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Current Status of and Future Directions for Statistics on Women, Work and Poverty

Current Status of and Future Directions for Statistics on Women, Work and Poverty. Joann Vanek Director of Statistics Women in Informal Employment: Globalising and Organising (WIEGO).

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Current Status of and Future Directions for Statistics on Women, Work and Poverty

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  1. Current Status of and Future Directions for Statistics on Women, Work and Poverty Joann Vanek Director of Statistics Women in Informal Employment: Globalising and Organising (WIEGO)

  2. Key findings on women, work and poverty from WIEGO’s analysis of data for several countries for UNIFEM/ UNDP/ILO Progress of the World’s Women 2005

  3. Key findings - 1 • There are multiple dimensions of gender inequality – in terms of both segmentation, average earnings, and poverty risk - among workers including: • between formal/informal employment • across employment statuses • within given employment statuses

  4. Key findings - 2 • Women are concentrated in the more precarious forms of employment with low earnings

  5. Key findings - 3 • But poverty rates are also often lower among women, compared to men, within a particular employment category - this is because the poverty rate (i.e., likelihood of being from a poor household) depends on whether the woman is a secondary, primary, or single earner.

  6. Key findings - 4 • Understanding employment/poverty linkages requires analysis of individual employment status and earnings, household income and intra-household dynamics

  7. Future Directions for Gender Statistics • Employment: map the labour force by formal/informal, status in employment, agriculture/non-agriculture and sex • Earnings: develop statistics on earnings of the self-employed as well as wage-employed • Poverty: go beyond female-headed households to look at the poverty risk (i.e. likelihood of being from a poor household) associated with different categories of employment by sex • Time use: provide a comprehensive view of all forms of work - both market and non-market - to shed light on the linkages between the two and the family division of labour

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