisions in the future;
order to have information on intersecting
experiences of discrimination and
highlights that this could serve as a basis
for more informed policy decisions in the
future and for enhancing of women’s
economic independence
notes that a
women’s entrepreneurial dimension has
to be recognized in the formation of
business- and SME-related policies to
ensure an adequate policy framework that

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supports more female entrepreneurship
and innovation by diversity;

Or. en
Amendment 27
Pernille Weiss

Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 186, 190,
193
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution
Amendment
13.
Highlights the importance of work-
13.
Highlights the importance of work-
life balance for women entrepreneurs and
life balance and good quality and
self-employed; calls on Member States to
affordable social services as a prerequisite
support social frameworks, such as flexible
for women entrepreneurs and self-
childcare, that are essential to encouraging
employed; recognises that female
more women to take part in
entrepreneurship and self-employment
entrepreneurship; welcomes actions
provides the flexibility to achieve a better
already taken by Member States on this
work-life balance; recognises the
matter; recognises national differences in
importance of making an equal share of
social policy and respect for subsidiarity;
domestic and care responsibilities possible
to achieve the work-life balance necessary
for women to engage in entrepreneurship
and self-employment; calls on the
Commission and on the Member States to
ensure a better work-life balance through
better maternity, and paternity, parental

and carer’s leaves, flexible working
hours, on-site childcare facilities and by
promoting telework; highlights that
working hours and working patterns in
rural areas differ considerably from those
in urban areas and it is important to offer
childcare that is adapted to the specific
needs of women in different areas; 
calls
on Member States and on regional and
local authorities 
to support social
frameworks, such as elderly, dependents
and more 
flexible childcare provisions and
opportunities for parental leave
, that are
essential to encouraging and enabling
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more women to take part in
entrepreneurship; calls on Member States
to implement the Barcelona targets
ensuring the coverage of those needs
through investment in accessible and
affordable high-quality care services and
to modernise them so that women do not
have to choose between family and
participation in the labour market;
emphasises that further enabling and

improving women’s possibilities to enter
into entrepreneurship can play a vital role
in closing the gender pay gap for Member
States; 
welcomes actions already taken by
some Member States on this matter and
urges them to ensure access to quality
childcare and long term care services and
to promote access for self-employed and
to swiftly and fully transpose and
implement the Work-Life Balance
Directive and calls on the Commission to
monitor it
; recognises national differences
in social policy and respect for
subsidiarity; highlights it is in the self-
interest of Member States to promote
family-friendly working models;

Or. en
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