Traduction de «écart de caisse négatif » (Français → Anglais) :

(i) its GDP growth is negative or GDP remains well below its potential (resulting in a negative output gap greater than 1.5 % of GDP).

O. whereas motherhood and care for children, the elderly, sick or disabled family members and other dependants represent additional or sometimes full-time work that is almost exclusively carried out by women; whereas this work is rarely paid and is not adequately valued by society, even though it is of enormous social importance, contributes to social welfare and can be measured by economic indicators such as GDP; whereas this results in the widening of the income gaps that exist between women and men and detrimentally impacts women’s career paths through the ‘costs’ of the years spent out of the labour market or of reduced hours due ...[+++]to part-time arrangements, and consequently also increases the pension gap between men and women; whereas the impact of these elements on lifetime earnings varies across the Member States depending on the level of support offered to parents, including childcare provision, by either legislative measures or collective agreements;

C. whereas progress in narrowing the gender pay gap is extremely slow, and in some Member States the gap has even widened; whereas, despite the significant body of legislation in force for almost 40 years, the actions taken and resources spent (the disparity at EU level was 17.7% in 2006, 17.6% in 2007, 17.4% in 2008, 16.9% in 2009 and 16.4% in 2010), the gender pay gap is still a persistent problem and currently stands at 16.2% across the EU; whereas the implementation of the principle of equal pay for the same work and for work of equal value is crucial to achieving gender equality; whereas the negative effects of the gender pay gap ...[+++] on women extend into their retirement age and women receive pensions which are, on average, 39% lower than those of men;

C. whereas progress in narrowing the gender pay gap is extremely slow, and in some Member States the gap has even widened; whereas, despite the significant body of legislation in force for almost 40 years, the actions taken and resources spent (the disparity at EU level was 17,7 % in 2006, 17,6 % in 2007, 17,4 % in 2008, 16,9 % in 2009 and 16,4 % in 2010), the gender pay gap is still a persistent problem and currently stands at 16,2 % across the EU; whereas the implementation of the principle of equal pay for the same work and for work of equal value is crucial to achieving gender equality; whereas the negative effects of the gender ...[+++]pay gap on women extend into their retirement age and women receive pensions which are, on average, 39 % lower than those of men;

O. whereas motherhood and care for children, the elderly, sick or disabled family members and other dependants represent additional or sometimes full-time work that is almost exclusively carried out by women; whereas this work is rarely paid and is not adequately valued by society, even though it is of enormous social importance, contributes to social welfare and can be measured by economic indicators such as GDP; whereas this results in the widening of the income gaps that exist between women and men and detrimentally impacts women’s career paths through the ‘costs’ of the years spent out of the labour market or of reduced hours due t ...[+++]o part-time arrangements, and consequently also increases the pension gap between men and women; whereas the impact of these elements on lifetime earnings varies across the Member States depending on the level of support offered to parents, including childcare provision, by either legislative measures or collective agreements;

I must say that I and the pensioners who sent me here to seat 270 of the European Parliament were pleased by the comment made by Mrs Anna Diamantopoulou. When she replied to one of my questions during the hearings – and we should point out what did not go well but also what did – she said that she is fully aware of the issue concerning the elderly who expect a pension which the fifteen Member States are no longer able to pay because the pension funds are weak and are in deficit.