The Member States and the Commission shall promote equality between men and women through mainstreaming as referred to in Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No [.] and specific targeted actions as referred to in Article 3(1)(a)(iv), in particular with the aim of eliminating gender basic segregation of women in the labour market, especially following periods of maternity and caring for dependents, reducing gender-based discrimination in the labour market and eliminating the pay gap between men and women, combating gender stereotypes in education and training and ensuring reconciliation of work and personal and family life for men and women thro ...[+++]ugh measures such as facilitating access to childcare and care for dependent persons, as well as addressing the feminisation of poverty by promoting equal share of care responsibility between men and woman.

Through the ESF, they shall also support specific targeted actions within any of the investment priorities as referred to in Article 3, and in particular Article 3(1)(a)(iv), with the aim of increasing the sustainable participation and progress of women in employment, thus combating the feminisation of poverty , reducing gender-based segregation and combating gender stereotypes in the labour market and in education and training, promoting reconciliation of work and personal life for all and equal sharing of care responsibilities betwe ...[+++]en men and women .

The ESF shall also support specific targeted actions as referred to in Article,3, and, in particular, in Article 3(1)(a)(iv), with the aim of increasing the sustainable participation and progress of women in employment, reducing gender-based segregation in the labour market, combating gender stereotypes in education and training, combating gender-specific stereotypes of occupational profiles and professions, addressing the feminisation of poverty, promoting reconciliation of work and personal life for all and equal sharing of care res ...[+++]ponsibilities between women and men.

6. Considers that the current effects of the crisis will have long-term impacts for women due to the highly gender-segregated nature of the labour market, with the concentration of women in sectors that are characterised by low pay and informal and part-time patterns of work which have a direct impact on women’s pension contributions; underlines the importance of addressing labour market segmentation and the root causes of the feminisation of poverty by providing both adequate social protection in periods of transition and in cases of temporary or part-time employment contracts, and access to training ...[+++], career development and full-time work opportunities; calls for the identification of best practices and recommendations for Member States with regard to their national measures to integrate or reintegrate women into the labour force and, more generally, to eradicate poverty and the social exclusion of women and children;

1. Encouraging more people to work more and longer so as to obtain similar entitlements as before: increases in pensionable ages; rewarding later and penalising earlier retirement (see figure 8); moves from benefits based on earnings in best years towards entitlement based on working career average earnings; closing or restricting early exit pathways; labour market measures to encourage and enable older workers to stay in the labour market and encouraging greater gender equality in the labour market.

15. Stresses that occupational and sectoral segregation of the labour market remains a factor in determining the gender pay gap; also stresses that women’s jobs, particularly women who work as domestic workers and carers, are consistently undervalued and are more likely to be subject to low pay, involuntary part-time work, precarious jobs and zero-hours contracts, and calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop and implement appropriate measures to effectively limit involuntary part-time work; stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of multiple discrimination and various other factors, including the gender ...[+++]pay gap, the pension gap, care responsibilities and related breaks, and insufficient support systems affecting households headed by single mothers; underlines in this context the importance of assessing the gender effect of social security systems; recalls the importance of implementing existing anti-discrimination legislation, taking into consideration an intersectional approach in order to reduce poverty among women;