Global Campaign for Decent Work, Decent Life for Women

1. Global Campaign for Decent Work, Decent Life for Women

2. Objectives: Decent workfor women Gender equality in trade union structures,policies and activities Global Campaign forDecent Work, Decent Life for Women

3. 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.

4. 1.2 billion women are working today (40%) – yet women: earn 12 to 60% 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; Background of the Campaign

5. Background of the Campaign • 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 harassmentat or near the workplace;

7. Why Campaigns targeting women work Desk studies and surveys of previous campaigns show e.g.: • Increase in women membership rates up to 150%; • Increase of women in elected positions; • Unions pushed to prioritise advocacy work on gender equality at work e.g. maternity protection, child care, pay equity and protection from sexual harassment.

8. Campaign actions 1 Calling for a review of national labour legislation and urging governments to ratify and implement ILO Conventions e.g. : • C. 183, Maternity protection • C. 156, Workers with Family responsibilities • C. 100, Equal Remuneration • C. 111, Discrimination

10. Campaign Actions 2 • CEDAW (United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women), international statement of women’s rights signed by 185 countries • The Beijing Global Platform for Action which commits governments to “ensuring that gender perspective is reflected in all our policies and programmes” and the Beijing Declaration which includes ‘Section F’ on Women and the Economy. • The UN Millennium Development Goals

11. Campaign Actions 3 Gender Equality in trade unions: • Policy coherence of affiliated national centres with the ITUC Constitution • Encouraging women to stand for elections • Organizing women workers • Inclusion of gender equality issues on the collective bargaining agenda and social dialogue

13. Since the launch of the Campaign on 8 March 2008 • 82 National Centers in 56 Countries joined the Campaign • Events and marches took place to kick of the Campaign focusing on: Maternity protection rights Child care facilities, Pay Equity Work – life balance Gender equality in trade unions

14. 52nd Session of the UN Comission on the Status of Women • 40 ITUC-PSI-EI women trade union delegation negotiated successfully for the inclusion of decent work in the Agreed Conclusions; • The delegation lobbied successfully on the basis of the trade union Statement on ‘Investing in Decent Work, Decent Life for Women’.

15. Burkina Faso

16. South Korea

17. Croatia

18. ITUC Global Gender Wage Gap Report

19. 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

20. ITUC Asia Pacific

21. International Women's Day panel organized by the ILO on 7 March • Global Union message on pay equity and the role of collective bargaining in reducing the gender pay Gap • Presentation of the ITUC’s Gender Wage Gap Report

22. Visualizing the global pay gap

23. Visualizing the European pay gap

24. ITUC GlobalGender Wage Gap Report • Worldwide pay gap of 16.5%; • More educated women face a bigger pay gap compared to men with similar education; • Trade union membership has a positive influence on the gender pay gap.

25. Belgium

26. Global data 2 • Pay gap is higher in female-dominated work environments than in typical male dominated work environments • Results generally more positive in Europe, Oceania and Latin America, with Europe taking the lead • Data deficiencies in a number of countries, particularly across Africa and Asia

27. Montenegro

28. Global data 3 • Europe - • Average pay gap of 14.5 per cent • Overall decline in pay gap over the last decade • Job segregation by gender has a negative effect on pay gap (i.e. UK) • Americas - • North America: lack of official data • Larger pay gap in Canada (27.5%) & USA (22.4%) than world average • Latin America: mixed picture due to large informal economies

29. Global data 4 • Oceania - • Pay gap lower than world average: • Australia 14.1% & New Zealand 13.8% • Mixed picture on progress • Africa - • Insufficient data • Asia - • Pay gap significantly higher than world average • Large variation due to the nature of individual country labour markets and quality of official data, i.e. Bahrain (-40%), Japan (33.4%), Mongolia (16.1%) and Sri Lanka (7.3%)

30. Spain

31. Methodological issues • Defining the gender pay gap • Calculating earnings • Availability and reliability of data • Sample size/response rate • Type of employee • Data collection

32. Next Key Dates of the Campaign 2008-2009 • 7 October:ITUC World Day for Decent Work • 25 November:UN Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women • 8 March 2009

33. CAMPAIGN WEB PAGE AND E-MAIL LIST • Campaign webpage: www.ituc-csi.org, click on ‘equality’ and ‘women’for theCampaign Guide, Wage Gap Report and More • Campaign email list – sendyour email addresses to equality@ituc-csi.org • World Day for Decent Work website: www.ituc-csi.org, click on ‘ Campaigns’

34. JOIN THE CAMPAIGN! Decent Work, Decent Life for Women equality@ituc-csi.org