Global Employment Trends for Women 2007
- Document number
- 1370
- Date
- 2007
- Title
- Global Employment Trends for Women 2007
- Author/publisher
- International Labour Office (ILO)
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Summary
- According to "Global Employment Trends for Women Brief - 2007", the number of womenparticipating in labour markets - either in work or looking actively for work - is at its highestpoint. In 2006, the ILO estimated that 1.2 billion of the 2.9 billion workers in the world werewomen. However, a persistent gap in status, job security, wages and education between women and men is contributing to the "feminization of working poverty".On the other hand, more women than ever before are unemployed (81.8 millions), stuckin low productivity jobs in agriculture and services or receiving less money for doing thesame jobs as men. In addition, the ILO also said the share of working-age women who workor are seeking work had actually stopped growing or declined in some regions, partially dueto more young women in education rather than work.In the last "Global Employment Trends for Women - 2004", it was estimated that womenmade up at least 60 per cent of the world's working poor - people who work but don't earnenough to lift themselves and their families above the US $1 per person, per day line.According to the current ILO study "there is no reason to believe that this situation haschanged considerably".The report notes that the gap between female and male employment-to-population ratiosdecreased in all regions over the past decade, except in East Asia where it widened and insub-Saharan Africa where it remained unchanged. The report also cites evidence that wage gaps persist. Throughout most regions and many occupations women earn less money for the same job. But there is also some evidence that globalization can help close the wage gap for some occupations.
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