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Women’s Rights and Recession
• Real Global Pay Gap is higher - 22%
• Recession hits women in developing countries worst
• Contract labour and agency work hit women hardest
Global Campaign
for Decent Work,
Decent Life for
Women
Global Campaign forDecent Work, Decent Life for Women
Objectives:
• Decent work for women
• Gender equality in trade union structures, policies and activities
Decent Work:
Access to productive work in conditions of
freedom, equality, security, and dignity.
The four pillars of Decent Work:
1. Standards and rights at work,
2. Employment creation
3. Social protection
4. Social dialogue.
The Real Position of Women
1.2 billion women are
working today (40%) –
yet women: • earn 12 to 70% less and do
not have the same level of social protection as their male counterparts;
• account for an increasing proportion (60% - 70%) of the world’s poor and working poor;
The Real Position of Women
• Face a higher level of unemployment than ever before (81.8 million women in 2006);
• Are concentrated in low-paid, unprotected, temporary or casual work;
• lack maternity protection rights and face violence and sexual harassment at or near the workplace;
The Real Position of Women
• 1 in 3 beaten, coerced into sex, other wise abused
• Women aged 15-45 are more at risk of death and disability through domestic violence than through cancer, motor accidents, war and malaria
The Real Position of Women
• Key victims of armed conflict
• Majority of all in forced labour or trafficked
• Issue comes far down the media reporting list
• Particularly life threatened circumstances in Export Processing Zones
ITUC Gender Wage Gap Report
• Worldwide media coverage - released on 7 March 2008 in > 20 countries
• Analysis of pay gap in 63 countries; 30 European, 33 across the rest of the world
Visualizing the global pay gap
Visualizing the European pay gap
ITUC GlobalGender Wage Gap Report
2009
• Worldwide pay gap of 22% not 16.5%;
• Trade union membership and particularly inclusion of women in collective agreements has a positive influence on the gender pay gap.