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Women’s Rights and Recession

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. Objectives: Decent work for women

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Women’s Rights and Recession

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  1. 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

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

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

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. The Real Position of Women • Face ahigher level of unemploymentthan ever before (81.8 million women in 2006); • Areconcentrated in low-paid, unprotected, temporary or casual work; • lack maternity protection rights and face violence and sexual harassmentat or near the workplace;

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Visualizing the global pay gap

  11. Visualizing the European pay gap

  12. ITUC GlobalGender Wage Gap Report2009 • 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.

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