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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE & RURAL
DEVELOPMENT
EQUALITY BETWEEN WOMEN AND MEN IN
THE EUROPEAN UNION IN 2007
AMENDMENTS ON:
*WOMEN IN FARMING - Acknowledge the
significant role played by women in farming in the various countries of the
European Union, both in primary production and in the diversification of
economic activities on the farm and in the countryside and noting the high
levels of poverty and isolation affecting women in some rural areas.
*WOMEN IN FARMING - Farmers'
assisting spouses have no official status in most EU Member States and are
therefore invisible and, consequently, often more unprotected than atypical
workers.
*WOMEN IN FARMING - Various
Community Policies must promote the participation of women, and especially
young women, in rural development, encouraging their full incorporation into
social and economic activity in the rural areas.
*RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY - Promote equality
between men and women, and guarantee that women in rural areas are involved on
an equal footing in relation to support.
*AGRICULTURE - Women often perform a
significant proportion of the work as family workers. This work should be
appropriately included in statistics on rural employment and be taken into
account in rural development policy. Member States should aim to afford such
women access to old-age pensions.
*WOMEN IN RURAL AREAS - Enable the
active participation of women's associations and federations in rural areas and
of other bodies bringing together women in the countryside....
*GENDER EQUALITY IN THE AGRICULTURAL
SECTOR - Be sure that gender equality is incorporated and monitored in all
legislation concerning the agricultural sector....
*WOMEN WORKING IN AGRICULTURE -
Ensure that women working in agriculture have direct access to their role on
the farms, with partifcular emphasis on co-ownership of family farms, access to
loans, and their rights in the context of inheritance laws.
*WOMEN LIVING IN RURAL AREAS -
Ensure that they have easier access to education and vocational training,
lifelong learning, new media infrastructures, efficient and suitable local
public health services, structures and facilities for children and famillies....
*WOMEN WORKING ON FAMILY FARMS -
Women working on family farms are often not reflected in official statistics.
Call for the Commission and EUROSTAT to include this substantial category in
their analyses....
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