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Draft report (2025/2038(INI)) 2025-10-21

Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectors

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

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Amendment 1

Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel, Estelle Ceulemans, Marko Vešligaj, Elisabeth Grossmann, Marianne Vind, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Isilda Gomes, Idoia Mendia, Alicia Homs Ginel, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Romana Jerković, Emma Rafowicz, Lina Gálvez, Gabriele Bischoff, Marit Maij, Gabriela Firea, Carla Tavares, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus

Motion for a resolution

Citation 2

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Amendment

– having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), in particular Articles 8, 19, 151, 153 and 157 thereof,

– having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), in particular Articles 8, 10, 19, 151, 153 and 157 thereof,

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Amendment 2

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Citation 3 a (new)

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– having regard to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the EU’s ratification of the Convention,

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Amendment 3

Motion for a resolution

Citation 4 a (new)

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Amendment

– having regard to Directive (EU) 2023/970 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 to strengthen the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms (Pay Transparency Directive),

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Amendment 4

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

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Citation 7 a (new)

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Amendment

– having regard to Directive (EU) 2019/1158 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on work-life balance for parents and carers,

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Amendment 5

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Séverine Werbrouck, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Citation 10

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— having regard to its resolution of 21 January 2021 on the EU Strategy for Gender Equality4,

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Amendment 6

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

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Citation 10 a (new)

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Amendment

– having regard to the European Commission Communication of 18 September 2020 entitled “A Union of Equality: EU anti-racism action plan 2020-2025”,

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Amendment 7

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Citation 10 a (new)

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Amendment

– having regard to the EU Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030,

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Amendment 8

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Citation 10 b (new)

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– having regard to the European Commission Communication of 12 November 2022 entitled “Union of Equality: LGBTIQ equality strategy 2026 - 2030”,

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Amendment 9

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Citation 10 c (new)

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Amendment

– having regard to the Commission Communication of 7 September 2022 on the European Care Strategy, the Council recommendation of 8 December 2022 on access to affordable, quality long-term care and the Council recommendation of 8 December 2022 on early childhood education and care: The Barcelona targets for 2030,

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Amendment 10

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Citation 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

— having regard to Directive (EU) 2022/2041 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on adequate minimum wages in the European Union5,

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Amendment 11

Motion for a resolution

Citation 11 a (new)

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– having regard to Directive (EU) 2022/2381 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 November 2022 on improving the gender balance among directors of listed companies and related measures,

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Amendment 12

Gordan Bosanac, Anna Strolenberg

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Citation 11 a (new)

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Amendment

– having regard to its resolution of 5 July 2022 towards a common European action on care,

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Amendment 13

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Citation 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

— having regard to the report by Mario Draghi of 9 September 2024 entitled ‘The future of European competitiveness’ (the Draghi report),

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Amendment 14

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Séverine Werbrouck, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Citation 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

— having regard to the report by Mario Draghi of 9 September 2024 entitled ‘The future of European competitiveness’ (the Draghi report),

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Amendment 15

Motion for a resolution

Citation 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

– having regard to the report by Mario Draghi of 9 September 2024 entitled ‘The future of European competitiveness’ (the Draghi report),

– having regard to the report by Mario Draghi of 9 September 2024 entitled ‘The future of European competitiveness’ (the Draghi report), and the report by Enrico Letta of 10 April 2024 entitled “Much more than a Market”,

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Amendment 16

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Citation 12 a (new)

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Amendment

– having regard to the report by Enrico Letta of April 2024 entitled ‘Much more than a market’ (the Letta report),

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Amendment 17

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Citation 13 a (new)

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Amendment

– having regard to the report of the High-Level Expert Group on the Future of Social Protection and the Welfare State,

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Amendment 18

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Séverine Werbrouck, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Citation 14

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Amendment

— having regard to the report by the Commission of March 2025 entitled ‘2025 report on gender equality in the EU’,

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Amendment 19

Motion for a resolution

Citation 16

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Amendment 20

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Séverine Werbrouck, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Citation 18

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Amendment

— having regard to the Council conclusions of 4 December 2024 on labour and skills shortages in the EU: Mobilising untapped labour potential in the European Union,

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Amendment 21

Motion for a resolution

Citation 18 a (new)

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Amendment

– having regard to the Council conclusions of 19 June 2025 on ’Advancing Gender Equality in the AI-Driven Digital Age: 6th horizontal review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action by the Member States and the EU institutions’,

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Amendment 22

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Séverine Werbrouck, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Citation 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

— having regard to the Commission communication of 20 March 2024 entitled ‘Labour and skills shortages in the EU: an action plan’ (COM(2024)0131),

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Amendment 23

Motion for a resolution

Recital A

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

A. whereas gender equality is a fundamental value of the European Union, enshrined in Articles 2 and 3(3) TEU, Article 8 and 10 TFEU and Article 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; whereas guaranteeing women’s economic independence is key to achieving gender equality; whereas articles 19 and 157 TFEU aim to eliminate inequalities, to promote equality between men and women and to combat multiple forms of discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation in all its activities; and ensuring that the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value is applied;

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Amendment 24

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Recital A

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

A. whereas gender equality is a fundamental value of the European Union, enshrined in Articles 2 and 3(3) TEU, Article 8 TFEU and Article 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; whereas Article 157 TFEU expressly states that Member States must ensure that the principle of equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value is applied; whereas guaranteeing women’s economic independence and equal access to financial resources is key to achieving gender equality;

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Amendment 25

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Recital Α

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

A. whereas gender equality is a fundamental value of the European Union, enshrined in Articles 2 and 3(3) TEU, Article 8 TFEU and Article 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; whereas women’s economic independence requires strong labour rights, collective bargaining, equal pay for equal work and public investment in social infrastructure, such as childcare and aged care;

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Amendment 26

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Recital A

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

A. whereas gender equality is a fundamental value of the European Union, enshrined in Articles 2 and 3(3) TEU, Article 8 TFEU and Article 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; whereas guaranteeing women’s economic independence is key to achieving gender equality and ensuring the indivisibility and universality of human rights;

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Amendment 27

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Recital A

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

A. whereas gender equality is a fundamental value of the European Union, enshrined in Articles 2 and 3(3) TEU, Article 8 TFEU and Article 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; whereas guaranteeing women’s economic independence is key to achieving gender equality and combating gender-based violence;

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Amendment 28

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Recital A a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

A a. whereas Principle 2 of the European Pillar of Social Rights states that ‘equality of treatment and opportunities between women and men must be ensured and fostered in all areas, including regarding participation in the labour market, terms and conditions of employment and career progression’ and that ‘women and men have the right to equal pay for work of equal value’;

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Amendment 29

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Recital A a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

A a. whereas the gender pay gap is not only a matter of lower earnings but also reflects broader social, political and cultural inequalities; whereas this wider perspective takes into account factors such as access to adequate housing, healthcare, education and social services, which influence women’s economic independence, career opportunities and overall well-being;

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Amendment 30

Mirosława Nykiel, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Arba Kokalari, Ewa Kopacz, Maria Walsh, Eleonora Meleti, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak

Motion for a resolution

Recital A a (new)

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Amendment

A a. whereas in these uncertain geopolitical times, upholding our European values requires that Member States prioritise the defence sector; whereas Member States must ensure that women working in defence benefit from equal pay, fair career progression, and adequate pensions, while closing the gender pension gap, is both a strategic and moral imperative for Europe;

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Amendment 31

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Recital A a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Aa. whereas Article 19 TFEU applies ‘excluding any harmonisation of the laws and regulations of the Member States’, and whereas Article 153 TFEU provides that ‘[t]he provisions of this Article shall not apply to pay, the right of association, the right to strike or the right to impose lock-outs’;

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Amendment 32

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Georgiana Teodorescu, Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Recital A a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

A a. whereas gender equality policies should respect the principle of subsidiarity and recognise the diversity of national social and labour systems, ensuring that Member States retain flexibility to design measures suited to their cultural, economic and demographic realities;

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Amendment 33

Gordan Bosanac, Anna Strolenberg

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Recital A a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

A a. whereas the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value has been enshrined in the EU treaties since 1957 and translated into EU law, nevertheless, women still earn less than men on average, and they are overrepresented among minimum wage earners;

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Amendment 34

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Nikola Bartůšek

Motion for a resolution

Recital A a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Aa. whereas the principle of equality implies the obligation to ensure that women and men can freely develop their abilities and life plans, without interference from public institutions;

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Amendment 35

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Recital A b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

A b. whereas pay inequalities do not arise naturally nor always reflect the value, demand, or skills required for the work, but are persistent gender equality issues rooted in biased societal settings; whereas sectors that become female-dominated tend to experience stagnation in pay development and compensation, revealing a systematic error in labour markets that must be addressed through information campaigns, cooperation with social partners, workplace pay transparency, and equality plans at workplaces; whereas systematic efforts should ensure that individuals with undervalued skills and competences due to gender bias are fairly recognised and compensated;

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Amendment 36

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Recital A b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

A b. whereas the gender pay gap is defined as the difference between the average gross hourly earnings of men and women, expressed as a percentage of the average gross hourly earnings of men; whereas around two thirds of the gender pay gap cannot be explained by gender differences in labour market attributes such as age, experience and education, occupational category or working time and other observable attributes, revealing a clear discriminatory factor, with gender discrimination also intersecting with other forms of discrimination;

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Amendment 37

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Nikola Bartůšek, Mélanie Disdier, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Marie Dauchy, Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Recital A b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Ab. whereas European equality policies must honour the principle of subsidiarity, recognising the power of Member States to set and develop their own family, social and fiscal policies, without imposing uniform approaches that disregard specific national and cultural characteristics;

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Amendment 38

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Recital A b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

A b. whereas undervaluation of work in female-dominated sectors such as health and social care is a structural factor in pay and pension gaps and requires systematic job-valuation and sectoral revalorisation exercises at EU and national level;

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Amendment 39

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Recital A c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

A c. whereas the tools for reducing the gender pay and pension gap are threefold: 1) Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast) 2) Directive (EU) 2023/970 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 to strengthen the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms 3) Communication from the Commission COM (2022) 440 final on the European Care Strategy;

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Amendment 40

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Recital B

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

B. whereas in 2023, the EU gender gap in hourly pay was 12 %, with significant variations across Member States, in some cases exceeding 18 %; whereas, despite the fact that the employment rate for women continues to increase, the EU is not on track to halve its gender employment gap of 10 % by 2030 and the gap for women with children is higher at 16.5 %; whereas in 2024 only 7.7 % of men in the EU worked part-time compared to 27.9 % of women, whose main reason for working part-time was care responsibilities;

B. whereas in 2023, the EU gender gap in hourly pay was 12 %, with significant variations across Member States, in some cases exceeding 18 %, meaning that women in the EU, earn on average 12 % less per hour than men do; whereas, if translated into terms of time, this means that women are effectively working without being paid for an average of 54 to 67 days a year when compared to men, which is an expression of the higher level of exploitation of women in the labour market ; whereas, despite the fact that the employment rate for women continues to increase, the EU is not on track to halve its gender employment gap of 10 % by 2030; whereas the gap can be significantly higher in specific sectors, such as finance and insurance, for certain age groups, such as women aged 50-59 or for women with children for whom the gap is higher at 16.5 %; whereas according to Eurostat, the gap also differs by industry and it is higher in the private sector than in the public sector; whereas in 2024 only 7.7 % of men in the EU worked part-time compared to 27.9 % of women, whose main reason for working part-time was care responsibilities;

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Amendment 41

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Séverine Werbrouck

Motion for a resolution

Recital B

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

B. whereas the gender pay gap remains a persistent reality in the European Union, particularly in female-dominated sectors such as care, education and social services, which hinders women’s economic empowerment and equal opportunities; whereas the integration of mothers into the labour market remains an important issue and whereas training, whether continuous or ad hoc, can help to alleviate this difficulty; whereas in 2023, the EU gender gap in hourly pay was 12 %, with significant variations across Member States, in some cases exceeding 18 %; whereas, despite the fact that the employment rate for women continues to increase, the EU is not on track to halve its gender employment gap of 10 % by 2030 and the gap for women with children is higher at 16.5 %; whereas in 2024 only 7.7 % of men in the EU worked part-time compared to 27.9 % of women, whose main reason for working part-time was care responsibilities;

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Amendment 42

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Recital B

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

B. whereas across the EU, women’s earnings are disproportionately lower than men’s; whereas in 2023, the EU gender gap in hourly pay was 12 %, with significant variations across Member States, in some cases exceeding 18 %; whereas, despite the fact that the employment rate for women continues to increase, the EU is not on track to halve its gender employment gap of 10 % by 2030 and the gap for women with children is higher at 16.5 %1a; whereas in 2024 only 7.7 % of men in the EU worked part-time compared to 27.9 % of women, whose main reason for working part-time was care responsibilities; whereas there is a specific correlation between female-dominated sectors and low levels of wages;

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1a https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=SDG_5_-_Gender_equality

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Amendment 43

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Recital B

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

B. whereas in 2023, the EU gender gap in hourly pay was 12 %, with significant variations across Member States, in some cases exceeding 18 % such as in Latvia (19%), Austria (18.3%), Czechia (18%) Hungary (17.8%) and Germany (17,6%); whereas, despite the fact that the employment rate for women continues to increase, the EU is not on track to halve its gender employment gap of 10 % by 2030 and the gap for women with children is higher at 16.5 %; whereas in 2024 only 7.7 % of men in the EU worked part-time compared to 27.9 % of women, whose main reason for working part-time was care responsibilities;

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Amendment 44

Motion for a resolution

Recital B a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

B a. whereas awareness-raising and education are essential to acknowledge the existence and seriousness of the gender pay and pension gap, which continue to be underestimated by the public; whereas the gender pay and pension gap have serious influence on women's mental health, influencing not only women’s earnings but also their exposure to psychosocial risks in the workplace, with long-term consequences for mental health and well-being across the life course, where, e.g., women over 65 report chronic depression at twice the rate of men1a, reflecting the compounded effects of lower income, limited independence and persistent insecurity; whereas fair and decent pay is essential for women‘s economic independence and enables women to leave situations of domestic violence; whereas addressing these gaps requires legislative and policy measures as well as a shift in societal attitudes supported by data-driven communication and educational initiatives;

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1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2025/777652/IUST_STU(2025)777652_EN.pdf

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Amendment 45

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Nikola Bartůšek

Motion for a resolution

Recital B a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Ba. whereas equal opportunities between men and women must be achieved through the recognition of merit, ability and individual effort, and not through interventionist mechanisms which, under the pretext of equity, cause distortions at odds with the principles of justice and efficiency; whereas the introduction of measures such as pay transparency can create legal uncertainty for both companies and workers, negatively affecting the competitiveness of the labour market; whereas the most appropriate way to provide genuine equality lies in promoting economic freedom, innovation and a framework in which talent and dedication are fairly valued, without resorting to quotas or impositions that are at odds with the principle of merit;

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Amendment 46

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Recital B a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

B a. whereas around two thirds of the gender pay gap cannot be explained by differences in labour market attributes such as age, experience and education, occupational category or working time and other observable attributes, revealing a clear discriminatory factor, with discrimination between men and women also intersecting with discrimination on the basis of inter alia race, ethnicity, migration status, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability, among others; whereas an intersectional approach is crucial to understanding the multiple discriminations which compound the gender pay gap for women with a combination of identities and the intersection of gender with other social factors;

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Amendment 47

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Recital B a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

B a. whereas in 2024, women in the EU received on average 26.1 % less pension income than men, and 5.3 % of women received no pension at all; whereas this is a result of the imbalances created by persistent lifelong inequalities; whereas this pension gap means that women are more likely to fall below the poverty line as they get older, also bearing in mind that life expectancy is higher for women than for men and that increases the risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas the gender pension gap has been decreasing but the global situation is far from being equal for women at the retirement age;

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Amendment 48

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Recital B a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

B a. whereas pension and pay gap disparities are largely driven by the undervaluing of women’s work, occupational and sectoral segregation, the gender gap in leadership, and the unequal division of unpaid care and work combined with the lack of available public services and support polices for those with care responsibilities; whereas persistent cultural biases and gender stereotypes are at the root of these structural inequalities, shaping women’s and girls’ educational and career choices and reinforcing harmful gender roles;

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Amendment 49

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Recital B a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Ba. whereas, in the European Union, equality between women and men in law is a fundamental principle that has enabled women to increase their presence in the world of work and in public life; whereas, however, the way this integration into the workplace has happened has sometimes made it harder for families to fully take care of their children and educate them, cutting into the time parents can spend with their children;

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Amendment 50

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Recital B a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

B a. whereas 74% of women did daily housework and cooking in 2021, compared with 42% of men and when overall paid and unpaid work are combined, women do eight full-time weeks more work per year than men1a;

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1a https://eige.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/gender_equality_index_2021_health.pdf

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Amendment 51

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Recital B b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

B b. whereas the causes of the gender pay gap are numerous and include gender segregated labour-markets and sectors, the undervaluation of women´s work, sexist stereotypes, lack of work-life balance options, and expectations towards women being the prime caregiver, result in career-breaks and part-time work as well as increasingly precarious working pay and conditions;

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Amendment 52

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Recital B b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

B b. whereas the World Economic Forum recently estimated that with current rates of improvement, full gender parity will be reached in 134 years; whereas there are some studies calculate that it will be 90 years to close the gender pension gap; whereas new measures to go faster in closing the pension gap are clearly needed;

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Amendment 53

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Recital B c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

B c. whereas fair and decent pay is essential for women‘s economic independence and also enables women to leave toxic partnerships and situations of domestic violence;

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Amendment 54

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Recital B d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

B d. whereas pay reflects the value and recognition that a society places on a particular kind of work; whereas fair pay for work in so far female dominated sectors, such as care, education or welfare, would boost the status of work in this sector and would also make it more attractive for men; whereas more men working in these sectors would cause higher and fairer pay;

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Amendment 55

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Recital C

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

C. whereas across the EU, women are more likely to work lower paid jobs that limit earnings and contribute to the gender pay gap;

C. whereas across the EU, women are more likely to work in lower paid sectors with poor working conditions that limit earnings and contribute to the gender pay gap; whereas 3 in 10 women in the EU work in education, health and social work, which are traditionally low-paid sectors, while only 8% of men are employed in these sectors1a; whereas it is imperative to recognise the value and better pay traditional female sectors such as care, health, education and social work as there are essential for the wellbeing and sustainment of our societies and encourage men to enter these sectors;

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1a https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/gender-equality/women-labour-market-work-life-balance/womens-situation-labour-market_en#:~:text=3%20in%2010%20women%20work%20in%20education%2C,hand%2C%20almost%20a%20third%20of%20men%20is

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Amendment 56

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Recital C

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

C. whereas across the EU, women are more likely to work lower paid jobs that limit earnings and contribute to the gender pay gap;

C. whereas across the EU, women are more likely to work lower paid jobs or in informal economy sectors that limit earnings and contribute to the gender pay gap; whereas about 3 in 10 women in the EU work in education, health and social work, which are traditionally low-paid sectors, while only 8% of men are employed in these sectors; whereas the consequences that result from the highly precarious and unregulated informal work, that often results outsourcing and subcontracting by large companies, must be addressed;

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Amendment 57

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Recital C

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

C. whereas across the EU, women are more likely to work lower paid jobs that limit earnings and contribute to the gender pay gap;

C. whereas there is a clear divide across the EU, and women are more likely to work in undervalued and lower paid jobs that limit earnings and contribute to the gender pay gap and pensions gap; whereas the economic and social consequences of these inequalities affect not only the quality of life of older women, but also their ability to live in dignity and independence;

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Amendment 58

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Recital C

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

C. whereas across the EU, women are more likely to work lower paid jobs that limit earnings and contribute to the gender pay gap;

C. whereas across the EU, women are more likely to work lower paid jobs that limit earnings and contribute to the gender pay gap; whereas this disadvantage is further compounded for women facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, including migrant women, women with disabilities, racialised women, single mothers, LGBTIQ+ persons and older women, who are often concentrated in precarious or undervalued sectors of the labour market;

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Amendment 59

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Recital C

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

C. whereas across the EU, women are more likely to work lower paid jobs that limit earnings and contribute to the gender pay gap;

C. whereas across the EU, women are more likely to work lower paid jobs that limit earnings and contribute to the gender pay gap; whereas in the EU women represent up to 80 % of healthcare and social care workforce, while they make only up to 20 % of workers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields, exemplifying the persistent gender norms and stereotypes that discourage women from certain sectors1a;

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1a https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2838/5262357

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Amendment 60

Motion for a resolution

Recital C

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

C. whereas across the EU, women are more likely to work lower paid jobs that limit earnings and contribute to the gender pay gap;

C. whereas across the EU, work predominantly done by women is historically undervalued and underpaid which contributes to the gender pay and pension gap; whereas skills in the care sector, including education, that are essential for the functioning of our society are financially poorly remunerated and with limited possibilities of promotion;

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Amendment 61

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Georgiana Teodorescu, Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Recital C

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

C. whereas across the EU, women are more likely to work lower paid jobs that limit earnings and contribute to the gender pay gap;

C. whereas across the EU, women are more likely to work lower paid jobs or, in some sectors, informal jobs that limit earnings and contribute to the gender pay and pension gaps;

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Amendment 62

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Recital C a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

C a. whereas women remain significantly underrepresented in digital studies and careers, as well as in other fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM); whereas they account for only one in three STEM graduates, while men represent nearly 80% of the workforce in these sectors - which typically offer higher salaries and greater opportunities for professional growth 1a; whereas supporting women's participation in STEM fields is crucial to closing the gender pay and pension gaps, fostering innovation, and ensuring that Europe’s digital and green transitions are inclusive and equitable;

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1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/IUST_STU(2025)777652, https://education.ec.europa.eu/focus-topics/digital-education/action-plan/Women-participation-in-STEM#:~:text=Digital%20Education%20Action%20Plan%20%E2%80%93%20Action,their%20digital%20and%20entrepreneurship%20skills

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Amendment 63

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Nikola Bartůšek, Mélanie Disdier, Séverine Werbrouck, Marie Dauchy

Motion for a resolution

Recital C a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Ca. whereas differences in employment, salary or pension levels between men and women are not always the result of structural discrimination, but may arise from personal decisions, different career paths, economic sectors with different profitability or different life priorities, especially those related to motherhood and family care1a;

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1a The European Conservative, 31 March 2023. Mind the gap: EU declares war on gender pay difference. The European Conservative. https://europeanconservative.com/articles/ news/mind-the-gap-eu-declares-war-on- gender-pay-difference/

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Amendment 64

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Recital C a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

C a. whereas the gender poverty gap is expected to increase by 2030, as women will continue to make up the majority of the world’s extreme poor and the gap may widen further with the digitalisation of our labour markets, considering the gender gap in STEM subjects and the gap in employment sectors such as defence and aerospace, ICT and energy;

Or. en

Amendment 65

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Recital C a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

C a. whereas the increasing fragmentation of the labour market, including the rise in non-standard forms of employment such as temporary work, part-time work, platform work, and self-employment, disproportionately affects women and contributes to the gender pay and pension gaps;

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Amendment 66

Mirosława Nykiel, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Loucas Fourlas, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Maria Walsh, Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Recital C a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

C a. whereas women often play essential roles in family farming, agri-business, and community life, yet their work is frequently undervalued or informal, leading to lower lifetime earnings and inadequate pension contributions;

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Amendment 67

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Recital Γ a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Ca. whereas women are often employed in precarious jobs, as well as in socially useful sectors, such as health, education and care;

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Amendment 68

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Recital C b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

C b. whereas an intersectional approach is essential to understanding and addressing the multiple and overlapping forms of discrimination that contribute to the gender pay gap; whereas individuals who face intersectional discrimination - based on factors such as race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, residence status, disability, among others - experience an even wider pay and pension gap;

Or. en

Amendment 69

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Recital D

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

D. whereas the impacts of the gender pay and employment gaps compound for women in later life as evidenced by the gender pension gap, which stood at 25.4 % in 2023; whereas it stems from accumulated inequalities throughout the course of women’s work lives and the periods of absence in the labour market that are imposed to women as a result of these multiple inequalities; whereas older women continue to be more exposed to poverty risks than older men in all Member States; whereas women generally have a longer life expectancy and are more likely to require long-term care in old age1a; whereas to guarantee that pension inequalities are overcome and that pensions are guaranteed and increased, it is mandatory that social security systems persist within the public sphere and integrate the solidarity and redistributive principles, and that the firmest combat to precarious and deregulated work is promoted;

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1a https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/ageing/documents/un-ageing_briefing-paper_Long-term-care.pdf

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Amendment 70

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Recital D

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

D. whereas the impacts of the gender pay and employment gaps compound for women in later life as evidenced by the gender pension gap, which stood at 25.4 % in 2023; whereas older women continue to be more exposed to poverty risks than older men in all Member States; whereas elderly women are particularly vulnerable to poverty and social isolation, as highlighted in the Eurostat publication ‘Ageing Europe – looking at the lives of older people in the EU’, which points out that in 2018, 40.2 % of women aged 65 or over in the European Union lived alone, while the figure was over 50 % in Denmark and Estonia and above 30 % in most European countries;

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Amendment 71

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Recital D

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

D. whereas the impacts of the gender pay and employment gaps compound for women in later life as evidenced by the gender pension gap, which stood at 25.4 % in 2023; whereas older women continue to be more exposed to poverty risks than older men in all Member States; whereas this reality reflects inequalities accumulated throughout women's working lives, such as breaks owing to family responsibilities, pay discrimination and under-representation in managerial positions; whereas it is essential to adopt cohesive public policies that promote gender equality throughout women's lifetimes and prevent poverty among retired women;

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Amendment 72

Motion for a resolution

Recital D

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

D. whereas the impacts of the gender pay and employment gaps compound for women in later life as evidenced by the gender pension gap, which stood at 25.4 % in 2023; whereas in 2024, 16,9% of retired women are at risk of poverty, nearly double the number of older men in poverty1a;

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1a https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tespn100/default/table?lang=en

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Amendment 73

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Recital D

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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1a https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/055fdbab-5786-425e-a072-652bf53d8fe4_en?filename=Gender%20Equality%20Report.pdf

Or. en

Amendment 74

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Recital D

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

D. whereas the impacts of the gender pay, the care, and employment gaps compound for women in later life as evidenced by the gender pension gap, which stood at 25.4 % in 2023; whereas older women continue to be more exposed to poverty risks than older men in all Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 75

Gordan Bosanac, Anna Strolenberg

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Recital D a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

D a. whereas the pension gap stems from accumulated inequalities throughout the course of women’s working lives and from the periods of absence on the labour market that are imposed on women as a result of multiple forms of inequality and discrimination, as well as lower pay and wage discrimination;

Or. en

Amendment 76

Motion for a resolution

Recital D a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

D a. whereas female-dominated work, ensuring economic empowerment, and increasing women’s participation in politics and public life must be grounded through freedom of choice and a wealth of possibilities;

Or. en

Amendment 77

Gordan Bosanac, Anna Strolenberg

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Recital D b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

D b. whereas in order to overcome pension inequalities and safeguard and increase pensions in general, it is imperative that social security systems continue to exist within the public sphere and integrate the principles of solidarity and redistribution, and that the most strenuous efforts are made to fight precarious and deregulated work;

Or. en

Amendment 78

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Recital E

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 79

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Recital E

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

E. whereas the motherhood penalty, namely the pay gap between mothers and fathers as well as between women with and without dependent children, represents a significant barrier to both full gender equality and long-term demographic and economic stability; whereas it has been empirically proved that motherhood and raising children have a decisive impact on women's career paths during their working lives and that this is one of, if not the most important, causes of the pay and pension gap; whereas women's average pensions decrease in line with the number of children they have; whereas studies, such as those carried out by the Spanish Social Security, show that women's earnings during the first year of motherhood suffer a significant decrease and do not recover to the level received prior to childbirth, while fathers' earnings remain virtually unchanged;

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Amendment 80

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Séverine Werbrouck

Motion for a resolution

Recital E

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 81

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Recital E

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

E. whereas the cumulative effect of the multiple discriminations affecting women contributes substantially to the gender pay gap and gender pension gap, resulting in a higher risk of exposure to poverty and social exclusion for women, with negative impacts also extending to their children and families; whereas poverty is mostly concentrated in families where women are the sole earners; whereas the gender care gap, namely between mothers and fathers as well as between women with and without dependent people, represents a significant barrier to full gender equality;

Or. en

Amendment 82

Motion for a resolution

Recital E

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

E. whereas the motherhood penalty, namely the pay gap between mothers and fathers as well as between women with and without dependent children, is due to a lack of childcare facilities, too few fathers taking parental leave, working hours that are incompatible with childcare facilities, the unequal division of informal care at home, and cultural biases penalising mothers in the world of work; notes that the motherhood penalty represents a significant barrier to full gender equality and economic stability;

Or. en

Amendment 83

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Recital Ε

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

E. whereas the motherhood penalty, namely the pay gap between mothers and fathers as well as between women with and without dependent children, is a consequence of insufficient social protection, inadequate care policies and the unequal distribution of unpaid domestic work and represents a significant barrier to both full gender equality and long-term demographic and economic stability;

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Amendment 84

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Recital E

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. ro

Amendment 85

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Recital E a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

E a. whereas unpaid and underpaid care work, disproportionately carried out by women, remains a major driver of gender inequalities in income, career progression, and pensions, resulting in lower lifetime earnings and a significant gender pension gap; whereas the gender pension gap is the unfair outcome of inequalities in the household, labour market, and the disregard of Member States institutions; whereas there are some countries, such as Sweden and United Kingdom, have introduced pension credits for carers, and that means that the time spent caregiving is recognised in pension calculations;

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Amendment 86

Motion for a resolution

Recital E a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

E a. whereas investment in the public sector and quality jobs in the care sector are urgently needed to counter underfunding and understaffing of care facilities, improving access to affordable and high-quality care that are compatible with full-time employment; whereas the Work-Life-Balance Directive must be thoroughly enforced and its effect evaluated; whereas a fair distribution of parental leave and care responsibilities between parents, through non-transferable father quotas, and its effect for a gender equal society are pivotal;

Or. en

Amendment 87

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Recital E a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

E a. whereas both the Draghi and Letta reports underline that insufficient availability, affordability and quality of care services - including early childhood education and care (ECEC), long-term care and support for persons with disabilities - represent a structural barrier to labour market participation, particularly for women, and reduce the EU’s overall productivity potential; whereas investments in care infrastructure are productive social investments that strengthen competitiveness and resilience;

Or. en

Amendment 88

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Recital E a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

E a. whereas women play a key role in the care sector, and after entering the labour market continue to bear the primary responsibility for household work and care work; whereas care responsibilities keep approximately 7.7 million women out of the labour market, compared to just 450,000 men; whereas the uneven distribution of unpaid care work hinders women’s access to full-time employment and contributes negatively to the gender income, pay and pension gap1a;

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1a European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), European Quality of Life Survey 2016 – Quality of life, quality of public services, and quality of society, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2018

Or. en

Amendment 89

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Recital E a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

E a. whereas the rate of poverty or social exclusion is higher for women than for men (21.9% compared to 20%) and the risk of poverty is greater for women who suffer multiple discrimination on account of their presumed or actual ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation or physical or psychological disability;

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Amendment 90

Motion for a resolution

Recital E a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

E a. whereas women often face reduced earnings and slower career progression after having children, which directly impacts their living standards in the present and their ability to accumulate sufficient future pension entitlements;

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Amendment 91

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Georgiana Teodorescu, Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Recital E a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

E a. whereas maternity should not be regarded as a penalty, but as right and, therefore, should not contirbute to widening the gender pay gap;

Or. en

Amendment 92

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Recital E b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

E b. whereas care is a fundamental pillar of our society and is to a large extent carried out by women, and this imbalance is reflected in the gender pay and pension gap; whereas although more women than men finish higher education in the EU, they are represented less on the labour market because women are much more likely to be the ones who have career breaks; whereas motherhood and care for children, the elderly, sick or disabled family members and other dependents represent additional or sometimes full-time work that is almost exclusively carried out by women; whereas this is reflected in labour market segregation and the higher proportion of women working part-time, for lower hourly wages, with career breaks and with less years in employment; whereas this work is often unpaid and inadequately valued by society, even though it is of enormous social importance and contributes to social welfare; whereas when both unpaid and paid work are considered, women work more hours per week than men;

Or. en

Amendment 93

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Recital E b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

E b. whereas Spain has incorporated several regulations establishing a comprehensive legal system aimed at reducing the gender gap, such as the temporary gender gap supplement granted to women who are entitled to a contributory pension and have been mothers (biological or adoptive) and could be eligible for a man proving that his professional career has been interrupted or affected by the birth or adoption;

Or. en

Amendment 94

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Recital E c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

E c. whereas the lack of availability, prohibitive cost and absence of sufficient infrastructure for free public network of early childhood education and care services and long-term care services remain a major obstacle, particularly to women's equal participation in all areas of society, including employment;

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Amendment 95

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Recital E c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

E c. whereas women of menopausal age constitute the fastest-growing group in the workforce, according ILO; whereas this trend is expected to continue and further increase; whereas the topic of menopause in the workplace remains largely invisible;

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Amendment 96

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Recital E d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

E d. whereas the risk of poverty and lower financial autonomy induced by both the gender pay and pension gaps further exposes women to gender-based violence, in particular domestic violence making it more difficult to leave an abusive relationship; whereas psychological or sexual harassment at the work place or harassment with important consequences on personal and professional aspirations is according to ILO by almost 35% of women worldwide and harm women’s self-esteem and their negotiation position for fairer remuneration;

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Amendment 97

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Recital E d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

E d. whereas, time poverty limits women’s opportunities to engage in long-term, full-time employment, restricting their earning potential and increasing their reliance on low-wage or part-time jobs and reduces their pension contributions and heightens their financial dependence in old age; whereas addressing time poverty therefore requires a fundamental rethinking of how care is organized, valued, and redistributed across society;

Or. en

Amendment 98

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Recital ΣΤ

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

F. whereas a more competitive EU economy, with more and better jobs, combined with proactive measures, will be key to closing the gender pay and pension gaps in a sustainable and growth-oriented way;

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Or. el

Amendment 99

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Recital F

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

F. whereas a more competitive EU economy, with more and better jobs, combined with proactive measures, will be key to closing the gender pay and pension gaps in a sustainable and growth-oriented way;

F. whereas creating more and better jobs, combined with proactive measures to combat gender stereotypes and the culture of male domination that normalise gender-based discrimination, will be key to closing the gender pay and pension gaps in a sustainable way and to creating more opportunities for women to advance in high-value sectors such as science, technology, engineering, law and finance;

Or. en

Amendment 100

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Recital F

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

F. whereas a more competitive EU economy, with more and better jobs, combined with proactive measures, will be key to closing the gender pay and pension gaps in a sustainable and growth-oriented way;

F. whereas a more competitive EU economy, with more and better jobs, combined with proactive measures, will be key to reinforcing equal and transparent access to the labour market, and to closing the gender pay and pension gaps in a sustainable and growth-oriented way;

Or. ro

Amendment 101

Motion for a resolution

Recital F

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

F. whereas a more competitive EU economy, with more and better jobs, combined with proactive measures, will be key to closing the gender pay and pension gaps in a sustainable and growth-oriented way;

F. whereas a more competitive, social and sustainable EU economy, with quality jobs, combined with proactive measures, and full women's labour market participation are key to closing the gender pay and pension gaps in a sustainable and growth-oriented way;

Or. en

Amendment 102

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Recital F

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

F. whereas a more competitive EU economy, with more and better jobs, combined with proactive measures, will be key to closing the gender pay and pension gaps in a sustainable and growth-oriented way;

F. whereas a fair EU economy should promote more jobs with better working conditions and wages, especially for female dominated sectors and push for proactive measures aimed at, closing the gender pay and pension gaps in a sustainable way;

Or. en

Amendment 103

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Recital F

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

F. whereas a more competitive EU economy, with more and better jobs, combined with proactive measures, will be key to closing the gender pay and pension gaps in a sustainable and growth-oriented way;

F. whereas a more competitive, social and sustainable EU economy, with more and better jobs, combined with proactive measures, will be key to closing the gender pay and pension gaps in a sustainable and growth-oriented way;

Or. en

Amendment 104

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Recital F

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

F. whereas a more competitive EU economy, with more and better jobs, combined with proactive measures, will be key to closing the gender pay and pension gaps in a sustainable and growth-oriented way;

F. whereas a more competitive EU economy, with more and better jobs, combined with recommendations based on best practices will be key to closing the gender pay and pension gaps in a sustainable and growth-oriented way;

Or. en

Amendment 105

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Recital F a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

F a. whereas the Draghi and Letta reports stress that Europe is not fully using its available talent, particularly among highly educated women; whereas the persistence of a ‘glass ceiling’ in both public and private sectors constrains women’s access to senior, managerial and decision-making positions, reducing the Union’s capacity for innovation, competitiveness and inclusive growth;

Or. en

Amendment 106

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Nikola Bartůšek, Mélanie Disdier, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Marie Dauchy, Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Recital F a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Fa. whereas the response to the demographic decline facing many Member States should not consist of imposing new obligations or quotas, but rather of revaluing motherhood, supporting families and promoting a working and social environment that facilitates real work-life balance and freedom of choice for women;

Or. es

Amendment 107

Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Irena Joveva, Lucia Yar, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Recital F a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

F a. whereas gender equality must begin with equal opportunities for girls and boys from the earliest stages of education; whereas promoting girls’ participation in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, digital and green skills is crucial to building a gender-balanced and competitive European economy;

Or. en

Amendment 108

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Recital ΣΤ a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Fa. whereas closing the wage and pension gap cannot be based solely on competitiveness, but requires a redistribution of wealth, an increase in minimum wages, collective bargaining and public investment in social policies and care services;

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Amendment 109

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Andrea Wechsler, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Recital F a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

F a. whereas promoting gender equality in employment and entrepreneurship, and ensuring balanced participation of women and men in the labour market, are key conditions for sustainable growth, higher productivity and the long-term competitiveness of the European economy;

Or. en

Amendment 110

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Andrea Wechsler, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Recital F b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

F b. whereas closing gender gaps in employment and pay could substantially increase the EU’s GDP per capita and fiscal sustainability, as underlined by recent studies of the European Institute for Gender Equality and the Draghi report on competitiveness; whereas promoting equal opportunities for both women and men contributes to Europe’s demographic and economic resilience;

Or. en

Amendment 111

Motion for a resolution

Recital G

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 112

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Recital G

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 113

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Recital G

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 114

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Recital G

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G. whereas a dynamic, innovation-driven social market economy based on the principle of 'the same pay for the same work' rewards skills, productivity and performance, thereby creating more opportunities for women to advance in high-value sectors such as agriculture, industry, defence, medicine, law and finance, and in STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and mathematics; whereas the active and equal participation of women in these fields is key to increasing competitiveness and economic resilience; whereas the removal of structural barriers and gender stereotypes will help unleash women’s full economic and intellectual potential, thereby promoting sustainable and equitable development;

Or. ro

Amendment 115

Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Irena Joveva, Lucia Yar, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Recital G

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G. whereas a dynamic, innovation-driven social market economy rewards skills, productivity and performance, thereby creating more opportunities for women to advance in high-value sectors such as technology, agriculture, industry, defence, medicine, law and finance and to encourage and support girls and young women to pursue education and careers in these high value sectors from an early age, helping to dismantle gender stereotypes and widen future career choices;

Or. en

Amendment 116

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Recital Ζ

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G. whereas a fair and sustainable social market economy must be based on collective prosperity, fair pay and equal access for all genders in all sectors, at the same time creating more opportunities for women to advance in high-value sectors such as technology, agriculture, industry, defence, medicine, law and finance;

Or. el

Amendment 117

Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti, Giusi Princi

Motion for a resolution

Recital G

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 118

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Recital G a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G a. whereas the AROPE rate is higher among older people (aged 75 and above), pensioners with disabilities and pensioners who have experienced long-term unemployment or been absent from the labour market for a long period to provide childcare or other forms of care; whereas in 2020, the AROPE rate among retired people in the EU was 15,6 %; whereas the gender pay and pension gaps remain large and respectively stood at 13 % in 2020 and 29 % in 2019; whereas older women have often not accrued sufficient pension rights to ensure a life free from poverty and social exclusion, and many rely on the incomes and savings of their partner or derived pension rights (survivors’ pensions); whereas women’s greater longevity means that many have to face the costs of living alone in older age; whereas insufficient pensions and the failure to adjust existing pensions to the increasing cost of living have a dire impact on older people, in particular those who are AROPE;

Or. en

Amendment 119

Motion for a resolution

Recital G a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G a. whereas the horizontal segregation of the labour market can be addressed by ending the undervaluation of work predominantly done by women by the enforcement of the right to equal pay for work of equal value and by bringing more women in male-dominated sectors; whereas the gender pay gap is highest in male-dominated sectors; whereas bringing more women in high-paying sectors does not solve the problem that essential sectors, e.g. care, are financially poorly remunerated and thus negatively affect the functioning of our society; whereas higher and fairer pay in female dominated sectors also make these more attractive for men and upgrade the reputation of these sectors in society;

Or. en

Amendment 120

Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Irena Joveva, Lucia Yar, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Recital G a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G a. whereas the risk of poverty and lesser degree of financial autonomy induced by both the gender pay and pension gaps further exposes women to gender-based violence, in particular domestic violence, making it more difficult for them to leave an abusive relationship; whereas according to the UN, psychological or sexual harassment at the workplace or harassment with serious consequences in terms of personal and professional aspirations is experienced by almost 35 % of women worldwide and are harmful to women’s self-esteem and their negotiating position for fairer remuneration;

Or. en

Amendment 121

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Recital G a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G a. whereas the long-term effects of neoliberal policies imposed by the EU contribute to widening social inequalities and are having an adverse impact on the economic empowerment of women and on achieving equality between women and men, with rising unemployment, labour market deregulation, increased precariousness and low levels of pay affecting women in particular, while cuts to public services, notably in health and education, and to welfare benefits are further increasing the multiple forms of discrimination and inequalities that women face;

Or. en

Amendment 122

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Recital G a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G a. whereas pension systems across the EU are generally based on three pillars: state pensions, occupational pensions provided by employers, and private savings or investments; whereas women’s lower earnings, career interruptions, care responsibilities and overrepresentation in non-standard forms of work often result in reduced entitlements in all three pillars, thereby exacerbating the gender pension gap and increasing the risk of poverty in old age;

Or. en

Amendment 123

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Recital G a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G a. whereas the Court of Justice of the European Union has been disallowing measures adopted by the Spanish Social Security Authorites to improve women´s pensions and reduce the gender gap on the basis of the Council Directive 79/7/EEC of 19 December 1978 on the progressive implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security;

Or. en

Amendment 124

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Recital G a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G a. whereas in the care economy most jobs are performed by women while leadership and decision-making remain disproportionately male;

Or. en

Amendment 125

Arba Kokalari, Giusi Princi

Motion for a resolution

Recital G a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G a. whereas gender equality is best approached by creating the right conditions rather than trying to regulate the outcome;

Or. en

Amendment 126

Kathleen Funchion

Motion for a resolution

Recital G a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G a. whereas austerity policies have had, and continue to have a destructive impact on society as a whole;

Or. en

Amendment 127

Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Irena Joveva, Lucia Yar, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Recital G b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G b. whereas pay transparency can play a crucial role in ensuring substantial progress is made in addressing the gender pay gap, as it helps to reveal the undervaluation of women’s work and to highlight gendered labour market segmentation, including through tools providing objective criteria that allow for gender-neutral assessment and comparability of the value of work in different jobs and sectors;

Or. en

Amendment 128

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Recital G b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G b. whereas collective bargaining is determinant to reverse and overcome inequalities; whereas it does not suffice to guarantee equal salary for work of equal value in poverty, as equality in salaries should be achieved within a general increase of the workers salaries and improvements in their working conditions in order to guarantee them dignity and social justice;

Or. en

Amendment 129

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Recital G b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G b. whereas gender-responsive spending reviews can improve value for money in public budgets and better target family- and work-supporting measures;

Or. en

Amendment 130

Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Irena Joveva, Lucia Yar, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Recital G c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G c. whereas job evaluation methods free from gender bias are essential to enabling jobs to be compared on the basis of their scale and complexity in order to determine the position of one job in relation to another within a given sector or organisation, regardless of whether the jobs in question are held by women or men;

Or. en

Amendment 131

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Recital G c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G c. whereas women with disabilities face significantly worse labour market outcomes - and consequently have even lower pension prospects - than both men and women without disabilities;

Or. en

Amendment 132

Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Irena Joveva, Lucia Yar, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle

Motion for a resolution

Recital G d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

G d. whereas gender equality must be pursued through an intersectional approach that recognises how different forms of discrimination and disadvantage - including those based on age, disability, racial or ethnic origin, migration background, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, and place of residence - can intersect and compound inequalities experienced by women and girls in education, employment, and access to social protection;

Or. en

Amendment 133

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

1. Recalls that equal pay for equal work or work of equal value is a founding EU principle and that Member States have an obligation to eliminate gender discrimination in all aspects of remuneration;

1. Recalls that equal pay for equal work or work of equal value is a founding EU principle and that Member States have an obligation to eliminate gender discrimination in all aspects of remuneration; recalls that full implementation of the Pay Transparency Directive will significantly help to eliminate gender-based discrimination and bias, e.g. in hiring practices and pay structures;

Or. en

Amendment 134

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

1. Recalls that equal pay for equal work or work of equal value is a founding EU principle and that Member States have an obligation to eliminate gender discrimination in all aspects of remuneration;

1. Recalls that equal pay for equal work or work of equal value is a founding EU principle and that Member States have an obligation to eliminate gender discrimination in all aspects of remuneration in order to completely harness women's full economic and intellectual potential;

Or. ro

Amendment 135

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

1. Recalls that equal pay for equal work or work of equal value is a founding EU principle and that Member States have an obligation to eliminate gender discrimination in all aspects of remuneration;

Or. en

Amendment 136

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

1. Recalls that equal pay for equal work or work of equal value is a founding EU principle and that Member States have an obligation to eliminate gender discrimination in all aspects of remuneration;

1. Recalls that equal pay for equal work or work of equal value is a founding EU principle and that Member States must show a clear will to eliminate sex discrimination in all aspects of remuneration;

Or. fr

Amendment 137

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

1 a. Notes how sectors where women are overrepresented such as education, healthcare, and social services must be better valued through reforms that reward performance and encourage innovation, as well as adequate pay for women;

Or. en

Amendment 138

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

1 b. Highlights how economic empowerment comes from expanding access to entrepreneurship, reducing tax burdens, and cutting red tape that disproportionately affects women-led businesses and self-employed professionals;

Or. en

Amendment 139

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2. Strongly regrets the fact that the gender pay gap continues to persist in the EU, which has a negative impact on women’s social and economic situation and to society as a whole; regrets the fact that, while there has been a modest reduction over the last decade in the average gender pay gap across the EU, the current pace of change remains insufficient to close the gap before 2030; regrets the rising poverty and social exclusion among older women; emphasizes that gender pay gap tends to be higher where global inequality is highest and therefore points out that policies aimed at reducing gender pay gap should be coordinated with those aimed at reducing global pay inequality;

Or. en

Amendment 140

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2. Regrets the fact that, while there has been a modest reduction over the last decade in the average gender pay gap across the EU, the current pace of change remains insufficient to close the gap before 2100; laments the fact that women remain under-represented in managerial positions and well-paid domains, often facing barriers like discrimination, gender stereotypes and difficulties in achieving work-life balance;

Or. ro

Amendment 141

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2. Regrets the fact that, while there has been a modest reduction over the last decade in the average gender pay gap across the EU, the current pace of change remains insufficient to close the gap before 2100; stresses that there are still significant disparities between Member States in terms of progression, although some have achieved notable results; recalls that in several countries the gap has decreased by more than 25 % over the last decade;

Or. fr

Amendment 142

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2. Regrets the fact that, while there has been a modest reduction over the last decade in the average gender pay gap across the EU, the current pace of change remains insufficient to close the gap before 2100; regrets that old-age poverty and exclusion is increasing for older women, against the overall trend regarding poverty and social exclusion for the entire population; welcomes the announcement for an EU Anti-Poverty Strategy to remedy these developments;

Or. en

Amendment 143

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2. Regrets the fact that, while there has been a modest reduction over the last decade in the average gender pay and pension gap across the EU, the current pace of change remains insufficient to close the gap before 2100;

Or. en

Amendment 144

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2 a. Is concerned about the fact that women are overrepresented among the low-paid and minimum wage earners in nearly all EU Member States1a and the gender pay gap is highest in well-paid jobs1b; stresses that this is a common pattern across Member States and occurs despite younger women increasingly outperforming younger men in educational attainment;

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1a Publication: Minimum wages in 2024: Annual review

1b European Jobs Monitor 2021: Gender gaps and the employment structure

Or. en

Amendment 145

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Recalls that across the EU, women, particularly those in precarious work, migrant women, older women and women with disabilities, are at greater risk of poverty than men and stresses that the gender pension gap is the result of accumulating pay inequalities over the course of a lifetime; calls on the Member States to fully implement the directive on work-life balance and to introduce universal, free and public care for children and the elderly;

Or. el

Amendment 146

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Recalls that across the EU, women, particularly older women and women with disabilities, are at greater risk of poverty than men and stresses that the gender pension gap is the result of accumulating pay inequalities over the course of a lifetime; notes that as old-age pensions count on average for four-fifths of total income in old-age and in view of continuing demographic trends not addressing the gender pension gap poses serious risk to Europe’s social cohesion and social protection systems;

Or. en

Amendment 147

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Recalls that across the EU, women, particularly single mothers, older women, women with disabilities or migrant background, are at greater risk of poverty than men and stresses that the gender pension gap is not only the result of accumulating pay inequalities over the course of a lifetime but also of different opportunities on the labour market, unequal distribution of informal care work at home, and gender bias in the society;

Or. en

Amendment 148

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Recalls that across the EU, women are at greater risk of poverty than men and stresses that the gender pension gap is the result of accumulating pay inequalities over the course of a lifetime; condemns that women's dependence on a man's income or pension due to their low personal income is a threat to their individual freedom and security, as it makes them more vulnerable to gender-based violence, including domestic violence;

Or. en

Amendment 149

Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Irena Joveva, Lucia Yar, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Recalls that across the EU, women, particularly older women and women with disabilities, are at greater risk of poverty than men and stresses that the gender pension gap is the result of accumulating pay inequalities over the course of a lifetime and that intersectional factors, including disability, single parenthood, migration status or rural isolation, exacerbate the risk of poverty and economic exclusion;

Or. en

Amendment 150

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Recalls that across the EU, women, particularly older women and women with disabilities, are at greater risk of poverty than men, and stresses that the gender pension gap is the result of accumulating pay inequalities over the course of a lifetime, owing to women's fields of activity, types of labour market demand, the economic climate, the specific juncture, etc.;

Or. ro

Amendment 151

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Recalls that across the EU, women, particularly those experiencing intersectional forms of discrimination such as older women,women with disabilities, racialised women, migrants, LGBTIQ+ people are at greater risk of poverty than men and stresses that the gender pension gap is the result of accumulating pay inequalities over the course of a lifetime;

Or. en

Amendment 152

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Acknowledges that gender-based violence and harassment can also be exacerbated by the gender pay gap as victims are often forced into the lower-paying jobs as a result of hostile work environments; calls on the Member States to sign and ratify the ILO Violence and Harassment Convention No 190 (2019) to introduce effective measures to define, prevent and prohibit violence and harassment at work, including safe and effective complaint and dispute resolution mechanisms, support, services and remedies;

Or. en

Amendment 153

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3 a. Notes that EU employment data show persistent gender employment gaps compounded by disability-related gaps; calls for policies acknowledging this double disadvantage;

Or. en

Amendment 154

Mirosława Nykiel, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Maria Walsh, Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3 b. Notes the necessity of ensuring that women working in the defence sector do not face any form of discrimination based on stereotypes and have access to well-paid, stable careers with adequate pension contributions;

Or. en

Amendment 155

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Recognises that the motherhood penalty not only contributes to the persistent gender pay and pension gaps, but can also discourage women who want to have children at a time when many EU countries are facing demographic decline;

4. Recognises that the penalty, in the form of the difficulties faced by women returning to the labour market after a long career break dedicated to the education of their children, not only contributes to the persistent gender pay and pension gaps, but can also discourage women who want to have children at a time when many EU countries are facing demographic decline; encourages the Member States to consider adopting family support policies, as well as policies that support and facilitate the return to full-time employment of women who have chosen to interrupt their careers for a long period of time to care for their children;

Or. fr

Amendment 156

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Notes that women still carry a disproportionate share of unpaid care and domestic work, which reduces their labour market attachment and pension accrual; recognises that the motherhood penalty not only contributes to the persistent gender pay and pension gaps, but can also discourage women who want to have children at a time when many EU countries are facing demographic decline; underlines the need to systematically measure and account for unpaid care in policy appraisal and pension credit schemes;

Or. en

Amendment 157

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Recognises that motherhood and care for children, the elderly, sick or disabled family members and other dependents contributes to the persistent gender pay and pension gaps; highlights that unavailability, prohibitive costs and lack of sufficient infrastructure offering quality childcare and dependant and eldercare services remain a significant barrier to, primarily, women’s equal participation in all aspects of society, including employment;

Or. en

Amendment 158

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Recognises that the motherhood penalty not only contributes to the persistent gender pay and pension gaps - with long-term consequences such as a heightened risk of poverty - but can also discourage women who want to have children at a time when many EU countries are facing demographic decline;

Or. ro

Amendment 159

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Recognises that the motherhood penalty contributes to the persistent gender pay and pension gaps and reduces especially young women’s opportunities on the labour market;

Or. en

Amendment 160

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Recognises that traditional gender roles, biases and persisting unequal division of care responsibilities among genders contributes to the persistent gender pay and pension gaps;

Or. en

Amendment 161

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4 a. Recognises that care is a fundamental pillar of our society and is to a large extent carried out by women; Reminds that caring for children and for elderly, sick or disabled family members and other dependents represent additional or sometimes full-time work; highlights that this is then reflected in labour market segregation and in the higher proportion of women working part-time, for lower hourly wages, with career breaks and with fewer years in employment;

Or. en

Amendment 162

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4 a. Recalls the right to parental leave as enshrined in the Work-Life-Balance Directive; reminds that the Work-Life Balance Directive introduced minimum standards that can be exceeded; underlines the importance of a fair distribution of parental leave and care responsibilities between parents, through non-transferable father quotas and its effect for a gender equal society; recalls that an equal division of informal care is key for gender equality;

Or. en

Amendment 163

Kathleen Funchion

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4 a. Recognises that the comodification and finacnialistion of basic services, such as healthcare, childcare, education and housing have all resulted in increased pressures on communities, and plays a contributory role to demographic decline and increased financial pressures on workers and families, particularly women;

Or. en

Amendment 164

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4 a. Advocates for better organisation, recognition, and fair distribution of care in society, connecting care justice with economic justice, in order to prevent the exploitation and commodification of invisible and often unpaid work, which is predominantly carried out by women;

Or. en

Amendment 165

Pál Szekeres, Viktória Ferenc, Elisabeth Dieringer

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4 a. Recalls that, according to Eurostat data, in 2024 more women (49.8 %) than men (38.6 %) held a higher education degree in the EU, however, this advantage in higher education is not reflected in pay, career opportunities, or the distribution of decision-making positions;

Or. en

Amendment 166

Gordan Bosanac, Anna Strolenberg

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4 b. Recognises that the structural under investment in public services, and in particular in care services, from childcare to care for persons with disabilities and care for older people, forces women to drop out of the labour market or in forms of involuntary part-time;

Or. en

Amendment 167

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4 c. Stresses the importance of a correct implementation of the Pay Transparency Directive; Highlights that even though simpler versions of gender pay reporting do not pose major obstacles for companies, reporting and auditing requirements become more meaningful and a key tool to combat the pay gap when they include more complex and thorough data and analysis, including various components of pay beyond basic salaries and extra information, such as length of working experience or tenure of the employees1a; encourages the Commission and the Member States to continue carrying out trainings for better gender-neutral recruitments and evaluation processes;

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1a European Commission report: Pay transparency in Europe: First experiences with gender pay reports and audits in four Member States

Or. en

Amendment 168

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Economic benefit of gender equality for competitiveness

Promoting gender equality and combating discrimination in the labour market

Or. en

Amendment 169

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Economic benefit of gender equality for competitiveness

Benefits of gender equality for society

Or. en

Amendment 170

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Gheorghe Falcă, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5. Recalls that there is an economic, and moral, imperative to close gender gaps in pay and employment; highlights that such gaps cost the EU EUR 390 billion in 2023 because of lost earnings and welfare contributions and public finance costs; notes that closing the gender employment gap would generate a 3.2 to 5.5 % increase in GDP per capita by 2050 and that higher wages encourage more women to enter the labour market;

5. Stresses that reducing gender pay and pension gaps is essential for fairness and competitiveness, and should be achieved through proportionate, evidence-based measures, respecting the prerogatives of Member States and social partners; recalls that gender gaps in pay and employment cost the EU EUR 390 billion in 2023 due to lost earnings, welfare contributions and public finance costs; notes that closing the gender employment gap could generate a 3.2 to 5.5 % increase in GDP per capita by 2050, while higher wages encourage more women to enter the labour market; highlights that equal participation of women and men in quality employment strengthens the EU’s labour supply and overall economic resilience;

Or. en

Amendment 171

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5. Recalls that there is an economic, and moral, imperative to close gender gaps in pay and employment; highlights that such gaps cost the EU EUR 390 billion in 20231a because of lost earnings and welfare contributions and public finance costs due to social welfare benefits received by non-working women; notes that closing the gender employment gap would increase productivity resulting in generation of a 3.2 to 5.5 % increase in GDP per capita by 2050 and that higher wages encourage more women to enter the labour market leading to an increase in the productive capacity of the economy1b; calls on the Commission and Member States to include quantified gender-equality gains in economic forecasting and policy impact assessments;

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1a https://www.mynewsdesk.com/eurofound/pressreleases/mind-the-gap-gender-employment-gap-cost-europe-over-390-euros-billion-in-2023-3373047?utm

1b https://eige.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/2017.2083_mh0217178enn_pdfweb_20171004120738.pdf

Or. en

Amendment 172

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. ro

Amendment 173

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5. Recalls that there is an economic, and moral, imperative to close gender gaps in pay and employment; highlights that such gaps cost the EU EUR 390 billion in 2023 because of lost earnings and welfare contributions and public finance costs; notes that closing the gender employment gap would generate a 3.2 to 5.5 % increase in GDP per capita by 2050; asks to raise the minimum wage to levels that guarantee facing the costs of living, and guarantee its full implementation, expand its coverage to excluded groups and guarantee its application through inspection systems exhaustive labour;

Or. en

Amendment 174

Maria Walsh

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 175

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5. Recalls the economic and social benefits of reducing the gender gaps in pay and employment; notes that closing the gender employment gap would generate a 3.2 to 5.5 % increase in GDP per capita by 2050 and that higher wages encourage more women to enter the labour market;

Or. fr

Amendment 176

Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5. Recalls that there is an economic, and moral, imperative to close gender gaps in pay and employment; highlights that such gaps cost the EU EUR 390 billion in 2023 because of lost earnings and welfare contributions and public finance costs; notes that closing the gender employment gap would generate a 3.2 to 5.5 % increase in GDP per capita by 2050 and that more flexible working conditions and stronger work-life balance encourage more women to enter the labour market;

Or. en

Amendment 177

Gordan Bosanac, Anna Strolenberg

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5. Recalls that there is an economic moral and social justice imperative to close gender gaps in pay, care and employment; highlights that such gaps cost the EU EUR 390 billion in 2023 because of lost earnings and welfare contributions and public finance costs; notes that closing the gender employment gap would generate a 3.2 to 5.5 % increase in GDP per capita by 2050 and that higher wages encourage more women to enter the labour market;

Or. en

Amendment 178

Kathleen Funchion

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5. Recalls that there is a moral and economic imperative to close gender gaps in pay and employment; highlights that such gaps cost the EU EUR 390 billion in 2023 because of lost earnings and welfare contributions and public finance costs; notes that closing the gender employment gap would generate a 3.2 to 5.5 % increase in GDP per capita by 2050 and that higher wages encourage more women to enter the labour market;

Or. en

Amendment 179

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 a. Calls for improved collection, comparability and publication of gender-disaggregated data across all sectors, making full use of existing reporting systems and digital tools and without increasing administrative costs for businesses; stresses that reliable and harmonised data are essential to design evidence-based policies and monitor progress toward closing gender gaps;

Or. en

Amendment 180

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 a. Highlights that in 2023 the pay gap was higher in the private sector than in the public sector in the majority of EU countries1a and that specific efforts need to put to ensure that companies are actively encouraging non-discriminatory practices and the promotion of equal opportunities and equal pay for work of equal value;

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1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20200109STO69925/understanding-the-gender-pay-gap-definition-facts-and-causes#:~:text=The%20proposal%20for%20the%20new,the%20end%20of%20June%202026.

Or. en

Amendment 181

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Georgiana Teodorescu, Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 a. Reiterates that closing gender gaps must go hand in hand with strengthening European competitiveness, productivity and labour participation; stresses that equal opportunities are best achieved by promoting education, merit, entrepreneurship and innovation rather than through excessive regulation or administrative burdens;

Or. en

Amendment 182

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5a. Points out that gender equality is not only an economic necessity but also a social obligation; stresses that narrowing the gap requires wealth redistribution, capital taxation and public investment in the care and social economy sectors, where mostly women work;

Or. el

Amendment 183

Kathleen Funchion

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 a. Recognises the cost of living crisis, which particurlaly impacts women and mothers, has increased the burden on households, and the rising cost of housing, contributing to high levels of energy poverty across the EU;

Or. en

Amendment 184

Kathleen Funchion

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 b. Emphasises this is an historic crisis, exacerbated in part by austerity policies implemented by the EU and many Member States; calls, therefore, on the Commission and Member States to comprehensively address the root causes of this crisis by prioritising policies that promote economic resilience, social cohesion, sustainable development, whilst also tackling the gender pension and pay gap;

Or. en

Amendment 185

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Séverine Werbrouck, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

deleted

Or. fr

Amendment 186

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 187

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

6. Recalls that the Draghi report highlights that skills and labour shortages are seriously hampering EU productivity and growth; highlights that improving women’s labour market participation and working conditions, particularly in emerging sectors linked to the twin transition, could help alleviate these pressures; considers that the active and equal participation of women in these sectors, as well as the complete harnessing of women’s full economic and intellectual potential, is key to increasing economic competitiveness and resilience; calls for gender equality to be mainstreamed across the EU’s competitiveness, industrial, skills and digital agendas;

Or. ro

Amendment 188

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

6. highlights that improving women’s labour market participation and working conditions, particularly in emerging sectors linked to the twin transition, could help alleviate these pressures; calls for gender equality to be mainstreamed across the EU’s competitiveness, industrial, skills and digital agendas;

Or. el

Amendment 189

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

6. Recalls that the Draghi report highlights that skills and labour shortages, exacerbated by a shrinking working-age population, are seriously hampering EU productivity and growth; highlights that improving women’s labour market participation and working conditions, particularly in current and emerging sectors linked to the twin transition, could help alleviate these pressures; calls for gender equality to be mainstreamed across the EU’s competitiveness, industrial, skills, green and digital agendas;

Or. en

Amendment 190

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

6. Recalls that employees are the motor of the Union's competitiveness; highlights that skills and labour shortages are seriously hampering EU productivity and growth; highlights that improving women’s labour market participation and working conditions, particularly in emerging sectors linked to the twin transition, could help alleviate these pressures; calls for gender equality to be mainstreamed across the EU’s competitiveness, industrial, skills and digital agendas;

Or. en

Amendment 191

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 192

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

6 a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to end and reverse austerity measures and cutbacks that apply to gender equality programming, public services and, in particular, the provision of sexual and reproductive healthcare including access to free safe and legal abortion;

Or. en

Amendment 193

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

6 a. Calls for developing gender responsive strategies and policies in digital sector as well as targeted efforts leading to integrate better women into labour market;

Or. en

Amendment 194

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

7. Recalls that competition in EU labour markets encourages merit-based hiring and promotion practices, helping to reduce the biases that negatively affect women’s career advancement and consequently penalise their earnings; notes, furthermore, that a resilient, growth-driven economy means more well-paid, formal jobs that enable women to build solid pension entitlements over their careers;

7. Recalls that competition in EU labour markets encourages hiring and promotion practices based on merit and on an objective assessment of skills and qualifications, rather than on quotas, helping to reduce the biases that negatively affect women’s career advancement and consequently penalise their earnings; notes, furthermore, that a resilient, growth-driven economy means more well-paid, formal jobs that enable women to build solid pension entitlements over their careers, while ensuring equal opportunity for all;

Or. fr

Amendment 195

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

7. Recalls that a resilient, inclusive and sustainable economy means more well-paid, formal jobs that enable women to build solid pension entitlements over their careers;

Or. en

Amendment 196

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

7. Recalls that equal opportunities, supporting services and the rights of all to participate in EU labour markets without discrimination creates fair competition and reduces the biases that negatively affect women’s career advancement and consequently penalise their earnings including discriminatory behaviours based on gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation and sexual identity; notes, furthermore, that a resilient, economy means more well-paid, formal quality jobs in women dominated sectors that enable women to build solid pension entitlements over their careers;

Or. en

Amendment 197

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

7. Recalls that objective merit-based hiring and promotion practices are the basis of competition on a functioning labour market, which can reduce the biases that negatively affect women’s career advancement and consequently penalise their earnings; calls in this regard for the full implementation and monitoring of the Gender Balance on Corporate Boards Directive; notes, furthermore, that a resilient, growth-driven economy provides well-paid, formal jobs that enable women to build solid pension entitlements over their careers;

Or. en

Amendment 198

Kathleen Funchion

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

7. Recalls that competition in EU labour markets encourages merit-based hiring and promotion practices, helping to reduce the biases that negatively affect women’s career advancement and consequently penalise their earnings; notes, furthermore, that a resilient, decent and sustainable society and economy means more well-paid, formal jobs that enable women to build solid pension entitlements over their careers;

Or. en

Amendment 199

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

7. Stresses that 'competitiveness' is not enough to eliminate discrimination and that equality requires an active role of the state, the strengthening of monitoring mechanisms and an obligation for companies to disclose data on equal pay and its progress, and notes, furthermore, that a resilient, growth-driven economy means more well-paid, formal jobs that enable women to build solid pension entitlements over their careers;

Or. el

Amendment 200

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Considers that Member States should focus on reducing barriers to entrepreneurship, supporting work-life balance through flexible working arrangements and accessible and affordable care services and accessible childcare, and investing in upskilling, including for older women, women with disabilities and those residing in rural and outermost areas; regrets the limited availability of medical services in the outermost regions and islands, where many women are particularly affected by this situation; calls for infrastructure investment in hospitals and healthcare professionals to be prioritised in these areas;

Or. fr

Amendment 201

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Niels Geuking, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Considers that Member States should focus on reducing barriers to entrepreneurship, supporting work-life balance through flexible working arrangements and accessible and affordable care services, and investing in upskilling, including for older women, women with disabilities and those residing in rural and outermost areas; encourages Member States to take voluntary measures to reduce barriers to employment and entrepreneurship for women, for instance by promoting flexible working arrangements, adequate family leave policies and affordable care services, while also supporting upskilling and reskilling initiatives to address skills shortages, particularly in rural and outermost regions;

Or. en

Amendment 202

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Considers that Member States should focus on reducing barriers to entrepreneurship and encourage greater involvement of women in that field, by rewarding excellence and productivity, on supporting work-life balance through flexible working arrangements and accessible and affordable care services, and on investing in upskilling programmes in the medium and long term, including for older women, women with disabilities and those residing in rural areas, and especially in isolated areas at high risk of depopulation, in island areas and in outermost areas;

Or. ro

Amendment 203

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Considers that Member States should focus on reducing barriers to entrepreneurship, supporting work-life balance through free public network of early childhood education, care services and long-term services, and investing in upskilling, including for older women, migrant and ethnic-minority women, LGBTIQ people, women with disabilities and those residing in rural and outermost areas, as they are the most likely to have been excluded from training and work opportunities;

Or. en

Amendment 204

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Underlines the benefits of work-life balance through flexible working arrangements and the right to disconnect on productivity and mental health; notes that access to high-quality and affordable care, which is compatible with full-time work, and investing in upskilling, including for single mothers, older women, women with disabilities, migrant backgrounds and those residing in rural and outermost areas, have positive effects on women's labour market participation;

Or. en

Amendment 205

Mirosława Nykiel, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Maria Walsh, Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 206

Kathleen Funchion

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Considers that Member States should focus on reducing barriers to entrepreneurship, supporting work-life balance through flexible working arrangements and accessible and affordable public childcare services, and investing in training programmes and upskilling, including for older women, single mothers, women with disabilities and those residing in rural and outermost areas;

Or. en

Amendment 207

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 208

Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 209

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Considers that Member States should focus on reducing barriers to entrepreneurship, supporting work-life balance with social protection measures, universal care services and strong public education and investing in upskilling, including for older women, women with disabilities and those residing in rural and outermost areas;

Or. el

Amendment 210

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Emphasises that in order to close the gender gaps, cultural barriers and traditional gender roles need to be addressed in different areas of life simultaneously; notes that at the workplace level, traditional gender roles can be challenged through measures aimed at encouraging the equal uptake of parental, paternity and carer’s leave by men, while actively encouraging a culture of non-discrimination, of equal representation of women, and flexibility at work; stresses that this need to be accompanied by the social and cultural destigmatisation of formal care, especially childcare;

Or. en

Amendment 211

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Niels Geuking, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to invest in care infrastructure and innovative work-life balance solutions, in line with the Work-Life Balance Directive, to ensure that both parents can reconcile professional and family responsibilities; emphasises that a balanced sharing of care duties enhances labour market participation and helps to address demographic challenges;

Or. en

Amendment 212

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Georgiana Teodorescu, Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Encourages Member States to support work–family balance through incentives for motherhood, accessible childcare, and recognition of caregiving years in pension systems; underlines that empowering women also means enabling them to choose freely between professional and family life without financial penalties;

Or. en

Amendment 213

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Stresses that pay differentials between women and men are significantly influenced by the economic sector where people work and the occupation they hold; recalls that despite women outperforming men in educational attainment, they continue to be significantly overrepresented in low-paying jobs and more women than men are low-paid and minimum wage earners in nearly all EU Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 214

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9. Highlights the fact that gender segmentation across sectors and occupations is a structural driver of the gender pay gap; stresses that this segmentation is both horizontal, with women over-represented in low-paying sectors, and vertical, where, within the same sector, women are less likely to be in better paid senior roles; underlines that female-dominated sectors tend to be underpaid and undervalued, often with limited occupational pension schemes; calls for the reduction of pay discrimination in female-dominated professions and for the creation of the conditions needed to enable women's involvement and advancement also in male-dominanted fields such as STEM, marked by a strong gender imbalance, including in managerial positions;

Or. ro

Amendment 215

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9. Highlights the fact that segmentation by sex across sectors and occupations is a structural driver of the gender pay gap; stresses that this segmentation is both horizontal, with women over-represented in low-paying sectors, and vertical, where, within the same sector, women are less likely to be in better paid senior roles; underlines that female-dominated sectors tend to be underpaid and undervalued, often with limited occupational pension schemes; stresses that this reality needs to be nuanced according to the Member State, and should be weighted by the national average hourly wage figures per full-time equivalent for comparable job conditions, experience and qualifications;

Or. fr

Amendment 216

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9. Highlights the fact that gender segmentation across sectors and occupations is a structural driver of the gender pay gap; stresses that this segmentation is both horizontal, with women over-represented in low-paying sectors, and vertical, where, within the same sector, women are less likely to be in better paid senior roles; underlines that female-dominated sectors tend to be underpaid and undervalued, often with limited occupational pension schemes; insists that these differences are not justified by a difference in competence or merit, which reflects a clear factor of discrimination;

Or. en

Amendment 217

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9. Highlights the fact that gender segregation across sectors and occupations is a structural driver of the gender pay gap; stresses that this segmentation is both horizontal, with women over-represented in low-paying and historically undervalued sectors, and vertical, where, within the same sector, women are less likely to be in better paid senior roles; underlines that female-dominated sectors tend to be underpaid and undervalued, often with limited occupational pension schemes;

Or. en

Amendment 218

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 219

Mirosława Nykiel, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Maria Walsh, Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9. Highlights the fact that gender segmentation across sectors and occupations is an important driver of the gender pay gap; stresses that this segmentation is both horizontal, with women over-represented in low-paying sectors, and vertical, where, within the same sector, women are less likely to be in better paid senior roles; underlines that female-dominated sectors tend to be underpaid and undervalued, often with limited occupational pension schemes;

Or. en

Amendment 220

Arba Kokalari, Giusi Princi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 221

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 a. Stresses that the childcare gap remains one of the most pressing challenges facing new parents across Europe today; notes that this gap arises following the birth of a child, when well-paid parental leave has been exhausted, but access to state-supported full-time early childhood education and care is not yet available; points out that during this critical window, families are left navigating the complexities of childcare without adequate support; highlights that only five EU countries guarantee parents the right to place their children in full-time ECEC immediately after well-paid parental leave ends1a;

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1a Factsheet on Childcare gap in the European Union | COFACE Families Europe

Or. en

Amendment 222

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Nikola Bartůšek

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9a. Points out that some professions closely linked to education, care, assistance and healthcare are composed in the majority of women driven by a strong sense of vocation, reflecting a fundamental aspect of womanhood – a desire to serve and care for others; points out that these jobs are fundamental to social welfare and cohesion, and should therefore receive the economic and social recognition they deserve;

Or. es

Amendment 223

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 a. Underlines that the challenge lies not only in the segmentation across sectors but also in the persistent gender-based segregation and undervaluation of work, where tasks traditionally done by women are often less valued and lower paid than those dominated by men; stresses the need for national programmes, developed together with social partners, including assessment of job demands, to promote the principle of equal pay for work of equal value;

Or. en

Amendment 224

Mirosława Nykiel, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Maria Walsh, Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 a. Calls on Member States to promote solutions which strengthen families in all their diversity and reward work, such as expanding flexible work arrangements, improving access to affordable childcare, and offering tax incentives;

Or. en

Amendment 225

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 b. Highlights that variable forms of pay, such as shares in the company or payments based on company performance, are becoming more common; stresses that these pay components are increasing more rapidly among men than women which may widen the gender pay gap (at 12% in 2023)1a;

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1a Gender equality at work: https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/publications/all/gender-equality-work

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Amendment 226

Mirosława Nykiel, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Maria Walsh, Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 b. Notes how tackling the black economy through targeted reforms such as simplifying tax systems and supporting entrepreneurship can better ensure a level playing field for women in the labour market;

Or. en

Amendment 227

Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Irena Joveva, Lucia Yar, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Stresses that a key factor in the gender pay and pension gaps is the unequal share of care and domestic responsibilities shouldered almost exclusively by women; recalls the fact that women are more likely to be unemployed, work part-time, work in lower paying female-dominated sectors and take career breaks, and that this can be attributed in part to this care penalty, with consequent impacts on pay and career progression; underlines that policy must tackle unequal burden-sharing between women and men; calls on the Commission and Member States to promote non-transferable, adequately paid paternity leave and to introduce incentives (tax, social-security credits, awareness campaigns and employer-level goals) to increase men’s uptake of leave, and to include measures to monitor and report progress on uptake disaggregated by gender;

Or. en

Amendment 228

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Recalls the essential nature of care provision to our society particularly in light of current demographic trends and an aging population; stresses that a key factor in the gender pay and pension gaps is the unequal share of care and domestic responsibilities shouldered almost exclusively by women; recalls the fact that women are more likely to be unemployed, work part-time, work in lower paying female-dominated sectors and take career breaks, and that this can be attributed in part to this care penalty, with consequent impacts on pay and career progression; further reminds that periods of absence from employment due to caring responsibilities do not count towards accruing pension entitlements despite the costs saved by the state by women’s informal care;

Or. en

Amendment 229

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Stresses that a key factor in the gender pay and pension gaps is the unequal share of care and domestic responsibilities shouldered almost exclusively by women; recalls the fact that women are more likely to be unemployed, work part-time, work in lower paying female-dominated sectors and take career breaks, and that this can be attributed in part to this care penalty, with consequent impacts on pay and career progression; calls for time dedicated to care work to be counted as insurable time with regard to pension rights and for public care services to be established in all Member States;

Or. el

Amendment 230

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Stresses that a key factor in the gender pay and pension gaps is the unequal share of care and domestic responsibilities shouldered almost exclusively by women; which is known as care penalty, with consequent impacts on pay and career progression;

Or. en

Amendment 231

Kathleen Funchion

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 232

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. ro

Amendment 233

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Recalls the fact that women are more likely to be unemployed, work part-time, work in lower paying female-dominated sectors and take career breaks, and that this can be attributed in part to their propensity to take on a large share of the domestic responsibilities; recognises that this can have impacts on pay, career progression and pension calculations;

Or. fr

Amendment 234

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 – point a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(a) Emphasises the role of employers to make full-time employment compatible with care responsibilities, through flexible time models or other types of work organisation, and to favour a work climate that promotes paternity leave, fostering an equal distribution of informal care between parents;

Or. en

Amendment 235

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 – point b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(b) Underlines that informal carers - predominantly women - have a higher risk to be pushed out of the formal labour market, work part-time or take career breaks, to deal with the informal care at home, and thus accumulate lower pension entitlements;

Or. en

Amendment 236

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 – point c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 237

Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Irena Joveva, Lucia Yar, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 a. Calls on Member States to work closely with social partners to take active and coordinated measures — including targeted training and mentoring to address the structural gender inequalities that underpin women’s reluctance to apply for promotion or to self-promote; stresses that this reluctance is not a matter of individual choice but stems from entrenched gender stereotypes, occupational segregation, and inadequate career guidance, particularly affecting low-skilled and marginalised women; urges Member States to work closely with social partners to dismantle these barriers through inclusive workplace cultures, improved career development frameworks, and proactive equality strategies;

Or. en

Amendment 238

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 a. Alerts about the steady increase of old-age poverty and social exclusion since 2015, touching especially older women, and the dramatic poverty rates of women over 75 in several Member States, as a symptom of overall gender inequality in lifetime earnings; highlights that older women are more likely to spend longer periods of their lives in need of care and support services themselves, the out-of pocket costs of which surpass average pension income in most Member States;

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Amendment 239

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 a. Stresses unconscious gender biases in recruitment, promotion and pay setting contribute to the gender pay gap; highlights that gender stereotypes which relegate women into traditionally female-dominated low-paying sectors, favour men over equally qualified women candidates, the ‘sticky floor’1a for women’s career advancement and the impact of gender norm dynamics in pay negotiations compound over women’s professional lives;

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1a https://eige.europa.eu/publications-resources/thesaurus/terms/1374?utm

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Amendment 240

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Nikola Bartůšek, Mélanie Disdier, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10a. Stresses that if we are to achieve a competitive economy and a prosperous society, it is essential to restore the prestige and social and economic recognition of those jobs that are vital to the common good and in which women play a fundamental role, particularly those related to care, assistance, medicine and education;

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Amendment 241

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 a. Highlights that compensations for the pensions contribution gaps both during and after career breaks of women due to caregiving has to be implememented by Member States mainly through targeted policies;

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Amendment 242

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 a. Notes that female-led firms often operate in lower-paying sectors and face additional obstacles such as limited access to finance, gender bias and regulatory hurdles;

Or. en

Amendment 243

Kathleen Funchion

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 a. Recognises that 44 million Europeans are frequent informal long-term care-givers. the majority of whom are women1a;

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1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2022/733626/EPRS_BRI(2022)733626_EN.pdf

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Amendment 244

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 b. Highlights that women represent only 30 % of corporate boardrooms, while less than 1 in 10 board presidents or CEOs of large companies are women1a, indicating women remain substantially underrepresented in senior roles, leadership and mentorship programmes; underlines that persistent glass ceilings in management, research, and innovation constrain productivity and competitiveness; stresses that closing the leadership gap is essential to achieving the Union’s objectives;

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1a https://eige.europa.eu/publications-resources/toolkits-guides/gender-equality-index-2021-report/domain-power?language_content_entity=en&utm

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Amendment 245

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 b. Highlights that in the EU, around 6.8 million people work as undeclared paid care workers, in the personal and household services (PHS) sector, of which 90% are women, and the majority of whom are middle-aged, and migrants1a and therefore not encompassed by labour rights or social security;

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1a Eurofound, Undeclared care work in the EU: Policy approaches to a complex socioeconomic challenge, Eurofound research paper, Publications Office of the European Union, 2025.

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Amendment 246

Kathleen Funchion

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 b. Recognises the unique role of carers in society, a majoirty of whom are women;

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Amendment 247

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 c. Stresses that financial insecurity and inequality are closely linked to psychological wellbeing and the mental health impact of pay inequality should not be overlooked; notes that women are more likely than men to experience mental health problems, such as burnout and chronic depression, especially in low paid and emotionally demanding sectors;

Or. en

Amendment 248

Kathleen Funchion

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 c. Recalls that whilst the definition of care workers is not harmonised across the EU, the long term care sector employs 6.4 million people across the EU;

Or. en

Amendment 249

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Welcomes the Commission’s continued efforts to promote gender equality and calls for the further development of a realistic and result-oriented EU gender equality strategy building on previous progress, with measurable objectives and clear indicators, while ensuring proportionality and full respect for national competences and budgetary autonomy; underlines the importance of including a dedicated action plan to address gender pay and pension gaps through evidence-based and non-bureaucratic measures, and of adopting a cross-sectoral approach covering labour market participation, social protection, entrepreneurship, education and demographic change in an integrated manner, ensuring that equality policies also contribute to economic growth, innovation and family well-being;

Or. en

Amendment 250

Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Irena Joveva, Lucia Yar, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Calls on the Commission to put forward a new and ambitious gender equality strategy, building on previous progress, and to propose a dedicated action plan to eradicate the gender pay and pension gaps with EU-level quantitative and time-bound goals; calls on the Commission to complement this initiative by introducing guidelines for gender-neutral job evaluation and classification systems and the definition of clear criteria for assessing the value of work;

Or. en

Amendment 251

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Calls on the Commission to put forward a new and ambitious gender equality strategy, building on previous progress, and to propose a dedicated action plan through which to encourage women to participate in all facets of the labour market - including STEM - to eradicate the gender pay and pension gaps with EU-level quantitative and time-bound goals;

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Amendment 252

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. el

Amendment 253

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Calls on the Member States to put forward new national strategies on sex equality, building on previous progress, and to propose dedicated action plans to eradicate the gender pay and pension gaps;

Or. fr

Amendment 254

Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Calls on the Commission to put forward a new and ambitious gender equality strategy, building on previous progress as well as best practices, and to propose a dedicated action plan to eradicate the gender pay and pension gaps with EU-level quantitative and time-bound goals;

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Amendment 255

Mirosława Nykiel, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Maria Walsh, Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 256

Maria Walsh

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Calls on the Commission to put forward a new, detailed and ambitious gender equality strategy, building on previous progress, and to propose a dedicated action plan to eradicate the gender pay and pension gaps with EU-level quantitative and time-bound goals;

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Amendment 257

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Georgiana Teodorescu, Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to focus on implementing existing gender equality and labour market legislation effectively, avoiding duplication and ensuring that new actions respect national competences in social and family policy;

Or. en

Amendment 258

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Nikola Bartůšek

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to provide, within their respective spheres of competence, a regulatory framework that upholds the freedom of choice of women and men in all areas of personal, family and professional life; stresses that the role of public institutions should be limited to removing real barriers to participation in the labour market and never to imposing life or social organisation models that replace individual and family decisions;

Or. es

Amendment 259

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 a. Further calls for this action plan to include targeted measures to improve working conditions and remuneration in female-dominated sectors, challenge and dismantle traditional gender roles, and introduce dedicated investment programmes under the next Multiannual Financial Framework to support work-life balance and the care sector, both formal and informal; Stresses the importance of ensuring that the action plan adopts an intersectional approach;

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Amendment 260

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 a. Calls for universal, affordable, inclusive and accessible public services, including healthcare, childcare, education and long-term care, which are essential for promoting gender equality in the labour market; stresses that investing in such services helps reduce women’s career interruptions, unpaid care burdens and part-time work, thereby contributing to closing the gender pay and pension gaps;

Or. en

Amendment 261

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to fully enforce the right to information on worker’s individual pay level and the average pay levels, and make it accessible for all workers, and to fully enforce the right to equal pay for work of equal value;

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Amendment 262

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 a. Calls on the Member States to take concrete and urgent measures to overcome pay inequalities and to guarantee equal pay for equal work while promoting at the same time the general increase of salaries and their indexation to inflation;

Or. en

Amendment 263

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 a. Calls on European Commisssion to review the European regulation on Social Security in order to enable Member States to adopt additional positives action and to contribute to close the gender pension gap;

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Amendment 264

Kathleen Funchion

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 a. Calls on Member States and the Commission to promote pension equity, with a view to ensureing that all eligible workers shall be automatically enrolled in occupational pension schemes;

Or. en

Amendment 265

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 b. Calls on the Commission to put in place a European Care Deal, as announced during the 2024 Parliamentary Hearings; calls for this deal to include a set of policies, programmes and recommendations, combined with an specific care investment package, aiming at fostering a transition towards a care economy that recognizes care as a right and value it as the backbone of our society; calls in this sense for the creation of a dedicated stream of funding under the 2028-2034 Multi-annual financial framework to rollout services to support informal carers;

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Amendment 266

Evelyn Regner, Marc Angel, Estelle Ceulemans, Marko Vešligaj, Elisabeth Grossmann, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Isilda Gomes, Idoia Mendia, Alicia Homs Ginel, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Cecilia Strada, Romana Jerković, Emma Rafowicz, Lina Gálvez, Gabriele Bischoff, Marit Maij, Gabriela Firea, Carla Tavares, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 b. Urges the Commission to work with Member States and social partners to develop gender neutral job evaluation tools and criteria allowing for an EU-wide definition and comparison of work of equal value, with the aim of fairer valuation and remuneration of work carried out in female-dominated sectors; notes that this should be done across sectors and by ensuring collective bargaining rights and strengthening labour inspections;

Or. en

Amendment 267

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 c. Highlights that public investments in care services contribute positively to gender equality and to close care, employment, pay and pension gaps; calls on Member States to invest in a care economy and ensure increased funding, at all levels of government, of public services; calls on the Commission to set new ambitious targets for funding and ensuring access to universal care services, including targets for the availability, accessibility and quality of long term care;

Or. en

Amendment 268

Kathleen Funchion

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 c. Recognises the role automatic enrolment into occupational pension schemes can play in increasing women’s participation in retirement savings, mitigating the gender pension gap through sustained contributions and equal access to long-term financial security.

Or. en

Amendment 269

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 d. Calls to maintain and strengthen synergies with the EU Anti-Poverty Strategy to address the gendered and intersectional risks of poverty, including in-work poverty and pension poverty, through adequate minimum wages and minimum income, social protection, collective bargaining, and targeted measures to tackle non-take-up of benefits;

Or. en

Amendment 270

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 e. Calls on the Commission to ensure proper enforcement on the Council Recommendation on long term care and to come up with a proposal for social protection and services for informal carers, establishing an encouragement not only to cover informal carers by income support and social protection rights, but also to invest in training, peer support and counselling and to expand day-care and respite care services, allowing for an adequate integration or work, care and private life for all carers; recalls that Long-term care is not the only aspect that should be regulated;

Or. en

Amendment 271

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Member States to promote solutions that strengthen the protection of maternity, paternity and parenthood in labour legislation, namely by the increase of the corresponding leaves and guaranteeing their payment at 100%, as well as the reduction of work hours during the period of breastfeeding, offering tax incentives for caregiving years and single parents, and investing in the provision free public network of early childhood education and care services and long-term care services; emphasises that these policies should allow women’s integration in the labour market and particularly focus on low-income families, single-parent families and other disadvantaged groups;

Or. en

Amendment 272

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Gheorghe Falcă, Niels Geuking, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Member States to promote solutions that strengthen families in all their diversity and to reward work, such as expanding flexible work arrangements for parents, offering tax incentives for caregiving years and single parents, encouraging actions through social dialogue and collective bargaining, while ensuring fiscal responsibility, respecting national competences and avoiding additional administrative or financial burdens on enterprises or Member States, and investing in the provision of quality, affordable and accessible childcare and long-term care services to help women join the labour market and reduce higher rates of career breaks and part-time work;

Or. en

Amendment 273

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Member States to promote solutions that strengthen families in all their diversity and to reward work, such as expanding flexible work arrangements for parents, offering tax incentives for caregiving years and single parents, and investing in the provision of quality, affordable and accessible childcare and long-term care services and gender equal parental leave policies, to help women join the labour market and reduce higher rates of career breaks and part-time work; calls for dedicated measures to facilitate women’s return to work after career breaks with reintegration measures and targeted incentives;

Or. en

Amendment 274

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Member States to promote solutions that strengthen families in all their diversity and to reward work, such as expanding flexible work arrangements for parents, offering tax incentives for caregiving years and single parents, and investing in the provision of quality, affordable and accessible childcare and long-term care services to help women join the labour market and reduce higher rates of career breaks and part-time work, while respecting the central role of the family in the education of children and supporting the choices that make it possible to maintain solid family ties;

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Amendment 275

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on European institutions and Member States to reward work and to promote solutions that strengthen families in all their diversity and, such as expanding flexible work arrangements, and the right to disconnect, negotiated and implemented by the social partners;

Or. en

Amendment 276

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Member States to promote solutions that strengthen families in all their diversity and to reward work, such as expanding flexible work arrangements for parents, offering tax incentives for caregiving years and single parents, and investing to increase the number of facilities like nurseries, kindergartens and schools, for the provision of quality, affordable and accessible childcare and child education services and long-term care services to help women join the labour market and reduce pay inequality, higher rates of career breaks and part-time work;

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Amendment 277

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Member States to promote solutions that strengthen families in all their diversity and to reward work, such as expanding flexible work arrangements for parents and investing in the provision of quality, affordable and accessible childcare and long-term care services to help women join the labour market and reduce higher rates of career breaks and part-time work;

Or. en

Amendment 278

Kathleen Funchion

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Member States to promote solutions that strengthen families in all their diversity and to reward work, such as expanding flexible work arrangements for parents, offering tax incentives for caregiving years and single parents, and investing in the provision of quality, affordable accessible and public childcare and long-term care services to help women join the labour market and reduce higher rates of career breaks and part-time work;

Or. en

Amendment 279

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Georgiana Teodorescu, Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Member States to promote solutions that strengthen families, and to reward work, such as expanding flexible work arrangements for parents, offering tax incentives for caregiving years and single parents, and investing in the provision of quality, affordable and accessible childcare and long-term care services to help women join the labour market and reduce higher rates of career breaks and part-time work;

Or. en

Amendment 280

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Member States to promote solutions that strengthen families in all their diversity and to reward work; stresses that pro-family policies must be based on public services rather than tax incentives; calls for universal and free access to quality care services and mandatory equal pay for paternity and maternity leave to help women join the labour market and reduce higher rates of career breaks and part-time work;

Or. el

Amendment 281

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 a. Underlines that strengthening care services is indispensable for improving women’s labour market participation, closing gender employment and pay gaps, and addressing skills and labour shortages; calls on the Commission and the Member States to fully implement the European Care Strategy, to set national targets for childcare and long-term care coverage, and to earmark resources within the European Semester and EU funding instruments - including ESF+, ERDF, and InvestEU - for quality, affordable, accessible care services; stresses that public investment in care infrastructure should be classified as growth-enhancing expenditure under the revised EU economic governance framework;

Or. en

Amendment 282

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 a. Emphasises the importance of a multi-generational approach: promoting a fair balance of care responsibilities within families - for example, by encouraging fathers to take paternity leave, ensuring flexible working arrangements, and providing affordable early childhood education and care (ECEC) - helps to reduce the gender pay gap today and the pension gap in the future;

Or. en

Amendment 283

Pál Szekeres, Viktória Ferenc, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Elisabeth Dieringer

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 a. Points out that providing family tax benefits, exempting the earned income of women with at least two children from personal income tax, and counting child-rearing years towards pension service effectively reward work while also encouraging childbirth, helping women retain more of their salary for the family budget and enabling them to retire at a fair age;

Or. en

Amendment 284

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 a. Emphasises that Member States could introduce pension credits for carers, so that caring for others is recognised in the calculation of pensions, as well as employers can also play a role, through pension contributions during maternity leave or more flexible retirement;

Or. en

Amendment 285

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 a. Calls on the Member States to invest in high-quality, affordable and accessible childcare and long-term care services, that are compatible with full-time employment, to increase women’s labour market participation and reduce rates of career breaks and part-time work;

Or. en

Amendment 286

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 a. Calls on the Commission to issue guidelines to identify and address implicitly discriminatory tax systems, such as joint taxation schemes, to ensure that national tax policies support gender equality and women’s participation in the labour market;

Or. en

Amendment 287

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 a. Calls for measures that increase social protection in the fields of maternity, unemployment, sickness, workplace accidents and occupational diseases;

Or. en

Amendment 288

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 b. Calls on the Commission to emphasise the gender dimension in the forthcoming quality jobs road map, ensuring that these initiatives actively combat the systematic undervaluation of all work performed traditionally by women regardless of sector and gender and address actions to improve job quality and working conditions in a gender sensitive approach;

Or. en

Amendment 289

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 b. Considers that care responsibilities should not fall solely on women and that the Member States should promote equal participation by men and women in childcare and elderly care, as well as care for family members with disabilities through awareness campaigns, incentives and binding measures in parental leave policies;

Or. en

Amendment 290

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 b. Calls on the Member States to abolish tax incentives that discourage secondary earners from participating in the active labour market, and provide tax benefits for caregiving years and single parents;

Or. en

Amendment 291

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 c. Calls for the Work-Life Balance Directive to be fully and effectively implemented evaluated and strengthened; calls for the extension of the duration of the maternity and paternity, cares leave, and to facilitate take-up of family leaves by including a longer and higher minimum pay level for parental, paternity and carers leaves and increasing the number of non-transferable months in parental leave; calls for a fully paid and equal length, and non-transferable maternity and paternity leaves, and stresses that some Member States already have a more balanced approach between maternity and paternity leave;

Or. en

Amendment 292

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 d. Stresses that in order to counter gender stereotypes and cultural biases influencing young women's and girls' academic and career choices, schools and educational institutions should adopt a gender-sensitive curricula, focus on targeted programmes on eliminating barriers for girls to access traditional male-dominated fields, and ensure systematic training for educators to identify and challenge gender stereotypes and prevent their reproduction;

Or. en

Amendment 293

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Highlights the role that women’s entrepreneurship and women-led businesses play in improving economic empowerment and potential earnings over a lifetime; stresses the need for better support at both EU and national level, in particular as regards business development, mentorship, access to finance and venture capital, as well as improved financial literacy for women; calls on the Commission to address these aspects in the next gender equality strategy;

Or. ro

Amendment 294

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Highlights the role that women’s entrepreneurship and women-led businesses play in improving economic empowerment and potential earnings over a lifetime; stresses the need for better support at both EU and national level, in particular as regards business development, mentorship, access to finance and venture capital, as well as improved financial literacy for women; calls on the Member States to enhance access to vocational and continuing training for mothers, especially single mothers, to enable them to acquire new skills and improve their employability;

Or. fr

Amendment 295

Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Irena Joveva, Lucia Yar, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 296

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Highlights the importance of fostering entrepreneurship among both women and men, with targeted measures for underrepresented groups, including women in rural areas and STEM sectors; calls for better access to finance, venture capital and mentoring programmes under EU and national initiatives such as InvestEU, the European Innovation Council and the Enterprise Europe Network;

Or. en

Amendment 297

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 298

Pál Szekeres, Viktória Ferenc, Elisabeth Dieringer

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13 a. Highlights that the proportion of women entrepreneurs steadily increases with older age groups, while among younger entrepreneurs men continue to dominate, primarily due to maternal roles; considers it, therefore, important to support the business creation of older women;

Or. en

Amendment 299

Mirosława Nykiel, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Maria Walsh, Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13 a. Underlines how more women should be encouraged to step forward through leadership, development, mentorship, and support for work-life balance;

Or. en

Amendment 300

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14. Stresses the need to break down occupational gender segmentation to enable more women to participate in high-paying sectors, as well as in senior management and leadership roles in the workplace and in public and political life; highlights the need to ensure that more gender-sensitive and dynamic career guidance is mainstreamed so that silos are tackled as early as possible; highlights, furthermore, the importance of combating gender stereotypes in education and professional training, and of promoting successful female role models in order to encourage girls and women to pursue their aspirations in traditionally male-dominated fields; emphasises the fact that the balanced participation of women in all sectors of the economy and at all levels of decision-making makes a significant contribution to innovation, social cohesion and sustainable development;

Or. ro

Amendment 301

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14. Stresses the need to break down occupational gender segmentation to enable more women to participate in high-paying sectors, as well as in senior management and leadership roles in the workplace and in public and political life; calls for improving access to employment opportunities for women and creating development opportunities that involve access to higher remuneration levels in occupations dominated by women; highlights the need to ensure that more gender-sensitive and dynamic career guidance is mainstreamed so that silos are tackled as early as possible; stresses that the access to work and the conditions under which this access is guaranteed are central to assure women’s emancipation and independence in every life’s spheres, from labour to social, economic and political participation amongst others;

Or. en

Amendment 302

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 303

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14. Stresses the need to break down occupational gender segmentation by recognising the value of women dominated sectors in terms of pay and working conditions and by enabling more women to participate in high-paying sectors, as well as in senior management and leadership roles in the workplace and in public and political life; highlights the need to ensure that more gender-sensitive and dynamic career guidance is mainstreamed so that silos are tackled as early as possible;

Or. en

Amendment 304

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14. Stresses the need to break down occupational gender segmentation to enable more women to participate in high-paying sectors like ICT, STEM and finance as well as in senior management and leadership roles in the workplace and in public and political life; highlights the need to ensure that more gender-sensitive and dynamic career guidance is mainstreamed across all education and training levels so that silos are tackled as early as possible;

Or. en

Amendment 305

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14. Stresses the need to break down the obstacles preventing a large number of women from participating in high-paying sectors, as well as in senior management and leadership roles in the workplace and in public and political life; highlights the need to ensure that more sex-sensitive and dynamic career guidance is mainstreamed so that discrimination at work is tackled as early as possible;

Or. fr

Amendment 306

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14. Stresses the need to break down occupational gender segregation to enable more women to participate in high-paying sectors, as well as in senior management and leadership roles in the workplace and in public and political life; highlights the need to ensure that more gender-sensitive and dynamic career guidance is mainstreamed so that silos are dismantled as early as possible;

Or. en

Amendment 307

Maria Walsh

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14 a. Stresses the importance of ensuring that all subjects across all levels of education and training are equally accessible to women and girls; underlines the need to eliminate gender bias and stereotypes in curricula, teaching materials, and career guidance in order to prevent the channelling of women and girls into a limited number of study areas or occupational sectors; calls for the promotion of gender-responsive education policies that encourage and support girls to pursue studies and careers in all fields, including those in STEM;

Or. en

Amendment 308

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Niels Geuking, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14 a. Emphasises the need to ensure fair evaluation and adequate recognition of work in female-dominated sectors, such as care, health and education, through transparent career progression and merit-based pay systems, while avoiding the imposition of new regulatory or financial obligations on employers; stresses that fair valuation enhances job quality, motivation, and competitiveness without undermining labour-market flexibility;

Or. en

Amendment 309

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14 a. Calls on both the Commission and the Member States to collect disaggregated data in order to better monitor progress in closing the gender pay gap, while paying particular attention to groups that experience multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination such as women with disabilities, migrant and racialised women, older women, women in rural and depopulated areas and LGBTIQ people;

Or. en

Amendment 310

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14 a. Calls to force companies to carry out audits on the gender pay gap and develop, with the participation of trade unions, action plans to eradicate unfair remuneration practices; considers that audits can be useful to identify those salary practices that may threaten gender equality;

Or. en

Amendment 311

Mirosława Nykiel, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Maria Walsh, Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14 a. Encourages Member States to focus on women's entry into technical, engineering, and leadership roles in defence and simultaneously ensure that the contributions of all female defence workers are properly rewarded, recognised and protected;

Or. en

Amendment 312

Pál Szekeres, Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14 a. Points out that the presence of women in management brings numerous benefits, as organisations led by women tend to exhibit greater diversity of perspectives, stronger conflict management skills, and higher levels of empathy;

Or. en

Amendment 313

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14 a. Points out that it is key to address the gender pension gaps root causes such as career breaks, caregiving responsibilities, and part-time work, that drive women´s pension inequality;

Or. en

Amendment 314

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14 b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to significantly increase public investment in policies that guarantee universal, affordable and high-quality public services, considering their contribution to breaking the cycles of poverty and reducing gender inequalities, particularly in areas such as early childhood education with personalised educational support plans for young parents, particularly mothers, high-quality, accessible and affordable childcare and long-term care services, above all for persons with disabilities, productive health and rights, including access to family planning information services and affordable modern contraception and safe and legal abortion care; calls for new accelerated efforts to close the gender employment gap and the gender pension gap and to increase investment in public services and social infrastructure, which are essential for both family support and women’s economic independence and calls for a commitment to advance towards care societies;

Or. en

Amendment 315

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Emphasises the need to better value work done in female-dominated sectors and to improve working conditions, particularly pay and career progression, which will improve women’s financial independence; calls on the Commission to include a strong gender dimension in the forthcoming initiative for a framework to address long-term care and workforce challenges and in all actions under the Union of Skills;

15. Emphasises the need to financially value work done in female-dominated sectors and especially to guarantee the enforcement of the right to equal pay for work of equal value; takes note of the court case in New Zealand1a in this regard and its valuable lessons in the context of comparing work of equal value and to improve working conditions, particularly pay and career progression, which improves women’s financial independence; calls on the Commission to include a strong gender dimension in the forthcoming initiative for a framework to address long-term care and workforce challenges and in all actions under the Union of Skills as well in the upcoming Quality Job Act;

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1a Inglis, C. (2013). Judgment. Kristina Bartlett and the Service and Food Workers Union vs Terranova Homes and Care Ltd. NZ Employment Court, Auckland.

Or. en

Amendment 316

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. fr

Amendment 317

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Emphasises the need to better value work done in female-dominated sectors and to improve working conditions, particularly pay and career progression, which will improve women’s financial independence; stresses that improving conditions in such sectors will also reduce gender segmentation and address worsening labour shortages; calls on the Commission to include a strong gender dimension in the forthcoming initiative for a framework to address long-term care and workforce challenges and in all actions under the Union of Skills;

Or. en

Amendment 318

Kathleen Funchion

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Emphasises the need to better value work done in female-dominated sectors and to urgently improve working conditions, particularly pay and career progression, which will improve women’s financial independence and avoid a cliff-hedge situation where working women face poverty due to insufficient renumeration; calls on the Commission to include a strong gender dimension in the forthcoming initiative for a framework to address long-term care and workforce challenges and in all actions under the Union of Skills;

Or. en

Amendment 319

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Georgiana Teodorescu, Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Emphasises the need to better value female work and to improve working conditions, particularly pay and career progression, which will improve women’s financial independence; calls on the Commission to include a strong gender dimension in the forthcoming initiative for a framework to address long-term care and workforce challenges and in all actions under the Union of Skills;

Or. en

Amendment 320

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 a. Calls on the Commission to launch a European pilot project in coordination with Member States and social partners to develop and apply transparent job-evaluation methodologies for revaluing occupations predominantly held by women, where the pilot should produce sectoral pay reference frameworks, recommended job-grading criteria, and guidelines for incorporating the results into collective bargaining and public procurement;

Or. en

Amendment 321

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 a. Calls on the Commission to tackle the issue of structural undervaluation of work in female dominated sectors and to ensure equal pay for work of equal value by reassessing the value of work in typically female-dominated areas of employment such as social, care, health and education, through gender neutral job evaluation tools developed and applied to establish a better and fairer remuneration scheme;

Or. en

Amendment 322

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 a. Calls on Member States, together with social partners, to design multi-year, fiscally responsible career and pay paths in essential public and care services (health, social care, education) to improve quality, skills and retention; invites targeted use of ESF+ and, where appropriate, the RRF for training, upskilling and retention, avoiding permanent distortions in wage dynamics;

Or. en

Amendment 323

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 a. Calls on the Commission and Member states to step up their work to combat precarious female-dominated work and the feminisation of poverty; highlights the high levels of undeclared work performed by women, which have a negative impact on their income, social security coverage and protection, and calls on the Member States to ratify the ILO Domestic Workers Convention of 2011;

Or. en

Amendment 324

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 a. Calls on the Commission and Member states to step up the work to combat precarious female-dominated work and feminisation of poverty; highlights the high levels of undeclared work performed by women, which negatively impact on their income, social security coverage and protection and calls on the Member States to ratify the ILO convention on domestic workers;

Or. en

Amendment 325

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 a. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to create voluntary incentive mechanisms, such as simplified administrative procedures, public recognition or priority access to EU funds, for employers implementing gender equality plans and pay transparency best practices;

Or. en

Amendment 326

Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 a. Emphasises that Member States, in line with best practices, can use taxation as a measure to promote female dominated sectors and increase female participation on the labour market, while underlining that this is national competence;

Or. en

Amendment 327

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Georgiana Teodorescu, Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 a. Stresses the importance of ensuring fair and market-based remuneration in female-dominated sectors, while maintaining wage-setting autonomy for social partners and respecting national traditions of collective bargaining;

Or. en

Amendment 328

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 b. Calls for the establishment of clear leadership pathways and transparent promotion criteria in the health, social care, and early childhood education and care (ECEC) sectors;

Or. en

Amendment 329

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Séverine Werbrouck, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Underscores how only formal work with quality working conditions, particularly in female-dominated sectors, can strengthen tax bases and ensure that women workers are recognised and protected under the law; condemns the practice of surrogacy, a global phenomenon that is present within the European Union, which exploits women’s poverty and exposes them to exploitation and human trafficking, while targeting in particular women who are financially and socially vulnerable; stresses its serious consequences for women, women’s rights and women’s health, and underlines its cross-border implications;

Or. fr

Amendment 330

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Underscores how only formal work with quality working conditions, particularly in female-dominated sectors, can strengthen tax bases and ensure that women workers are recognised and protected under the law; considers it essential for public policies to promote gender equality, equitable access to social protection, professional training and opportunities to advance, so that women can participate fully and with dignity in the labour market;

Or. ro

Amendment 331

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Underscores how only formal work with quality working conditions, particularly in female-dominated sectors, can ensure that women workers are recognised and protected under the law; calls therefore for the regularisation of undocumented and informal work, especially in the personal care and housekeeping sectors, in which many women are working without being able to contribute to social protection systems, access training and other labour-related rights and be protected from abuse;

Or. en

Amendment 332

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Underscores how only formal work with quality working conditions, particularly in female-dominated sectors, can strengthen tax bases and ensure that women workers are recognised and protected under the law; calls, therefore, on the Member States to promote measures to combat the grey economy, and formalizing work to protect workers in informal sectors, such as domestic work, agriculture, and seasonal jobs;

Or. en

Amendment 333

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Underscores how only formal work with quality working conditions with full labour rights is a foundation of social justice, particularly in female-dominated sectors, can strengthen tax bases and ensure that women workers are recognised and protected under the law;

Or. el

Amendment 334

Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Underscores how formal work with quality working conditions can strengthen tax bases and ensure that women workers are recognised and protected under the law;

Or. en

Amendment 335

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 a. Calls for the effective and timely implementation of the European Care Strategy, with adequate funding and monitoring mechanisms, to ensure access to quality, affordable and accessible care services for children, older persons and persons with disabilities; stresses that strengthening care systems and recognising care work are essential to closing the gender pay and pension gaps, as women continue to shoulder a disproportionate share of unpaid care responsibilities and are overrepresented in undervalued and low-paid care professions;

Or. en

Amendment 336

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 a. Emphasises that it is necessary to change the division of work and to give incentives to women and men promoting the fairer sharing of unpaid care and domestic work, and facilitating women’s integration and reintegration into the labour market in order to achieve an ’equal earner, equal carer’ model in society;

Or. en

Amendment 337

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 a. Highlights practices like the 'orange envelope' in Sweden, where all people ensured by the national public pension system receive information about their savings for their pension, and thus create a public, data-based discourse about pension entitlements; encourages other Member States to introduce similar systems;

Or. en

Amendment 338

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Nikola Bartůšek, Mélanie Disdier, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Marie Dauchy

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16a. Stresses that measures must be taken to ensure that care work carried out within the family is recognised and supported through targeted assistance or tax benefits, and that those who choose to devote themselves to care work are not penalised or discriminated against;

Or. es

Amendment 339

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 b. Calls for the development of the European Care Deal to ensure the effective implementation of the European Care Strategy in the Member States in order to ensure universal, accessible, affordable and high-quality services for all as well as adequate social security and basic income to everybody;

Or. en

Amendment 340

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Calls on the Member States to ensure robust gender-sensitive social protection systems; emphasises the importance of adequate minimum pensions and care credits for pension entitlements for those who take career breaks to care for dependants; highlights the need to ensure adequate protection and income support for informal carers and to ensure second pillar pension inclusion for part-time workers; highlights the need to integrate gender pension gap indicators into the EU Social Scoreboard;

17. Calls on the Member States to ensure robust gender-sensitive social protection systems; calls on the Member States to implement specific measures to combat the risk of poverty for older women, by the increase of pensions but also by offering social support; highlights that to guarantee that pension inequalities are overcome and that pensions are guaranteed and increased, it is mandatory that social security systems persist within the public sphere and integrate the solidarity and redistributive principles, and that the firmest combat to precarious and deregulated work is promoted; highlights the need to ensure adequate protection and income support for informal carers and to ensure second pillar pension inclusion for part-time workers; highlights the need to integrate gender pension gap indicators into the EU Social Scoreboard;

Or. en

Amendment 341

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 342

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Calls on the Member States to explore the possibility of establishing robust gender-sensitive social protection systems; emphasises the importance of adequate minimum pensions and care credits for pension entitlements for those who take career breaks to care for dependants, taking into account national budgetary constraints; highlights the need to ensure adequate protection and income support for informal carers and to ensure second pillar pension inclusion for part-time workers; highlights the need to integrate gender pension gap indicators into the EU Social Scoreboard;

Or. en

Amendment 343

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Georgiana Teodorescu, Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Calls on the Member States to ensure robust gender-sensitive social protection systems, with particular attention to the right to maternity and motherhood; emphasises the importance of adequate minimum pensions and care credits for pension entitlements for those who take career breaks to care for dependants; highlights the need to ensure adequate protection and income support for informal carers and to ensure second pillar pension inclusion for part-time workers; highlights the need to integrate gender pension gap indicators into the EU Social Scoreboard;

Or. en

Amendment 344

Pál Szekeres, Viktória Ferenc, Elisabeth Dieringer

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Calls on the Member States to ensure robust social protection systems; emphasises the importance of adequate minimum pensions and care credits for pension entitlements for those who take career breaks to care for dependants; highlights the need for the period of child care to be counted as service time and to ensure adequate protection and income support for informal carers and to ensure second pillar pension inclusion for part-time workers;

Or. en

Amendment 345

Mélanie Disdier, Séverine Werbrouck, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Viktória Ferenc, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Calls on the Member States to ensure robust social protection systems, taking into account the differences between the sexes; emphasises the importance of adequate minimum pensions and care credits for pension entitlements for those who take career breaks to care for dependants; highlights the need to ensure adequate protection and income support for informal carers and to ensure second pillar pension inclusion for part-time workers; highlights the need to integrate gender pension gap indicators into the EU Social Scoreboard;

Or. fr

Amendment 346

Mirosława Nykiel, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Maria Walsh, Arba Kokalari, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Acknowledges the long-term financial impact that extended periods of unpaid care can have on women, who take time away from formal employment to care for dependants; encourages Member States to explore fiscally responsible and work-oriented solutions that support caregivers’ return to the labour market, promote private pension savings, and strengthen family and community-based support systems, rather than relying on state-funded care credits or minimum pension schemes;

Or. en

Amendment 347

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 a. Highlights the importance of care-related pension credits to acknowledge the time people spend outside the labour market or working reduced hours due to childcare, long-term care, or support for persons with disabilities; stresses that pension rights should accumulate fairly through proportional accrual for part-time and other non-standard forms of work; invites the Commission to take into account gender-related pension risks (such as care credits, career credits, atypical work, and grandparental care credits) in the Country-Specific Recommendations starting from the 2026 European Semester cycle;

Or. en

Amendment 348

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to protect third-country migrant women, who are often employed in low-skilled, insecure and underpaid jobs in sectors such as domestic care, cleaning and catering1a, from discrimination and exploitation; stresses that ensuring fair wages, labour law protection and adequate social security contributions is essential to closing the gender pay and pension gaps;

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1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2023/747905/EPRS_BRI(2023)747905_EN.pdf

Or. en

Amendment 349

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 a. Calls on the Member States to ensure the national implementation of the Council Recommendation on minimum income is gender-responsive and supports the needs of women living in poverty, especially single mothers, racialised women, migrant women, and women with disabilities; calls on the Commission to present a Directive on Minimum Income to ensure that everyone has an income above the poverty line;

Or. en

Amendment 350

Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement the European Union strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities 2021-2030, ensuring it is integrated into all employment, education and care policies; stresses the need to pay particular attention to women with disabilities, who face double discrimination;

Or. es

Amendment 351

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Viktória Ferenc

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17a. Calls on the Member States to promote prosperous and sustainable economic growth based on reliable and affordable energy, which will ensure competitive hourly productivity and reduce poverty, particularly among single mothers and elderly women;

Or. fr

Amendment 352

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 a. Stresses that the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority advocates for a more extensive implementation of pension dashboards, tracking tools to monitor effectively the gender pay and pension gaps and for gender-neutral remuneration policies and practices in occupational pensions;

Or. en

Amendment 353

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 a. Invites the Commission to develop EU-wide awareness and education campaigns on pay transparency, equal treatment and available EU instruments promoting equality in employment; stresses that informed workers and employers are key to enforcing existing legislation effectively;

Or. en

Amendment 354

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to strengthen the first pillar of the pension system and to implement national strategies to ensure non-discriminatory access to supplementary and occupational pension schemes for all workers, including part-time workers;

Or. en

Amendment 355

Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 a. Emphasises the importance of Member States to ensure robust gender-sensitive social protection systems that supports and protects those who take career brakes to care for dependants, although underlining that pension systems is national competence;

Or. en

Amendment 356

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 b. Emphasises that persons with disabilities, in particular women with disabilities, continue to face multiple and intersecting barriers to accessing employment, training and entrepreneurship; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote equal access to quality jobs, vocational education and funding opportunities, in line with the European Disability Rights Strategy, while avoiding new administrative or financial burdens and making full use of existing EU and national instruments; highlights that inclusion and accessibility are essential components of Europe’s social market economy and competitiveness;

Or. en

Amendment 357

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 b. Calls on Member States to recognise grandparental care - when grandparents regularly look after their grandchildren to enable the child’s parent(s) to enter, remain in, or return to work - as a creditable care period, with clear eligibility and verification criteria;

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Amendment 358

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 b. Calls on the EU to set a target to reduce poverty among the most marginalised women, in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights and SDG targets, and track progress with intersectional indicators;

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Amendment 359

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 c. Acknowledges that gender-based violence and harassment can also be exacerbated by the gender pay gap, as victims are often forced into lower-paying jobs as a result of hostile work environments; calls on the Member States to sign and ratify the ILO Violence and Harassment Convention of 2019 to introduce effective measures to define, prevent and prohibit violence and harassment at work, including safe and effective complaint and dispute resolution mechanisms, support, services and remedies;

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Amendment 360

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Gheorghe Falcă, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 c. Stresses the importance of removing practical obstacles in workplaces, including through digital accessibility, reasonable accommodation, and flexible work arrangements; encourages Member States to provide targeted incentives to employers who invest in accessibility, skills development and inclusive recruitment, while avoiding additional administrative burdens, in order to promote both equality and competitiveness in line with the principles of the social market economy;

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Amendment 361

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 c. Requests Eurostat to regularly measure unpaid care through harmonised time-use surveys; asks that the official gender pay gap indicator be complemented by a standardised gender time gap indicator;

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Amendment 362

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 d. Calls on the Commission and Member States to place a strong emphasis on the economic empowerment of pensioners within all gender equality and social inclusion policies, and to address the gender pension gap through targeted and effective measures; urges the allocation of dedicated funding in the next Multiannual Financial Framework, alongside the development of specific Commission programmes aimed at closing the gender pension gap and ensuring equitable access to high-quality services, particularly in health and long-term care;

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Amendment 363

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17 d. Requests Eurostat to disaggregate indicators on pay, employment, part-time work, career interruptions and pension adequacy by gender disaggregate and disability status, to capture intersectional gaps affecting women with disabilities;

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Amendment 364

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18. Highlights the role of social partners in eradicating the gender pay gap and encourages them to include measures to combat pay inequality and gender biases in collective agreements; calls on the Commission to meaningfully involve the social partners in developing new policies to close the gender pay gap in the next gender equality strategy;

18. Highlights the role of social partners in eradicating the gender pay gap and encourages them to include measures to combat pay inequality and gender biases in collective agreements; stresses the decisive role of trade unions and collective bargaining in reducing inequalities; calls on the EU to strengthen the involvement of social partners and encourage mandatory collective coverage of all fields of work; calls on the Commission to meaningfully involve the social partners in developing new policies to close the gender pay gap in the next gender equality strategy;

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Amendment 365

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18. Highlights the role of social partners in eradicating the gender pay gap and encourages them to include measures to combat pay inequality and gender biases in collective agreements; calls on the Commission to meaningfully involve the social partners in developing new policies to close the gender pay gap in the next gender equality strategy;

18. Highlights the role of social partners in eradicating the gender pay gap and encourages them to include measures to combat pay inequality and gender biases in collective agreements; calls on the Commission and Member States to meaningfully involve social partners in developing new policies to close the gender pay gap in the next gender equality strategy and to further support social partners and collective bargaining;

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Amendment 366

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18. Highlights the role of social partners in eradicating the gender pay gap and encourages them to include measures to combat pay inequality and gender biases in collective agreements; calls on the Commission to meaningfully involve the social partners in developing new policies to close the gender pay gap in the next gender equality strategy;

18. Highlights the role of social partners in eradicating the gender pay gap and encourages them to include measures to combat pay inequality and gender biases in collective agreements and extend collective bargaining coverage for non-standard workers especially in female dominated and low paid sectors; calls on the Commission to meaningfully involve the social partners in developing new policies to close the gender pay gap in the next gender equality strategy;

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Amendment 367

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18. Highlights the role of social partners in eradicating the gender pay gap and encourages them to include measures to combat pay inequality and gender biases in collective agreements; calls on the Commission to meaningfully involve the social partners in developing new policies to close the gender pay gap in the next gender equality strategy;

18. Highlights the key role of social dialogue and the involvement of social partners in designing, implementing and monitoring equality and pay strategies; encourages collective agreements that promote equal opportunities, gender-neutral career evaluation and anti-harassment measures in the workplace;

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Amendment 368

Mirosława Nykiel, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Maria Walsh, Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18. Highlights the role of social partners in eradicating the gender pay gap and encourages them to include measures to combat pay inequality and gender biases in collective agreements; calls on the Commission to meaningfully involve the social partners in developing new policies to close the gender pay gap in the next gender equality strategy;

18. Highlights the role of social partners, as well as business chambers in particular those which are women-led, in eradicating the gender pay gap and encourages them to include measures to combat pay inequality and gender biases in collective agreements; calls on the Commission to meaningfully involve the social partners in developing new policies to close the gender pay gap in the next gender equality strategy;

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Amendment 369

Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti, Giusi Princi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18. Highlights the role of social partners in eradicating the gender pay gap and encourages them to include measures to combat pay inequality and gender biases in collective agreements; calls on the Commission to meaningfully involve the social partners in developing new policies to close the gender pay gap in the next gender equality strategy;

18. Highlights the essential role of social partners in eradicating the gender pay gap and encourages them to include measures to combat pay inequality and gender biases in collective agreements if relevant; calls on the Commission to meaningfully involve the social partners in developing new policies to close the gender pay gap in the next gender equality strategy;

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Amendment 370

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Pál Szekeres, Séverine Werbrouck, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18. Highlights the role of social partners in eradicating the gender pay gap and encourages them to include measures to combat pay inequality and gender biases in collective agreements; calls on the Commission to meaningfully involve the social partners in developing new policies to close the gender pay gap in the next gender equality strategy;

18. Highlights the role of social partners in eradicating the gender pay gap and encourages them to include measures to combat pay inequality and gender biases in collective agreements; calls on the Member States to meaningfully involve the social partners in developing new policies to close the gender pay gap in their next gender equality strategies;

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Amendment 371

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to explore and pilot universal basic income schemes as a potential answer to pay and pension gender gaps, as such schemes could empower women who perform a disproportionate share of unpaid care work, support mental health and wellbeing and contribute to addressing structural unemployment resulting from automation and artificial intelligence (AI), while enabling more sustainable lifestyles and just transitions towards low-carbon economies;

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Amendment 372

Maria Walsh

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 a. Equally underlines the importance of actively engaging and listening to women across a multitude of sectors and workforces, in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies aimed at closing the gender pay gap; stresses that their lived experiences and insights are essential to ensuring that proposed measures address real workplace challenges, promote fair working conditions, and reflect the realities of different forms of employment and work-life balance arrangements;

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Amendment 373

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 a. Calls on Member States to take targeted measures to prevent and combat gender-based violence, harassment and trafficking, both online and offline, including through awareness campaigns, enforcement of the Istanbul Convention, and effective victim protection mechanisms within the workplace;

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Amendment 374

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 a. Calls on the Commission to refrain from promoting any policy recommendation that leaves to the increase of precarious work relations, deregulation of work and working hours, the reductions of salaries, the attack on collective bargaining, or the privatisation of social security systems;

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Amendment 375

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 a. Calls on both Comission and Member States to address menopause at the workplace issue taking into account that insufficient protection of female workers and the early exit of women from labour markets increase the risk of women’s economic dependence, poverty and social exclusion;

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Amendment 376

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 a. Calls on Member States to support institution building at local, regional and national level to monitor the implementation and progress of national gender equality strategies, with the aim of eliminating the gender pay and pension gaps;

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Amendment 377

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 b. Calls for the recognition of care work as part of the green and sustainable economy; stresses that investing in the care sector can generate resilient quality employment, as care work does not pollute and responds to universal human needs throughout the life cycle; emphasises that valuing and monetising unpaid care work would empower women, who perform the majority of such work, and foster the economic growth of Member States by making previously invisible unpaid work a visible contribution to GDP, therefore increasing competitiveness and contributing to closing the gender pay and pension gaps;

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Amendment 378

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Séverine Werbrouck

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

deleted

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Amendment 379

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov, Grégory Allione, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19. Calls for the application of gender mainstreaming and prioritisation of gender in the next multiannual financial framework, to ensure that EU resources contribute to closing the gender pay and pension gaps, strengthening care infrastructure, and supporting gender-sensitive mental health services; in this regard, highlights the possible role of EU funding mechanisms such as ESF+, ERDF, RRF, CERV and Horizon Europe in providing financial support for gender related objectives;

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Amendment 380

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19. Calls for the application of gender mainstreaming in the next multiannual financial framework, to ensure that EU resources contribute to closing the gender pay and pension gaps, strengthening care infrastructure, and supporting gender-sensitive mental health services; reiterates the need for gender mainstreaming in relevant EU and national policies, including employment, health, disability, pensions, sport and decision-making, ensuring that equality objectives are incorporated in all stages of policy formulation and budget implementation;

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Amendment 381

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19. Calls for the application of gender mainstreaming in the next multiannual financial framework, to ensure that EU resources contribute to closing the gender pay and pension gaps, to strengthening care infrastructure, by investing to increase the number of facilities like nurseries, kindergartens and schools, for the provision of quality services, and to supporting gender-sensitive mental health services;

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Amendment 382

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19. Recalls the obligation of the EU to gender mainstreaming all policy areas, stresses the importance to implement gender budgeting in the next multiannual financial framework and calls for specific and targeted EU resources aiming at eliminating the gender pay and pension gaps, strengthening care infrastructure, and supporting gender-sensitive mental health services;

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Amendment 383

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19. Calls for gender mainstreaming to be strengthened within the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), making full and efficient use of existing EU instruments and programmes, without increasing the overall budgetary envelope; highlights that integrating equality objectives in EU funding improves the effectiveness and transparency of public investment;

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Amendment 384

Mirosława Nykiel, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Ewa Kopacz, Jagna Marczułajtis-Walczak, Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Maria Walsh, Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19. Calls for the application of gender mainstreaming in the next multiannual financial framework and for this to be in line with the Commision's competitiveness targets, to ensure that EU resources contribute to closing the gender pay and pension gaps, strengthening care infrastructure, and supporting gender-sensitive mental health services;

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Amendment 385

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Francesco Torselli, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Georgiana Teodorescu, Laurence Trochu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19. Underlines that all EU gender-related spending should be guided by principles of efficiency, transparency and measurable outcomes, ensuring that funds deliver concrete improvements for women’s participation in the labour market and economic independence;

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Amendment 386

Maria Zacharia

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 387

Emma Fourreau, Elena Kountoura

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 a. Stresses that gender-disaggregated data collection needs to be further improved in areas such as informal employment, entrepreneurship and access to financing, access to healthcare services, violence against women, and unpaid work; emphasises the need to collect and make use of quality data and evidence for informed and evidence-based policymaking; calls on both the Commission and Member States to collect disaggregated data to better measure and monitor progress in closing the gender pay gap, paying particular attention to groups experiencing multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination such as women with disabilities, migrant and ethnic-minority women, Roma women, older women, single mothers and LGBTIQ people;

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Amendment 388

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 a. Calls on the Commission to explore the creation of a unified European job evaluation tool that builds on existing national systems, alongside the implementation of company-level pay registers as requested by the Pay Transparency Directive, to promote transparency and comparability and fair pay across sectors on the bassis of the EIGE guidance for gender-neutral job evaluation; calls on the Commission to develop, in cooperation with Member states and social partners, a definition of the concept of “equal pay for work of equal value”;

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Amendment 389

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 a. Calls for the systematic collection and publication of intersectional data on gender pay and pension gaps, including disaggregation by age, disability, ethnicity, migration status, and employment type; stresses the key role of EIGE and Eurostat in supporting comparable and high-quality data collection across the EU to inform targeted policies;

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Amendment 390

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Niels Geuking, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 a. Underlines that gender equality must go hand in hand with family solidarity and demographic sustainability; encourages comprehensive work-life balance measures that support parental choice and recognise the shared responsibility of men and women in caregiving, contributing to Europe’s demographic and social renewal;

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Amendment 391

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 a. Encourages Member States, in the next Multiannual Financial Framework periods, to carry out pilot spending reviews that apply a gender perspective, focusing on care services and return-to-work programmes, with clear performance indicators (KPIs), cost-effectiveness assessments, and minimal administrative load;

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Amendment 392

Mélanie Disdier, Mathilde Androuët, Marie Dauchy, Catherine Griset, Séverine Werbrouck

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Calls for the swift transposition and implementation of the Directives on Pay Transparency and Gender Balance on Corporate Boards7 and urges the Commission to ensure their robust enforcement;

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7 Directive (EU) 2022/2381 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 November 2022 on improving the gender balance among directors of listed companies and related measures (OJ L 315, 7.12.2022, p. 44, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2022/2381/oj).

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Amendment 393

Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Irena Joveva, Lucia Yar, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Calls for the swift transposition and implementation of the Directives on Pay Transparency and Gender Balance on Corporate Boards7 and urges the Commission to ensure their robust enforcement; calls on the Commission to ensure that the Pay Transparency Directive, as the EU’s key piece of legislation to tackle the gender pay gap, is not included in any forthcoming omnibus simplification packages; calls on the Commission and Member States to collect and publish gender-disaggregated and intersectional data on pay, promotion, and pension entitlements to ensure that equality policies address the specific barriers faced by women and girls in all their diversity;

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Amendment 394

Anna Strolenberg, Gordan Bosanac

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Calls for the swift transposition and implementation of the Directives on Pay Transparency and Gender Balance on Corporate Boards7 and urges the Commission to ensure their robust enforcement; highlights the importance of encouraging SMEs and other non-listed companies to follow best practices on gender balance in management established by listed companies under the Gender Balance on Corporate Boards Directive; calls on the Commission to ensure that the Pay Transparency Directive, as the EU’s key piece of legislation to tackle the gender pay gap, is not included in any forthcoming omnibus simplification packages;

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Amendment 395

Andrea Wechsler

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Calls for the swift transposition and implementation of the Directives on Pay Transparency and Gender Balance on Corporate Boards7 and urges the Commission to ensure their robust enforcement;

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Amendment 396

Giusi Princi, Letizia Moratti, Loucas Fourlas, Eleonora Meleti, Gheorghe Falcă, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Calls for the swift transposition and implementation of the Directives on Pay Transparency and Gender Balance on Corporate Boards7 and urges the Commission to ensure their robust enforcement; calls on the Commission to evaluate that the Pay Transparency Directive, as the EU’s key piece of legislation to tackle the gender pay gap, is not included in any forthcoming omnibus simplification packages, if not in the terms of a possible “stop the clock”, to provide employers with adequate time to comply with pay gap reporting and joint pay assessment obligations;

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Amendment 397

Irena Joveva, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hristo Petrov

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Calls for the swift transposition and implementation of the Directives on Pay Transparency and Gender Balance on Corporate Boards7, the latter of which has yet to be transposed by 10 Member States, and urges the Commission to ensure their robust enforcement; calls on the Commission to ensure that the Pay Transparency Directive, as the EU’s key piece of legislation to tackle the gender pay gap, is not included in any forthcoming omnibus simplification packages;

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Amendment 398

Arba Kokalari

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 399

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 a. Calls for proportionate corporate reporting to reveal patterns of the glass ceiling - invisible barriers that limit women’s career advancement - and the glass lift - men’s faster promotion in female-dominated sectors. Such reporting should include data on promotion rates, bonus distribution, and pay scales by gender disaggregate and job level, in line with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), while avoiding unnecessary burdens on SMEs;

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Amendment 400

Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Irena Joveva, Lucia Yar, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Valérie Devaux

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 a. Urges the Commission and Member States to ensure robust enforcement and, where necessary, the strengthening of EU and national legislation to guarantee full equality in career development after maternity; stresses that workers should be protected from any form of disadvantage, including demotion, extension of probation, or adverse changes in working conditions attributable to taking such leave; calls for the collection of gender-disaggregated data on promotion and pay progression following maternity;

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Amendment 401

Sirpa Pietikäinen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 a. Calls for the Commission to ensure the effective and timely implementation of the Pay Transparency Directive in the Member States, including national programmes that promote active measures by creating methodologies and benchmarks to assess the work of equal value based on needed skills, responsibilities, working conditions and efforts in order to dismantle the gendered segregation in the valuation of work, ensuring equal pay for work of equal value;

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Amendment 402

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Nikola Bartůšek

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20a. Calls for the repeal of the Pay Transparency Directive (EU) 2022/2381 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 November 2022, as well as the revision of any EU legislation that compromises legal certainty or imposes disproportionate burdens on businesses that could hinder job creation, discourage recruitment or undermine the competitiveness of European businesses;

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Amendment 403

Lina Gálvez, Emma Rafowicz, Idoia Mendia, Cecilia Strada, Elisabeth Grossmann, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Marko Vešligaj, Carla Tavares, Romana Jerković, Gabriela Firea, Evelyn Regner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 a. Highlights that the European Parliament will strictly oppose any intentions to withdraw or weaken the Pay Transparency Directive, and alerts that recent proposals made by Business Europe to derogate from the provisions of the Directive for the sake of ill-defined "competitiveness" are wholly inacceptable, as this would weaken the impact of the Pay Transparency Directive aiming to ensure equal pay;

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Amendment 404

Arba Kokalari, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 a. Calls on the Commission to analyse and look over the effects of the Directive on Pay Transparancy in relation to new non-legislative and legislative acts on gender pay gap in order to prevent duplication and overlaps;

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Amendment 405

Kathleen Funchion

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 a. Highlights the importance of job advertisements to include the pay range, in order to better encourage gender neutral pay structures;

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Amendment 406

Gabriella Gerzsenyi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 b. Invites Member States to ensure that pay transparency rules and complaint mechanisms are both digitally and physically accessible for workers with disabilities, and that job evaluation methods are checked to prevent bias against women - especially in female-dominated jobs and among women with disabilities;

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Amendment 407

Kathleen Funchion

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 b. Highlights the importance of job advertisements including full information on benefits, bonuses, pensions, allowances etc., to better encourage gender neutral pay structures;

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Amendment 408

Arba Kokalari, Giusi Princi

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

21 a. Emphasises that high administrative burden for companies is negatively effecting entrepreneurship which is crucial for female financial independence and gender equality; whereas it is positive to include more legislation, as well as Directive on Pay Transparency and Gender Balance on Corporate Boards, in an omnibus simplification package;

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