Books: women workers

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• Breaking through the glass ceiling. Women in management (Updated version in 2004 included) - Buy now
  29 May 2001 - This important study provides a vivid portrayal of national and international efforts to improve equal opportunities and promote gender equality in management. By exploring such issues as discrimination, equal remuneration and gender mainstreaming, it presents a concise overview of the glass ceiling and its effects on women around the world.

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• Entrepreneurship development for women. A manual for trainers - Buy now
  01 December 1996 -

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• GET ahead for women in enterprise. Training package and resource kit - Buy now
  15 November 2004 - Aims to assist ILO partner organizations in promoting enterprise development among women in poverty who want to start or are already engaged in small-scale business. Contains training modules and exercises on entrepreneurship, the business environment, including marketing, production, services, finance, and support. Explains essential business and financial terms. ...
• Gender Equality: A guide to collective bargaining - Buy now
  13 November 2002 - Provides material which can be used by women in collective bargaining to overcome sex discrimination and to obtain equal opportunities in the workplace.
• Gender equality and occupational segregation in nordic labour markets - Buy now
  13 November 1998 - Analyses women's position and status in three Nordic labour markets as it is manifested in labour market inequalities and in particular occupational segregation by sex over the period from 1970 to 1990. ...
• Gender inequality in the labour market. Occupational concentration and segregation - Buy now
  23 June 1995 - Manual on the process of presenting and analysing data about gender concentration and segregation in the labour market. Defines terminology, sets guidelines for the selection of appropriate measurement procedures, and recommends simple methods for presenting generated data for analysis.

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• Legislation on women’s employment in Latin America (Occasional papers 11) - Buy now
  29 April 1996 - Occasional Papers - Labour Law and Labour Relations Programme, No. 11

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• Maternity protection at work. Report 87 V (2) - Buy now
  16 February 1999 - Presents replies received and commentaries from the member states for the revision of the Maternity Protection Convention (Revised), 1952 (No.103), and Recommendation, 1952 (No.95). Includes proposed conclusions.
• More and better jobs for women. An action guide - Buy now
  21 June 1996 - Provides guidelines, both didactic and practical, to enhance the quantity and quality of employment for women, to achieve equality of opportunity and treatment for women and men in the world of work, and to support in particular disadvantaged groups of poor women.
• Maternity and work (Conditions of work digest, vol.13/1994) - Buy now
  06 June 1995 - Presents the main features of statutory maternity protection schemes. Assesses the role of the collective bargaining process. Includes fact sheets listing legislative measures adopted in 145 countries. Contains a review of standards and regulations issued by the ILO and other international organizations.

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• Promoting gender equality - Buy now
  27 August 2002 - Comprises eight booklets which provide guidance on the role of trade unions in the promotion of gender equality and the protection of vulnerable women workers. Includes a report of a survey and case studies which examine practical experiences of trade unions in this area.

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• Support for growth-oriented women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia - Buy now
  08 April 2005 -
• Support for growth-oriented women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. An overview report - Buy now
  08 April 2005 - Covers the background information to the ILO-African Development Bank country-level studies on the subject and presents the findings and recommendations resulting from the application of the analytical integrated framework in the three countries.
• Support for growth-oriented women entrepreneurs in Kenya - Buy now
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• Support for growth-oriented women entrepreneurs in Tanzania - Buy now
  08 April 2005 -

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• Tanzanian women entrepreneurs: Going for growth - Buy now
  30 June 2003 - Presents the results of a questionnaire survey carried out among some 120 business women in the cities of Arusha, Dar-es-Salaam, and Zanzibar. Reports on their experiences in starting their business, role of support services, growth prospects, etc.

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• Women seafarers: Global employment policies and practices - Buy now
  03 September 2003 - Based on a programme of interviews with maritime regulators, lecturers and principals of maritime academies, ship managers and ship owners, trade union officers from 45 organizations and 56 women seafarers in 13 countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America and on a survey of relevant institutions and individuals across the world from 79 organizations and 34 countries, including 371 women sailing ab ...
• Women entrepreneurs in Pakistan. How to improve their bargaining power - Buy now
  30 June 2003 - Based on a survey of 150 women entrepreneurs from a variety of sectors in Islamabad, Lahore and Rawalpindi. Examines the attitudes and commitments of the women to expanding their enterprises. Describes some of the challenges and barriers they face as well as some of the opportunities.
• Women workers and working conditions in retailing: A comparative study of the situation in a foreign-controlled retail enterprise and a nationally owned retailer in Canada (MULTI 79) - Buy now
  10 June 1999 - Finds that both the foreign-owned and nationally owned enterprises applied the principles of participatory management, and observes that there were more similarities than differences as regards conditions of work. Includes an overview of the retail sector in Canada.
• Women workers in multinational enterprises in developing countries - Buy now
  22 January 1988 - Information from 30 developing countries is analyzed to provide examples of women workers employed by multinational enterprises operating in the agricultural sector, agribusiness, manufacturing and service sectors. Examines women's age, marital status, skills, occupations, hours of work, wages, and job satisfaction. ...