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European Parliament
2019-2024
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
2021/2170(INI)
23.2.2022
COMPROMISE AMENDMENTS
1 - 22
Draft opinion
Dragoş Pîslaru
(PE699.260v01-00)
Women’s poverty in Europe
(2021/2170(INI))
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Amendment A
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 2 B, 7, 9, 14, 24
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
A a.
whereas, according to Eurostat,
the risk of poverty and social exclusion in
the EU was, in 2020, higher for women
than for men, affecting 51,4 million
women (22.9 %) compared to 45 million
men (20.9 %)1a; primarily due to gender
inequalities and discrimination, including
in the labour market, experienced during
the life course; whereas the poverty rate
among working women could decrease if
women were paid equally to men;
__________________
1a Eurostat. Living conditions in Europe.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-
explained/index.php?title=Living_conditi
ons_in_Europe_-
_poverty_and_social_exclusion&oldid=54
4210
Or. en
Amendment B
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 4, 37
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
A b.
whereas women from more
vulnerable groups, such as young women,
women with disabilities, women with a
migrant background, Roma women,
women of religious or ethnic minorities as
well as LBTQI+ women face additional
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and intersecting forms of discrimination
when accessing education, healthcare,
employment and social services and are
thus exposed to a higher risk of poverty;
Or. en
Amendment C
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21
Draft opinion
Recital B
Draft opinion
Amendment
B.
whereas the COVID-19 crisis has
B.
whereas the COVID-19 crisis
had a severe impact on labour income and
exacerbated existing inequalities and has
wealth and is halting improvements in
had a severe impact on labour income and
AROPE; whereas support measures have
wealth, has aggravated the situation of
cushioned the negative effects of the crisis
people experiencing poverty and is halting
in the short run;
improvements in AROPE; whereas support
measures, such as short-time work or
similar schemes, have cushioned to some
extent the negative effects of the crisis in
the short run; whereas the burden of the
pandemic will be disproportionately borne
by low-wage earners which will increase
poverty and inequality across Europe;
whereas the full economic, employment
and social consequences of the pandemic
are still unknown; whereas gender
mainstreaming in all aspects of the
response to the COVID-19 crisis has to be
fully implemented to ensure gender
equality and to support the recovery for
the most vulnerable women;
Or. en
Amendment D
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 11, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 27, 44
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Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
B a.
whereas the COVID-19 pandemic
and its associated economic crisis have
impacted women differently than men in
the Union and its effects are putting in
jeopardy the progress made in the past
decades on the reduction of poverty and
gender inequalities in the EU Member
States; whereas according to EIGE young
women were disproportionately hit by the
Covid-19 pandemic, with employment
decreasing more than 10% for young
women compared to 2.4% overall;
whereas the pandemic disproportionately
affects women in the socio-economic
sphere, deepens existing discrimination
and results in even more inequalities
between women and men in the labour
market; whereas more women than men
lost their jobs due to the COVID-19
pandemic1a; whereas according to
Eurofound low-paid female workers were
hit most by employment losses during the
COVID-19 pandemic and were more
likely to be on furlough 1b; whereas young
women aged 18-34 were most likely to lose
their job in the wake of the pandemic
(11%, compared to 9% of young men)1c;
whereas more women than men have
reduced working hours to ensure
continued care for children and to provide
for family members in need; whereas the
COVID-19 crisis has increased the
amount of unpaid housework and
childcare, which has fallen mostly on
women, creating a double burden for
working mothers; whereas women are
more at risk of COVID-19contamination
due to their overrepresentation in
essential frontline and more exposed
occupations;
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1a https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-
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ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_813449/lang--
en/index.htm
https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/07/1096
102
1b Eurofound (2021), COVID-19:
Implications for employment and working
life, COVID-19 series, Publications Office
of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Eurofound (2021), COVID-19:
Implications for employment and working
life, COVID-19 series, Publications Office
of the European Union, Luxembourg
1c
https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/def
ault/files/ef_publication/field_of_docume
nt/ef20068en.pdf
Or. en
Amendment E
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 28 A, 29, 31, 36
Draft opinion
Recital D
Draft opinion
Amendment
D.
whereas women are over-
D.
whereas women are over-
represented in non-standard forms of work,
represented in non-standard forms of work,
in the hardest-hit sectors and among
including part-time work and often work
frontline workers in healthcare; whereas
in precarious, underpaid or undervalued
more women than men are in occupations
sectors, among frontline workers, in the
that can be carried out remotely;
hardest-hit sectors by the pandemic;
whereas the largest growth in female
employment over the last decade has
occurred in female-dominated jobs and
jobs held mainly by women already,
including in the healthcare sector;
whereas 76 % of the workforce in the
health and care sectors is female;1a
whereas Eurofound research shows that
despite closing gender employment gaps,
jobs are not becoming more gender mixed
and that the share of EU employment in
gender-mixed jobs (where neither gender
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share is >60%) declined from 27% to 18%
between1998 and 20191b; whereas more
women than men are in occupations that
can be carried out remotely;
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1a https://eige.europa.eu/covid-19-and-
gender-equality/essential-workers
1b Eurofound (2021), European Jobs
Monitor 2021: Gender gaps and
employment structure, Publications Office
of the European Union, Luxembourg
Or. en
Amendment F
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 39, 40, 41, 50, 52
Draft opinion
Recital E
Draft opinion
Amendment
E.
whereas low pay and low career
E.
whereas pay discrimination in the
prospects are barriers to achieving equal
EU, the unequal burden of unpaid care
economic independence for women and
and domestic labour, discrimination in
men and can lead to higher risks of poverty
access to the labour market, low pay and
and social exclusion;
low career prospects are barriers to
achieving equal economic independence
between women and men and can lead to
higher risks of poverty and social exclusion
for women, as well as higher gender pay
and pension gaps; whereas poverty
increases the risks of violence against
women; whereas women faced with risks
of poverty are more vulnerable and
violence increases the risks of social
exclusion; whereas non-discriminative
remuneration is an essential requisite for
women; whereas women's economic
empowerment is key to achieve gender
equality and combat women's poverty;
Or. en
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Amendment G
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 25, 32, 33
Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
E a.
whereas the overall lemployment
rate of women is almost 12% lower than
that of men and one third of women who
are employed work part time compared to
8% of working men; whereas a fifth of
women living in poverty are not active in
the labour market due to caring and
domestic responsibilities;1a whereas the
participation of women in the labour
market has grown in the last decades but
several gender gaps still exist; whereas
fewer women are in full time employment
than men (48% of women comparing to
64% of men) and marginalised women
are even more excluded from full time
employment1b, whereas only 20,7% of
women with disabilities and 28,6% of men
with disabilities are in full-time
employment
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1a EIGE Report on Poverty, gender and
intersecting inequalities in the EU Review
of the implementation of Area A: Women
and Poverty of the Beijing Platform for
Action
1b https://eige.europa.eu/gender-equality-
index/2021/domain/work/disability
Or. en
Amendment H
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 25, 38, 39, 40, 58
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Draft opinion
Recital E b (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
E b.
whereas in 2019 women's gross
hourly earnings were on average 14,1%
below those of men in the EU1a; whereas
women constitute the majority of
minimum wage earners in Europe;1b
whereas the main contributing factors to
the gender pay gap are the sectoral
segregation of women and men, the
prevalence of women in part-time
employment and that they are less likely to
have supervisory responsibilities than
their male counterparts; whereas the
gender pay gap ranged between 20% and
5% across the EU1c ;
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1a https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-
explained/index.php?title=Gender_pay_g
ap_statistics
1b Eurofound (2021), Understanding the
gender pay gap: What difference do sector
and occupation make? Publications
Office of the European Union,
Luxembourg. Eurofound (2021),
Minimum wages in 2021: Annual review,
Minimum wages in the EU series,
Publications Office of the European
Union, Luxembourg.
1c Eurofound,2021: Understanding the
gender pay gap: What difference do sector
and occupation make?
Or. en
Amendment I
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 8, 25, 26, 40, 48, 50
Draft opinion
Recital E c (new)
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Amendment
E c.
whereas women in the EU aged
over 65 received a pension that was on
average 29% lower than of men1a;
whereas according to Eurofound’s
research across the EU as a whole
between 2010 and 2019, the proportion of
female pensioners aged over 65 who were
at risk of poverty was around 3 to 4
percentage points higher than the rate for
male pensioners; whereas poverty among
those aged 75 years and over is
consistently concentrated among women,
mainly as a result of the impact of
gendered unpaid care duties, life-long
differences in pay and working time with
the lower pensions that result, different
retirement ages for men and women in
some Member States, and the fact that
more older women live alone; whereas
effective actions are needed to close the
gender employment, care, pay and
pension gaps; whereas there is no country
where gender equality is fully achieved;
__________________
1a
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/prod
ucts-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20210203-1
Or. en
Amendment J
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 10, 14, 57
Draft opinion
Recital E d (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
E d.
whereas parental poverty often
leads to child poverty; whereas investing
in policies to support women also
improves their families' living conditions,
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in particular those of their children;
whereas the EU and Member States must
respect, protect and fulfil the rights of
children in line with the Treaty of the
European Union; whereas the rights of
children are jeopardised in situations of
poverty; whereas eradicating child poverty
is included in Principle 11 of the
European Pillar of Social Rights;
Or. en
Amendment K
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 35, 46, 54
Draft opinion
Recital E e (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
E e.
whereas the digital and the green
transition require action to ensure that no
one is left behind; whereas women are
under-represented at all levels in the
digital and STEM sectors in Europe and
work less, compared with the men, in
innovative technologies, such as artificial
intelligence; whereas women account for
only 34% of STEM graduates and only
17% of ICT specialists, while earning
19% less than men in the information and
communication sector in Europe;
whereas multiple gender gaps such as the
so called "dream gap" or the "entitlement
gap" and a lack of women’s
representation in leadership positions can
affect girls’ career and education choices
from an early age and therefore
contribute to increasing inequality in
certain sectors of the job market between
men and women, in particular STEM
careers;
Or. en
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Amendment 1
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 68, 127 A, 133, 152
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Draft opinion
Amendment
1.
Calls for an overarching European
1.
Calls for an overarching European
anti-poverty strategy, with ambitious
anti-poverty strategy that integrates the
targets for reducing poverty and a focus on
gender perspective, with ambitious targets
breaking the intergenerational cycle of
for reducing poverty and homelessness
poverty risks;
and eradicating extreme poverty in
Europe by 2030 building on the headline
targets set out in the EPSR action plan,
especially among children, with coherent
measurements and a focus on breaking the
intergenerational cycle of poverty risks;
calls on the Member States to fully
implement the European Pillar of Social
Rights with a special focus on the
headline targets of reduction of at least 15
million people at risk of poverty and social
exclusion, of at least 78% of the
population aged 20 to 64 being in
employment by 2030 and of at least 60%
of all adults participating in training
every year; underlines that women’s
poverty is closely linked to child poverty,
that single-parent house holds are at
greater risk of poverty and social
exclusion and that those households are
more likely to be headed by women;
stresses that root causes of poverty and
impact on children’s rights should be
addressed in that strategy to ensure
sustainable and long-standing effects;
calls for such a strategy to integrate an
intersectional analysis and approach and
set out targeted measures to support the
most marginalised underlines, that low-
income women, older women, women with
disabilities, Roma women, women of
religious or ethnic minorities, migrant
women, young women, LBTIQ+ women
and single mothers encounter greater
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inequalities that exist for women in
general; stresses that all women,
including those from minority and
vulnerable groups should benefit from the
objectives and actions of the strategy;
highlights that said strategy should be in
line with the EU’s commitment towards
SDGs 1, 5 and 10 and the Agenda 2030;
Or. en
Amendment 2
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 70, 85, 105
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
1 a.
Points out that, to prevent and
tackle poverty among women, adequate
national minimum income schemes are
needed in all Member States as an
integral part of an EU multidimensional,
integrated anti-poverty strategy; takes
note of the Commission’s commitment to
propose a Council Recommendation on
minimum income in 2022; calls on the
Commission in the upcoming
Recommendation to issue guidelines to
ensure there is no discrimination in
minimum income schemes, where such
schemes exist, in order to break the
poverty-cycle of vulnerable families;
underlines the need for Member States’
minimum income schemes to have a
strong gender dimension to combat the
feminization of poverty and to guarantee
a minimum income for those most at risk
of exclusion; underlines the importance
of minimum pensions and survivors’
pensions to tackle social exclusion and
poverty among older women; stresses the
importance of addressing the need to
ensure decent minimum pensions in the
planned Council recommendation on
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minimum income in 2022; calls on the
Member States to further break down data
regarding old-age pensions by gender and
different age groups;
Or. en
Amendment 3
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 102, 107, 139, 141
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
1 b.
Recalls that the proposal on
adequate minimum wages aims at
reducing in-work poverty, in particular
for women; calls for a speedy adoption of
the proposed directive, that allows for a
decent standard of living for workers and
their families; highlights that, given the
higher share of women in low-wage jobs
and sectors, improvements in the
adequacy of minimum wages cannot only
reduce in-work poverty but also support
gender equality and reduce the gender
pay gap; calls on Member States to
prioritise and examine more
systematically thein-work poverty rate, in
relation to gender and specific groups,
and calls to foster employment security,
reduce wage inequalities and address
involuntary part-time work, countering
discrimination in pay rates, including
closing the gender pay gap, in order to
ensure that decent work is a sustainable
route out of poverty;
Or. en
Amendment 4
Dragoş Pîslaru
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Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 76, 82, 109, 110, 126, 141
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
1 c.
Stresses the need for Member
States to implement well-designed labour
market policies that aim to eradicate the
gender gaps that put women at more risk
of poverty, in particular the gender
employment, pay and pension gaps; calls
on Member States, not least through the
European Semester, to build inclusive
labour markets, with pathway approaches
for vulnerable groups to quality jobs and
employment, with decent wages and social
protection; highlights that while progress
has been made there are still gender
inequalities in the labour market that
have to be tackled; Calls on the
Commission to implement and closely
monitor the key objectives set out in the
Gender Equality Strategy through
concrete actions; stresses the role of the
social partners, in efforts to reduce gender
employment, pay and pension gaps;
welcomes the proposal for a Pay
Transparency Directive, which aims to
strengthen the principle of equal pay for
equal work or work of equal value
between men and women through pay
transparency and enforcement
mechanisms thereby reducing the gender
pay gap and thereby improving women’s
financial stability and economic
independence in general, as well as
enabling affected women to escape
poverty and situations of domestic
violence; calls on the Commission and the
Member States to ensure that such
proposal covers as many workers as
possible without discrimination; stresses
that women’s higher participation in the
labour market should be focussed in
sustainable and quality employment,
including in future-oriented sectors in
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order to close the gender pay gap; stresses
that gender segregation of the labour
market can undervalue feminised sectors
and may lead to precarious working
conditions for women in those sectors;
Or. en
Amendment 5
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Draft opinion
Amendment
2.
Calls on the Commission and the
2.
Calls on the Commission and the
Member States to reduce the burden of
Member States to improve opportunities
women by ensuring affordable and quality
for the women in the labour market, to
care and services for people with
reduce the burden and responsibilities of
disabilities, the elderly and other
women and actively support informal
dependants; calls on the Commission and
care-providers, the majority of them being
the Member States to adequately fund
women, by providing adequate income,
public services and social infrastructure,
for such carers, by increasing men's take-
as this would allow more women to
up of caring responsibilities, by ensuring
participate in the labour market and would
accessible, and high-quality formal public
also contribute to reducing the risk of
and private childcare, especially for
women falling into poverty;
children under age of three and high-
quality care and services for persons in
need of care and support, including older
persons and people with disabilities and
by providing psychosocial support or
relief services to informal carers; calls on
the Member States to adequately fund
better and more affordable quality public
and private as well as to support not-for-
profit social services and other social
infrastructures and to ensure access to
essential services for women, and, if it is
the case, for their dependent child and
other member of the immediate family
who needs care or support, especially for
vulnerable groups, as this would allow
more women to participate in the labour
market and ensure work-life balance and
would also contribute to reducing the risk
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of women and their dependents falling
into poverty; calls on the Commission and
the Member States to ensure that the EU
legislation on gender equality with a
direct impact on women participation in
the labour market is implemented and its
progress closely monitored;
Or. en
Amendment 6
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 71, 83, 84, 122, 129, 130, 137
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
2 a.
Welcomes the Commission’s
commitment to present a revision of the
Barcelona targets on early childhood
education and care in 2022; urges
Member States to speed up the process of
reaching the Barcelona targets
everywhere in the EU to enable women’s
participation in the labour market and to
prioritise the ambitious revision of the
target of children under 3 years old in
childcare and to eliminate all
discrimination in access to quality
childcare, by investing, while making use
of the full potential of the European Child
Guarantee and relevant EU funds in
accessible, and quality early childcare for
all; recognises that efforts are needed to
address existing inequalities in access to
quality early childhood education and
care services; calls on the Member States
to address the shortage of afterschool care
and holiday childcare; calls on the
Commission and Council to develop
similar targets for long-term care as part
of the forthcoming European care
strategy including an initiative on long-
term care in 2022, taking a
comprehensive approach towards all care
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needs and services, and setting minimum
standards and quality guidelines for care
throughout the life cycle, to ensure
sustainable long-term care that ensures
better access to quality services for those
in need as well as ensuring women’s
continued participation in the labour
market addressing unequal caring
responsibilities; highlights also the need
to adopt measures to encourage men to
enter caring careers; calls on the
European Council to unblock the Women
on Boards Directive; stresses that seeing
women represented in leadership roles
can affect girls and young women’s
school and career choices and contributes
to ending inequalities in certain sectors of
the job market where women are less
represented, as well as improving the
working conditions of feminised sectors;
Or. en
Amendment 7
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 69, 117, 126, 127 C
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
2 b.
Notes that measures to incentivise
employment of women through the equal
involvement of men in caring
responsibilities, e.g. effective paternity
leave schemes, addressing tax provisions
which penalise secondary earners who are
predominantly women, can contribute
directly or indirectly to lowering gender
gaps both in employment and wages; calls
on the Member States to encourage an
equal share of caring responsibilities
between women and men through non-
transferable paid leave periods between
the parents which would allow women to
increasingly engage in full-time
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employment; calls on the Member States
for the rapid and ambitious
implementation of the Work-life balance
directive;
Or. en
Amendment 8
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 86, 87, 88, 89, 92
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Draft opinion
Amendment
3.
Highlights that universal access to
3.
Highlights that universal access to
public, solidarity-based and adequate
public, solidarity-based and adequate
retirement and old age pensions must be
retirement and old age pensions must be
granted to all; underlines the importance of
granted and accessible to all, particularly
public and occupational pension systems
to women as the average gender pension
that provide an adequate retirement income
gap within the EU remains significant,
above the poverty threshold and allow
standing at 29% in 2019; underlines the
pensioners to maintain their standard of
importance of public and occupational
living; asks the Member States to consider
pension systems that provide an adequate
factoring child-raising responsibilities into
retirement income above the poverty
pension schemes when women are not able
threshold and allow pensioners to maintain
to work and make suitable contributions
their standard of living; calls on the
during such periods;
Member States to consider factoring child-
raising and other informal care
responsibilities into pension schemes when
women are not able to undertake paid
work and make suitable contribution
payments, including in the form of care
credits to address the fact that women are
most often required to take career breaks
to fulfil such responsibilities due to
entrenched gender roles; notes that the
impact of lifelong limited economic
independence of women and gender
inequalities in the labour market becomes
most apparent among older age groups,
especially if women are widowed or live
alone; notes, that the gender gap in
poverty levels to the detriment of women is
highest in the 75 and older age group
which is of particular concern given that
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women in the EU makeup most of the
ageing population;
Or. en
Amendment 9
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 93, 94, 95, 96, 98, 100, 106
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Draft opinion
Amendment
4.
Stresses that the recovery efforts
4.
Calls on the Member States to
should boost jobs and growth, and the
ensure equal economic opportunities for
resilience and fairness of our societies, and
women during and after the COVID-19
should be complemented by a strong social
crisis; stresses that the recovery efforts
dimension, paying attention to women
should take a gender-sensitive approach,
who have a disability or who stay at home
invest in the care sector boost quality jobs
to care for a family member, as they are
and sustainable growth, decent work,
particularly at risk of falling into poverty;
skills and training and the resilience and
fairness of our societies, and should have a
strong social dimension for all women
with an inter-sectional approach, to
support women from more vulnerable
groups, such as women in single or no-
earner households, women with
disabilities, Roma women, women of
religious or ethnic minorities, single
mothers, older women, migrant women,
young women, LBTIQ+ women or who
care for dependents, as they are
particularly at risk of falling into poverty
and isolation; calls on the Member States
to facilitate the formal recognition of the
skills gained informally during the
periods of providing care to improve the
employability of women after their care
duties end; underlines, that while overall
women encounter a higher likelihood of
poverty throughout their life courses, the
COVID-19 pandemic has increased such
likelihood since the lockdown measures to
halt the pandemic have had a significant
impact on the economic sectors (such as
gastronomy, hospitality, retail , care,
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domestic work etc.) in which women tend
to be overrepresented;
Or. en
Amendment 10
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 112, 113, 114, 116, 151
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Draft opinion
Amendment
5.
Recognises the crucial role of all
5.
Stresses the crucial role of all
European funds and programmes in the
European funds and programmes in the
social area, particularly the European
social area, particularly the European
Social Fund Plus and the European
Social Fund Plus and the European
Globalisation Adjustment Fund for
Globalisation Adjustment Fund for
Displaced Workers; calls on the Member
Displaced Workers , the Just Transition
States to make full use of these funds;
Fund, the Recovery and Resilience
Facility and the Asylum, Migration and
Integration Fund; highlights that through
the ESF+, Member States and the
Commission should aim to mitigate the
socio-economic impacts of the crisis,
particularly on women, increase the
participation of women in employment as
well as conciliation between working and
personal life, combat the feminisation of
poverty and gender discrimination in the
labour market andin education and
training as well as to support the most
vulnerable and combat child poverty; calls
on the Member States to make full
effective and transparent use of these
funds closest to the people, thus to consult
and involve the regional and local
authorities in the application of the funds;
further calls on the Member States to
mainstream gender equality objectives
throughout their national recovery and
resilience plans (NRRPs) and ensure that
the most vulnerable groups of women are
specifically targeted in the designing and
planning of the national plans and the
implementation of funded projects;
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reminds the Members States that all EU-
funded projects must comply with EU law,
including the Charter of Fundamental
Rights, as well as the UN Convention on
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(UNCRPD); echoes the Commission
prediction that, in the context of recovery
from the COVID-19 outbreak, fighting
against extreme poverty, and especially
tackling child poverty will become even
more important in the coming years;
consequently, insists that a total of at least
EUR 20 billion is invested in the
European Child Guarantee in the period
2021-2027; calls on the Member States to
make full use of the ESF+, in particular
the funds available to support the most
deprived persons, to address the forms of
extreme poverty with the greatest social
exclusion impact, such as homelessness,
child poverty and food deprivation;
Or. en
Amendment 11
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 97, 118, 120, 121, 122, 123, 128, 144,
148
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Draft opinion
Amendment
6.
Calls on the Commission and the
6.
Calls on the Commission and the
Member States to submit initiatives to
Member States to encourage labour
promote women’s empowerment through
market participation of women, while
education, vocational training and lifelong
ensuring progressiveness in the tax
learning, as well as access to finance,
system, eliminating tax-related gender
female entrepreneurship and women’s
biases and other inequalities, submitting
representation in future-oriented sectors
specific, targeted and measurable
with a view to ensuring access to high-
initiatives within funding programmes
quality employment; calls for greater
inline with the Commission’s
promotion of STEM subjects, digital
recommendation on Effective Active
education, artificial intelligence and
Support to Employment and to promote
financial literacy in order to ensure that
women’s empowerment through accessible
more women enter these sectors and
and inclusive formal, non-formal and
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contribute to their development.
informal education, vocational training and
lifelong learning with specific attention to
the most marginalised, as well as access to
finance, female entrepreneurship and
women’s representation in future-oriented
sectors with a view to ensuring access to
high-quality employment, decent working
and employment conditions across all
ages; calls on the Member States to
implement policies that contribute to the
skilling, up-skilling and re-skilling of
women, especially with regard to the
green and digital transitions; calls on the
EU and the Member States to support
women’s access to quality lifelong
learning and training, particularly after
periods of absence for care reasons,
taking strong measures to overcome the
lack of time and resources, as well as the
digital gap; calls for greater promotion of
STEM subjects, digital education,
vocational training, lifelong learning,
artificial intelligence and financial literacy
as well as other cross-cutting skills at all
education levels in order to ensure that
more women enter future-oriented sectors
and contribute to their development as well
as to that of society generally; calls on
Member States to use EU funds and
programmes to support lifelong learning
and training in the specific areas of new
digital skills and capacities including in
particular STEM subjects; stresses that
female entrepreneurship is of added value
and should be supported and promoted;
Or. en
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