What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text

Changed:B. whereas prices have risen, in general, by 11.511,5 % in the EU since October 2021 and food has been particularly affected, with inflation climbing to 17.817,8 % in October 2022; whereas, in line with the ECB’s September 2023 macroeconomic projections for the euro area, average inflation for 2023 is estimated at 5.65,6 %, which is an upward revision of previous projections; whereas according to Eurofound, the increases in nominal wage rates in many countries for 2023 were in many cases insufficient to maintain women workers’ purchasing power;

Changed:D. whereas women in all their diversity are disproportionately affected by the consequences of the cost of living crisis, as they tend to be among the poorest part of the population, representing 70 % of the 1.31,3 billion people living in conditions of poverty; whereas women are consistently placed at a disadvantage by structural and cultural factors such as traditional gender norms;

Changed:L. whereas energy poverty represents a huge challenge and a serious social problem for the EU; whereas even before the current crisis, in 2021, 6.96,9 % of all Union households were behind on their utility bills, and 6.46,4 % indicated that they were unable to keep their homes warm; whereas, in 2020, almost 15 % of all households lived in homes with leaks, broken roofs or rot;

Changed:O. whereas energy poverty is compounded by existing gender inequalities, particularly those relating to income, such as the gender pay, pension and participation gap; whereas the gender pay gap still stands at 12.712,7 % across the EU; whereas the cumulative effect of these gendered income disparities throughout a woman’s lifetime leads to women receiving a retirement income which, in the EU, is on average 35 % lower than that received by men; whereas the right to equal pay for equal work is not always upheld and remains one of the biggest challenges in efforts to overcome pay discrimination; whereas considerable disparities persist in the gender pension gap across EU Member States, ranging from 2.62,6 % in Estonia to 46.146,1 % in Malta; whereas the gender pension gap leads to women being at a higher risk of old-age poverty and social exclusion;