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Bureau for Gender Equality (GENDER)

We take another step towards globalizing social progress when we champion gender equality as a matter of rights and social justice, as well as efficiency and good business sense"

Juan Somavía, ILO Director-General

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. Lunch time talk on "Gender Equality in Evaluations"
    24 May, 12:30 to 13:30, ILO Library (R2)

    Lunch time talk by Mr Guy Thijs, Director of EVAL, and Mr Francisco Guzman, EVAL Senior Evaluation Officer, on “Gender Equality in Evaluations”. Ms Jane Hodges, Director of GENDER, will introduce the subject and facilitate the Q & A.

  2. ILO Gender Equality Action Plan 2010-15
    23 April 2012

    Following submission to the Governing Body in March 2010, the ILO Action Plan for 2010-15: Phase II Aligned with Programme and Budget 2012-13 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 on Gender Equality.

  3. ABC of women workers' rights

    Newly available in Arabic (20 March 2012)

    With an easy-to-follow format, this guide is an essential tool for raising awareness and legal literacy on gender equality issues.

  4. The importance of decent work for indigenous women in rural areas: Joint NORWAY-ILO side event at 56th Session of the CSW
    2 March 2012

    Over 70 delegates from governments, UN entities, employers, workers and NGOs attended the side event on the importance of decent work for indigenous women in rural areas during the 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

  5. K. Cassidy

    Joint ILO/IFAD/FAO side event at 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
    28 February 2012

    During this side event, three powerful speakers ─ Ms Ronnie Goldberg (Vice-President of the US Council for International Business), Ms Rehana Riyalawala (Secretary of the Indian Self-Employed Women's Association/SEWA) and Ms Shireen Lateef (Senior Adviser on Gender of the Asian Development Bank/ADB) ─ addressed the topic "Rural Employment and Agriculture" in an active dialogue with some 85 women and men participants.

  6. Indigenous women workers - With case studies from Bangladesh, Nepal and the Americas
    15 February 2012

    This paper draws on the expertise and experience of two specialized ILO teams - the Programme to Promote ILO Convention No. 169 (PRO169) based in the International Labour Standards Department and the ILO’s Bureau for Gender Equality - with the aim of examining indigenous women’s position in the workforce.

  7. ILO Participatory Gender Audits
    04 September 2007

    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. A manual for gender audit facilitators. The ILO participatory gender audit methodology
    2. ILO Participatory Gender Audit: Relevance and use for the United Nations and its agencies

  8. Report and Conclusions of ILC June 2009 Committee on Gender Equality

  9. Report VI - Gender equality at the heart of decent work
    24 April 2009

  10. Recovering from the crisis: A Global Jobs Pact

  11. ILO Gender  Network Handbook

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