Bureau for Gender Equality (GENDER)
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Bureau for Gender Equality (GENDER)

While all staff in the ILO are responsible for promoting gender equality in their work, the Bureau for Gender Equality supports and advises constituents and Office staff at headquarters and in the field on matters concerned with promoting and advocating for gender equality in the world of work. It also manages an extensive knowledge base on gender issues, conducts ILO Participatory Gender Audits, and has a Gender Helpdesk which responds to queries to help to strengthen the capacity of staff and constituents to address questions of equality in their work.

The Bureau for Gender Equality coordinates the global ILO Gender Network, which brings together gender specialists and gender focal points at headquarters and in the field offices.

Highlights

  1. Publication

    Global Employment Trends for Women 2012
    11 December 2012

    This report looks at gender gaps in unemployment, employment, labour force participation, vulnerability, and segregation in jobs and economic sectors.

    1. Summary of the Global Employment Trends for Women 2012
    2. News | Labour market gender gaps: Two steps forward, one step back
    3. Video | Reversal of gains in women's employment

  2. Publication

    Maternity Protection Resource Package
    22 November 2012

    The Maternity Protection Resource Package provides guidance and tools to strengthen and extend maternity protection to all women in all types of economic activity.

    1. Guide for the Maternity Protection Resource Package

  3. Annotated bibliography

    Gender Equality and Social Dialogue: An Annotated Bibliography
    21 Novembre 2012

    This comprehensive research compiles over 100 annotated bibliographes, all introduced with a brief summary and main findings.

  4. Decision document: Governing Body 316th Session, Geneva, 1–16 November 2012

    Decision on composition of the International Labour Conference: Proportion of women and men on delegations
    Document GB.316/LILS/1, paragraph 13, as amended by the Governing Body

    The Governing Body decided in favour of actions for promoting gender parity in delegations to ILO meetings.

  5. Working paper

    Good practices and challenges on the Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No. 183) and the Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention, 1981 (No. 156): A comparative study
    5 November 2012

    The working paper presents ten national case studies on Conventions No. 183 and 156. It identifies opportunities for stepping up ratification and implementation of these Conventions, as requested in the 2009 International Labour Conference Resolution concerning gender equality at the heart of decent work. An annex contains an annotated bibliography of 150 relevant publications, making this a complete reference tool for policy-makers and practitioners.

  6. News

    ILO Gender News 2012
    1 November 2012

    This 2012 issue of ILO Gender News highlights some of the main achievements across the regions towards the goal of gender equality in the world of work. It includes articles on the crucial role by ILO to promote decent work for domestic workers, increase employability and skills of women, reduce gender-based violence and reconcile work and family responsibilities.

    1. More Events
    2. More Information Resources

Key resources

  1. ILO Action Plan for Gender Equality : Phase II (2012-13)

    This Action Plan reproduces the gender-related strategies and indicators of outcomes in the P&B 2012-13 and links them to the corresponding conclusions contained in the 2009 ILC Resolution concerning gender equality at the heart of decent work.

  2. ILO Participatory Gender Audits

    ILO uses participatory gender audits to promote individual and organizational learning on ways to mainstream gender in order to help achieve equality between women and men.

    1. Newly available: A manual for gender audit facilitators (2nd Edition)

  3. ILO Gender Network Handbook

    This handbook is targeted to ILO Gender network members as well as all ILO staff and representatives of constituents – governments, and employers’ and workers’ organizations – as a support to effectively mainstream gender in all their work.

  4. Reports and conclusions of the ILC 2009 Committee on Gender Equality

    1. ILC 2009 resolution concerning gender equality at the hearth of decent work
    2. Follow-up to the adoption of the resolution concerning gender equality at the heart of decent work
    3. Report of the Committee on Gender Equality - Gender equality at the heart of decent work (general discussion)
    4. Report VI - Gender equality at the heath of decent work 
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