The gender gap in working conditions and pay has barely budged in two decades. Read more at straitstimes.com.
GENEVA - Women have a harder time accessing work globally than previously thought, while the gender gap in working conditions and pay has barely budged in two decades, the United Nations said on Monday.
“It paints a much bleaker picture of the situation of women in the world of work than the more commonly-used unemployment rate,” the ILO said in a statement, two days before International Women’s Day.According to new ILO data, 15 per cent of working-age women globally would like to work, but do not have a job, compared with 10.5 per cent of men.By contrast, official unemployment rates for women and men are very similar.
It pointed out that personal and family responsibilities, including unpaid care work, disproportionately affects women.
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